Citation Integrity Report
An automated job re-verifies every citation each week: URL reachability, redirect destination, DOI resolution, and PubMed metadata. It covers the full bibliography and the citations in the data hub, practices, interfaith-bodies, and verified-resources files. This page shows the unedited results of the latest completed check, with its date. If that check is old, we say so.
How this works: an automated job fetches each cited URL, follows redirects, resolves any DOI via doi.org and any PubMed ID via NCBI, and compares the returned title and year to what we claim. Verified means the source answered and its title and year matched. It does not check that the source supports the claim. Needs review means the check could not confirm the source. Most often the source's server refused automated visitors, which can be bot protection or a removed page. A warning is not proof that a source is wrong. Failed means a dead link or mismatched identifier. Failures block our releases until fixed.
The checking tool is open source, and the same run gates every change to the citation data. See Methodology and the full bibliography.
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The evidence base at a glance
All 254 sources by publication year, derived live from the dataset.
58%
published in the last 5 years
185
peer-reviewed journal sources
View as table
| Year | Sources |
|---|---|
| 1978 | 1 |
| 1990 | 1 |
| 1995 | 3 |
| 1997 | 2 |
| 1998 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 |
| 2004 | 2 |
| 2005 | 4 |
| 2006 | 1 |
| 2007 | 2 |
| 2008 | 2 |
| 2009 | 4 |
| 2010 | 4 |
| 2011 | 3 |
| 2012 | 3 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2014 | 3 |
| 2015 | 7 |
| 2016 | 6 |
| 2017 | 11 |
| 2018 | 7 |
| 2019 | 3 |
| 2020 | 18 |
| 2021 | 9 |
| 2022 | 11 |
| 2023 | 20 |
| 2024 | 41 |
| 2025 | 41 |
| 2026 | 35 |
Found a problem with a source? Suggest a correction. Confirmed corrections are reflected in the dataset version history, which stays publicly visible, and our weaknesses are stated plainly on the limitations page.