(2 Feb 2026) A cloud-computing architect at German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom, who is based in Raeren, Belgium, created Aletheia-Probe while he was helping his colleagues to write a review paper on energy management. He needed to evaluate more than 350 papers. “I will not do this manually,” he recalls thinking. Like any good software developer, his laziness prompted hard work, and he built Aletheia-Probe to automate this process.
The software collects data from a dozen databases and applies an algorithm to integrate the information. Users can download Aletheia-Probe from cloud-based repository GitHub and run it on a text-based command-line interface (for instance, the macOS Terminal or MobaXterm on Windows). The command ‘aletheia-probe journal “Nature”’ directs the software to scrutinize this journal. It’s conclusion “Result: LEGITIMATE (confidence: 0.95)” is offered alongside a summary of its reasoning. For other journals, it might reply, “PREDATORY (confidence: 0.90)” or “INSUFFICIENT_DATA (confidence: 0.45)”. “My idea of this is something like having a virus scanner,” Florath says.
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