Verify Research Before You Cite It
Don't let a bad citation
sink your credibility.
60% of published findings don't hold up when retested. Peer review misses funding conflicts. Verify your citations in 2 minutes instead of 2 hours.
Verify research from the world's leading journals
How It Works
Three simple steps from paper to integrity report.
Paste a DOI, PMID, or upload PDF
Submit any published paper using its identifier or upload the PDF directly. We handle the rest.
AI analyzes methodology, conflicts & replication
Our system cross-references retraction databases, evaluates statistical rigor, and flags conflicts of interest.
Get a detailed integrity report in ~2 minutes
Receive a comprehensive report with scores, red flags, green flags, and shareable social summaries.
Bad research is everywhere. Don't let it sink you.
Up to 60% of published findings don't hold up when retested—across medicine, psychology, economics, and beyond. Worse, papers that are less likely to be true get cited more often than reliable ones. And Retraction Watch tracks over 48,000 retracted papers—many still being cited years after retraction.
Researchers have had defenses derailed by citing retracted papers. Journalists have published stories based on studies that later fell apart. One flawed citation can undo months of work and years of credibility.
You spend 10+ hours a week on literature review. You deserve a tool that vets what you're reading.
What we catch that peer review doesn't
Paper Integrity scans for the red flags that slip past reviewers—funding conflicts, methodology gaps, buried limitations, and credibility red flags.
Conflict of Interest
Who funded the research? Do the authors have financial ties to outcomes? We surface what's disclosed—and flag what's missing.
Selection Bias
Were participants chosen to favor certain results? We examine recruitment methods and sample representativeness.
Methodological Rigor
Is the study design appropriate? Are the statistical methods sound? We assess the scientific foundation.
Reporting Bias
What results were emphasized? What was buried in the appendix? We look at the full picture, not just the abstract.
Detailed Reports
Get comprehensive analysis with numerical scores, methodology assessment, and actionable insights.
Share Your Findings
Download Word documents or generate social posts to share your analysis with colleagues and followers.
Our Story
Why we built Paper Integrity
For scientists and non-scientists alike.
The Problem We Kept Running Into
Origin Story
It started the way most ideas do — with frustration. And it came from both sides of the lab bench.
Every week, another link would land in the group chat. A friend sharing a study about supplements. A family member forwarding a paper on vaccine efficacy. A colleague citing research on environmental toxins. And every time, the same question: “Is this legit?”
Our founder spent years in biology research — the kind where you read methodology sections for breakfast and argue about sample sizes over coffee. So naturally, he became the guy people asked. Can you look at this study? Who funded it? Is this journal even reputable?
He'd spend thirty minutes pulling apart a single paper. Checking the funding disclosures. Cross-referencing the authors' publication history. Evaluating whether the conclusions actually matched the data. And then he'd do it again the next day for someone else.
But it wasn't just the non-scientists struggling. Friends still deep in academia were fighting their own version of the same battle — spending hours vetting citations before trusting them in their own work. Principal investigators screening dozens of papers for systematic reviews. Post-docs inheriting literature bases they hadn't personally verified. The volume was crushing. Hundreds of thousands of papers published every month across thousands of journals, and the manual process of evaluating each one hadn't scaled in decades.
The tools had changed. The rigor required to use them hadn't.
Why It Matters Now More Than Ever
The Stakes
Science has a credibility problem — and it's not because the science itself is failing. It's because the infrastructure for evaluating it hasn't kept pace with the output.
For researchers, the pressure is structural. Funding conflicts buried in supplementary materials. Retracted papers that continue accumulating citations years after withdrawal. Reproducibility crises across entire fields. The difference between a well-constructed RCT and a poorly powered observational study dressed up to look like one isn't always obvious — even to trained eyes scanning hundreds of abstracts a week.
For everyone else, the challenge is access. People are making real decisions — about their health, their children's treatment plans, their families — based on studies they don't have the tools to fully evaluate. Not because they lack intelligence, but because the language of research integrity has always been gated behind years of specialized training.
That gap between published and trustworthy is where bad decisions get made — in clinics, in policy, and at kitchen tables.
2.8M+
Papers published annually on PubMed alone
10,000+
Retractions per year — and climbing
~50%
Of cited retracted papers are cited positively
Research Clarity at Every Level
The Solution
Paper Integrity was built to close that gap — for researchers and non-researchers alike.
We use AI to analyze scientific publications the way a seasoned peer reviewer would: examining funding sources, author conflicts of interest, methodological rigor, statistical validity, journal reputation, citation quality, and reproducibility indicators. The output scales to the reader.
For Researchers & Academics
A rapid triage layer for literature review. Flag potential issues in funding, methodology, or citation networks before you invest hours in a deep read. A second set of trained eyes that never gets fatigued.
For Clinicians & Professionals
Cut through the noise when evaluating studies that inform practice. Understand the weight of evidence behind a finding without needing to decode every statistical table yourself.
For Everyone Else
Upload a paper or paste a PubMed link and get an honest, readable breakdown — who funded it, how it was designed, and whether the conclusions hold up. No PhD required.
Paper Integrity is proudly built in America by a small, independent team — no big tech affiliations, no institutional conflicts, no agenda. Just a commitment to making research transparency accessible to everyone.
Less than a textbook. More than peace of mind.
Your reputation is built on what you cite. $19/month is a small price for credibility.
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Common Questions
Everything you need to know before you trust an AI with your research.
How accurate is AI analysis compared to human peer review?
Paper Integrity is a screening tool, not a replacement for peer review. We identify red flags—funding conflicts, methodological gaps, statistical issues—that warrant closer examination. Think of us as a thorough first-pass that catches what hurried readers miss. The final judgment is always yours.
Is my paper content kept private?
Yes. Your submissions are encrypted in transit and at rest. We process papers solely to generate your report—we don't use them to train AI models, share them with third parties, or retain them longer than necessary. You can delete your data anytime.
What's the methodology behind the bias scores?
We analyze multiple dimensions: funding source disclosure, author conflicts of interest, sample selection methods, statistical rigor, outcome reporting completeness, and citation context. Each dimension is scored and weighted based on established research integrity frameworks. Full methodology details are included in every report.
How is this different from plagiarism checkers?
Plagiarism checkers find copied text. Paper Integrity analyzes research quality—whether a study's conclusions are supported by its methods, whether conflicts are disclosed, whether the statistics hold up. We're checking if the science is sound, not if the words are original.
Can I analyze papers I didn't write?
Absolutely. Most users analyze papers they're citing in their own work, reading for a literature review, or evaluating for professional purposes. If you can legally access a paper, you can analyze it.
Why not just ask ChatGPT about my paper?
You can — but you'll get generic answers. Paper Integrity cross-references Retraction Watch, funding disclosure databases, and citation networks. We check if a paper has been retracted, flagged, or criticized in ways ChatGPT can't see. Plus, our structured methodology catches the same red flags every time — no prompt engineering required.