Books By People is a UK organisation that partners with publishers to certify human-written books with a reader-facing mark, the Books By People Mark, as part of building what it calls an “Organic Literature” market. A publisher completes a questionnaire about its practices and AI policies and becomes a member, then registers titles, which receive
Kosmos is an AI scientist from Edison Scientific, a commercial spinout of FutureHouse, announced on 5 November 2025. It reads literature, analyses data and generates hypotheses over a long run focused on one research objective, and every conclusion can be traced to specific lines of code or passages of literature. Edison Scientific charges $200 a
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Refine is an AI feedback service from Refine Technologies, Inc. for academic and technical authors, and it concentrates on the substance of a draft, meaning its logic, arguments and internal references. Users upload a draft in formats including PDF, Word, LaTeX and Markdown, up to 70,000 words or 50MB, and results usually arrive in 20
pure.science is a platform from Pure Science, founded by Adam Hyde, on which publishers build workflows with AI agents, including teams of agents with separate roles that coordinate a task, alongside human users. Pure Science officially launched it at Academic Publishing Europe in January 2026, where it won the Startups to Watch competition, and in
Journal Finder is a feature of Trinka, a grammar and writing assistant for academic and technical writing from Crimson AI. It recommends journals for a manuscript by comparing the concepts in the paper with millions of publications, drawing on sources that include OpenAlex, Crossref and PubMed, and for each suggested journal it shows similar papers
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The LLM Citation Verifier is an open-source plugin by DWFlanagan for the LLM command-line tool that checks academic citations against the Crossref database while a model is generating text. The model calls a verify_citation tool with a DOI, and the tool returns whether the DOI exists in Crossref, with the title, authors, journal and year
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Sleuth AI is an AI research integrity assistant built into Signals Manuscript Checks, which lets editorial and integrity teams ask questions of a manuscript and surface the evidence. In its first release, which uses pre-defined prompts, it extracts and highlights conflict-of-interest, funding and ethics statements and flags anything unusual, shows where potential citation misconduct occurs,
Second Opinion is a confidential research integrity investigation service from Molecular Connections for publishers, editors and research compliance officers, which it made available in May 2025 and formally announced on 7 October 2025. It combines subject matter experts with Molecular Connections’ Integrity Manager platform, running automatic checks followed by expert human review, and it connects
DocuMark is a tool for universities from Trinka AI, powered by Enago, which Enago announced on 19 May 2025. Students review the AI-assisted parts of their work before submitting, reflect on their AI use and declare it, and DocuMark records the writing process, including revisions, student contributions and declared AI usage. Educators see effort scores,
Ethicality is MDPI’s in-house research integrity system, built by its Technology Innovation team with the editorial and research integrity teams. The manuscript is parsed into parts such as title, abstract, authors and body, and several AI tools check those parts for signs of paper mills, AI-generated content, duplicate submissions, citation manipulation and author manipulation, with
