Check your references before the reviewers do
Find unmatched references, retracted papers and outdated preprints, and get a cleaned
.bib. In your browser, no account.
BibProfile is a free, browser-only tool for researchers, academics and PhD students
preparing manuscripts. You upload your BibTeX (.bib) file or paste its entries; it checks each
reference against OpenAlex and Crossref and tells you how
many it could verify, which ones to check by hand, and which are retracted. It also shows
the shape of your bibliography, the citations you may have missed, and gives you back a
cleaned copy.
- Is every reference real? — "X of Y references verified to exist", with the references that could not be verified, DOIs that point to another work, and retracted papers. Each unverified reference links to a Google Scholar search.
- Share with co-authors — download a one-page report (HTML or PDF) and copy a one-line message to send with it, both made in your browser. A "Try with an example" button shows a saved run on a 30-reference example.
- Match & inspect — match each reference against OpenAlex, with an honest match rate and a sortable, filterable table.
- Report — recency, journal concentration, self-citation, open access, retractions, and duplicates — descriptive, never a score.
- Missing citations — foundational works your references point to but you didn't cite, and recent work that cites your set.
- Preprint → published — detect preprints (arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, SSRN) and look up their published versions.
- Cleaned
.bib— suggested fixes (missing DOIs, venues, volume/pages) as a reviewable diff and a downloadable file.
Everything runs in your browser. BibProfile stores nothing about you or your file, there's no account and no tracking; our host, Cloudflare, processes technical data such as your IP address (Privacy). To find each reference, its title, first author and year are sent to Crossref; matched records are then fetched from OpenAlex. DOIs are also checked against Crossref for retractions (Crossref includes the Retraction Watch database). Built by Florian David. Open source under the AGPL-3.0: source code.