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Journals adopt AI to spot duplicated images in manuscripts

A few publishers are using automated software to catch flaws in submitted papers.
  1. Richard Van Noorden
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Just before a study appears in any of ten journals published by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), it undergoes an unusual extra check. Since January 2021, the AACR has been using artificial intelligence (AI) software on all manuscripts it has provisionally accepted after peer review. The aim is to automatically alert editors to duplicated images, including those in which parts have been rotated, filtered, flipped or stretched.

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Nature 601, 14-15 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03807-6

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