Paperpal Preflight Partners with Innovations Journals to Optimize Author Submissions

Paperpal, a brand by Cactus Communications, said it has partnered with Innovations Journals to deliver a superior submission experience for authors with its Preflight product. This partnership allows authors submitting manuscripts to Innovations Journals to use Paperpal Preflight for an in-depth language and technical compliance check that will help reduce editorial workloads.

Abhishek Goel, Co-founder and CEO, CACTUS, is enthusiastic about this partnership. “Driven by machine learning and feeding on millions of published articles, Paperpal Preflight helps reduce journal editorial workload for manuscripts by identifying common errors and omissions in language and technical errors prior to journal submission. This helps editors save a huge amount of time with improved quality of submissions that follows the journal guidelines,” he said, adding “We believe Paperpal Preflight is the future for the academic industry, which will now provide Innovations Journals with real-time feedback on the submission readiness of their manuscripts.”

Innovations Journals is keen on improving the submission process and reduce the editorial time and effort spent on initial quality checks. “We recognize the delays resulting from having to send papers back to authors for multiple rounds of revisions to help improve their language and readability of the papers. We are excited to partner with Paperpal Preflight as the solution, said Dr. Abdul-Rahman Jazieh, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Quality and Safety in Healthcare. “At Innovations Journals, we highly recommend this tool to all our authors for a pre-submission quality check that provides instant feedback on common technical errors and language quality. This is a useful tool that every submitting author should be taking advantage of.”

Paperpal Preflight is a plug-and-play web-based application that rests on the journal website and is available to publishers at no additional cost. The partnership with Innovations Journals paves the way for other academic publishers to immediately start using the solution without any integration dependency and offer the tool to their submitting authors.

For more information on Paperpal Preflight, visit our website.

Paperpal Preflight is currently advocated by 13 leading publishers carrying over 300 journals and is available to use directly from the journal website. If you do not have a target journal in mind, you can use the standard configuration and check your work with Paperpal for Manuscripts.

Elizabeth Oommen George

Elizabeth Oommen George is Associate Director – Content at Paperpal and Editor-in-Chief of the Paperpal Blog, where she leads AI-first editorial initiatives that support researchers across the academic writing and publishing journey. A seasoned content strategist and editor, she creates high-impact, educational content on manuscript writing, journal submissions, and the evolving role of AI in scholarly communication. Elizabeth is a strong advocate for purpose-built AI that enhances—not replaces—researchers’ voices. Her work focuses on making academic publishing more accessible, particularly for early-career researchers and those writing in English as a second language. Before joining Paperpal, she contributed to leading publications including Bloomberg India, The Sunday Guardian, and The South China Morning Post. She holds degrees in history, advertising, and marketing, and brings a multidisciplinary perspective to content and communication. Outside work, she enjoys photography, art, and planning her next travel adventure.