“You should all be replaced by robots.” That’s what the email that landed in Tim Vines’ inbox said. Tim was a Managing Editor for the journal Molecular Ecology at the time, juggling the demands of scholarly publishing and used to complaints. But this one stopped him in his tracks. The author was frustrated […]
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New integration enables journals to easily implement AI Editorial support tools in any publishing platform Automating editorial checks with DataSeer SnapShot is now simpler than ever, thanks to a new partnership with TaskAdept. The agreement integrates SnapShot – a leading AI-powered editorial screening technology – with TaskAdept’s highly adaptable Carina Workflow Assist platform, enabling journals
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Do researchers actually reuse publicly available data and code? For years, this question sat at the heart of open science advocacy, yet answers were largely anecdotal. Despite strong policy signals and growing expectations around data sharing, there was no reliable, scalable way to measure whether shared datasets were being reused—or what impact that reuse had
This post is authored by DataSeer Founder and CEO Tim Vines with coauthors Ben Kaub, Adam Day, and Kristen Ratan. It originally appeared on The Scholarly Kitchen blog January 28, 2026. Back in April 2024, Tim Vines and Ben Kaube put together a Scholarly Kitchen post that took the concept of honest signaling — a theory for why
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In early 2026 DataSeer will join Proofig AI as a partner on their PubShield program, enabling researchers at dozens of leading institutions to automatically check their manuscripts for compliance with institutional, funder, or publisher Open Science policies. DataSeer’s checks for open data and open code will be delivered alongside Proofig AI’s image integrity screening and
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The past few years have been transformative ones for scholarly communications, and DataSeer is no exception. In 2024 we set out to make journal open science checks more sustainable, putting research integrity best-practice within research for more journals and researchers. Today, the revolution in reasoning LLMs blossomed into DataSeer SnapShot: a robust AI-powered editorial technology
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NOTE: This post was written by Rebecca Taylor Grant, Director of Open Research for Taylor & Francis together with Tim Vines, Founder and CEO of DataSeer, and Adrian Stanley, Partnerships Director for DataSeer. It originally appeared on the ALPSP blog as part of a series highlighting 2025 finalists for the ALPSP Award for Innovation in
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We’re thrilled to share that DataSeer’s joint initiative with Taylor & Francis, has been selected as a finalist for the 2025 ALPSP Award! Our pilot, “Embedding transparency and reproducibility in science: A scalable partnership to support research excellence and data sharing policies,” has passed the first round of evaluation, and is now on the shortlist
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In 2024, DataSeer embarked upon a pilot project with Silverchair. Together, we embedded Open Science Metrics data into Silverchair’s Sensus Impact funder dashboards to create data-rich micro-sites for five select funders. DataSeer’s Open Science Metrics quantify research integrity and open science behaviors across thousands of articles at a time, delivering accurate and meaningful business intelligence
Aries Systems Corporation, a leading provider of workflow management technologies for the scholarly publishing community, and DataSeer, a developer of AI-powered research integrity solutions for institutions, publishers, and funders, are pleased to announce their partnership to elevate quality and transparency in scientific research. Scholarly journals are often overburdened with time-consuming editorial checks on incoming submissions.
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