Author: the Signals Team

Signals can now assess whether the references in a manuscript are actually relevant to the claims they’re attached to. It’s the next evolution of our reference checks, and a major step forward in helping editorial teams quickly evaluate manuscript quality. Earlier this year, we launched the invalid references signal to catch hallucinated references, invalid DOIs,…

With an increasing number of submissions, editorial teams regularly evaluate manuscripts from researchers they don’t know. Checking an author’s publication history can be important for establishing trust, but doing it thoroughly is hugely time-consuming — information is spread across multiple sources, and even then it’s difficult to disambiguate authors with similar names. Automated tools exist,…

With a growing number of manuscript submissions, publishers need faster ways to triage what should be sent for editorial assessment and what risks wasting valuable editor time. Signals now goes even deeper into manuscript analysis, automatically spotting issues in the manuscript content and helping publisher teams make better decisions quickly. Our AI research integrity assistant,…

We’re excited to announce that we have raised $1.1m in our Seed funding round backed by minority investments from strategic investors ACS Publications, a division of the American Chemical Society (ACS), and Enago, along with the Scholarly Angels and other leading angel investors. This investment is more than financial. It reflects a shared vision to…

It’s a new year, and Signals has a new look. Check out the app to see our sleek new design and sample Publisher Dashboard. Alongside many UI improvements, we have been busy developing many new capabilities for Signals Manuscript Checks and the Publisher Dashboard. The updates will help our Publisher partners improve their screening of…

Global Campus and Signals announce a new partnership to helping publishers select high-quality, trustworthy reviewers.

September 3, 2025 | North Andover, Massachusetts Aries Systems Corporation, a leading provider of workflow management technologies for the scholarly publishing community, and Research Signals Limited (Signals), a research integrity solutions provider, are pleased to announce their partnership to empower journals to identify and prevent the publication of problematic manuscripts to restore trust in research.…