PubShield: One Hub for Manuscript Quality Assurance
PubShield is an institutional submission hub that runs your manuscript through best-in-class integrity checks – then returns the results to a single dashboard. No more scattered logins, fragmented workflows, or missed checks.
What Fragmented Integrity Checks Create
Manuscript quality assurance is often a multi-step, multi-tool process—one platform for text similarity and plagiarism risk, another for AI-generated text, another for reference integrity, another for image integrity, and more. In practice, most researchers don’t have the time, awareness or workflow to run every check across multiple systems, so issues are discovered too late: during peer review, after acceptance, or even post-publication. When checks are fragmented, the outcomes are predictable:
Rejections & Revisions
Preventable issues lead to editorial rejection and repeated revision cycles.
Corrections & Retractions
Uncaught integrity problems increase the risk of post-publication corrections or retractions.
Reputational Damage
Integrity failures harm researcher credibility and institutional reputation.
Institutional Burden
Investigations and retractions create heavy operational and financial strain for institutions.
Integrity Checks Inside PubShield
When a manuscript is submitted, its text is screened for similarity and potential plagiarism by comparing it against a broad scholarly content database. Overlapping passages and matched sources are identified early, allowing researchers and institutions to review questionable reuse and address risks before the manuscript reaches a journal.
Image Integrity
All figures in the manuscript are automatically screened for image integrity issues that are difficult to detect manually. This includes duplicated or reused regions, signs of manipulation, image plagiarism against published literature, and AI-generated images—helping teams identify high-risk visuals before submission or publication.
Manuscript references are analyzed to surface integrity and reliability risks that are often overlooked during preparation. RefGuard helps identify problematic citations, including links to retracted publications, so reference-related issues can be addressed before peer review or editorial scrutiny.
Manuscript text is screened for AI-generated writing, including content produced by tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and others. This helps institutions and researchers assess authorship authenticity and ensure alignment with journal and institutional policies in an era where AI-assisted writing has become increasingly common.
Manuscripts are assessed for data reporting completeness and alignment with modern data-sharing and open-science expectations. DataSeer helps identify missing, unclear, or incomplete data-related elements early, allowing researchers to improve compliance and reduce avoidable revision cycles before submission.
Why institutions adopt PubShield
PubShield turns fragmented integrity checks into one institutional workflow, integrating best-in-class tools and returning all outputs to one dashboard. This makes comprehensive screening scalable across departments and labs, replacing manual multi-tool coordination with a consistent review process in one place.
Scales
Institution-Wide
Consistent access drives adoption across departments and labs.
Best-in-Class Coverage
Integrated checks across text, images, references, AI, and data.
Central
Review
One dashboard for faster review and easier decision-making.
Make Full QA Feasible
One workflow replaces multiple tools and manual coordination.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do researchers need to use multiple tools separately?
No. PubShield centralizes the workflow and review in one place.
Do we get one report or multiple outputs?
PubShield centralizes all check outputs in a single dashboard for review.
Can institutions control which checks run?
Yes. Institutions can configure which checks are enabled in the workflow.
Who is PubShield for?
Institutions that want consistent, pre-submission quality assurance across researchers.
Will you add more integrations?
Yes. PubShield is designed to expand toward full manuscript quality assurance.
How PubShield works in practice
Submit once Upload your manuscript through PubShield.
Checks run in the background PubShield automatically runs the manuscript through the relevant integrity checks.
Results return to one dashboard Outputs come back into a centralized view—so reviewers and researchers aren’t chasing reports across platforms.
Fix issues before submission Researchers can address integrity risks early, before the manuscript is sent to a publisher.
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