CACTUS supports editorial teams with early, structured screening through Paperpal Preflight for Editorial Desks that has features like SmartScreen, IntegrityGUARD and PeerPilot, helping identify potential integrity concerns before manuscripts enter peer review.
Who this is for:
Editorial teams are expected to uphold high standards of research integrity while managing increasing submission volumes and limited reviewer capacity.
When integrity issues surface late in the process, they:
Paperpal Preflight is designed to support integrity early in the editorial process, when intervention is most effective.
CACTUS approaches research integrity as an editorial responsibility that benefits from early signals and consistent application.
Our focus is on:
This approach strengthens standards without slowing workflows.
Preflight SmartScreen supports editorial teams by identifying technical compliance issues and language quality concerns early in the submission proces.
Preflight IntegrityGUARD focuses on identifying potential integrity risks that may require further editorial attention.
Preflight PeerPilot provides structured, AI-assisted analytical inputs to support editorial and peer review decision-making.
PeerPilot is designed to assist editors and reviewers, not replace peer review.
Delivers a tracked-changes document with clear recommendations authors can review, accept, or revise.
Highlights potentially AI-generated text at sentence level with clear visual markers for faster assessment.
Detects duplicated, manipulated, or AI-generated figures to support image authenticity checks.
Identifies overlapping text, similarity score, and source matches to help assess originality and attribution.
All Paperpal Preflight modules generate structured reports that editors can review quickly and act on confidently, supporting consistent and transparent decision-making.
Paperpal Preflight integrates into existing submission and editorial processes, enabling integrity screening:
This ensures integrity checks become part of routine editorial practice.
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