Penelope AI

️ 🖼Tool Name:
Penelope.ai

🔖 Categories:

• Education and Research
• Medical Tools
• Testing and Quality Assurance
• Data and Analytics

️ ✏What does this tool offer?
Penelope.ai is an AI-powered platform designed to help scientific journals and researchers ensure that manuscripts meet publication requirements before they are sent for peer review.

The platform automates screening processes within manuscript management systems, helping editors make faster decisions and providing authors with immediate, helpful feedback on the quality and readiness of their work before submission.

The platform allows users to view key results directly within the publishing software or to access a comprehensive, interactive, and annotated report detailing the checks that were performed.

Penelope.ai is currently available to journals using Manuscript Manager,while journals using Editorial Manager or ScholarOne can join the waitlist.

The platform offers more than 30 customizable checks, allowing journals to:

• Select which checks they wish to run.
• Select which checks are important or critical.
• Customize the feedback provided to editors and authors according to each journal’s requirements.

Penelope.ai relies on transparent results rather than a black-box system; checks are linked to specific, highlighted sections of the text, allowing users to understand why a result appears and how it was reached, while providing a description for each check or the option to refer to the developers’ documentation to learn the criteria for success and failure.

The checks provided by the platform include:

Research ethics checks:

• Verifying the presence of a dedicated section on ethical approval.
• Verifying the title and location of the ethics section according to the journal’s requirements.
• Ensuring that ethical approval is mentioned in the ethics section or the methodology section.
• Verifying the naming of the ethics review committee.
• Ensure that informed consent is addressed in research involving human subjects.

Disclosure Section Checks:

• Verify the presence of a conflict of interest section.
• Verify that a data sharing section is present.
• Verify that there is an “Author Contributions” section.
• Verify that a funding section is present.
• Ensure that the titles and locations of these sections comply with the journal’s requirements.

Title page checks:

• Check that the authors’ names are included.
• Verify the authors’ email addresses and whether they are institutional.
• Identify the corresponding author.
• Verify the authors’ affiliations.
• Verify the word count.
• Verify the presence of keywords.
• Verify the presence of a running head.

Abstract checks:

• Check for the presence of an abstract.
• Determine whether the abstract is formatted or unformatted according to the journal’s requirements.
• Verify that the required subheadings are present within the abstract.
• Verify that the abstract’s structure complies with the PRISMA and CONSORT guidelines for systematic reviews and clinical trials.

Article Structure Checks:

• Ensure that the required sections and main headings are present according to the article type and journal requirements.
• Review the figures and tables within the manuscript.
• Ensure that figures and tables are present where referenced in the text.
• Verify that figure and table labels match their corresponding captions.
• Ensure that the figures and tables are numbered in ascending order.

Reference Checks:

• Verify that the citation style used—whether numerical or author-based—complies with the journal’s guidelines.
• Ensure that in-text citations match the reference list.
• Verify that the numerical citations are in ascending order.
• Verify that author-based citations are listed in alphabetical order.
• Verify that supplementary materials or appendices are referenced.

Publication Limits Checks:

• Verify the word count of the article.
• Check the word count of the abstract.
• Verify the number of references.
• Verify the number of tables and figures against the journal’s specified limits.

File and Data Integrity Checks:

• Verify that Track Changes is not enabled.
• Verify that there are no EndNote citations.
• Extract metadata such as the article title from the title page.
• Verify that page numbers are present.
• Verify that double-spacing is used between lines.
• Detect references to registered trademarks.

⭐ What does it actually offer based on user experience?

• It helps journals automatically screen manuscripts before sending them for peer review.
• It provides editors with information that helps them make faster decisions.
• It gives authors immediate feedback on potential issues in their manuscripts.
• It provides interactive, annotated reports on the results of the checks.
• It allows checks and feedback to be customized according to each journal’s requirements.
• It presents understandable results by linking checks to specific parts of the text.
• Helps ensure compliance with publication requirements, ethics, references, and formatting.

🤖 Does it include automation?
Yes, Penelope.ai includes automated manuscript checks within publication management systems.

Automation works by:

• Running more than 30 automated checks on the manuscript.
• Extracting metadata.
• Reviewing article sections, references, figures, and tables.
• Providing results and feedback to editors and authors.
• Integrating the checks into manuscript management systems.

💰 Pricing model:
Paid (based on the number of manuscripts per year)

Prices include:

• Access to the full suite of checks.
• Extraction of descriptive data.
• Option to pay per manuscript or for a full annual subscription.

🆓 Free plan details:

💳 Paid plan details:

🧭 How to access the tool:

🔗 Demo link or official website:
https://www.penelope.ai/