What is ReferenceVerify?

ReferenceVerify

ReferenceVerify is an academic research verification platform for researchers, students, authors and journal editors. It verifies bibliographic references against scholarly databases, checks whether citations actually support academic claims, finds scientific evidence for unsupported statements, detects fabricated AI-generated references, and helps researchers verify and select academic journals and conferences.

What can ReferenceVerify do?

ProblemTool
Is this reference real?Reference Verification
Does this citation support my claim?Citation Verification
What source supports this claim?Find Scientific Evidence
Did AI invent this paper?AI Reference Checker
Is this DOI correct?DOI Checker
Is this journal indexed?Journal Check
Which journal should I submit to?Journal Finder
Is this conference really Scopus indexed?Conference Check

How does ReferenceVerify verify a reference?

The verdict is not generated by an AI model. Each reference is compared deterministically against open scholarly records, and every result shows where the evidence came from.

  1. The reference is parsed: authors, year, title, journal, DOI.
  2. It is searched in open scholarly indexes: Crossref, OpenAlex, PubMed, Europe PMC, DBLP, ERIC, Semantic Scholar, CORE, DataCite, DOAB, the ISSN Portal, TR Dizin, İSAM, SOBIAD, TO-KAT, Google Books and OpenLibrary.
  3. Metadata is matched: author, year, title and author order are each checked separately.
  4. The DOI is resolved and checked against the record it actually points to.
  5. The record is screened against the retraction list.
  6. The result is shown with its evidence: which index it was found in, which field disagreed.

Verification, not generation

ReferenceVerify does not invent evidence or citations. It checks academic records and shows where the evidence comes from. Verification is evidence-based; the final decision remains with the researcher.

Your text is not stored

Bibliography checking runs in your browser; your text is never stored and is never sent to plagiarism systems. Which steps run in the browser and which run on the server is explained in detail in the FAQ.

Who operates it?

ReferenceVerify is operated by Medikalai Yazılım Anonim Şirketi .

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