ResearchQA (Open Paper) - Citation Precision: leaderboard

ResearchQA (2026) asks citation-grounded questions about single open-access scientific papers, run here through the Open Paper chat-with-paper harness on a 100-question sample. Citation precision is the percent of cited passages that fall in a section the answer requires; higher is better.

Metric: Citation precision (%; share of cited passages that match an alternative in a required section, citation-grounded answers from the Open Paper chat-with-paper harness to a 100-row evenly spaced sample of 6,211 single-paper questions over 494 open-access papers, citations checked by a normalizing substring matcher against the extracted paper text; higher is better). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Not forecast. 8 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-4.177.6#495
2GLM-4.774.4#366
3Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)72.3#94
4Claude Haiku 4.571.6#568
5GPT-OSS-120B66#700
6GPT-5.464.7#123
7Claude Opus 4.756.9#79
8Gemini 3 Flash (Preview)49.1#144

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=researchqa-open-paper-citation-precision · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.