Reporting and compliance checks

Springer Nature has launched a new AI-powered tool to support editors and peer reviewers by streamlining manuscript integrity checks. The tool automatically assesses submitted manuscripts for issues such as missing data availability statements, ethics approvals, clinical trial registrations,…

This editorial discusses the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance the identification of conflicts of interest (COIs) in scientific research. It highlights how AI can be employed to analyze vast datasets, including funding sources, author affiliations, and…

Penelope.ai is an online tool that authors use to ensure their manuscripts align with journal requirements before submission. It performs over 30 checks—from ethical approvals and abstract structure to referencing style and metadata. It offers both a quick…

An AI-based editorial assistant that supports editors by automating manuscript quality checks and suggesting potential issues before review.

DataSeer provides AI-powered tools for evaluating and improving research compliance with open science policies. The tools use natural language processing to automate compliance checks, generate open science metrics across large corpora, and triage manuscripts in real time for…

Papercheck is an open-source, modular tool that screens manuscripts for adherence to best practices — power analyses, data sharing and other common issues — giving authors automated pre-submission checks.

SciScore Version 3 Beta is an AI-powered tool designed to assess the rigor and transparency of scientific manuscripts. The latest beta release introduces significant enhancements, including a redesigned report interface with a new cover page summarizing adherence to…

Elsevier developed a text mining tool designed to assist in the semi-automated compliance checking of clinical trial reports against the CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) guidelines. This tool aims to alleviate the burden on authors and editors…

Signals’ Sleuth AI plugs into editorial workflows and automatically extracts and flags conflict-of-interest, funding and ethics statements, pinpointing anything unusual. It also surfaces questionable references and runs exploratory analysis to catch irrelevant or AI-generated content.

The Replication Engine is an agentic system designed to automate parts of the process of checking whether the quantitative results reported in scientific papers can be reproduced from the authors’ code and data. Given a paper and its…