Author support

The Royal Society of Chemistry is trialling machine translation for authors whose first language isn’t English. The models are fine-tuned on chemistry-specific parallel text, and output goes through human editing rather than straight to the manuscript.

Book Sprints facilitates groups of domain experts — often not professional writers — to write a book collaboratively in five days by stripping out the friction of a conventional publishing process. Under Barbara Rühling, it has run experiments…

Clara (short for clarity) is the AI data steward at the heart of Frontiers’ FAIR² Data Management platform, launched on Open Data Day 2025. Researchers upload a dataset and Clara helps with metadata, curation and preparation; the output…

Curie is Springer Nature’s scientific writing assistant, aimed particularly at researchers whose first language isn’t English. It pairs large language models with editing models trained on academic literature across 447+ fields and over a million edits from published…

MDPI is piloting large language models that help authors generate summaries, keywords and other additions to make manuscripts easier to find and read.

A reader- and researcher-facing assistant from Springer Nature covering literature navigation, summarisation and writing support, built on generative AI.

Rubriq, from HighWire Press, is a set of authoring tools covering editing, translation and language quality assessment for researchers and editors.

Science42: DORA (Draft Outline Research Assistant), from Insilico Medicine, drafts scientific documents — papers, grant and patent applications, internal research summaries, IND applications — using multiple AI agents with engineered prompts, proprietary databases and predefined workflows. It reads…

SciFlow is a web-based academic writing platform covering collaborative editing, automatic formatting to journal and institutional templates, and integration with reference managers.

Karger Publishers trialled Writefull’s AI proofreading with authors submitting to 14 selected journals. Writefull returns language edits in Track Changes, so authors accept, reject or modify each suggestion before submission.