The ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing 2024
This award, sponsored by PA EDitorial, has run for a number of years and celebrates any new development, product, service, launch or project which is both innovative and of significant value to scholarly communication.
Award Winner 2024
The Papermill Alarm
The Papermill Alarm detects signs of fraud prior to peer-review, helping publishers avoid harm. Its web app provides a clear overview of the problem. The Papermill Alarm leverages novel AI Language Models (LLMs) and network analysis to detect signs of research fraud at industry scale with unparalleled accuracy.
Finalists for 2024
- Morressier’s Integrity Manager: the best integrity tech in a single platform.
- Signals: providing researchers, institutions and publishers with the information they need to understand the trustworthiness and value of research articles.
- Research Organization Registry (ROR): free and open persistent identifier service for research organizations.
The judging panel
David Sommer, Chief Product Officer & Co-founder, Kudos (Chair)
Iain Craig, Senior Director of Market & Publishing Analytics, Wiley
Richard Gedye, Scholarly and Professional Publishing Consultant
Robert Iannello, Education Senior Product Manager, ARM Education Media
Alice Meadows, Co-founder, MoreBrains
Fabienne Michaud, Product Manager, Crossref
Louise Russell, Director, Tutton Russell Consulting
Steve Sharp, Head of Library Resources, Sheffield Hallam University
David Smith, Head of Technology Strategy, The IET
Elaine Sykes, Head of Open Research, Lancaster University
Alexandra Winzeler.