Frequently Asked Questions
Find clear answers about EAIPAM assessments, scoring, manuscript submission, confidentiality, retention and interpretation of findings.
About EAIPAM
Understand the purpose, intended users and scope of the EAIPAM manuscript-assessment platform.
What is EAIPAM?
EAIPAM is a manuscript-assessment platform designed to identify potential scholarly-integrity and evidence-quality risks in academic book chapters and related scientific manuscripts.
It evaluates submitted content across four defined criteria: Reference Integrity, Citation-to-Claim Accuracy, Scientific Accuracy and Evidence Depth.
EAIPAM is intended to support editorial review and quality assurance. It does not replace peer review, subject-matter expert evaluation or final editorial judgement.
Who can use EAIPAM?
EAIPAM is designed for:
- Academic authors and volume editors
- Publishers and commissioning editors
- Universities and research institutions
- Editorial offices and book-series teams
- Research-integrity and quality-assurance professionals
Individual authors may create projects, upload chapters and access reports released by the EAIPAM administrator.
What types of manuscripts can be assessed?
EAIPAM currently supports scholarly manuscripts submitted as Microsoft Word DOCX files. The system is particularly suited to scientific, technical, medical, life-science and interdisciplinary academic content containing references, factual claims and evidence-based discussion.
Does EAIPAM provide plagiarism and similarity analysis?
Yes. EAIPAM offers a dedicated Plagiarism & Similarity Analysis that identifies textual overlap, major matching sources and potentially concerning similarity with published literature.
The similarity analysis is separate from the EAIPAM scholarly-integrity assessment. A similarity percentage is not included mathematically in the EAIPAM integrity-risk score.
The EAIPAM integrity assessment continues to evaluate four independent criteria: Reference Integrity, Citation-to-Claim Accuracy, Scientific Accuracy and Evidence Depth.
Comprehensive Manuscript Analysis combines plagiarism and similarity analysis with the full EAIPAM integrity assessment and provides two analytically independent reports: a Plagiarism & Similarity Report and an EAIPAM Integrity Report. The two reports are prepared separately and released together when both are ready.
Similarity scores indicate textual overlap with identified sources and should not, on their own, be interpreted as a determination of plagiarism. Individual matches should be evaluated in their scholarly and citation context.
Does EAIPAM detect AI-generated text?
EAIPAM does not present a manuscript as AI-generated solely on the basis of writing style or automated probability scores.
It identifies observable scholarly-integrity risks such as unverifiable references, unsupported claims, citation mismatches, scientific inaccuracies and weak evidence. These findings may occur in either human-written or AI-assisted manuscripts and must be interpreted through editorial or expert review.
EAIPAM Assessment Criteria
Learn how the four weighted criteria contribute to the overall integrity-risk score.
What does EAIPAM assess?
EAIPAM assesses a manuscript across four weighted criteria:
Evaluates whether references are authentic, traceable, complete, correctly attributed and bibliographically consistent.
Evaluates whether a cited source directly supports the claim associated with it, including the population, intervention, outcome, mechanism, numerical result, study design and stated level of certainty.
Evaluates factual correctness, mechanistic validity, methodological accuracy, quantitative reliability and consistency with established scientific knowledge.
Evaluates whether important claims are supported by sufficiently relevant, current and substantive evidence, including appropriate critical interpretation, recognition of limitations and treatment of uncertainty.
How is the EAIPAM score calculated?
Each of the four criteria receives a risk score from 0 to 100. The scores are combined according to the assigned criterion weights.
The overall EAIPAM score is therefore a risk score, not a quality percentage. A higher score indicates a higher level of potential scholarly-integrity concern.
What do the EAIPAM risk levels mean?
A High or Critical score does not automatically prove misconduct. It indicates that substantial concerns have been identified and that detailed editorial or subject-expert review is required.
Why does a higher EAIPAM score indicate greater risk?
EAIPAM is designed as an integrity-risk assessment system. It measures the seriousness and extent of identified concerns rather than awarding marks for manuscript quality.
For example, a score of 80 indicates a substantially higher level of concern than a score of 20.
Can a manuscript receive different scores for different criteria?
Yes. A manuscript may, for example, have strong scientific accuracy but weak reference integrity, or authentic references that do not adequately support the claims for which they are cited.
The criterion-level scores help users understand where the main risks are concentrated.
Does every problem identified by EAIPAM appear in the final report?
The author-facing report prioritises material findings, particularly high-severity concerns that require correction or expert attention.
The report is intended to be useful and actionable rather than an exhaustive display of every automated observation generated during processing.
Submission and Project Management
Find out how to create a project, upload chapters and manage submitted manuscripts.
How do I submit a manuscript?
After signing in to the author dashboard:
- Create a book or manuscript project.
- Open the project.
- Enter the chapter number, chapter title and contributor names.
- Upload the DOCX manuscript.
- Submit the chapter for EAIPAM assessment.
Multiple chapters may be uploaded under the same book project.
Can I upload multiple chapters?
Yes. Authors may create one project for the complete book and upload multiple chapters under that project.
Each chapter is registered as a separate EAIPAM submission and receives its own submission reference.
Which file format is accepted?
The current author-upload workflow accepts Microsoft Word DOCX files.
Files in PDF, DOC, ODT, RTF or other formats should be converted to DOCX before manuscript submission unless an alternative workflow has been agreed with the EAIPAM administrator.
What is the maximum file size?
The current maximum upload size is 25 MB per DOCX manuscript.
Files exceeding this limit should be reduced in size before upload, for example by compressing embedded figures or removing unnecessary high-resolution images.
Can I edit a manuscript after submission?
A submitted file cannot currently be edited in place.
Before analysis begins, an eligible pending chapter may be deleted and a corrected version may then be uploaded as a new submission. Once analysis has started, the original submission is protected to preserve the integrity of the assessment record.
How long does an assessment take?
Assessment time can vary according to manuscript length, number of references, density of scientific claims, system workload and whether manual editorial review is required.
EAIPAM does not guarantee an identical completion time for every submission.
Reliability and Limitations
Understand how EAIPAM findings should be interpreted alongside expert editorial review.
Does EAIPAM replace peer review?
No. EAIPAM supports peer review and editorial evaluation by identifying areas requiring attention.
It does not independently establish novelty, academic significance, methodological adequacy, publication suitability or disciplinary contribution.
Can EAIPAM guarantee that a manuscript is error-free?
No. A Low-risk result does not guarantee that a manuscript contains no errors, and a High-risk result does not establish that every flagged item is invalid.
EAIPAM should be used as one component of a broader editorial and scholarly-quality process.
Manuscript Security and Retention
Learn how uploaded manuscripts are protected, when deletion may be available and how released reports are handled.
Is my manuscript publicly accessible after upload?
No. Uploaded manuscripts are stored in protected storage and are intended to be accessible only through authorised EAIPAM workflows.
The files are not intended to be published or made publicly searchable by the platform.
How long is the uploaded manuscript retained?
The manuscript file is retained for as long as reasonably necessary to complete the selected assessment, generate and deliver the relevant report or reports, support authorised review and meet applicable legal, security or audit requirements.
EAIPAM does not currently promise automatic deletion after a fixed 15-day, 30-day, 90-day or one-year period unless such an option is expressly presented and recorded within the platform. Further details are provided in the Data-Retention Policy.
Can I delete a manuscript after submitting it?
Before analysis begins, an eligible pending manuscript may be deleted through the author workflow and a corrected version may then be uploaded as a new submission.
Once analysis has started, normal author deletion may be restricted so that the assessment record, payment history and audit trail are not disrupted. A verified permanent-deletion request may still be considered subject to technical, legal, security and audit requirements.
What happens if I remove a released report from my dashboard?
Removing a released report from the author dashboard hides that released report from the author-facing project view. It does not by itself permanently delete the administrator audit copy or other records that EAIPAM is permitted or required to retain.
For Comprehensive Manuscript Analysis, the two released reports are treated as one author-facing report package for visibility purposes rather than allowing only one of the two reports to be removed independently.
Word Count and Technical Support
Clarify how word count is handled and what to do when an assessment appears incomplete.
Are references included in the word count?
The chargeable word count will be calculated according to the word count displayed or confirmed during the EAIPAM submission and assessment process.
Where applicable, the quotation or payment summary will specify whether references, tables, figure captions, appendices or supplementary sections have been included.
What should I do if the assessment remains incomplete?
If an assessment remains incomplete or its status does not progress as expected, no corrective action is required within the author dashboard.
Contact the EAIPAM administrator or support team and provide your submission reference, project title and chapter title. The administrator will review the assessment status and take the appropriate next step.
Editorial Responsibility
Understand who remains responsible for decisions and what completion of an EAIPAM assessment signifies.
Who makes the final decision about the manuscript?
The final decision remains with the responsible author, editor, publisher, institution or other authorised decision-maker.
EAIPAM provides evidence-based risk information to support that decision. It does not independently accept, reject, retract or certify a manuscript.
Does EAIPAM certify a manuscript as publication-ready?
No. EAIPAM does not issue an unconditional certification that a manuscript is publication-ready.
A completed assessment indicates that the manuscript has been evaluated against the defined EAIPAM criteria and that the identified findings have been reported for further editorial consideration.
Contact the EAIPAM administrator
Include your submission reference, project title and chapter title when requesting help with an existing assessment.