In January 2025 Springer Nature announced an AI tool, built in-house, that automates editorial quality checks and alerts editors to potentially unsuitable manuscripts so that they can be held back from peer review. It supports 14 suitability assessment steps before review, including data availability statements, human and animal ethics, clinical trials and misuse threats, and a human expert double-checks the results before any final decision. At the announcement it was being tested and verified on more than 100 open access journals, including Scientific Reports, covering more than 100,000 submissions, and Springer Nature planned to integrate it into its Snapp submission and processing platform.
Notes & quotes
- Springer Nature’s stated aims are to reduce the number of amendments required and to speed up routine tasks for researchers, editors and reviewers.
- A February 2025 Springer Nature blog post says the tool was in testing with some editors and would be made available to all journals on Snapp after evaluation.
- “Publishing trusted research is at the heart of what we do.” Harsh Jegadeesan, Chief Publishing Officer, Springer Nature.
- Springer Nature’s June 2025 company overview lists Arpi as supporting editorial quality checks for editors and reviewers in more than 100 open access journals.
Publisher / company: Springer Nature
Date of case study: 2025
Status: Pilot
Built by: Publisher or platform
Sources:
- Authors, editors and peer reviewers supported with launch of new AI tool, Springer Nature, 7 January 2025
- Harnessing AI to power research integrity: a new tool for journal editors, Springer Nature, 19 February 2025
- Springer Nature launches new AI tool, Research Information
- Springer Nature company overview, June 2025 (slide 10)