Tips for Evaluating an App or Site

  1. Reputable reports provide a bibliography and footnoted citations.
  2. Note the publication date of cited references and their origin.
  3. In modern academics, the author and co-authors must provide statements of conflict of interests.
  4. There is a growing issue of AI-generated “academic” articles getting published, so it can be tricky.
  5. Also, there are pre-publication “drafts” that are in existence. Some are legit.