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See It In Action
Verify existence, repair errors, and export traceable results — all in one place.
We verify whether each citation actually exists and matches the cited details — catching 100% of fake references in controlled tests.
Fixes mismatched author, year, title, venue, DOI/ISBN fields and fills in missing metadata.
Every verdict includes what we checked, what matched, and what we repaired.
Verify citations across the most common research languages; interface available in French, Spanish, and Portuguese (more coming).
Convert bibliographies to APA, MLA, Chicago, and more.
Check entire bibliographies — hundreds of references — in a single pass.
Powered by neuro-symbolic AI • Adheres to SVRIS
Other tools tell you a reference has an "80% chance" of being real. But what does 80% actually mean? SourceVerify is different. We compare each field of your citation against evidence from multiple sources, then show you exactly what matched, what didn't, and where we looked. No black-box scores—just transparent, auditable results.
We parse title, authors, year, venue, and DOI from your citation.
We search OpenAlex, Google Scholar, and other databases to find matches.
Each field gets a label (MATCH, CONTAINS, etc.) and we compute the outcome.
Try it yourself: adjust the field labels to see how the outcome changes
Match Set: 1 | Contained Set: 1
SourceVerify made the reference review process for our open call significantly faster and more reliable. We were dealing with a large volume of submissions, and the platform helped us efficiently verify references and quickly identify false or misleading entries that would have been difficult to catch manually. One of the most useful features was the ability to clearly see which references had supporting links and accessible source material versus those that did not. Having direct visibility into available links and verification status made it much easier to assess credibility at scale. The interface was straightforward to use, and the time savings were significant. It gave our team greater confidence in the integrity of the review process while reducing administrative workload. It's a particularly valuable tool for teams that need to review large numbers of applications or submissions while maintaining a high standard of due diligence.
Janani Balasubramaniam
Program Management Officer · IDRC
In a scientific world where GenAI detectors often fall short, SourceVerify has become my go-to tool for verifying sources and identifying hallucinations. I highly recommend it to scholars, journal editorial teams, educators, and journalists as a powerful resource for combating illegitimate or dishonest writing.
Dr. Carla Bonina
Associate Professor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship · University of Surrey
I've been using SourceVerify on some pretty extensive reference lists, and honestly, it's been a game-changer. Tracking down errors in hundreds of citations is tedious work, and this tool has cut that time down significantly. It's straightforward to use — no steep learning curve — and it catches things that are easy to miss when you're deep in a long document. I know the team is still building it out, and I'm looking forward to the additional features in the pipeline. It's already making a real difference, and I can only see it getting better from here.
Babak Fayyaz-Najafi, Ph.D.
NextGen Decarbon Consulting
SourceVerify gave me the confidence to use AI assistance for literature reviews by providing a crucial verification layer that catches citation errors before submission. While drafting papers for Three Sisters and preparing a symposium manuscript on AI governance in education, the tool identified both minor typos and serious hallucinations, including references with correct authors but wrong titles, shifted publication years, and venues that didn't match actual journals. What could have been embarrassing citation errors (and time-consuming to correct!) became learning opportunities, and now I wouldn't trust AI-generated references without running them through SourceVerify first.
Dr. Marcy O'Neil
Assistant Professor of Anthropology & Gender Equity and Social Inclusion Specialist, Global IDEAS · Michigan State University
In a world where it is increasingly difficult to tell fact from fiction, SourceVerify is an indispensable tool that saves me hours of time.
Spencer Christopherson
Private Investor
SourceVerify made the reference review process for our open call significantly faster and more reliable. We were dealing with a large volume of submissions, and the platform helped us efficiently verify references and quickly identify false or misleading entries that would have been difficult to catch manually. One of the most useful features was the ability to clearly see which references had supporting links and accessible source material versus those that did not. Having direct visibility into available links and verification status made it much easier to assess credibility at scale. The interface was straightforward to use, and the time savings were significant. It gave our team greater confidence in the integrity of the review process while reducing administrative workload. It's a particularly valuable tool for teams that need to review large numbers of applications or submissions while maintaining a high standard of due diligence.
Janani Balasubramaniam
Program Management Officer · IDRC
In a scientific world where GenAI detectors often fall short, SourceVerify has become my go-to tool for verifying sources and identifying hallucinations. I highly recommend it to scholars, journal editorial teams, educators, and journalists as a powerful resource for combating illegitimate or dishonest writing.
Dr. Carla Bonina
Associate Professor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship · University of Surrey
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Large language models are revolutionary for research and writing, but they have a critical flaw: when generating citations, they're not looking up sources—they're guessing.
Problematic References
of citations generated by major chatbots contained errors, omissions, or fabrications.
arXiv Preprint, 2025Confidently Wrong
AI-powered news search engines collectively gave incorrect answers to more than 60% of queries.
Tow Center Study, 2025Hallucinations in Legal AI
Even specialized legal AI tools from LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters hallucinate up to this rate.
Stanford/Yale Study, 2025The bottom line? You spend hours clicking through broken links and manually verifying what should have been reliable. Your brain—meant for analysis and insight—gets trapped in tedious detective work.
Web app. Browser extension. API. CLI. MCP server. However you work, SourceVerify fits in.
Our Chrome and Firefox extensions open a sidebar right where you work. Paste references from ChatGPT, Google Docs, Overleaf, or anywhere — verify and sync results to your account without switching tabs.
The SourceVerify REST API gives developers programmatic access to the same engine trusted by researchers worldwide. Ship citation integrity as a feature.
The SourceVerify CLI and /sourceverify skill bring reference verification right into Claude Code. Install once, verify references without leaving your AI workflow.
Connect SourceVerify to Claude Desktop, Claude Code, ChatGPT, or any MCP-compatible assistant. One click, no install, no API key.