How it works
Five steps to check publication notices before you submit a manuscript, a review or an evidence synthesis.
Paste your bibliography into the reference box, or upload a manuscript or a reference-manager export. Whatever is read appears in the box before the check runs, so you can correct it first.
No DOI? Keep the title, journal, year and first author — that is what the match is built from.
The tool first works out which published article each reference is — from its DOI where one is given, otherwise from the bibliographic details. Only then does it look for notices against that article. About a second per reference; results appear as they arrive.
The report shows which details supported each match.
A DOI settles it outright. Without one, each field that agrees is one more piece of evidence.
Read Match and Status together. Confirm that the article found is the one you meant to cite, then read what the record holds about it. A status is only as reliable as the match beneath it.
Unresolved means the article could not be identified with enough confidence — not that it carries no notice.
No notice on record is an absence of evidence, not evidence the article is sound.
Open the reference. Every notice is listed with its date, in order, because the order changes the meaning: a concern later escalated to retraction is not the same as a correction that stands alone, and a retraction later reversed means the article may be cited.
A reinstatement restores publication status. It does not establish study quality.
Download the report as Word or CSV, or print it to PDF, for your research records. A methods sentence is included, ready to paste, naming the sources searched and the date.
Re-run close to submission: a notice published tomorrow would change the answer.
A record to review, discuss and keep.
Illustrations show the workflow, not a live report.