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Independent human verification of every source you cite — signed by a Lead Reviewer.

Checked field by field · Four verdicts · Audit-grade report

  • We read every sourceRead by a human, not skimmed by software.
  • We confirm each is realThe paper, the DOI, the journal — all checked.
  • We catch the fakesFabrications, phantom DOIs, retractions.
  • We grade the sourcePredatory outlets to top-tier — scored.
01THE PROBLEM

References are produced faster than anyone can verify them.

19.9%

of citations produced by a leading AI model in a controlled audit were fabricated outright. That is 1 in 5.

Of the references that weren’t fabricated, 45.4% still carried bibliographic errors.

Linardon et al., JMIR Mental Health, 2025

Fabricated references per 10,000 published papers, 2023 to 2026. More than 10× fabrications in three years. A column chart with one column per year and a shared zero baseline. In 2023 the rate was 3.5 fabricated references per 10,000 published papers — roughly 1 in 2,828. 2024 has no column; it is annotated: AI writing tools go mainstream. By 2025 the rate had risen to 21.8 per 10,000 — 1 in 458. The first seven weeks of 2026 show 36.1 per 10,000 — 1 in 277; an early snapshot, not a full-year figure. Source: Topaz et al., The Lancet, 2026.

* First seven weeks of 2026.

1 in 2,828 (2023) · 1 in 458 (2025) · 1 in 277 (2026*)

Source: Topaz et al., The Lancet (2026). Audit of 2.5M papers · 4,046 fabricated citations in 2,810 papers.

02THE SOLUTION

Independent human verification of every source.

  1. 01SubmitSend a manuscript or reference list. A case opens.
  2. 02Human verificationAn expert human checks every citation against its real source — AI never judges.
  3. 03Signed reportA Lead Reviewer signs an audit-grade report you can cite.

What we check on every citation

Is the source real?

We find the original and confirm it exists — not a search result.

Is it cited correctly?

We check every detail — author, title, date, publisher.

Is it still trustworthy?

We flag anything retracted or questioned.

Who stands behind it?

A human verifies; a Lead Reviewer signs off.

03GET STARTED

Two ways to start: one manuscript, or your whole pipeline.

Whether it’s a single manuscript or a steady stream, every citation is checked by a human and the report is signed.

For individualsA single manuscript or reference list

You want your work to hold up.

  • Every citation verified by a human
  • A signed report you can stand behind
  • Reviewed in full — not sampled
For organizationsInstitutions · teams · journals · labs · companies

You verify at scale.

  • Verification at the scale your work demands
  • A consistent standard across every submission
  • Set up in conversation — shaped to how you work
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