Penelope.ai

Penelope is an automated manuscript screening platform engineered specifically for academic publishers, journals, and scientific authors. The platform functions as a virtual editorial assistant that instantly evaluates uploaded research papers against exact, journal-specific formatting and compliance rules. By conducting comprehensive technical and structural audits before a manuscript reaches an editor’s desk, Penelope helps reduce administrative bottlenecks and accelerates the peer review lifecycle. The system features an automated tracking framework that verifies critical metadata and structural integrity. It scans documents for essential scholarly components, including dedicated ethical approval sections, informed consent disclosures, conflict of interest declarations, and structured abstracts matching PRISMA or CONSORT specifications. Furthermore, Penelope cross-checks citations against reference lists to pinpoint inconsistencies, audits table and figure ordering, and evaluates file cleanliness by detecting unresolved track changes or active citation-manager fields.