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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MDPI signed a multi-year agreement with Proofig AI in September 2025 after a pilot, and began using it first on selected biomedical journals, with plans to extend it to more titles. The editorial team decides whether a manuscript’s image types suit Proofig screening, and the manuscript is uploaded through Proofig’s web interface or an API.
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SciScore, from SciCrunch Inc., checks the methods sections of manuscripts for reporting rigour and transparency before peer review, screening against the MDAR, ARRIVE and CONSORT guidelines and flagging issues such as missing RRIDs, blinding, randomisation, power analysis and problematic cell lines. Authors receive Core, MDAR, STAR and ARRIVE reports and a score from 1 to
Wiley announced its Papermill Detection Service on 13 March 2024 at the London Book Fair, after internal beta tests, with the next phase of testing planned with Sage and IEEE. The service runs six tools: comparison with known paper mill papers, recognition of problematic phrases such as tortured phrases, detection of unusual publication behaviour by
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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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Penelope.ai, based in London, is an online tool that checks whether manuscripts meet a journal’s requirements, with more than 30 checks that journals can select, mark as critical and customise the feedback for. The checks cover ethics, declarations such as conflicts of interest, data sharing and funding, the title page, abstract, article structure, figures and
SnappShot is Springer Nature’s in-house AI-assisted tool for checking image integrity, developed by its AI Lab and Research Integrity Group. It is web-based and connected to Springer Nature’s submission systems, and the first version, rolled out in December 2023, checks PDFs for duplicated gel and blot images within the same article. It flags images for
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
Authortegrity is a certification service for books written by humans. An AI analysis first compares the content of the manuscript with the author’s familiarity with that content, and the service says it allows AI-assisted writing but is designed to prevent certification of fully or extensively AI-generated work. A team then reviews the results and, if
The STM Integrity Hub is a cloud-based environment, developed by STM Solutions, in which publishers screen submitted manuscripts for signs of paper mills and other research integrity concerns. STM launched it in May 2022. It passes submission data from journals and editorial systems to screening tools, gives members a space to build tools together, and
DataSeer, which describes itself as a developer of AI-powered research integrity solutions for institutions, publishers and funders, offers tools that check research against open science policies. Its compliance checks audit whether research meets an organisation’s open science policies, Open Science Metrics measure open science adoption in the published literature, and SnapShot scans a submitted manuscript’s
Deep Background is a prompt written by Mike Caulfield for use with Claude or ChatGPT, which he calls a contextualisation prompt and which is also known as the SIFT Toolbox. The model searches for conflicting sources, sorts the evidence using a Toulmin argument framework and produces structured reports covering verified facts, errors and corrections, source
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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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Sage Publishing announced on 9 December 2024 that it was the first publisher to adopt Dimensions Author Check, a research integrity tool from Digital Science. The tool reviews a researcher’s publication history and networks and uses an extensive dataset to flag unusual activity, such as indicators of paper mill involvement, that may need further investigation.
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ReviewerZero is an integrity checking service for manuscripts and published papers, from ReviewerZero AI, a company based in Boulder, Colorado, which Daniel Acuña of the University of Colorado Boulder founded in 2023. Its site lists 12 areas and more than 65 checks, including author verification, figure integrity, statistical validation, reference validation, AI text detection, plagiarism
