Within a few years, the peer review processes can be improved by support of an automated platform. This is concluded by Chadwick DeVoss, founder and head of StatReviewer. Artificial intelligence is already used in some areas of scientific publication, for example, to reveal plagiarism or to detect when critical data is missing in an article. Automation can also be used to verify an author’s identity, or to predict the article’s impact factor. In the near future, many issues that today require high work effort will appear trivial, but the processes are difficult to fully automate. Read more here.