When writing an academic paper, the quality of your sources matters just as much as the quality of your writing. That’s why Jenni is built to help you find and cite research from credible, peer-reviewed materials so you can feel confident that your work is grounded in real scholarship.
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Where is Citation Metadata Sourced From
Jenni resolves scholarly metadata using OpenAlex — an open catalog of over 250 million academic works from journals, books, preprints, and conference proceedings. OpenAlex indexes work across a wide range of disciplines, including:
Peer-reviewed journal articles
DOIs and PMIDs from leading research repositories
Citation relationships and author data
This allows Jenni to accurately generate references in APA, MLA, Chicago, and 1700+ other formats — and to surface relevant papers that match your topic or argument.
How Jenni Uses This Information
When you:
Search for a citation
Paste a DOI or PMID
Ask AI Chat to generate a citation
Upload a paper to your Library
Jenni matches that request with structured metadata — including title, authors, publication year, and journal — to create a clean, formatted citation and include the reference in your bibliography.
In cases where you upload a PDF, Jenni also uses the paper’s contents to support:
AI Autocomplete
AI Chat analysis
Reference suggestions and synthesis
💡 To be used in auto complete or AI chat, the full PDF must be attached — not just metadata. Learn how to fetch or upload missing PDFs
Trusted by Millions of Academic Users
Jenni is designed with students, PhDs, and researchers in mind. We know how important source reliability is, especially when publishing or submitting work for review. That’s why our citation tools are continually refined to support trustworthy, citable academic writing — without cutting corners.