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Journals can screen references at submission with a desk check of each manuscript's reference list before peer review. The desk check covers four problems: citations...
Proofig AI checks far more than images. Its image checks detect duplication, manipulation, plagiarism, self-plagiarism and AI-generated figures. RefGuard, Proofig AI's reference integrity product, flags...
To check that a citation supports its claim, read the claim, open the cited paper and ask whether the source says the same thing, something...
To detect hallucinated references before you submit, check each entry against the published record: open its DOI and confirm it leads to the same paper,...
To check whether a paper you cite has been retracted, open each reference at its DOI or journal page, look for a retraction notice, and...
AI-generated scientific images are entering the published literature, and visual inspection alone cannot reliably catch them. Proofig AI's AI-Generated Image Identification capability is built specifically...
Automated image integrity tools carry a clear ethical responsibility: to surface suspected issues for human review, not to deliver verdicts. Responsible tools must minimize false...
AI-generated text detectors and AI-generated image detectors solve fundamentally different problems. A manuscript can pass text-based AI screening and still contain fabricated figures. Tools that...
Most image integrity issues in submitted manuscripts are unintentional, arising from figure preparation errors, mislabeled panels, or mistakes introduced by collaborators during data handling. Journal...
Publishers can integrate AI image integrity tools into their editorial workflows in a COPE-aligned way by using them as a screening layer that surfaces suspected...
PubShield is an institutional manuscript quality assurance hub, a product distinct from Proofig AI, that consolidates multiple integrity checks into a single workflow. It brings...
AI is transforming how image integrity issues are detected in scientific research. Automated tools now screen for duplication, manipulation, AI-generated content, and plagiarism at a...
Proofig AI integrates with automated publishing systems, including through its partnership with Aries Systems, to run image integrity screening at the point of manuscript submission....
AI tools are entering scholarly submission and review workflows to handle quality checks at a scale that manual processes can no longer sustain. Image integrity...