AI assistants invent citations — plausible authors, real-looking DOIs, papers
that were never written. Paste a bibliography below and each reference is checked, right here
in your browser, against open scholarly metadata and the CiteStamp graph.
You will see, per reference: whether it resolves to a real work, whether it
has recorded refutations from named researchers, and whether it is
marked retracted by the publisher. None of these is a verdict on the work — they are
checkable facts about the record, each with a source.
Your bibliography never touches our servers. Parsing and every lookup
run in this browser, straight to OpenAlex, Crossref, and CiteStamp’s public graph
endpoint — the same client-direct design as the writing picker. We see nothing you paste.
Check your references
Paste a BibTeX .bib, or one DOI or title per line. Click check —
everything runs locally.
What the checks mean
Resolves — the DOI or title was found in open scholarly metadata. A reference that
does not resolve may be mistyped, paywalled out of the open record, or invented.
Recorded refutations — named researchers have signed refutes
edges against this work on the CiteStamp graph. This counts the record; it is not our judgement
of the work.
Marked retracted — best-effort: a retraction flag from OpenAlex, or a Crossref
retraction notice. Always confirm against the publisher.
Put it in your own editor
One script, no dependencies, no build step — the same core powers the Overleaf wrapper.