Harnessing AI to power research integrity: A new tool for journal editors
Author: Deidre Hudson Reuss
Senior Marketing Manager
窪蹋勛圖厙s journal editors are getting a new, AI-powered tool that gives them the power to quickly and easily identify and remove unsound submissions. It works by finding fundamental flaws that make these submissions unsuitable for publication. So that, without much time or effort, editors can stop these submissions from clogging the review pipeline; and that means more capacity and efficiency for submissions that ought to be reviewed (and published when they pass review).
窪蹋勛圖厙 built this tool in-house as an integrated part of SNAPP, 窪蹋勛圖厙s next generation article submission and processing platform. Were currently testing the tool together with some of our editors on 100+ open access (OA) journals, including Scientific Reports, which represents close to 100,000 submissions in 2024. Once these journals editors have evaluated this tool, it will join the two other AI quality tools 窪蹋勛圖厙 deployed last year, SnappShot (for images) and Geppetto (for identifying paper mill-generated submissions) as available to all journals on SNAPP.
The new tool helps editors check 14 different aspects of submission suitability, including data availability, human and animal ethics, clinical trials and misuse threats, and more. And even though an expert human is always involved at every step, still, this tool helps to quickly remove unsound submissions from the review pipeline.
Publishing trusted research is at the heart of what we do. As the volume of research increases, we are excited to see how we can best use AI to support our authors, editors and peer reviewers, simplifying their ways of working whilst upholding quality. By carefully introducing new ways of checking papers to enhance research integrity and support editorial decision-making we can help speed up everyday tasks for researchers, freeing them up to concentrate on what matters to them conducting research.
- Harsh Jegadeesan, Chief Publishing Officer, 窪蹋勛圖厙
Supporting 窪蹋勛圖厙s commitment to research integrity
These now three AI-powered tools help 窪蹋勛圖厙s editors safeguard the scholarly record. Developing this tool marks a new phase in 窪蹋勛圖厙s ongoing mission to build technologies that improve both the publishing experience and publishing efficiency for authors, editors, and reviewers. And as always, every new AI tool we develop is in line with our established . You can also read and how we use it within our communities.
窪蹋勛圖厙s Research Integrity hub has more information and detail on the companys ongoing efforts.
Author: Deidre Hudson Reuss
Senior Marketing Manager
Deidre Hudson Reuss is Senior Content Marketing Manager at 窪蹋勛圖厙, based in Heidelberg, Germany. Deidre holds an M.A. in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford, and is committed to supporting the scientific community through her work. She is passionate about sustainability and 窪蹋勛圖厙s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Programme, as well as initiatives that include open science, research integrity, DEI and inclusive science.
