Scientific content validation

Truth In Every Claim.

CiteWise validates the scientific content of your manuscript. Every claim is assessed against the evidence it cites — identifying claims the cited source does not substantiate, sources that have been retracted, and references with no record in the literature — then proposes a correction for each discrepancy. Before peer review does.

Three layers of validation

A manuscript — .docx, .pdf or pasted text — is parsed and every claim is isolated together with the reference it cites. Multi-citation groups are separated so each claim–source pair is assessed on its own merits. Each pair then passes through the same three layers.

1. Reference verification. A claim cannot be assessed against a source that cannot be located. Each reference is resolved across CrossRef, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar and the open web, screened for retraction, and evaluated for provenance and quality.
2. Claim verification. The cited paper is examined and assessed against the sentence citing it: does this evidence substantiate this claim? Where the first pass is inconclusive, a deep verification reads the full text and quotes the passage relied upon.
3. Correction. Where a discrepancy is established, CiteWise proposes a resolution: a minimal revision of the claim so that it states what the evidence actually reports, or a more appropriate reference for the claim as written.

A valid reference does not validate a claim

Establishing that a DOI resolves, that text is original, or that prose was not machine-generated says nothing about whether the cited work supports the assertion attached to it. CiteWise validates the scientific content itself, by binding every claim to the evidence that is said to support it.

Nothing is reported without evidence

A tool with a high false-positive rate is worse than no tool, because its output ceases to be read. Every verdict is a positive finding supported by material actually examined — and where an assessment could not be completed, the report states that explicitly rather than inferring a result. A clean report means validated, not unexamined.

A confidence value is reported for every result, and the reasoning behind each verdict is available for inspection — so a verdict can be contested on the same evidence that produced it.

Review a full report — one 13-sentence paragraph carrying four claims predicated on retracted sources and one citing a source with no record. No sign-up required. · For publishers, institutions & funders