Research Integrity
Every CitationLab post tagged research integrity. 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.
From 1 thesis to 5,000: how we test
Every change we ship faces a jury of real theses — currently 105, being collated toward 1,000, headed for 5,000. The corpus method, the defects it surfaced, and the two times it caught our own mistakes.
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.
Why every correction needs your click
Why CitationLab never applies an AI-formed correction on its own: the click is what turns a machine suggestion into a decision you can account for.