Practical guides to academic writing, research integrity and journal selection. Learn how to review a manuscript with our academic AI Detector, inspect source matches with the Similarity Checker, or shortlist journals with Journal Finder.
Similarity checkers measure overlap with sources; AI detectors estimate whether writing resembles machine text. This guide explains what each result means, their limits, publisher AI rules and a pre-submission routine.
Acceptance ends peer review but not scrutiny. This guide covers how to proof page proofs without rewriting the paper, how editors read similarity scores and text recycling, how gift, guest and ghost authorship differ, how to disclose AI use, and a final pre-publication checklist.
Rewriting for readability is where well-designed manuscripts become vulnerable. This guide covers the five conditions of an evidence-preserving paraphrase, the five kinds of semantic drift to watch for, and an eight-step revision workflow.
An operational framework for researchers: what the major publisher policies actually require, how to log and disclose AI use, and how to audit similarity and stylometry before submission.
Two manuscripts can share the same 30% AI score and need opposite responses. This guide explains why whole-document percentages conceal the evidence editors actually assess, and sets out a six-step audit that works at sentence level.