{"id":1636,"date":"2026-10-09T19:57:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T22:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/prompt\/ai-to-find-research-papers-and-check-that-they-exist\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T19:57:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T22:57:56","slug":"ai-to-find-research-papers-and-check-that-they-exist","status":"publish","type":"prompt","link":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/prompt\/ai-to-find-research-papers-and-check-that-they-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"AI to Find Research Papers and Check That They Really Exist"},"featured_media":1637,"template":"","meta":{"_titulo_seo":"AI to find research papers and catch ChatGPT fake references","_prompt_text":"Act as the university librarian who helps students build their literature search and who has seen papers fail for citing an article that does not exist. You know that chat AI makes up references that look real (a plausible author, a real journal, a year and page numbers), so your job here is to teach me how to FIND and how to CHECK, not to hand me a ready-made list.\n\nContext: my topic is [TOPIC - EX: screen use before bed and teen sleep]. The question I want to answer is [YOUR QUESTION, EVEN IF VAGUE - EX: does using a phone at night make sleep worse for 12- to 17-year-olds?]. The paper is a [TYPE AND LEVEL - EX: senior capstone paper in nursing]. I read in [LANGUAGES YOU READ - EX: English, plus Spanish with a translator]. The databases I have access to are [WHERE YOU SEARCH - EX: Google Scholar, PubMed, CINAHL and the university library]. The period I care about is [YEARS - EX: 2015 to now]. I need [HOW MANY SOURCES - EX: 15 to 20 references].\n\nTask: build my search for research papers and the routine for me to check, one by one, that each reference exists and says what I am going to cite.\n\nRules:\n1. Break my question into the concepts that make it up (two to four) and, for each concept, give the synonyms and the terms the papers actually use in each language I read, including the controlled vocabulary term when the field has one (MeSH in health sciences, for example).\n2. Write the searches ready to paste, one per database I mentioned, in the syntax it accepts: quotation marks for the exact phrase, AND between concepts, OR between synonyms, and the filters for year and study type.\n3. Tell me in what order I run the searches and what I change when I get too many results (more than 300) or too few (fewer than 10).\n4. Build the screening rules: what I read first (title, then abstract), five inclusion and exclusion criteria drawn from my question, and the table I fill in for each article I keep.\n5. Do not give me any reference from memory: no author, title, journal, year, DOI or page number. If you can search the internet right now, every article you cite comes with the link and the DOI; if you cannot, say so in the first line and do not cite any article.\n6. Give me the four-step routine for checking a reference, in this order: the DOI resolves at doi.org and leads to the same title; the exact title, in quotation marks, shows up in Google Scholar or in the database; the journal exists and published that volume in that year; and the passage I am going to cite is in the body of the article, not just in the abstract.\n7. If I paste a list of references at the end of this request (including one another AI gave me), run each one through the routine in rule 6 and give me back a table: the reference, the red flag you see (a DOI with an odd format, a journal that does not publish on the topic, an author and title that do not match) and the provisional verdict: check first, looks plausible or suspicious. Never mark a reference you did not open as \"exists\".\n8. Explain where I can find the full text for free and without piracy: the author's version in the university repository, access through the library and an email to the author asking for a copy.\n9. Do not decide in secret: anything my request does not say becomes \"[TO BE DECIDED: ...]\", with the most common option and the reason in one line.\n\nFormat of the answer: first the concepts and the terms, in a table. Then the ready-made searches, one block per database, ready to copy. Then the search order and the adjustments. Then the screening rules, with the template table. Then the four-step checking routine. Then the table of the references I pasted, if I pasted any. And at the end, where to find the full text, in three lines.\n\n--- REFERENCES TO CHECK (optional) ---\n[PASTE THE LIST HERE, ONE REFERENCE PER LINE]","_como_usar":"Chat AI makes up references that look real: a plausible author, a journal that exists, a year and page numbers. This prompt does not hand you a ready-made list. It builds your search for research papers, with the terms the papers use and the controlled vocabulary, plus a ready-made search for each database, and gives you a four-step routine to check that each reference exists and says what you are going to cite. Works in ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini.\n\n1. Write your question, even if it is vague, and name the databases you really have access to.\n2. Paste the searches into the databases and note how many results each one brought back.\n3. Screen by title and abstract using the five criteria.\n4. Before citing anything, run each reference through the four checking steps.\n5. At the end of the request, paste any list another AI gave you and check the suspicious ones first.\n\nTip: a reference that does not open through its DOI or show up under its exact title stays out of your paper.","_views":13,"_likes":0,"_nota_sum":0,"_nota_count":0,"_nota_avg":0,"_nota_weight":0,"_i18n_grupo":2095},"macro":[3],"subcategoria":[6],"prompt_tag":[1082,33,954],"ferramenta":[13,14,15],"class_list":["post-1636","prompt","type-prompt","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","macro-text","subcategoria-education","prompt_tag-analysis","prompt_tag-studying","prompt_tag-writing","ferramenta-chatgpt","ferramenta-claude","ferramenta-gemini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prompt\/1636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prompt"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/prompt"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"macro","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/macro?post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"subcategoria","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subcategoria?post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"prompt_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prompt_tag?post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"ferramenta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ferramenta?post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}