RefCheck
Catch AI-hallucinated citations before your reviewers do
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Paste your references and RefCheck cross-checks each one across 10 scholarly databases, including Crossref, OpenAlex, PubMed and arXiv. It flags fake and retracted papers, fixes wrong details, and links free full text. 5 free checks a day.
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PH · launched Oct 17, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Education
- Compliance & governance
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Education
- Artificial Intelligence
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Yes The product parses academic reference strings and queries well-documented public academic APIs like Crossref, PubMed, and OpenAlex to verify citations.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 107 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #55 of 108 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 283 days after the earliest competitor.
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- PaperCheck · ph · 2026-10-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- CiteSwap · ph · 2026-10-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- CitationLab · ph · 2026-10-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- getReport · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- GitHub · ph · 2026-10-07 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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- External ID
- 1283077
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- ReelCheck
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- All tags
- Productivity, Education, Artificial Intelligence
- AI summary
- citation verification tool for researchers and academics
- Manually corrected
- No