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KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. Partners with Clear Skies to Integrate Papermill Alarm into Smart Review®
4 Feb 2025

Glen Allen, VA—February 4, 2025—KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. (KGL), the leading provider of transformative content solutions, and Clear Skies, developer of advanced data analytics tools to support research integrity, have announced a collaboration to integrate the award-winning Papermill Alarm into KGL’s Smart Review platform.
With an estimated 1.5% of the research literature produced by papermills, such illegal, profit-driven organizations that produce and sell fraudulent manuscripts have become a serious threat to research integrity and the credibility of scholarly communications. Smart Review, which already includes comprehensive submission checks and automated tasks to speed up the peer review process, will now employ the world’s leading papermill detection service.
Papermill Alarm is comprised of a number of separate tools using a broad range of innovative methods and unique data. It uses AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), network analysis and more to find signals consistent with organized research fraud. Publishers using Smart Review will now receive automated alerts when the Papermill Alarm detects signs of research fraud in newly submitted papers, saving time in peer-review and preventing retractions.
Atul Goel, President of KGL said, “Smart Review is becoming the premier platform using intelligent automation to power the peer review process and rapidly publish journal content to the highest standards of quality, diligence, and impact. We are thrilled to integrate the first-of-its-kind Papermill Alarm into the research integrity checks we can quickly and reliably perform for manuscript submissions. KGL is truly committed to publishing innovation and safeguarding the integrity of content and reputations of our customers.”
Adam Day, Founder and CEO of Clear Skies added:
“The Papermill Alarm API detects rare signals in the research literature, providing article-level alerts at the moment of submission and underpinning editorial workflows like Smart Review. KGL’s peer review customers can now undertake early misconduct investigations to both protect the literature and avoid costly retractions. We are excited to extend this capability with a leading industry partner with a broad and established publisher base.”
About Clear Skies
Launched in early 2022, Clear Skies brought novel tools to market for assessing and modeling the peer-review process including the Clear Skies Article Tracker. Clear Skies created the Papermill Alarm, the first service dedicated to detecting organized research fraud. The Papermill Alarm won the 2024 ALPSP award for innovation in publishing. For more information, please visit clear-skies.co.uk
About KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd.
KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. (KGL) is the premier industry provider of editorial, peer review, production, consulting, online hosting, institutional sales, and transformative solutions for every stage of the content lifecycle. KGL serves the STEM/HSS, educational publishing, and eLearning markets from content creation through distribution of print and digital products. A division of CJK Group, Inc., KGL unites content and technology expertise with over 200 years of experience serving the publishing market and is powered by state-of-the-art, intelligent solutions and integrated services including Smart Suite, PubFactory, and Accucoms. For more information, please visit www.kwglobal.com.
Media Contact: Mike Groth, Director of Marketing, KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd., mike.groth@kwglobal.com
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