MUMBAI, India, Aug. 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202631094167 A) filed by Bhagwan Sahay Meena on August 04, 2026, for System And Method For Automated Fake Citation Detection In Single-Column Publications.
Inventors include Bhagwan Sahay Meena; Nemi Chandra Rathore; Shibasish Bhattacharjee; Mokbul Hussain Barbhuiya; and Ramin Uddin Laskar.
The application for the patent was published on August 14, 2026, under issue no. 33/2026.
Abstract: ABSTRACT System and Method for Automated Fake Citation Detection in Single-Column Publications A computer-implemented system and method are disclosed for detecting potentially fake, irrelevant, or inconsistent citations in single-column publications supplied as PDF files. The system receives a PDF through a graphical interface, validates and stores the file, and extracts text and positional information. An abstract extraction module identifies content between predefined Abstract and Introduction markers while excluding header text. A reference extraction module detects reference-section headings, recognizes numbered and author-year styles, removes boilerplate, and merges wrapped entries. A preprocessing module normalizes words, removes punctuation, symbols, duplicates, and stop words, and generates meaningful vocabularies. References are checked for citation within the article body and compared with the abstract vocabulary. A similarity module calculates a matched-word percentage, and a configurable decision module classifies each reference as genuine, suspicious, or potentially fake. Results, matched terms, scores, citation status, and reasons are displayed and exported as a downloadable report before temporary files are deleted.
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