MDPI’s 2023 annual report lists AI-powered tools that the publisher says it has introduced or is developing: Journal Finder recommends journals suited to a manuscript. In-Scope Detector checks whether a submitted manuscript fits the journal it was submitted…
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Metacheck is an open-source R package that checks research outputs for best practices, using text search, R code and, optionally, queries to large language models. Its 26 modules cover areas such as preregistrations, ethics approval, funding and conflict-of-interest…
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Molecular Connections built an automated topic-alert system for a publishing society. The society’s existing alert system had reduced member satisfaction, and it wanted to send members personalised notifications about recent journal articles and preprints based on their interests,…
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moara.io is a literature review platform from Moara that combines scholarly databases with AI-assisted workflows for searching, organising, screening, extracting and synthesising evidence in systematic and narrative reviews. Its AI agent, which the site says is powered by…
In September 2023 Morressier and Copyleaks announced that Copyleaks’ detection of plagiarism and AI-generated text would be available through Morressier’s Integrity Manager, to help academic societies and publishers identify plagiarism and AI-generated content. The detection is built into…
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Nature Research Assistant is an AI research assistant from Springer Nature that helps researchers read, understand and write papers. Springer Nature’s full-year 2024 results refer to it as the Nature AI assistant and say that around 600 researchers…
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NEJM Group launched a beta AI companion that sits alongside articles in the New England Journal of Medicine to help readers explore and understand the research. Readers can ask it to clarify methods, explore implications or consider how…
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NEJM AI runs an invitation-only Fast Track process that combines human and AI review and promises an initial decision within seven days. Invitations go only to manuscripts that multiple editors judge likely to be accepted. A human editor…
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In October 2025 Nicia.ai launched an AI assistant for peer review, which it described as agentic AI that could make decisions within set parameters and learn from each review, while leaving judgements on scientific merit and impact to…
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Springer Nature’s Research Integrity Group deployed this tool, then called Geppetto, in November 2023 to detect AI-generated text in manuscripts, which Springer Nature describes as a classic indication of paper mill activity. Springer Nature developed it with its…
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PLOS’s Open Science Indicators are measures of open science practices in published articles, developed with DataSeer using natural language processing and AI, with the full dataset available on figshare. PLOS announced the partnership in September 2022 and released…
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OpenAIReview is an open-source, AI-assisted tool for reviewing academic papers, built by Chenhao Tan’s team at the Chicago Human+AI (CHAI) Lab, part of the University of Chicago Data Science Institute, to give any researcher paper feedback “for less…
Oxford University Press (OUP) used Hum’s Alchemist Taxonomy and Tagging Engine, which uses AI and natural language processing to tag content on the Oxford Academic platform and build a record of each reader’s topical interests. OUP ran two…
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The Oxford Academic AI Discovery Assistant adds an AI-enhanced search to the Oxford Academic platform, built by the AI teams at Oxford University Press (OUP) and Silverchair and announced on 17 March 2025. A user types a natural-language…
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Pangram is an AI text detection service from Pangram Labs, which AI researchers founded in Brooklyn, New York, in 2023. It estimates whether a text was produced by AI, how much of a document is AI-generated and whether…
