01 / Evidence, not guesswork
Verify that every citation is real, correctly identified, and not retracted.
Hallucite checks each reference against the major scholarly databases — whether a person or an AI wrote the text. We don't guess who wrote it; we check whether the sources hold up.
Paste up to 5 references below and see real verification results — no signup required.
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CrossRefPubMedSemantic ScholarOpenAlexGoogle Books02 / 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
- 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- Retraction status: the work hasn't been withdrawn.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.
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 check whether the referenced work actually exists, whether its details are internally consistent, and whether the identifiers point where they claim — against CrossRef, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, PubMed, and Retraction Watch.
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Read verdicts
Each citation receives one of four verdicts: Verified, Discrepancy, Not Found, or Retracted — with the specific fields and sources behind every finding.
04 / Identifier integrity
What a quick existence check misses
The most common way a fabricated citation hides is not a made-up title — it is a real DOI that resolves to a completely different paper. A does-the-title-exist check passes it; Hallucite's identifier integrity check does not.
Hallucite checks facts, not authorship. Every identifier is resolved live against CrossRef, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, and PubMed.
Existence check only
DOI 10.xxxx/example → title found in CrossRef. ✓ Passes.
Hallucite identifier check
DOI 10.xxxx/example → resolves to a different paper. Cited title, authors, and year do not match the record at that identifier.
05 / Built for review
One standard. Different workflows.
Use the same evidence trail when writing, teaching, or screening a submission.
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07 / Start a verification
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