Clean your reference list before a reviewer does
In short
To check a manuscript's references before submission, paste the full reference list into a checker that resolves identifiers and matches each entry against Crossref, OpenAlex, PubMed and CourtListener. This catches the errors reviewers notice — a DOI pointing to the wrong paper, a shifted year, a swapped author list, or a source that has since been retracted — before they cost you a revision.
Reference sections accumulate errors: a DOI copied from the wrong record, a reference manager that mangled a journal name, an AI-assisted draft that introduced a source nobody checked, or a paper that was retracted after you first cited it. Each one is small, and each one is exactly what a careful reviewer flags.
What CiteProve checks for
- DOIs, PMIDs and arXiv IDs that resolve to a different work than cited
- Mangled metadata — wrong year, volume, pages, or journal abbreviation
- Retracted papers, surfaced from Retraction Watch, OpenAlex and Crossref
- Preprint-versus-published mismatches and near-duplicate records
Built on the trust principle
CiteProve flags; it never accuses. Every verdict lists the databases consulted with outbound links, field differences are shown as a diff with a corrected citation you can copy, and anything outside coverage is reported as can't-check rather than guessed. You stay in control of the final call.