SciFlow is a web-based writing and publishing platform from SciFlow GmbH in Berlin, used by universities, research institutes and university presses. It formats documents automatically to journal and institutional templates, and its publishing workflow produces theses, journals, books and conference proceedings. Benefits & outcomes SciFlow reports that at the Julius Kühn-Institut, more than 600 conference
FutureHouse is a philanthropically funded project building semi-autonomous AI for scientific research. It describes an AI Scientist as one that repeatedly builds a model of a problem, generates hypotheses, tests them and updates the model, working under a broad research direction set by a human. On 1 May 2025 it launched a platform, free to
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AIRA is the in-house AI assistant that Frontiers uses to check manuscripts, created in 2018 and announced in July 2020, when it read each submission and made up to 20 recommendations in seconds on language quality, figure integrity, plagiarism and potential conflicts of interest. In July 2025 Frontiers added Cactus Communications’ Paperpal Preflight and Clear
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EditorialPilot is Integra’s AI tool for screening manuscripts and checking research integrity, which Integra launched as AuthorPilot on 11 February 2025 and renamed EditorialPilot on 8 August 2025 to reflect its focus on editors and editorial offices. Integra’s website describes more than 100 customisable checks covering language, technical requirements and research integrity, with journal-specific settings,
Snapp is Springer Nature’s own article processing platform, first introduced in 2019, which handles submission and peer review and makes Springer Nature’s AI tools available within editorial workflows. Benefits & outcomes Springer Nature reports that Snapp had supported over 1 million submissions by December 2023 and more than 2 million by the end of 2024.
Cabells launched CompassAI in beta in July 2025 as a journal matching tool for authors, who paste or upload the abstract of an article and receive suggestions of journals that match its scope from Cabells Journalytics, the company’s directory of vetted academic journals. Cabells says the tool applies AI to its Journalytics and Predatory Reports
Identify journals is a tool from Global Campus, a company based in Utrecht in the Netherlands, that helps researchers choose where to submit a manuscript, particularly when the paper sits in a tangential discipline or has been rejected by top journals. It uses semantic search to find journals that have published similar work, lists the
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MDPI’s Journal Finder recommends journals that suit a manuscript, based on its title and abstract. According to MDPI’s blog, the tool converts the text into a numerical representation of its meaning, known as an embedding, and runs a similarity search against the papers in each journal, so that it matches on patterns in language and
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Journal Finder helps authors choose a journal from Springer Nature’s portfolio of about 3,000 titles. Authors enter a manuscript’s title, abstract or keywords and receive an overview of relevant journals with their Impact Factor, five-year Impact Factor, downloads and median time from submission to first decision. Springer Nature’s results presentation for 2024 lists Journal Finder
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Rubriq is an AI editing and translation tool for academic writing, aimed particularly at researchers whose first language is not English. Springer Nature launched it as Curie in October 2023. Curie used large language models together with editing models that Springer Nature trained on academic literature and on more than a million edits to published
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On 28 May 2025 World Brain Scholar announced a feature in Eliza, its publishing platform, that uses AI to check whether a new submission suits the publication it was submitted to. When a submission is out of scope, the feature recommends other publications in the same portfolio so that the manuscript can be rerouted. It
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Science42: DORA is a tool from Insilico Medicine that drafts scientific documents, such as papers and grant applications, using several AI agents working from proprietary databases and set workflows for referencing. Insilico announced a preview on 26 July 2024, and its product page now offers online and on-premise versions with free and paid plans. Benefits
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T-Rex is Springer Nature’s transfer recommender for rejected manuscripts, which suggests alternative journals so that authors can transfer and resubmit their paper. Springer Nature’s results presentation for 2024 says it launched in May 2024 and offers instant transfer recommendations for about 1 million rejected manuscripts. Benefits & outcomes Springer Nature reports that in 2024 the
Journal Fit is a feature of Alchemist Review, Hum’s product for screening manuscripts before editors see them, which Hum launched on 3 December 2025 for all Alchemist Review users. It gives each submitted manuscript a Fit Score from 0 to 10, with written explanations, to show how well the manuscript matches a journal’s scope and
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Clara is the AI data steward in Frontiers’ FAIR² Data Management service, which is powered by Senscience, a Frontiers AI venture. Researchers upload a dataset with its supporting files, and Clara helps them prepare the metadata and the description of their methods. One submission produces a peer-reviewed FAIR² Data Article, an interactive data portal and
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