What's new
Features and improvements added to the platform. Newest first.
August 2026
8/30/2026
Word add-in: check your bibliography without leaving Word
No more copy and paste. The “Check Bibliography” button on the Word ribbon reads the reference section of your document; results appear in the pane on the right with the same colours and corrected entries as on the website.
- Only the section after the “References / Bibliography” heading is read; the rest of the document is never sent.
- REQUIRED VERSION: Microsoft 365 Word, Word 2021 or later, or Word on the web. Perpetual Office 2016/2019 (Professional Plus and similar) do not work — they open the pane in the old Internet Explorer engine. Check File → Account → Product Information; the 16.0 version number is the same in both, so it is misleading.
- For organisation accounts an admin uploads it once and it appears in everyone's Word.
8/20/2026
Find Scientific Support: when no source states your sentence, build one from what they do state
The tool's most frequent answer used to be “your sentence is not directly supported as written”. That was accurate, but it left you holding several half-matching sources with no way forward. Not any more.
- The statements each source can actually carry are listed one by one; you tick the ones you want.
- The tool merges them into a single sentence with each source's citation placed after the clause it supports, followed by the reference list.
- Whatever the sources do not say is shown separately: “this part was left out, because none of the statements you ticked says it.”
- The sentence produced is NOT your original sentence verified — it is a new sentence limited to what the sources support, and the screen says so plainly.
- Changing the citation style (APA, IEEE, Vancouver, TÜBİTAK, TÜSEB) reformats the sentence and the reference list instantly.
- Repeating the same search returns the same sources: results no longer shift from run to run, and repeat searches come back faster.
8/19/2026
Find a Conference: paste your paper's title and see where to submit, with the evidence
We do not GUESS a conference name from your topic: we look at where papers on the same topic were actually published and list those conferences.
- Every card has a “Why was this suggested?” section showing the matching papers with links.
- Whether the proceedings are indexed in Scopus, which years are covered, whether the series runs every year, and whether next year's volume is already on the list — all of it sits on the card.
- For Turkish users we also show which conferences authors based in Türkiye have submitted to on the same topic. That is a sign of reach, not a measure of quality.
- General-purpose series that publish from every field (IOP, AIP, Web of Conferences) drop to the bottom and are labelled for what they are.
- Dates and paper deadlines are shown ONLY for events we can verify: there is no broad, free source of conference calendars, and we do not display a date we cannot stand behind.
- If your field barely publishes at conferences the tool says so and points you to Find a Journal instead.
- Conference organisers and members who want to tell their colleagues can add a conference; a submitted entry never appears in search results until an editor approves it, and a source link is required.
8/17/2026
Find Reviewers, for editors: type the topic, see who has actually published on it
Enter the manuscript title (and abstract if you have one) and we list reviewer candidates who have published on that topic in recent years, with their ORCID, institution and the evidence for why they are a candidate (sample publications with years). Unlike self-declared reviewer pools this is based on the publication record: a person's field changes over time, their record does not. If you also enter the manuscript's authors, candidates who co-published with them in recent years or work at the same institution are flagged as a conflict of interest and pushed to the end of the list — never removed, because the decision is yours. If one of a candidate's pooled publications has been retracted, that is shown too. Each candidate's output for the current year appears as a workload hint; a very high number usually means the person is busy. For Turkish topics, supervisors of related theses and authors of TR Dizin articles are added to the pool. You can filter the list (with ORCID only, Türkiye-based only), copy it, or download it as Word to paste into your journal system. We do not provide contact details: we give identity and ORCID, and you send the invitation from your own system. The screen is the second tab of Find by Author; guests get one trial search and members five per month.
8/17/2026
Check a Conference: is the conference that claims “Scopus indexed” actually indexed?
Type the conference name, its acronym (e.g. IMCET) or the proceedings ISBN and see, year by year, whether its proceedings are indexed in Scopus — straight from Elsevier's official source list. We deliberately do not hand out a “Scopus indexed conference” badge: Scopus indexes the venue the proceedings appear in, not the conference, and that changes from year to year — the 2022 proceedings may be covered while 2024 is not. The screen shows which years were found, the proceedings volumes with their ISBNs, the covered year range where available, and whether the series has been discontinued. Three warnings also appear: if the most recent indexed volume is years old the conference is flagged as possibly dormant (a series with a regular past that then disappears has either ceased or is no longer covered); general-purpose series that publish papers from every field — IOP, AIP, Web of Conferences and the like — are marked, because publishing there gives you Scopus coverage but no standing in your field; and the proceedings publisher is named. If next year's volume is already on the list you see that too — for that year the answer is not a guess. We also state the difference between “not on the list for this year” and “will not be indexed”: this year's proceedings may simply not be published yet. Check it in a minute before you spend money and time on a conference's own claim.
8/16/2026Citation Check: see which reference each uploaded PDF was matched to, and on which page the evidence sits
When you upload PDFs of closed-access sources, a table now shows which file was matched to which reference, with the reason (DOI, or title and author), and you can correct any match in one click. If a file cannot be matched confidently it is no longer assigned to an arbitrary reference: it is set aside and you are offered the three most likely candidates — a wrongly matched full text is more harmful than a missing one. In the results, each claim now shows the page its evidence came from (“your PDF · p. 7”), so you can open the source and confirm it in seconds. If a claim cannot be found in the full text you supplied, that is no longer lumped together with “could not access”; it is reported separately as “Not found in your PDF”. PDF contents are never dumped on screen and never stored; if you reopen a saved report to re-check it, you are reminded to upload the files again.
8/13/2026Repair Citation: the right source and wording it actually supports
Paste a sentence behind a suspicious reference or unsupported citation to get a real scholarly source with direct evidence, a verbatim excerpt from the full text or abstract, a citation in the style you choose, and revised wording the source can safely support. The Turkish national index (TR Dizin) and the international indexes are searched together: if your claim is verified in both, you see both sources side by side and decide which one your text needs. Retracted works are removed from the candidate pool, and results are kept in My Activity.
8/10/2026You may not pay an APC here — TÜBİTAK agreements added
TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM's open access (Read & Publish) agreements with Wiley, Springer Nature and Cambridge University Press now appear in Find a Journal and Check a Journal. On roughly 4,000 journals you will see "may be covered by the TÜBİTAK agreement" next to the fee, and Find a Journal can filter down to those journals. We do not promise a waiver: the annual quota may be used up, your institution must be an EKUAL member and you must be the corresponding author — the conditions are stated on the card.
8/10/2026Find a Journal: SCI-E and ESCI are now separate — and filters moved to the results
About 38% of Web of Science journals are in ESCI, which does not count the same as SCI-E in Turkish promotion criteria. Find a Journal now separates the two and groups results accordingly. Filters also moved out of the search form to the top of the results: index, minimum quartile (optionally pinned to Scopus or WoS alone), access, APC and publisher — each option shows how many journals would remain. Quick picks such as "Free to publish" apply several filters at once, and every one of them states on screen exactly what it filtered.
8/10/2026How long does peer review take?
The second question when choosing a journal is usually "how long will it take". For more than 35,000 journals you can now see the average time from submission to publication and the review type (double anonymous, open review…) on both the Find a Journal cards and the Check a Journal table, plus a "fastest process" sort. This figure is the journal's own declaration, not our measurement — and it is labelled as such, because most publishers do not share acceptance dates.
8/8/2026Is your journal questionable under Türkiye's official criterion?
Türkiye's decision on predatory journals is a rule, not a list of names — until now applying it to your own journal was manual work. Check a Journal now walks you through it in a few questions and tells you which clause your journal falls under. The result cites the decision itself and is included in the report you copy.
8/8/2026Hijacked-journal warning and retraction history
Cloned journal websites copy the real journal's title and ISSN, collect fees, and never publish your article. Check a Journal now shows the fake address next to the genuine one whenever a documented clone exists. You also see how many articles the journal has had retracted, and — if it was withdrawn from DOAJ — the stated reason, clearly marked when that reason is merely administrative.
8/6/2026Email notifications now arrive without interruption
On busy days, account verification, password reset, report and alert emails could be delayed. Messages that hit the daily sending limit now go out straight away over a second delivery route, so your verification email never sits waiting when you sign up.
8/2/2026Follow an author: get their new publications by email
On the author search page, once you have confirmed the right person, choose “Follow this author”. You'll get a weekly email when that researcher publishes something new — only work that appears after you start following, never their back catalogue. Free membership covers 1 author, Pro covers 10.
8/1/2026Better results for Turkish books, protection against wrong DOIs
Turkish books from publishers with plain names are now also searched in the national union catalogue (TO-KAT). And when an index returns the right title with the WRONG DOI, we detect it and keep that DOI out of your corrected reference — a wrong DOI is worse than a missing one.
July 2026
7/31/2026Re-check a saved bibliography with one click
Every saved bibliography report now has a “Re-check” button. The same list is verified again and you only see WHAT CHANGED: sources retracted since your last check, entries that can now be verified, and corrected record details. Built for people who return to the same bibliography for months while writing a thesis.
7/31/2026Your saved bibliography is watched for retractions
Every bibliography you save to your account is now quietly monitored: if one of its sources is retracted later, we email you. Your citation style, your institution's custom reference format and your target journal are also remembered, so you don't retype them each visit.
7/30/2026Education research can now be verified (ERIC)
Most education journals don't use DOIs, so their articles were missing from the major indexes and were unfairly marked “unverified”. We now also query ERIC (U.S. Department of Education), so articles in journals like TOJET are verified.
7/22/2026Web of Science indexing shown in Journal Verify
You can now see whether a journal is covered by Web of Science indexes (SCI-E, SSCI, ESCI…) directly in the results, and filter by these criteria in the journal finder.
If something is missing or you spot a problem, write to us from the contact form — user reports are behind most of the improvements on this list.