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Most of us just don’t say so.

Tools and step-by-step help for the slow, careful parts of medical and health research — built by researchers, open to anyone.

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  • 76,779 journals with sourced facts
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Three tools, free to use

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Journal Vitals

Is the journal still publishing? Which indexes list it now, or did before? What does it cost? Dated facts for 76,779 journals, including the Gulf and the region.

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Journal Finder

Paste your title and abstract. Get ten journals whose published articles are closest to yours, with indexes and fees from official sources.

Find a journal → FREE

Retraction Check

Paste your reference list. Every citation is checked against Retraction Watch, Crossref and Europe PMC before an editor does it for you.

Check my references →

THE PANEL

From a finished draft to a published paper

Coming soon: a member panel where you can follow each manuscript from a finished draft to publication, with our tools and step-by-step guidance in one place.

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Facts, with their sources

Every result says where it came from and when. “Not recorded” never means “no”.

No scores, no labels

We do not rank journals or call them names. The decision stays with you.

Your text stays yours

What you paste into our free tools is used for your result and not kept.

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Only 1 in 20 citations of a retracted paper says that it was retracted.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 Ahmadi et al. 2021 — Retracted 2024 Do not cite this as sound evidence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

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