What we check — and what we don't
What Hallucite checks
- Existence: the cited work is in an indexed database.
- Identifier integrity: the DOI or PMID resolves to the right work.
- Metadata consistency: authors, year, journal and title match.
- Retraction status: the work hasn't been withdrawn.
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.
A 'Not Found' verdict is not proof of misconduct
A 'Not Found' result means the citation could not be matched in any indexed database. It does not tell you why: the source may be fabricated, but it may also be very recently published, published in an unindexed venue, or simply formatted in a way the parser could not resolve. Use a 'Not Found' verdict as a prompt to investigate further — not as a verdict on the student.
Designed for academic integrity review
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Bulk-paste a reference list
Copy a student's entire bibliography and paste it in. Hallucite parses APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, Vancouver, and most common academic formats. Results are ready in seconds.
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Plain-language verdicts for every citation
Each reference receives one of four verdicts — Verified, Discrepancy, Not Found, or Retracted — along with the specific fields that don't match. No technical knowledge required to read the report.
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A fabricated reference is the signal — not the writing style
A citation that resolves to a non-existent paper, or whose DOI points to a different work entirely, is concrete, documentable evidence. That is the kind of finding that supports a formal review — unlike stylistic inferences about who wrote the prose.
Measured on the 100 k-case synthetic benchmark