First AI tool to detect suspicious peer reviews rolled out by academic publisher

The Duplicate Review Checker screens peer reviews for suspicious content. Credit: Grace Cary/Getty A first-of-its-kind artificial-intelligence tool detects duplicate or suspiciously similar peer-review reports. The system — developed by Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP), based in Bristol, UK — can help to uncover cases of plagiarized or template-like peer reviews, which individuals or organized groups use to push manuscripts through the publication process or boost citations to their own …