Weigh Stale Citations by How Often Your Draft Relies on Them
An old source used once in a literature review is a footnote; the same source carrying four argumentative claims is a risk. Weigh each citation’s years past your recency rule by how often the draft leans on it.
1 · cited source | years since publication | times cited in draft
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Data note: Everything runs in this browser tab on the source recency docket: your cited source | years since publication | times cited in draft stays on this device, nothing is uploaded, and the reading is rebuilt only when you press run.
Perspective: Before: Age matters far less for a methods paper or a primary historical source than for a current-statistics citation, and the weighting shows which sources you lean on. After: the source recency docket shows the working beside each named row so the reader can change the assumption and inspect the consequence.
2 · Read the source recency docket
Recency arithmetic on publication years and citation counts you supply. Not an academic-integrity finding, discipline norm or supervisor policy; confirm acceptable source ages with your supervisor, journal or department before rewriting.
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Boundary and sources
Recency arithmetic on publication years and citation counts you supply. Not an academic-integrity finding, discipline norm or supervisor policy; confirm acceptable source ages with your supervisor, journal or department before rewriting.
- Method: Count in-text citations, not bibliography entries. A source cited four times is doing four jobs in the argument and deserves a freshness check first.
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Optional AI formatting, not calculation
For this source recency docket, use the free AI Studio interface only if available to you, with no paid API key. Manual entry completes the same workflow for free. Supply only fictional or non-sensitive notes. Review its output against the source; never paste unresolved questions into the numeric rows.
Format my non-sensitive notes for a source recency docket. Return plain rows only: cited source | years since publication | times cited in draft. Preserve supplied quantities exactly. Do not guess missing values; list questions separately. Do not calculate or add advice. I will check every row before pasting into the local tool.
Accepted schema: cited source | years since publication | times cited in draft. No AI response is executed as code.