01 / Evidence, not guesswork
Check the references in the work you review.
For supervisors, examiners, editors and peer reviewers: Hallucite checks each reference against available publication records and shows the evidence behind every result. Authors can check their own lists too.
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Verification sources
- Crossref
- PubMed
- NLM Catalog
- OpenAlex
- CiNii
- DBLP
- Open Library
- Google Books
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI registry
02 / Verification scope
What we check — and what we don't
Every verdict is limited to what the evidence supports. Hallucite verifies the reference record without making claims about authorship or intent.
What Hallucite checks
- Publication matches: available records support the cited work.
- Identifier integrity: compare the cited DOI or PMID with the publication it resolves to.
- Metadata consistency: compare authors, year, journal and title.
- Publication notices: show available retraction and correction evidence.
What we don't do
- We don't score whether your text was written by AI.
- We don't yet judge whether a source supports the specific claim it's attached to.
03 / Verification method
How It Works
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Paste Citations
Simply paste your bibliography or reference list. We support APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, Vancouver, and more.
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Cross-reference
We compare the cited identifiers and publication details with available records. The result shows the evidence obtained and any gaps in coverage.
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Read verdicts
Review publication matches, metadata discrepancies and unresolved references, with the available evidence and publication notices for each entry.
04 / Identifier integrity
A working DOI still needs a metadata comparison
A DOI can resolve to a real publication while a reference gives the wrong year or other details. Compare the identifier record with the cited fields and investigate the differences.
Hallucite checks available publication evidence. A matching identifier does not establish correct metadata, authorship, intent or support for a claim.
A real publication and a deliberately altered reference, not a checker result or an accuracy test. Oxford Academic publisher record
Publisher reference
Turing, A. M. (1950). Computing machinery and intelligence. Mind, 59(236), 433–460.
The publisher dates this article to 1950. The DOI identifies that work.
Deliberately altered reference
Turing, A. M. (2020). Computing machinery and intelligence. Mind, 59(236), 433–460.
This teaching example keeps the same DOI and changes only the cited year to 2020.
05 / Built for review
One standard. Different workflows.
Use the same evidence trail when supervising, reviewing a submission or checking your own reference list.
How we measure and what remains uncertain
Hallucite makes deterministic, versioned verification decisions and shows the evidence for each flag. Hosted in the EU.
Coverage gaps, incomplete metadata and source outages can leave a reference unresolved. Review flagged entries: a missing match does not prove fabrication, and a verdict does not establish authorship or whether a source supports a claim.
Benchmark results are still to come and will be published after review.
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