Features
Catch fake and wrong references before your supervisor does.
Paste your bibliography or upload a DOCX, PDF, BibTeX or RIS file. Every entry is matched against real scholarly records and gets one of four clear statuses.
What it looks like
What you get
- Verified, Mismatch, Not found or Unverifiable, each with the reason behind it.
- Wrong year or a missing author? See the difference next to the correct record and accept the fix with one click.
- Handles APA, IEEE, Harvard, Vancouver, MLA and the messy mixed formats real bibliographies end up in.
- A Not found entry comes with the closest candidate paper when there is one, so you can check it yourself.
How it works
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Step 1: Paste or upload
Paste your bibliography, or upload DOCX, PDF, BibTeX or RIS.
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Step 2: Each entry is matched
Every reference is looked up in Crossref, OpenAlex and Semantic Scholar by DOI, title, author and year.
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Step 3: Fix with one click
Each entry gets one of four statuses. Wrong fields are shown side by side with the database record.
More features in this group
- Get a source suggested for every sentence that needs one. PaperQED finds the sentences in your draft that state a fact without a citation and suggests papers that back them, each with the passage that matters. Pick one and the in-text citation and bibliography entry are added in your citation style.
- Know when a source has been retracted, or isn't what it seems. Every verified reference is checked for retractions, corrections and expressions of concern, and gets a source card: journal quartile, indexing, citation count, age and source type.
- See which sentences still need a source while you write. The claim detector reads your draft sentence by sentence and underlines factual claims that have no citation yet, much like a spell checker underlines a typo.
- Check that each paper really says what you cite it for. For every sentence and its citation, PaperQED finds the most relevant passage in the paper and labels the match. Every label comes with the verbatim quote, where it sits in the paper, a short reason and a confidence level.
- Hand in proof, not promises: the Citation Integrity Report. One PDF sums up the whole check: how many references, their status, retractions, source quality, claims without a citation and the claim–source results. Attach it when you submit your thesis.
- The same checks inside Word or Google Docs. Most theses are written in Word. The add-in brings the claim detector, citation search, claim–source checks and citation insertion into a sidebar next to your document, signed in with the same account.
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