Ref[In] Score
Every CitationLab post tagged Ref[In] Score. 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.
Audit your own paper's references before you submit it
A paper's reference list fails differently from a thesis: co-author merges, reference-manager exports, and a review cycle long enough for the literature to move. The five-step audit, in the order that pays.
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.
Ref[In] — naming the thing a citation check is actually for
Every tool describes an action: run a check. REFerence [IN]tegrity names the property a check is for — three claims about your document, and a ledger that has to balance.
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.
What a Ref[In] Report tells a supervisor
A REFerence [IN]tegrity report reads a bibliography's health in one page: what the Ref[In] Score counts, what the missing and orphan tables mean, and how supervisors use it without turning quality into accusation.