“…Therefore, monitoring citrate content is of great importance in biomedical and analytical sciences. To date, many analytical methods have been used for citrate detection including electrochemistry [ 8 ], capillary electrophoresis [ 9 ], polarography [ 10 ], gas or liquid chromatography [ 11 , 12 ], UV-vis spectrophotometry [ 6 , 13 ], and spectrofluorimetry [ 14 , 15 ]. The spectrofluorimetry method has attracted great attention owing to its easy operation, high sensitivity, and lower equipment requirements [ 6 , 13 , 16 ].…”