Reference Check

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Citations are the lightest-weight evidence trail in a paper — and the easiest place for errors (or hallucinations) to hide. Reference Check resolves every bibliography entry against external scholarly records and gives you an auditable report before reviewers do.

Drop in your references

Paste a bibliography or attach a paper. Reference Check ingests BibTeX, plain text, and PDF reference sections alike.

Resolve every entry

Each citation is matched to its canonical scholarly record across OpenAlex, Crossref, arXiv, and DBLP — title and author metadata cross-checked at the source.

See where the trail breaks

Verified, mismatched, retracted, or not-found — each entry lands in a clear status, with a one-glance summary at the top.

Standalone or on top of a review

Run a check on a bibliography you paste, or attach one to an existing Agentic Review for a single auditable report.

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Want the longer story? Read the Reference Validity Check article for the verification-first thinking behind the workflow.