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Reference & DOI checker
Paste your reference list. Each one is checked against Crossref: does the DOI exist, does it match the title, is it retracted? Catches typos and AI-fabricated references.
How to read this. Crossref holds DOIs for most journal articles. A DOI that does not exist, or that leads to a different title, usually means a typo or a fabricated reference (common with AI chatbots). “No matching record” does not prove a reference is fake: books, websites, guidelines and some regional journals are not in Crossref, so check those in PubMed, Google Scholar or the publisher’s site. Your references are sent to Crossref’s public API to be checked; nothing else is stored.