Five AI modules. One unified platform. Ethical Shield empowers journal editors with intelligent pre-review screening, integrity verification, reviewer discovery, and evidence-based editorial decisions.
Journals face mounting pressure: more submissions, rising fraud, reviewer fatigue, and the expectation of faster turnaround. Ethical Shield transforms the editorial workflow with intelligent automation that augments human judgment.
Each module specializes in a critical dimension of editorial quality. Together, they form a comprehensive AI screening cascade that catches issues before they reach peer review.
Validates manuscript structure, metadata completeness, and policy compliance against configurable journal requirements. From ethics statements to citation style conformance.
The most comprehensive integrity analysis module. Detects prior publication, duplicate submission, author verification anomalies, self-citation manipulation, and data inconsistencies using OpenAlex and AI.
Discovers qualified peer reviewers by analyzing manuscript topics against the global academic literature. Intelligent scoring filters for relevance, recency, citations, and conflicts of interest.
AI-powered decision support that synthesizes reviewer reports, assesses review quality, detects AI-generated reviews, and drafts editor decision letters. COPE-aligned recommendations with full transparency.
Compares revised manuscripts against reviewer comments and response letters. Evidence-backed verification ensures authors actually addressed each concern, with section-level change mapping and overclaim detection.
Manage the entire post-acceptance workflow: production queues, PDF uploads, DOI assignment, issue management, and one-click publishing to your journal website.
Track manuscripts from acceptance through production to publication. Filter by status, search by DOI, and manage the full pipeline.
Upload publication-ready PDFs, assign DOIs, set page ranges, and finalize metadata for each accepted manuscript.
Create and manage journal issues — volumes, covers, first pages. Supports continuous publication and special issues.
Publish manuscripts to your journal website instantly. Articles appear on the public site with full metadata, DOI, and downloadable PDF.
Reviewers receive a secure, token-based link by email. No account needed. Accept or decline, download the manuscript, upload the review report — all from one page.
No account needed. Reviewers receive a unique secure link by email — one click to access the portal.
72-hour acceptance window. On accept, manuscript materials unlock. On decline, the editor is notified instantly.
Download manuscript, cover letter, and supplementary files. Upload the review report when ready — all in one page.
Automatic reminder 48h before deadline. 3-day grace period after. Portal closes automatically on completion.
Support for multiple revision-review cycles. Each round tracked separately with independent deadlines and reports.
Accepted manuscripts are published on your journal's public website with full metadata, DOI, downloadable PDF, figures, tables, and SEO-optimized citation tags — ready for indexing.
Each article gets a dedicated page with title, authors, abstract, full text, figures, tables, references, and supplementary materials.
SEO-optimized meta tags (citation_doi, citation_author, citation_journal_title) for Google Scholar and academic indexing.
Readers download the publication PDF directly. Full issue archives organized by volume and year.
Corresponding author receives email with article link, DOI, and PDF download — automatically on publication.
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Every actor — author, editor, reviewer, reader — interacts through the same system. Nothing falls through the cracks. Every step is tracked, audited, and automated.
Real screens from the live platform. No mockups — this is what editors, authors, and readers see every day.
Live editorial overview with risk stratification, module status indicators, decision distribution, and performance trends.
Learns from historical decisions to identify recurring patterns, suggest similar cases, and improve editorial consistency over time.
Centralized directory with publication history, expertise tracking, ORCID integration, and conflict of interest detection.
Every action, decision, and module run is logged with timestamps. Full compliance transparency for journal accreditation.
Decision letters, reviewer invitations, deadline reminders, and revision requests — all auto-drafted and ready to send.
Each journal defines its own requirements: required, advisory, or ignore. Ethical Shield adapts to your editorial standards.
Ethical Shield was not designed in a vacuum. It was built by someone who has spent over a decade on both sides of academic publishing — as a researcher, as an editor-in-chief, and as a quality evaluator for international journal directories.
PhD · Lecturer · Journal Editor · Software Developer
Târgu Jiu, Romania
"I built Ethical Shield because I knew exactly what editors need — and exactly what existing tools were missing."
See how Ethical Shield can help your journal screen faster, verify deeper, and decide with confidence.