SourceScope — Wikipedia Research Assistant

Turn Wikipedia into a research workflow. Check citations, find stronger sources, recover archives, and export Source Packs.

SourceScope helps you inspect the sources behind a Wikipedia article so you can check source health, find stronger references, review weak spots, recover archived links, and turn useful references into organized research material. Instead of digging through dozens of footnotes, broken links, reference lists, and external pages manually, SourceScope gives you a clearer way to understand where an article gets its information and which sources are worth opening first. Use it for a quick source check, a deeper citation review, or a full research workflow. Glance at Source Health, inspect source types, open stronger references, review citation context, recover archived links, save useful sources, or export organized source lists. WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH SOURCESCOPE • Check citation coverage and Source Health on Wikipedia articles • View a Source Map showing the article’s source mix • Find stronger source leads from article references • Inspect citation context and weakly sourced areas • Check link/archive issues and recover archived copies when available • Build Source Packs from useful references • Export source lists to Markdown, CSV, BibTeX, RIS, and JSON • Save reports, sources, projects, watchlists, and Source Packs locally in your browser • Check pasted references with the Reference Integrity Checker • Review experimental Context Match signals for nearby citation context • Use the Web Article Source Trail beta on supported pages from the popup • Build Batch Source Packs from multiple Wikipedia pages with Pro WHY IT HELPS Wikipedia is useful because it gives you a fast overview. But when the sources matter, manually checking citations can be slow, scattered, and messy. SourceScope helps you: • Find better sources before writing, citing, or sharing • See whether an article is well sourced, mixed, or lightly sourced • Avoid losing useful references in dozens of open tabs • Recover useful links when the original page is gone • Turn source lists into research material you can save, copy, or export • Move from “I read the article” to “I understand where the article got its information” USE IT FOR • Understanding where a Wikipedia article gets its information • Finding better sources before writing or citing • Checking reference quality while reading • Starting research without opening dozens of random tabs • Cleaning up source lists and bibliographies • Recovering links that no longer work • Reviewing pasted references and identifiers • Turning useful references into organized research material FREE AND PRO Free scanning works without an account. SourceScope includes free article scans, Source Health, Source Map, source leads, weak-spot review, and 3 source recovery scans per day. Optional Pro features unlock unlimited source recovery scans, larger saved workflows, expanded Source Packs, project folders, watchlists, comparisons, batch Source Packs, full recovery reports, and additional export workflows. REFERENCE INTEGRITY CHECKER SourceScope includes a Reference Integrity Checker in the popup. Paste a bibliography or reference list to check public metadata signals for identifiers such as DOI, PMID, arXiv, and ISBN when available. CONTEXT MATCH Context Match is an experimental inspection aid. It shows nearby citation context, shared terms, and caution signals. It does not prove that a source supports a claim. PRIVACY SourceScope is local-first. Free scanning works without an account. Saved reports, sources, projects, watchlists, and Source Packs are stored locally in your browser. User-triggered tools such as reference metadata checks, archive recovery, batch scans, and web article scans may contact public metadata, archive, payment, or page sources only when needed for those features. IMPORTANT NOTE SourceScope is a research assistant, not a truth machine. It does not decide whether an article is true, whether a source proves a claim, or whether a topic is settled. It gives you source signals, citation context, metadata checks, archive recovery, and export tools so you can inspect sources faster and make your own judgment. WHY INSTALL SOURCESCOPE? Because Wikipedia is useful, but manually working through its sources is slow. SourceScope gives you a cleaner way to check, save, recover, and use the references behind the article.