Check your own bibliography for errors: mistyped DOIs, wrong years, mixed-up works.
Review publication matches, metadata discrepancies and unresolved references using available, applicable sources, and correct entries so that co-authors, supervisors and readers can locate every work you cite.
Start verifying free02 / 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.
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.
Verification sources
- Crossref
- PubMed
- NLM Catalog
- OpenAlex
- CiNii
- DBLP
- Open Library
- Google Books
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI registry
Built for your workflow
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Check your own reference list
Find mistakes in your bibliography, such as a mistyped DOI, a wrong year or two works mixed up. Review publication matches, field differences and unresolved entries using the evidence shown for each reference.
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Export-ready reports for your manuscript
Review your verification results and available structured exports. Keep the evidence with your manuscript records and share the fields that need review with co-authors.
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Works with your reference manager
Paste references in supported citation styles or use structured reference data from your reference manager, so you can correct errors in your library as well as in the manuscript. The REST API supports checks in your own workflow.
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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