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Academic-integrity verification

Catch fake citations before they catch you.

Paste your bibliography. RefCheck scans every reference against 5 scholarly databases — Crossref, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Europe PMC & DataCite — flags anything fabricated or AI-hallucinated, and reformats the verified ones into any citation style.

No sign-up · 400M+ scholarly records
1Paste & detectDrop in your reference list in any format. We split it into individual entries.
2Verify against real sourcesEach reference is matched against Crossref & OpenAlex, with an AI second opinion on authenticity.
3Report & reformatSee what's real, what's wrong, and what doesn't exist — then export clean APA, Harvard, MLA & more.
✓ Free · no sign-up · checks against Crossref (150M+ records) and OpenAlex (250M+ works)
Your references
Tip: you can paste a whole reference list at once (up to ~60 entries).
Working…

Reformatted references

How RefCheck works

AI writing tools frequently invent realistic-looking citations that don't exist. RefCheck catches them by checking each reference against real scholarly databases rather than trusting an AI's memory.

The process

1. Your list is split into individual references.
2. Each one is searched across Crossref, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Europe PMC / PubMed and DataCite — plus direct DOI resolution — the actual registries of published works. We compare the matched record's title, authors, year, and DOI to what you wrote.
3. An AI gives an independent second opinion on authenticity, but the database evidence is the ground truth.
4. Verified references can be reformatted into any style from the real metadata.

The verdicts

Verified Found in a database with a strong title match.

Caution A real work was found, but a detail (year, journal, page, or DOI) doesn't match what you wrote.

Unverified No matching record found — possibly fabricated or AI-hallucinated. Check it manually.

Privacy

Your references go to your browser's lookups (Crossref/OpenAlex) and to Dr.AI Studio's AI proxy for parsing and the second opinion. Nothing is stored after the check.

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