Integrity and ethics

A confidential integrity-investigation service from Molecular Connections: fast access to subject matter experts and integrity specialists for publishers needing a second view on suspect work.

Springer Nature’s tool for automating manuscript integrity checks before peer review: missing data availability statements, ethics approvals, clinical trial registrations, inappropriate subject matter.

An editorial from Baishideng Publishing Group on using AI to detect conflicts of interest in research — analysing funding sources, author affiliations and publication histories to find undisclosed COIs that human checks would miss.

MDPI’s AI tools scan manuscript images — gels, microscopy — for signs of duplication or manipulation, flagging suspect figures for human review.

Wiley’s Papermill Detection Service runs six checks against fraudulent research: known papermill hallmarks, problematic phrases, unusual publication behaviour, researcher identity verification, generative-AI-written content, and article relevance to journal scope.

MDPI’s automated detection of textual overlap and potential plagiarism in submissions, part of its wider integrity-checking infrastructure.

Penelope.ai checks manuscripts against journal requirements before submission — over 30 checks covering ethical approvals, abstract structure, referencing style and metadata. Authors get a summary report plus an annotated Word file; integrates with Editorial Manager, ScholarOne and Manuscript…

Arpi is Springer Nature’s editorial assistant for automating manuscript quality checks — formatting, compliance and ethical issues — flagging problems before review.

Authortegrity certifies books as human-written. An AI assessment of the manuscript is followed by expert human review and, where needed, a video interview with the author. Books published before October 2022 can be authenticated automatically from ISBN records…