Verified citations, not invented references
Digital Science has acquired Jenni AI, an AI-native research and writing platform used by more than 8 million students and researchers across 189 countries. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The plan is to connect Jenni AI to Digital Science’s research data, starting with Dimensions, its database of 171 million research publications. Over the coming months, Jenni AI will add that data and full-text search capabilities so users can discover scholarly literature and check citations against the original material.
Jenni AI is built to take users from a first idea to a finished piece of work: they can upload papers or import reference libraries, explore and make sense of their sources, draft and refine their writing, and verify citations. That verification step is the heart of the deal. General-purpose AI tools can generate references that do not exist, which makes it harder for researchers to show where their own work begins and ends.
Digital Science CEO Stephen Leicht put it plainly: researchers already use AI routinely, but what they cannot get from a general-purpose tool is a citation checked against the actual paper. Jenni AI joins Overleaf, Papers AI, and ReadCube in Digital Science’s portfolio of research tools.
The acquisition also reflects a wider shift in academic AI: tools grounded in verified scholarly records, rather than only in a model’s training data, are becoming the safer choice for serious research. Compare Jenni AI with other research assistants such as Consensus and Scite in our directory.
Source: Digital Science
