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See what an integrity desk would see — before you submit

Journals now screen submissions for the marks of assistant-written text, paper mills and fabricated citations, and they do it with black boxes. This screen shows you the same marks in the open: every flagged phrase, every rule, every source. It is a signal for you to act on, never a verdict on you — and your manuscript is read once and discarded.

Your manuscript

Pictures inside the file are compared too.

Compared with each other in every orientation; their own metadata is read.

3 screens a day without an account; 10 with one (free). Usually 10–60 seconds.

What it looks for

Assistant fingerprints — "As an AI language model…", "Regenerate response": sentences an assistant writes about itself. Definite.
Excess vocabulary — the words that rose sharply with LLM-assisted writing (the 2025 Science Advances study, data MIT): a rate per 1,000 words, the words shown.
Tortured phrases — "counterfeit consciousness" for artificial intelligence: the paper-mill fingerprints (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov 2021).
References — through ScholaRef: entries no registry holds, and DOIs that belong to a different paper — the two marks of invented citations.
Pictures — the same image reused (also flipped, rotated, rescaled); files that declare themselves AI-generated (IPTC, content credentials, generator names).
Structure — sentence-length spread and connective openers, informational only.

The rules and the sources →

What it is not

Not a detector that says "AI-written" with a percentage. Those exist, they are black boxes, and on technical English they misfire; a journal that uses one should still show you its evidence. This screen only shows what can be shown: the phrase, the rule it broke, the source of the rule. English-calibrated; for other languages the reference and picture checks still apply.

Privacy

The file is read on this server and deleted before the report is shown. The report keeps counts and the flagged phrases with a few words around them — never the manuscript. Its link is private to whoever holds it; nothing goes to any journal or index. If you tick the second opinion, that text is sent to the provider you see named, and to nobody else.

Disclosing AI use

COPE and the ICMJE both say the same two things: an AI tool cannot be an author, and any use of one in writing, figures or analysis is disclosed in the manuscript. The report page carries three disclosure statements you can adapt. Disclosure is not a mark against a paper; an undisclosed leftover sentence is.

Everything Smart Scholars runsNine sites, one account. A journal starts at the audit; an author starts at Scholar Shield.

For journals & publishers

Start with the audit — it is free, and it is the gate to everything else.

DOI care

Nine services on one journal profile — each previews first and acts only on your approval.

For authors & researchers

Free to use. Nothing you check is shared with the journal.

For institutions, sponsors & DOI operators

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What we can register a DOI for

20 kinds of record, one account, one place. Every one gets a DOI that resolves, metadata that indexes read, and a record that stays correct afterwards.
Journals
  • Journal articles
  • Journal titles
  • Pending publications
  • Peer reviews
  • Preprints & posted content
Books & conferences
  • Books
  • Book chapters
  • Book series
  • Book sets
  • Conference proceedings
  • Proceedings series
  • Conference papers
Other research output
  • Theses & dissertations
  • Reports & working papers
  • Report series
  • Standards
  • Databases
  • Datasets
  • Figures, tables & supplements
Funding
  • Grants & funding awards

Elsewhere

The same company, in the places our publishers already read.
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