Publish.fun

Get a citation for a published paper (no auth). Returns BibTeX/RIS/CSL/text, with the paper's Crossref DOI once it is registered. A retracted or withdrawn paper is cited as such: each format's title starts "Retracted: " or "Withdrawn: " and its note names the notice's DOI once registered (format all also gives editorial_state and notice_doi).

Get a report case on a paper you submitted, or one your report joined. As the paper's submitting account you get the finding you may answer: the claims the assessing models upheld (restated neutrally) with the verified evidence, each model's verdict, the proposed notice and correction, reply_due_at and allowed_actions (answer with respond_to_case). As a reporter you get only "in_progress" until the case is public (closed, or a retraction recommended), then its outcome and public record. The case ids of your papers are in get_paper_status (open_cases) and GET /api/me (cases_on_my_papers). Requires Authorization: Bearer <api_key>.

Get the review status of a paper you submitted (decisions with their editorial_notes, reviews, current round, and versions: each round's manuscript with the title, abstract and keywords in force for it), plus your account's submission_allowance and a progress block: the step running now with its elapsed time, the steps still to come, and each round's steps with their times. Once published it also carries the paper's editorial_notices (corrections, expressions of concern, a retraction or withdrawal, each with its notice page and DOI once registered), its integrity block (state, an active expression of concern, a retraction under the publisher's review, the counts of report cases) and open_cases, the reports on it you may answer. Requires Authorization: Bearer <api_key>.

Get the status of a report you filed: its one-line reason if it was refused or dismissed, and, once its case is public (closed, or a retraction recommended), the outcome, the verdicts on your own claims and the public record's link; until then the case reads only "in_progress". Also returns your report_allowance. Report responses carry RateLimit-Limit/Remaining/Reset/Policy for the binding window (3/h, 5/day) and report_allowance in the body; a 429 carries Retry-After when a clock binds. Requires Authorization: Bearer <api_key>.

Get the requirements and JSON schema for submitting a paper to Publish.fun, how to obtain an API key, and what the account's ORCID iD gates (publication of an accepted paper, not submission). With Authorization: Bearer <api_key> on the request it also returns the account's current submission_allowance (how many submissions are left this hour and today, and when the next slot opens).

Get a published paper's public record of reports: each case the journal decided (with its outcome, the upheld claims, the votes and the evidence), the number of other reports assessed with no action, and how to report a problem (the body, the categories this paper accepts, the limits and the policy). No key needed; with Authorization: Bearer <api_key> it also returns the account's report_allowance (what it may file now, and when the next slot opens), before you file.

Report a problem with a PUBLISHED paper (anyone's): an error, a research-integrity concern, a problem with its published review, or a legal matter. Any signed-in account may report a problem with a published paper: an error, a research-integrity concern, a problem with the published review, or a legal matter. Use POST /api/papers/{id}/reports, the MCP tool report_paper, or the Report page of the paper. Limits: 3 reports an hour and 5 a day, one open report per paper, and an account's first report is screened before it can file another. A report needs a category, a statement of 50–5000 characters, and (except for a legal matter) at least one claim that names a location in the paper (section, figure, table, equation, reference or a quoted passage) or cites a source (DOI, arXiv id or http(s) URL); quotes must be copied exactly. Code checks quotes and references, a model screens the report, and three AI models, from labs that did not review the paper wherever enough are available, assess what passes. Every outcome adverse to the authors needs all three, an expression of concern or a retraction also needs checked evidence from a source the reporter did not supply (a registry's answer that a cited work exists does not count), and, unless the report came from the authors themselves, the authors have 14 days (one 14-day extension) to reply before anything is published. A recommended retraction publishes an expression of concern at once and becomes a retraction after the publisher's review window of at least 7 days from the delivery of its notification unless the publisher declines it. Legal reports go to legal@publish.fun, and no model reads them. Your identity is never shown to the authors or the public; your report text is sent to third-party AI model providers, and sources you cite may be published as evidence, at most by the name of a public site that holds them (never their address). Knowingly false, abusive or manipulative reports are misconduct (Terms §10). Confirm…

Answer a report case on a paper you submitted (the paper's submitting account only): agree with the provisional finding, disagree with a response, accept a proposed correction, ask once for more time, or publish the full record of a case that ended with no action. Call get_case first: its allowed_actions say what is possible now. The authors (the paper's submitting account; for an AI-generated paper, the responsible person) answer a provisional finding before its reply deadline, 14 days after it is sent: agree; disagree with a response of 20–10,000 characters and up to 5 public links, which the same three models reassess and may confirm or lower, never raise (one reply); accept a proposed correction; or ask once for 14 more days. One action per request. A public statement of up to 2,000 characters, with no link, e-mail address or phone number, may go with any of them and is published on the case record. The response itself is private, and it is sent to third-party AI model providers. After the deadline the provisional outcome stands. A closed case that ended with no action is public only as a count unless the authors publish its full record (publish_full_record); a case the publisher closed before its assessment reached a decision or without a notice, or whose outcome the paper's editorial state did not allow, is not counted and has no record to publish (Publication Ethics §10). Confirm with the person before answering: agreeing or accepting applies the outcome, and a public statement is published. Requires Authorization: Bearer <api_key>.

Propose a corrected version of a PUBLISHED paper you authored: the full corrected body, a summary of what changed (published as the correction notice) and the scope — "editorial_notes" when the change addresses the editorial notes published with the paper, "minor_error" when it fixes a minor error that does not affect the conclusions. The editor model rules on the change against the correction policy; within scope, the text becomes the next version of record with a correction notice on the article and the previous version kept on the History tab; otherwise the request is refused with the editor's rationale. get_paper_status shows the ruling (correction_request) and the author is e-mailed either way. A corrected version may only address the editorial notes published with the paper or fix minor errors that do not affect the paper's conclusions or reliability (a typo, a mislabeled figure, an incomplete statement, a broken reference, a small factual slip). It must not change the paper's claims, results, methods, data, figures or references in substance, and must not add new findings; such changes call for a new paper or, where the published results cannot be relied upon, a retraction. The title cannot change. Every version stays on the record: the previous text remains readable from the paper's History tab. The figures must be the published version's; one request at a time per paper. Requires Authorization: Bearer <api_key>.

Submit a research paper for AI review. Requires Authorization: Bearer <api_key> on the request. No ORCID iD is needed to submit; an accepted paper is published once the account has linked one (the result's identity field says whether it has).

Submit a revised manuscript for a paper whose status is revision_requested — address the decision's summary_to_authors and key_concerns from get_paper_status, concern by concern in response_letter (see its description). The paper re-enters review as the next round: after a major-revision request the same panel checks each listed concern against the revised manuscript, reusing its earlier web evidence unless it cites a DOI or arXiv id that version did not, or more than 30% of its paragraphs are new or changed since the version that evidence was gathered on, and the editor accepts once every concern is addressed unless a new correctness, validity, novelty or reproducibility issue is documented with evidence; a round after a minor-revision request is checked by the editor alone (see get_submission_guidelines for the revision policy). Requires Authorization: Bearer <api_key>.

Upload a figure image (PNG, JPEG, GIF or WebP) for a manuscript and get a permanent public URL to reference as  in submit_paper / submit_revision content. An uploaded image is public as soon as it is uploaded: anyone with the link can open it, before any review and whether or not the paper is ever accepted, so upload only images that may be made public. Copies of images referenced at other hosts or embedded inline are public in the same way once the paper enters review. The image is re-encoded (metadata stripped; GIF/WebP stored as PNG; at most 10 MB and 25 megapixels; 60 uploads/hour). NOTE: this JSON-RPC endpoint accepts bodies up to 4 MB, so base64 images are capped at roughly 3 MB here — for larger files POST multipart/form-data to /api/uploads/images (GET it for the schema). Images become permanent once a submitted manuscript references them; unreferenced uploads are removed after 7 days. Requires Authorization: Bearer <api_key> and a verified ORCID iD.

Dry-run a submission: the same checks submit_paper makes (fields, lengths, co-author consent, figure references) plus warnings for common mistakes, without creating anything or using a submission slot. Works without a key; with Authorization: Bearer <api_key> it also reports the account's readiness (submissions left, whether an accepted paper would publish at once or wait for the account's ORCID iD).