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Academic paper citations verification tool

ChatGPT and other large language models tend to invent information, so-called hallucinations. This is particularly evident with structured data such as references and bibliographies. Recent studies have shown that above 25% of the generated citations contained errors or were completely fabricated!

Our online tool takes a literature list with one citation per line and will check them for existence and correctness. Paste yours below or test with our sample bibliography.

This interpretation only works if the document had regular saving points (i.e., auto-save was active) while it was written; otherwise, copying the text into a fresh .docx file removes this metadata, making the analysis meaningless.

Got your word file stores in MS Drive or Google Drive? Try our Version History Tool to track the evolution of your documents

To get a better analysis, use Mentafy from the start of your project. Read More

How to Read the Data?

Got a warning triangle but the source seems ok
Our system generates a warning whenever it finds no data corresponding to your reference in different repositories or if there is matching data but it is somewhat different. This means you should double check, but in the end human judgement is better.
Which databases are you checking against?
We use a machine learning system to parse the references into structured data. This is then used to query scientific catalogues and the internet. The algorithm and data sources are consistently improved, so let us know any feedback!

How to get better analysis?

Work with Mentafy from the beginning of your writing, because

We Protect

We will generate a concise report with indicative thresholds, which allows you to judge authenticity within a few minutes and generate a concise report with indicative thresholds, which allows you to judge authenticity within a few minutes.

We Organize

We provide the authors with writing support from the first steps of finding a topic until the final submission. Most importantly, real-time feedback for the students, encouraging them to work diligently and honestly.

We Guide

We track document changes reliably (Note: Even if you move text around within a document, we keep the information, how it came in originally) We are not keyloggers, and we respect our users privacy.