The retraction two citations back: building a citation-path audit on FalkorDB

Description and use

Bedrock uses FalkorDB to audit two‑hop citation paths and detect retractions, offering precise chains and edit suggestions.

Problem

Researchers risk citing retracted work because citation‑path checks are missing from reference managers.

Outcome

Bedrock performs a two‑hop citation audit in 0.05–0.4 s for 9–150 papers, identifies retractions, and provides human‑reviewable edit proposals.

Workflow

• Paste a list of DOIs into Bedrock
• Bedrock runs a two‑hop Cypher query on FalkorDB
• The query returns paths where an intermediate paper cites a retracted work
• Bedrock displays the chain, retraction date, and reasons
• An AI agent explains the findings and suggests edits
• The user reviews and approves any changes

Evidence

Bedrock states facts about a fixed corpus, it doesn't guess.

Source

The first audit of nine papers took 59 seconds. The data was small and the question was simple, so something was off.

Source

Re‑timed after the fix: 0.05 to 0.4 seconds for nine papers, and 0.15 to 0.4 seconds for 150.

Source

The agent runs on Groq's free tier with openai/gpt‑oss‑120b.

Source