Review checks

The Review panel checks a draft before you hand it in. It holds six checks. Each one reads your saved document and shows its result in the panel. Nothing in your text changes until you apply a suggestion.

Open the Review panel

1. Open a document.
2. Press Side panel at the top right, then the Review tab. You can also choose Open Review in the command palette.
3. Press Review my draft, or open More checks to pick a check yourself.

Each check you run uses one review. The line under the Review heading says how many you have left. Usage in the account menu shows it with your other allowances. See Your AI allowance.

Before your first AI check, verify your email and press Got it on the note about Papero's AI. Below the checks you see the result of the last check you ran. It stays there while you write, even if you close the panel.

Review my draft

Review my draft looks over your draft in your browser and recommends one check, with the reason:

• Sources, when your draft cites papers.
• Claims, when it cites none but some paragraphs make claims without a citation.
• Proofread otherwise.

Press Run this check to run it. Only the check uses a review. An empty document gets Nothing to review yet. When you have used this month's reviews, the card says so: on Free it offers Upgrade, and on Plus it says when they reset.

The six checks

Open More checks to see all six.

• Sources checks whether the sources you cite were retracted, are preprints or are rarely cited. Press Check sources. The result groups your sources under Retracted, Preprints, Rarely cited, Could not be checked and Looks fine. A source with no DOI or OpenAlex ID cannot be checked. Press Show in document to jump to where a source is cited.
• Proofread suggests fixes for spelling, grammar, punctuation and clarity. Press Proofread.
• Claims finds sentences that state a fact or a figure with no citation, and suggests papers you can cite in place. Press Check claims. Each claim shows No citation or Weak support, with papers under it. Press Cite on a paper to cite it at the end of that sentence.
• Peer review reads the whole document as a reviewer would. Press Run peer review. The review has Overall, Strengths, Weaknesses and Questions. Go to jumps to the passage a weakness quotes, and Copy copies the whole review.
• Tone of voice suggests rewrites toward the tone you pick: Academic, Concise, Accessible or Persuasive. Pick one and press Check tone.
• Citation report checks each cited sentence against the papers it cites. It is part of Plus. See The Citation report.

Paragraphs that may need a citation

Under Claims, the list Paragraphs that may need a citation shows paragraphs with no citation that state a figure or a finding. It costs no review and never leaves your browser. It looks for figures in any language, and for phrases like "studies show" in English only. Press Show to jump to a paragraph.

Check one section

Proofread, Claims, Tone of voice and the Citation report can read one section instead of the whole document.

1. Put your cursor in the section you want to check.
2. Under What to check (or What to proofread), choose This section: followed by the section's heading.
3. Press the check's button.

Peer review and Sources have no section choice: they read the whole document. On a long document a check may read only its first part. The result then says so, and you can check a section to see the rest.

Apply or dismiss suggestions

Proofread and Tone of voice list their suggestions under a count, each with the old text struck through, the new text and a reason.

• Apply puts the new text in your document.
• Dismiss removes the suggestion from the list.
• Apply all spelling applies every open spelling fix at once. After a tone check, Apply all applies every open rewrite.

If you edited the text after the check ran, the suggestion says This text has changed since the check. and cannot be applied. On a read-only document, such as an archived one, suggestions cannot be applied.

Run checks from Chat

In Chat, type / to run a check from the list, such as Find claims that need a citation. It opens the Review tab and runs there. See Saved prompts and actions.

When a check cannot run

• The source check, and the paper searches Claims makes, count toward the daily paper search limit that every plan has. It resets at midnight UTC. When it is used up, a source check is not counted and Papero says when searches come back. Claims still runs, without papers for the claims it could not search.
• When the paper database is busy or cannot be reached, the check is not counted. Try again in a few minutes.
• If a check takes too long, Papero stops waiting and says it may have used a review.

Your data

Proofread, Claims, Peer review, Tone of voice and the Citation report send the text they need to OpenAI. Claims and Sources also look up papers in OpenAlex. See the Privacy Policy.

Next: the Citation report.