STM Solutions, the operational arm of STM (The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers) has started the development of a powerful new platform to detect integrity issues in manuscripts submitted for publication to scholarly journals.
The platform will significantly improve publishers’ capabilities to detect and remedy research integrity issues before publication, empowering the STM publishing industry to advance high quality, trusted research.
Recent years have seen a significant increase in research integrity issues. A striking example are so-called ‘paper mills’, fraudulent organizations that produce counterfeit manuscripts submitted to academic journals. Increasingly advanced technologies are used in the process to fabricate, plagiarize, and manipulate text, images, and research data. This is placing a large burden on publishers, editors, and reviewers, who call for reliable, state-of-the-art technology solutions to detect misconduct like this and support the editorial decision-making process.
The collaboration platform will be built on an architecture that ensures that publishers maintain full control over the content, safeguarding privacy and confidentiality. Critically, by working with content from multiple publishers, the system will be able to detect issues that transcend single submissions, journals, or publishers.
The platform will be developed in collaboration between publishers and STM Solutions. STM Solutions was established earlier in 2021 to develop and manage forward thinking shared infrastructures and collaborative services to support the scholarly communications community.
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