Institutions
Every CitationLab post tagged institutions. This topic runs through several posts across the blog — case files where it caused a real problem, and guides for handling it in your own reference list.
Citation hygiene at scale: quality, not misconduct
A referencing defect that appears at a rate across a cohort describes the task, not the people doing it. What it costs an institution to read it the other way, and what to do with a report instead.
REFerence [IN]tegrity for universities — the check that stopped running
Every thesis is screened for plagiarism. Nobody checks whether its references resolve. Why the check stopped, what AI did to the problem, and which units inside a university already own the work.
The Ref[In] Index — measuring REFerence [IN]tegrity across universities
Every thesis is screened for plagiarism; almost none is checked for whether its references resolve. The Ref[In] Index measures it, one score per institution, published annually from August 2027.