CiteReader is possibly unique, in that it reads single documents and can recognise properly referenced citations in them, with no reference to external data. By extension, unacknowledged material should have the same effect in text. So the user gets an indication from the program of the sentences that might be worth looking for on the internet or other electronic source, if they feel that some of the material in the document is unacknowledged.
CiteReader has also been used to classify samples of the work of different authors correctly. It uses the output from the suspect sentence identification process which allocates different scores for sentence complexity. The patterns produced by these varying scores can offer indications of authorial habits of sentence construction and use.