For researchers

AI agents check citations through naulon before they cite a paper, and some of them read the paper's open text. Each paper they use gets a page that shows how often that happened, whether the paper was retracted or corrected, its licence, and a link to a free copy. If you wrote the paper, you can claim that page.

What a claim gives you

• Your own counts, from the first check. The public page appears only once a paper has been checked or read five times on at least two days. After you claim it, you see every check and read on Your papers, starting with the first.
• A note in front of every agent that cites you. Up to 280 characters, shown beside your paper whenever an agent checks a citation to it. Use it for what a reader of your paper should know: "Figure 3 was corrected in the 2024 erratum", or "the replication is in 10.1371/journal.pone.0000001".
• A badge for your own site. It shows how often agents cited the paper and links to its page.
• A reply on every AI answer about your paper. See below.

A claim never involves money. naulon does not pay or charge you for a claimed paper.

Who can claim

You can claim a paper when its open-access copy in PubMed Central prints your email as the corresponding author's address. Most do. If yours does not, the claim page says so: sign-in with ORCID, which covers co-authors and papers outside PubMed Central, is not available yet.

How to claim

1. Sign in, then open Your papers and choose Claim papers. Or press Are you an author? Claim this page on any paper's page.
2. Paste up to 50 DOIs, PMIDs or PMCIDs, one per line. We read each paper and group them by the address printed on them, shown masked: a***@uni.edu.
3. For each paper, choose which listed author you are. The name on your claim is the one on the paper, so you cannot claim under a different name.
4. Send the link. One email goes to that address, showing the masked email of the account that asked, so the author can tell whether it was them.
5. Open the link while signed in to the same account and press Confirm I am the author. The link works once and expires after 24 hours. Opened from another account, it confirms nothing.

One link confirms every paper in the batch that prints that address, so a researcher with twenty papers proves it once.

We read the address from the paper to send the link and keep no copy of it.

Writing a note

A note is plain text: no links and no web addresses, at most 280 characters, and you can change it once a day. Agents receive it labelled as a statement by a claimed author, not as an instruction. naulon can hide a note that breaks these rules or misleads, and a hidden note stays hidden until we show it again.

The badge

Your papers gives you the snippet for each claimed paper. It looks like this:

<a href="https://naulon.app/papers/doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0000000"><img alt="Cited by AI agents" src="https://gate.naulon.app/_naulon/v1/badge/doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0000000"></a>

Until the paper's page is public the badge reads tracked with no number, so it never shows more than the page would.

Questions about your paper

When an AI answer quotes your paper and someone publishes it, it appears under Questions about this paper on the paper's page, one sentence at a time beside the paragraph it relied on. Readers mark each sentence Supported, Doesn't say that or Out of context, and can point to the paragraph that really answers it.

Once your claim is confirmed, the paper's page shows you how many questions there are and how many are disputed with no reply from you. On each sentence you can reply once: your own call, what the paper does say, and optionally the paragraph that says it. Your reply is shown apart from the crowd, under the name on your claim, and it goes to every agent that reads that paragraph afterwards. You can change or remove it at any time. Like a note, it is plain text, and naulon can hide one that breaks the rules.

Releasing a claim

Release a claim from Your papers. Agents stop seeing your note at once, and the paper's public page within a few minutes. You can claim the paper again later through the same email check.

Research papers in Ask

When you ask a question in Ask, open papers on the subject appear in a Research section below the articles. Papers are found by what your question means as well as the words in it, so a question of one or two words finds them too. Each shows its abstract where the abstract's licence lets us show it, and says what may be quoted: under CC0 the whole text may be used, under CC BY sentences are quoted with attribution. A retracted or withdrawn paper is listed so you know about it, and cannot be picked.

Picking one or more papers adds a single answer fee to your total. It pays for search, reading and checking, never for the paper, and it is charged only when at least one claim in your answer rests on a quoted sentence that passed the check. A claim that cites a paper and fails the check is cut. If the fee does not go through, you still get the article part of your answer and are not charged for the paper part.

Every quoted paper in the answer links to its citation record, where each sentence can be checked against the text that was read. Picking only articles costs exactly what it did before.