ReferenceVerify is built by two academics: a computer engineering faculty member working on deep learning and medical image analysis, and a radiologist faculty member. The platform is operated by Medikalai Yazılım Anonim Şirketi (Turkey).
Team
Assoc. Prof. Cüneyt Özdemir
Siirt University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering
Research interests: Deep learning, computer vision, medical image analysis
Assist. Prof. Mehmet Ali Gedik
Kütahya Health Sciences University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Radiology
Research interests: Radiology, medical imaging, AI-assisted diagnosis
Why we built this
AI tools can produce references that look complete and are entirely fictitious. Fabricated sources are now a separate heading in reviewer reports, and a single unresolvable DOI casts doubt on an entire manuscript.
Checking a bibliography by hand is slow: looking up 30 references one by one takes hours, and details such as author order, publication year or page ranges slip through.
We built a single place that solves both: a verification layer that compares each reference against open scholarly records and shows the evidence behind every verdict.
How we work
- No language model decides the verdict. Whether a reference is verified is decided by a deterministic comparison against open scholarly records. A language model is used only where understanding text is unavoidable (for example, whether a citation supports a claim) — and there too, the evidence is shown alongside the answer.
- Every result carries its evidence. We show which index the record came from, which field did not match, and what the DOI actually resolves to. No unexplained “verified” stamps.
- Your text is not stored. Reference checking runs largely in your browser; the text you paste is not stored and is never sent to plagiarism systems.
- The free tier stays. There will always be a tier where students and researchers can check their bibliography without paying.
What the platform does
It verifies bibliographic references against scholarly databases, checks whether citations really support the claim, finds scientific evidence for unsupported statements, detects AI-fabricated references, and verifies journals and conferences.
Full overview: What is ReferenceVerify? →
Company details
- Legal name: Medikalai Yazılım Anonim Şirketi
- Address: Çalca OSB Mah. 1. Cad. No:1 İç Kapı No:3, Merkez / Kütahya
- E-mail: support@medikal.ai
- Phone: +90 507 241 63 44 · +90 545 669 88 77