A growing number of private firms are offering researchers artificial-intelligence tools for scrutinizing manuscripts before publication. One such system, developed by a start-up called QED Science in Tel Aviv, Israel, aims to judge whether life-sciences research is original and valid. QED Science's tool is trained to assess whether the claims in a given manuscript are supported by the data presented, and to identify gaps in the work. It is available to researchers for free, and has so far been used by more than 10,000 laboratories across 1,500 institutions in more than 70 countries. But the ranking has sparked debate among researchers, with some arguing that it risks creating another badge of prestige ' and reinforcing metric-based culture in academia. Others have expressed doubts about AI's ability to reliably and transparently judge the quality of scientific research. There are a lot of tools for reviewing research articles. We go about it a bit differently, in a couple of...
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