IOP Publishing's Duplicate Review Checker uses machine learning to find reviewer reports with significant content overlap — catching both reports reused across manuscripts and reports submitted under different reviewer names. Flagged reports (above a 60% similarity threshold) go to the Research Integrity team.
Benefits & outcomes
Around 500,000 reports processed going back to 2020, since the 2024 pilot.
Around 2,500 duplicate reviews caught so far.
Targets reviewer fraud, the less-discussed sibling of paper mills.
Publisher / company: IOP Publishing
Date of mention: 20/05/2026
Source: https://ioppublishing.org/news/new-iop-publishing-tool-detects-duplicate-peer-reviews-in-push-against-reviewer-fraud/