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Citation Checker: Find Fake References and Check DOIs

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Check reference lists against Crossref, DataCite and OpenAlex. Each reference is verified, mismatch (with the fields that differ), not found (possibly made up) or ambiguous, with DOI, retraction flag, open-access link and a corrected APA or BibTeX citation.

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You can access the Citation Checker: Find Fake References and Check DOIs programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

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1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = { "references": [
9        "LeCun, Y., Bengio, Y., & Hinton, G. (2015). Deep learning. Nature, 521(7553), 436–444.",
10        "Hochreiter S, Schmidhuber J. Long short-term memory. Neural Comput. 1997;9(8):1735-80.",
11        "10.1016/S0140-6736(97)11096-0",
12        "Bengio, Y., & Hinton, G. (2019). Recursive attention gating for low-resource protein folding. Nature Machine Intelligence, 1(4), 212–220.",
13    ] }
14
15# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
16run = client.actor("fernandosord/citation-checker-doi-validator").call(run_input=run_input)
17
18# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
19print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
20for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
21    print(item)
22
23# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

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