AI-enhanced peer review: Frontiers launches next generation of efficient, high-quality peer review

Artificial Intelligence Review Assistant -- into Frontiers' digital peer-review platform enables better, more efficient quality control and manuscript handling Frontiers peer review now incorporates powerful AI technology to safeguard both manuscript and peer-review quality more efficiently and keep pace with ever-growing submissions. AIRA assists editors, reviewers and internal teams by analyzing, interpreting and communicating the quality of submitted manuscripts and the review process, as well as suggesting actions and identifying potential reviewers. Built in-house and fully integrated into the Frontiers Review Forum and internal workflows, these groundbreaking capabilities have already streamlined Frontiers' publishing process -- and will continually drive further optimization through ongoing learning and inclusion of new quality checks. "AIRA is the next generation of peer review, in which Artificial Intelligence and machine learning enable fast, rigorous and efficient peer review at ever-larger scales," says Frontiers CEO and Co-Founder Kamila Markram. "The technology does not replace people -- to the contrary, it empowers people to take editorial decisions in a more effective way, by helping our editors, reviewers and internal teams to focus on the right things and take critical decisions at the right time. This speeds up the review process and reduces time to publication, while ensuring the highest quality control."