ScribeLens

AI detection for editorial screening

Editorial decisions need evidence that survives being questioned. ScribeLens gives you sentence-level findings and a shareable report for every submission you screen, so a query to an author can start from specific passages.

Screening that supports a conversation with the author

A percentage is difficult to raise with an author and harder to defend if they push back. ScribeLens attaches the reasoning underneath the result: which sentences carried signals, what patterns were involved, and how much of the manuscript they represent.

That turns a difficult message into a specific one. You can point to passages and ask an author to walk you through how they were written, which is a fair question and a defensible position.

Manuscript apparatus excluded automatically

Submissions arrive full of material that is not the author's prose: reference lists, journal running headers, ISSN and DOI lines, copyright notices, and declaration sections.

ScribeLens detects and excludes all of it before scoring, and shows you what was excluded. The result reflects the manuscript's actual writing rather than its formatting.

A report you can attach to the editorial record

Every scan produces an exportable PDF or DOCX report containing the analysed text with highlights, the reasoning behind the result, and a scan ID.

Verification links let you send a colleague or an author the exact stored report at its own URL, so everyone in the discussion is looking at the same evidence.

Designed for editorial judgement

ScribeLens reports evidence for a human to weigh. It is intended to inform an editorial conversation alongside the submission history and the author's own account.

We recommend that any journal policy referencing AI detection makes that explicit, and gives authors a route to respond before any conclusion is reached.

Frequently asked questions

Can a ScribeLens result be used as grounds for rejection?

It should be treated as supporting evidence that informs an editorial conversation, not as a standalone basis for a decision. The report is built to be shared with the author so they can respond to specific passages.

How do we share findings with an author?

Create a verification link and send it. The author opens the exact stored report at its own URL, including the sentence-level evidence and the record of what was excluded from scoring. Reports also export to PDF and DOCX.

What about submissions from non-native English authors?

Careful, formal English is a feature of a great deal of good scholarship, and ScribeLens is calibrated on published academic writing for that reason. As with any screening step, the report is evidence for a conversation, and an author should always have the opportunity to explain their writing process before conclusions are drawn.

Do you offer access for a whole editorial team?

Yes. Institutional and publisher access is available through our API with a contracted monthly allowance, and usage can be checked programmatically at any time. Get in touch to discuss volume.

Screen a submission

Sentence-level evidence, manuscript apparatus excluded automatically, and a shareable report for the editorial record.