Read every common format
Paste formatted references or upload PDF, DOCX, BibTeX, RIS, EndNote, NBIB, XML, JSON, CSV, or TSV.
Citation evidence engine
Know which citations you can trust
Check a reference list against scholarly sources, find missing or incorrect fields, and spot citations that may have been fabricated by AI.
LumaCite quality audit
Check one citation or a complete reference list
Paste citations below or upload a bibliography file. LumaCite separates the records and checks them one by one.
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Checks are evidence-based
Possible AI fabrication is reported as a risk, never as an unsupported certainty.
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Field-by-field comparison
Multi-source verification
Fabrication risk signals
Missing metadata recovery
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Quality report
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How it works
Separate and identify
Recover clean citation rows and detect DOI, PMID, PMCID, ISBN, arXiv, ISSN, and article URLs.
Resolve the real work
Use identifiers first, then title, author, year, and venue matching when a stable identifier is missing.
Cross-check the evidence
Compare publisher, biomedical, book, data, preprint, and scholarly-graph metadata sources.
Audit every field
Show matches, missing values, conflicting values, enrichments, duplicates, and source-level provenance.
Explain the verdict
Separate verified citations from fixable errors and unverified records with possible fabrication risk.
Evidence in the report
Exact-identifier and fuzzy bibliographic matching with explainable confidence.
Input-versus-source comparisons for title, authors, year, venue, volume, issue, pages, and IDs.
Retraction, correction, Crossmark, open-access, and registry availability signals.
Readable reports for humans plus downloadable JSON evidence for reproducible review.
FAQ
Accuracy and source quality
How does LumaCite decide that a citation is accurate?
The checker first resolves a stable identifier when one is present. It then compares the supplied title, authors, date, publication, volume, issue, pages, and identifiers with independent metadata records. A high score requires identity evidence, not merely complete-looking text.
AI hallucination checks
Can a tool prove that an AI invented a citation?
No checker can prove authorship from a citation string alone. LumaCite reports possible fabrication risk when a reference cannot be corroborated, or when its identifier resolves to a different work. It shows the failed and conflicting checks so a person can make the final decision.
Metadata problems and missing fields
Does a missing DOI mean that a citation is false?
No. Many valid books, older articles, websites, theses, and reports do not have a DOI. Missing identifiers lower automated confidence, but LumaCite also searches by title, author, year, venue, ISBN, PMID, and arXiv identifiers when relevant.
Files and privacy
Which files can I check?
The checker accepts PDF, DOCX, TXT, Markdown, RTF, BibTeX, RIS, EndNote tagged text, PubMed NBIB, EndNote XML, CSL-JSON, CSV, and TSV. Running a check does not add the citations to your LumaCite library.
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