What's new
Features and improvements added to the platform. Newest first.
October 2026
10/31/2026
In-site welcome for editors
When editor access is approved, the account sees a one-time welcome box on the home page the next time it signs in. The box lists the editor tools that were opened, each one click away; once dismissed it does not appear again on any device.
10/29/2026
Sample result on Citation check
The Citation check page now shows a sample result before you run the tool: what each of the four verdicts (full match, partial match, unsupported, could not verify) looks like, with its reasoning. The thesis reference study now opens with its key findings as short points.
10/29/2026
"Use the record / Keep mine" in style conversion and manuscript format
Reference style, Word conversion and Manuscript format rewrite each reference from its matched record. When a value such as the year, pages or an author name differs from the record, those references are now listed with both versions side by side, differing words highlighted. Choose the record's version or your own for each; the Word file and the list are rebuilt to match.
10/29/2026
Manual check for unverified references: ResearchGate search and "I checked it"
Yellow and red cards now offer a ResearchGate search next to Google Scholar and DergiPark. If you have confirmed a reference yourself, mark it with "I checked it, the reference is correct"; the mark also appears in the Word, CSV and text reports you download. In the corrected-reference box, "show differences" compares your reference with the record word by word.
10/28/2026
Invite a colleague, both of you get 15 days of Pro
When a colleague who joins through the personal invitation link in your account completes their first check, you both receive 15 days of Pro. Up to four rewards a year (60 days); 20 invitations earn 15 days of Max.
10/28/2026Retracted papers are now caught by PMID too
The bibliography check now looks up the retraction list by PubMed ID (PMID) for medical references that carry no DOI; if a retracted study is cited, the card shows a warning and the reason for the retraction.
10/27/2026Documents with footnote citations now convert to APA or numbered styles
In documents that cite sources in Word footnotes, the footnotes become in-text citations: (Surname, Year, p. 45) or [1]. Short notes and “Ibid.” are linked to the right source; explanatory notes stay as footnotes. If the document has no reference list, one is added at the end.
10/27/2026Superscript numbered citations are now converted too
The Reference style tool now converts in-text citations in Word documents that use superscript numbers (¹˒²) into author–year styles such as APA. When a citation is not converted, the result screen tells you why and lists the citations left unchanged.
10/26/2026You choose whether your results are saved
Your account page has a new setting: keep your check results in your account, or have nothing stored at all. With saving on, the bibliographies you save are watched for retractions; with it off, no result is kept.
10/26/2026Articles without a DOI in European national journals are now verified
The bibliography check now also searches Europe's open science network. Articles published without a DOI in national journals from Croatia, Italy and other European countries are verified instead of being marked “not found”.
10/23/2026The correct reference from the record, under a faulty one
When the work is found with certainty, the bibliography check now shows the correct reference from the record under the card, ready to copy, whatever the error in your reference. It is written in your bibliography's own style.
- For incomplete author lists, the added authors are named.
- A wrong DOI, year, volume, page or title spelling also gets the correct reference.
- Volume and page details missing from the record are kept from your reference.
- “Copy with corrections” copies your whole bibliography with the corrected references replaced.
- When the match is not certain, no corrected reference is offered and the card says why.
- In the Word add-in, corrections work even when the document's style is not detected; the pane tells you which style is used.
10/22/2026The Word add-in opens ready from a desktop shortcut
The Windows installer now puts a “Reference Verify (Word)” shortcut on your desktop and in the Start menu. Start Word from it and a new document opens with the ReferenceVerify pane, with the button on the ribbon for every document you open in that session.
- If you start Word normally the button may be missing; the add-in is still installed and does not need reinstalling.
- The pane reminds you of this once, after your first check.
- The home page now links to the Word add-in next to the Verify button.
- Run the installer once more to get the shortcut.
10/22/2026Style conversion now lists suspicious references
The Manuscript Format Converter, Reference Style and the Word add-in now list references whose DOI leads to a different work or exists in no registry, right on the result screen.
- Each line shows the reference number, the entry and the reason; when the DOI belongs to another work, that work's title is shown too.
- This keeps a well-formatted reference list with wrong DOIs from reaching the journal unnoticed.
- When the work itself is identified with certainty, the correct DOI is shown and fixed in the converted reference list; no suggestion is made when only a similarly titled work is found.
- In Word documents with tables after the reference list, the tables are now preserved: a table's "Reference" column is no longer taken for the reference list, and the list is rewritten in its own place.
10/22/2026Attach your document when reporting a problem
The "Tell the admin" box under each tool now accepts your Word or PDF file, so we can investigate the issue with your actual document.
- Available to signed-in members; Word, PDF, ODT, RTF or TXT, up to 15 MB.
- Only our admins see the file; it is deleted automatically after 30 days.
- In the Manuscript Format Converter, the Taylor & Francis template now uses APA references.
10/22/2026Numbered manuscripts now convert cleanly to author–date styles
Converting a manuscript with [1]-style citations to APA or a Taylor & Francis author–date style no longer leaves the citations unchanged.
- Documents are recognised as numbered even when the text contains many parenthesised years such as "(2015–2020)" or "(ASHRAE 2019)".
- Citations that Word splits into "[", "1", "]" are converted too.
- If any citation still cannot be converted, the result screen tells you how many.
- If no reference section is found in the document, the result screen says so and explains how to fix it.
- In papers with tables after the reference list, a table's "Reference" column is no longer mistaken for the reference heading.
- A reference that cannot be verified (e.g. an ISO/ASHRAE standard) is no longer replaced by a different work during conversion; it is kept as written.
- A reference number typed with a space, such as "[33 ]", is now read as a separate reference instead of merging into the previous one and shifting later citations.
- In-text citations for unverified references keep their co-authors: "(Tartarini & Schiavon, 2016)", "(Melikov et al., 2007)", "(ASHRAE, 2013)".
- If the text cites a higher number than the reference list holds (e.g. [69] with 68 references), the result screen warns that two entries may have merged and citations may be shifted; in the Word add-in the warning appears before you convert.
- If a database does not respond, the affected references are asked again after a short wait; if there is still no answer, you are told how many were left as written. The same document now converts consistently from run to run.
10/22/2026Fabricated references now get "verified" far less easily
Fabricated references dressed up as real records are caught more reliably; for a real work with a wrong DOI, the corrected reference is shown on the card.
- Invented words added to a real short title, or a surname that only appears inside the title ("Green" ↔ "Greenhouse"), no longer count as a match.
- Vancouver and IEEE author lists are read, so fabricated authors are flagged with the right reason.
- DOIs with a page number glued on are repaired automatically; for a real work with a wrong DOI you can copy the corrected reference.
- If the retraction check cannot be completed, the card says so; editor and OJS summaries count "could not be checked" separately.
- Signing out on a shared computer now clears the uploaded document and reference results from the browser.
10/21/2026Fewer false "suspicious" flags for theses and books
Several cases where genuine references were wrongly flagged as suspicious have been fixed; a reference whose only problem is an incomplete author list is now yellow.
- References split across lines (author line, journal or DOI line) are read as one reference.
- A book citation matched to a review of the book or an encyclopedia entry is no longer reported as "other authors".
- A thesis citation is not confused with an article the author later derived from it.
- Errors in the database record (volume 0, swapped volume/issue, single-page ranges, catalogue typos) are not counted against your reference.
- Subscript digits, Cyrillic original records and "& Others" are recognised correctly.
10/21/2026One-time payment option for Pro and Max (Turkey)
Turkish checkout now offers a one-time payment that accepts debit cards, is confirmed with 3D Secure and does not renew automatically.
10/20/2026Yellow cards now show the matched record
When the work is found but a single field (volume, issue or pages) differs, the card shows the matched record's volume, issue and pages with a link to the record. If only the issue number differs, the note says what matches and gives the correct value.
10/19/2026Editor access now extends to your editorial team
Add your co-editors' addresses to the access form: once your request is approved, each of them gets an invitation, and the 15-day Max plan with the editor tools opens as soon as they sign in with that address.
10/17/2026Journal editors can now request access with one form
Fill in the short form on the For editors page: once approved, your account gets 15 days of the Max plan free with the editor-only tools (Citation pattern, Reviewer Finder, editor report), and we let you know by e-mail.
10/17/2026Fabricated article references are flagged more clearly
The bibliography check now flags articles that claim to be in a well-indexed journal but appear in no database, and finds genuine works more reliably.
- If the journal registered hundreds of articles that year but the cited article is nowhere to be found: “Suspicious: not found in any database”. Niche and unindexed journals are excluded.
- If the article was also published elsewhere (a reprint), we show that publication's journal, volume, issue and pages; your citation is not changed automatically.
- When a database does not respond we now say “verification could not be completed” instead of “not found”; you can retry the reference in a few minutes.
- Genuine articles with spelling variants, letters garbled in the PDF, or a comma-separated journal name are now matched correctly.
10/15/2026Remaining allowance shown the same everywhere
Your remaining references are now shown the same way on every screen.
- The box at the bottom left now shows what is left, not what was used; it changes colour when you are running low and shows the renewal date when you run out.
- If your allowance does not cover the whole reference list, you can check as many references as you have left right away.
10/11/2026Three new checks against fabricated references
Three mistakes that AI tools often make when they invent references are now caught, and the reference is marked suspicious.
- An arXiv number that does not exist on arXiv, or a PMID that does not exist in PubMed, is suspicious just like an unregistered DOI. A truncated number (e.g. a missing last digit) is not treated as fabricated.
- When a real article is attributed to a different journal, the journal name is compared with the record; abbreviations (e.g. “Curr Biol”) are not counted as a mismatch.
- References garbled when read from a PDF are repaired before searching: spaces inside words (“s upply c hain”), split surnames (“B reiman”), and “i” read as “]” because of the font. Real articles no longer show up as “not found”.
10/11/2026Link check and a closer look at reference age
The reference check now also shows whether the web addresses and DOI links in your references open, separately from whether the source itself is verified.
- Each reference shows “Link works”, “Broken link” or “could not be checked automatically”; the total appears at the top of the report. If a broken link has an archived copy on the web archive, it is linked.
- A site that blocks automated access or does not respond is not counted as broken; you are asked to check it manually. A broken link alone never makes a reference suspicious.
- The last page of a page range is compared too (e.g. 159–190 cited, 159–177 on record); a 1–2 page shift and abbreviated ranges (159–77) are not errors.
- Under the recency line: an age distribution (last 5 years, 6–10, 11–20, older than 20) and a clickable list of sources older than 10 years.
- The “Convert the style” link under the results takes your list (or uploaded file) to the Reference style screen without re-entering it.
10/11/2026Reference style: style compliance and order check
When you convert your bibliography, you also see how well each entry followed the chosen style: which rule was broken and why it changed.
- Rule-by-rule checks for APA 7, APA 6, Vancouver and IEEE: author format, year position, “&” and “et al.”, title case, volume(issue), DOI format, quotation marks and vol./pp. in IEEE.
- Order check: entries out of alphabetical order in author–date styles and where they belong (“entry 8 belongs at position 3”); numbering sequence in numbered styles, and first-citation order in Word files.
- If you upload a Word file, the italics of journal and book titles are checked too (italic in APA and IEEE, plain in Vancouver).
- Other styles are still converted; the screen says plainly that rule-by-rule checking is not available for them.
10/11/2026Citation check: ambiguous citations and numbering order
The consistency tab catches two new problems.
- Ambiguous citation: when the bibliography has two works by the same author in the same year (Kaya, 2020a and 2020b), a plain “(Kaya, 2020)” in the text could be either; you are asked to add the letter.
- Numbering order: in numbered styles, sources are numbered in order of first citation; if [5] appears before [4], it is shown. The Word add-in summary includes both counts.
- A link counter in the sources tab: working, broken and not automatically checkable links, with the broken ones listed.
10/11/2026Journal Check also finds journals by their English title
If a journal name typed in Turkish or another language is not found in the indexes, the journal is also searched by its English title and shown first under “Did you mean?”, labelled “English title”.
10/10/2026Upload your file once, use it in every tool
A manuscript you upload in one tool is kept only in your browser; when you open Citation check, Reference style, Manuscript format or Journal Finder, you are asked whether to use it.
- Journal Finder is filled with your title and abstract; Reference style moves the bibliography of a PDF into its list.
- The file is never sent to the server; it is removed from your browser after 7 days or when you click “Forget”.
- Word add-in: tables and figures after the bibliography no longer stick to the last reference; a corrected entry is shown only for references that really contain an error.
10/7/2026OJS plugin 1.2.1: tighter privacy
Opening the workflow no longer sends anything to ReferenceVerify; the plugin connects only when an editor clicks a button, and summaries are added only with “Get results”. Download it from the OJS plugin page and install with Upgrade; your key is kept.
10/7/2026Word add-in: checking and style are now separate
The References and Citations tabs only check, and “fix in document” keeps your document's own style. Style changes live in the Style tab: İSNAD, journal style search, .csl upload and a re-ordered bibliography.
10/6/2026Consolidated report in the browser extension, full author report for editors
Editors on DergiPark and other systems can choose the consolidated report per file and get the full report for the authors in one click.
- Three options in the right-click menu: Reference check, In-text citations, Consolidated report. Download version 1.1.0, unzip it over the same folder and reload.
- Editor tools → Author report: the full status of every reference, suggested corrections and the in-text citation consistency. Paste it into your message to the authors or attach it as a Word file.
10/6/2026OJS 3.5 support, consolidated report and sharing with the author
In OJS, choose one of three reports for each manuscript file, and send the report to the author through OJS if you want.
- Reference check, In-text citations or Consolidated report: the consolidated report verifies every reference and cross-checks in-text citations and the reference list in both directions.
- “Share with the author”: the full status of every reference and suggested corrections are added, once you approve, to an OJS discussion that includes the author.
- There is now a package for OJS 3.4 and 3.5 as well (in 3.5, in the workflow's left-hand menu). Download 1.2.0 from the OJS plugin page; on 3.3, Upgrade keeps your settings.
10/5/2026Browser extension: check a manuscript file in one click
A Chrome and Edge extension for DergiPark and other submission systems: right-click the manuscript file and choose “Check with ReferenceVerify” to open the reference check or Citation Check without downloading and re-uploading the file.
- The file is fetched with your own session, so any manuscript file you can see in the panel can be checked.
- On DergiPark article pages a “ReferenceVerify” button appears next to the PDF link.
- The file is sent encrypted and deleted on first open or within an hour. The extension only accesses the file you choose.
10/5/2026OJS plugin: checks inside the editorial workflow
For journals on Open Journal Systems (OJS 3.3): every manuscript file gets a “Check with ReferenceVerify” action, the file opens in one click and the result summary is written back to the submission as an editor-only discussion.
- Reviewer suggestions with conflict-of-interest flags, without leaving OJS.
- The file is transferred encrypted and deleted from our server on first open, or within an hour. Verification runs in the editor's browser.
- The site language follows OJS: English OJS opens referenceverify.com.
- Using a different submission system? Tell us; we can build an integration for it too.
- Step-by-step installation and use: Guide → “OJS Plugin: Installation and Use Guide for Journal Editors”.
10/5/2026Editor tools: revision comparison, author letter, decision summary
A new “Editor tools” tab in Reference check and Citation check reports.
- Revision comparison: references added, removed, fixed or newly problematic between the original and the revised manuscript; the same work is recognised even if its formatting changed.
- Author correction letter: problematic references with suggested fixes, in English or Turkish, ready to send.
- Decision summary (editors only): one page for desk review; printable and downloadable as PDF or Word.
10/5/2026Reviewer report check: coercive citation signals
New editor-only tool: extracts citation requests from a reviewer report, verifies them and flags requests for the reviewer's own work, for a single journal or for weakly related sources.
10/5/2026Manuscript format: choose your target journal
Pick one of 2,500+ journals hosted on DergiPark: the journal's author guidelines are read, its layout (font, size, spacing, headings) and reference style are applied to your document, and you get a compliance checklist of rule versus manuscript.
- Every rule is shown with a verbatim quote from the guidelines; nothing is assumed where the journal is silent.
- The Reference style tool uses the same journal choice.
- New publisher templates: MDPI, Frontiers and PLOS.
10/5/2026Editor report and journal teams
An anonymous summary of the last 1, 3 or 6 months of checks: number of runs, trends in suspicious and not-found references, the most frequent problem types. Journal teams can share one subscription with a common allowance.
- No reference, title or journal name is stored for the report; only aggregate counts.
- Contact us for a journal team licence.
September 2026
9/28/2026New styles: CMOS 17, APSA, CSE and OSCOLA
The style list now includes political science (APSA), biology and life sciences (CSE 9), law (OSCOLA, footnotes) and the 17th edition of Chicago that some journals still require. Chicago options are now labeled “Chicago / CMOS 18”.
- Turabian is not a separate style but the student version of Chicago; use one of the Chicago options.
- Searching for “turabian” or “cmos” in the journal style search finds the right style.
9/28/2026Manuscript format: Chicago and İSNAD with footnotes
The Manuscript format tool now lets you choose a citation style independently of the publisher template: Chicago (notes and bibliography or author-date) and the Turkish İSNAD 2 style. With note styles, your in-text citations become real Word footnotes.
- The first citation of a source gets a full note, later citations a short note.
- Several sources cited at the same point are combined into one footnote.
- The reference list is rewritten as an alphabetical bibliography.
9/27/2026Format your bibliography in your target journal's style
Submitting to a journal that is not in the style list? Type the journal name; if its citation style is found, the corrected bibliography follows it.
- More than 10,000 journal styles are searchable.
- If the journal's author guidelines provide a .csl file, you can upload it directly.
- Available in the bibliography check, the Verify citations report and the Manuscript format tool.
- EndNote .ens files use a closed format and cannot be read; search by journal name instead.
9/27/2026Academic profile in My account
You can now save your ORCID, institution, Web of Science ResearcherID and Scopus Author ID on the My account page.
- Find by author shows a “My publications” shortcut; in the results, the person whose ORCID matches yours is listed first and marked “you”.
- Your ORCID is shared with the citation alert: if you change it in your profile, the alert follows the new ID.
9/27/2026Clearer example scenarios
Example scenarios now sit below the input box and are clearly optional, so it is obvious that you start with your own text.
August 2026
8/30/2026Word 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 colors 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 organization accounts an admin uploads it once and it appears in everyone's Word.
8/20/2026Find 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.
8/19/2026Find 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 labeled 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.
8/17/2026Find 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 articles in national indexes 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.
8/17/2026Check 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. Turkish national literature and international literature 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 labeled 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 catalog. 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. 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
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 an international education-research database, 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.