Penelope.ai

Penelope.ai scans scientific manuscripts and reports whether they meet a journal's rules on structure, declarations, ethics statements and references. Editors use it to triage submissions faster, and authors can fix problems before they submit.

Journals choose which of more than 30 checks to run, mark some as critical and write their own feedback for editors and authors. Checks include ethical approval and informed consent, conflict of interest, data sharing, funding and author contributions sections, plus reference checks.

Every result is linked to the marked-up part of the text, so users can see why a check passed or failed, and the pass and fail criteria are published in developer documentation. It currently plugs into Manuscript Manager, with a waiting list for Editorial Manager and ScholarOne journals. Prices are per submission, paid annually in pounds.