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BEFORE YOU SUBMIT WORKS ON YOUR REFERENCE LIST FREE · NO SIGN-UP

Are you citing a retracted paper?

Retraction Check MR RESEARCHER

Paste your reference list. Every citation is checked against the Retraction Watch database, Crossref and Europe PMC — and the report tells you what each one answered.

Retractions usually land two to four years after publication. Your reference list was checked before you wrote it — not since.

Only 1 in 20 citations of a retracted paper says that it was retracted. The other nineteen read as ordinary references.Hsiao T-K, Schneider J. Quant Sci Stud. 2021;2(4):1144–69 — 5.4%, rounded here.

WHAT THE REPORT LOOKS LIKE
1. Silva et al. 2023 — no notice on record
2. Ahmadi et al. 2021 — Retracted 2024 Do not cite this as sound evidence
3. Chen & Okafor 2022 — no notice on record
4. Marret et al. 2019 — Correction Check whether it affects what you cite it for
5. Nakamura 2024 — no notice on record

Illustration of the report’s shape. Not a live check.

POINTS OF USE Who runs it, and at which moment.
Authors Before submission, and again if revision runs into months. A retracted reference found by a reviewer is found too late to correct quietly.
Supervisors and research offices Before a protocol goes to an ethics or research committee, and at each milestone after it.
Peer reviewers and editors Before a decision. A reference list of fifty takes under a minute.
Evidence synthesis teams At screening, and once more before submission — the stage where the measured consequence is largest.
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Up to 200 references · nothing you paste is stored