Elsevier’s Research Collaboration Unit ran a project, led by Anita de Waard and Joshua Fisher, to build a text-mining tool that finds statements in clinical trial reports corresponding to the items in the CONSORT reporting guideline. The project page says checking each CONSORT element takes time and attention to detail, and that such a tool
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Find Reviewers is Elsevier’s reviewer-finding tool inside Editorial Manager, which editors open from the Reviewer Selection Summary page to check their existing reviewer pool and to reach candidates they might not otherwise find. It draws on Scopus data, Elsevier’s Reviewer Hub and the journal’s own reviewer database, and offers seven search options: System Recommendations, with
Check Integrity is Elsevier’s automated screening tool that checks article submissions for possible breaches of publishing ethics policies, such as unauthorised changes to authorship and editorial conflicts of interest. It flags concerns to specialist integrity analysts, who assess them and decide whether further action is needed, so that journal editors can concentrate on evaluating the
