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7 November 2026

• Fewer false "could not be found" references in preprints. In bioRxiv and medRxiv PDFs the licence line printed on every page was read as part of the reference list; it is now ignored, and links printed with spaces and eLife articles are found. On six medRxiv preprints the false flags went from 11 to 2.
• Springer-style references are found. References written as "Author, A.: Title. In: Conference (Year)" were reported as not found; they are now looked up by their title.
• A busy database no longer means "not found". If a lookup times out, the reference is marked as not looked up instead of not found.

18 October 2026

• Richer venue pages. Journals now show where their authors come from, what kinds of articles they publish and their most cited recent papers; computer-science conferences show acceptance rates by year.
• A faster journal finder. Paste an abstract and the suggestions come back in about 10 seconds, with no outside lookup at the time.
• Each free tool says plainly what it sends where and links to the privacy policy.

17 October 2026

• Find a venue. Journals and conferences in ten fields, with upcoming deadlines, citation measures and plain explanations of how rankings such as CORE, CCF, SJR quartiles and national lists work.
• More references found, fewer wrong matches. A citation that shortens a paper's title is matched when its year and first author agree, and a record published years after the citation (a reprint or a namesake) is no longer taken for the cited work.
• The reference checker keeps long checks running when a database is slow, and the retraction checker takes a single DOI.
• Retraction notices are looked up afresh at least once a day.
• If one part of a review fails on an unusual PDF, the rest of the review still completes.

16 October 2026

• A free retraction checker. Paste DOIs or a reference list, or upload a PDF, on the retraction checker and see which cited works were retracted, with the notice. The reference checker is also available in German.
• A free reference checker. Upload a PDF or paste a reference list on the reference checker and see which references no database knows and which have been retracted. No account.
• Every paragraph is checked against the rest of the paper. Each sentence that states a number, a comparison, a count or a setting is checked against the other sections, the tables and the figures, so the check finds things like the same configuration reported with two different numbers in two tables, a training schedule that another sentence contradicts, or "best of any method" where one table row says otherwise.
• Figures are read one at a time. Legend entries, labels, symbols and plotted values are checked against the caption, the sentences citing the figure, the tables and the equations.
• Tables are checked cell by cell. Bold and underline marks against the best and second-best values, Average and Total rows recomputed, and numbers in the text compared with the cells they describe, allowing for rounding.
• References are looked up. Every reference is searched in Crossref, PubMed, arXiv, DBLP, NASA ADS, INSPIRE-HEP, OpenAlex and DataCite; one that no database knows is listed for you to check, and one that has been retracted is flagged. Try it on its own with the free reference checker. See how to check that your references are real.
• Fewer false alarms. A typo the page's own text contradicts is dropped, and two findings about the same mismatch are shown as one.
• A review now usually takes 4 to 8 minutes for an 8 to 15 page paper.

12 October 2026

• Reviews finish faster when the model is busy.

9 October 2026

• The same correction needed on several pages (such as "then" for "than") is one finding, with the other pages listed.
• Arithmetic findings are checked a second time against the whole page before you see them.
• Report crops load reliably.

8 October 2026

• Manuscripts are processed only in the EU.
• A contact form, and fonts served from our own site.
• Reviews finish even when the model provider is slow.

3 October 2026

• The site and guides in German. Papers in German are checked; notes are in English.
• Guides: a pre-submission checklist, numbers that don't add up, and text that disagrees with its tables.

30 September 2026

• Re-checks. Upload a revised PDF to the same project and the report shows which findings you resolved, which are still open (with the reason) and what is new.

29 September 2026

• DeskReady launches.