Manna Plag Brings Research Integrity Screening into the Manuscript Workflow

Manna Analytics has launched Manna Plag, an integrated research integrity engine developed specifically for scholarly journals and academic publishers.

Maintaining scientific integrity has become increasingly complex. Editorial offices must assess text similarity, verify citations, detect potential artificial intelligence generation patterns, and validate author disclosures without introducing weeks of latency into the intake queue.

Manna Plag operates natively within the manuscript submission workspace. Rather than requiring managing editors to manually export manuscripts to external tools and re-import PDF reports, screening runs automatically upon author submission.

The system provides a clear, transparent integrity scorecard highlighting citation health, source matches, and reference validity, while preserving the ultimate editorial decision with the journal’s editors.

Manna Plag also adheres to strict data privacy principles: submitted manuscripts are never used to train public language models or exposed outside the publisher’s private tenant.