Today, TopEdit—a provider of academic editing and publication support services for researchers in China—and Turnitin—a global leader in upholding academic integrity—announced an expansion of their work together with a new product integration. As an authorized Turnit in partner in China, TopEdit now offers Turnit in’s AI writing detector to researchers and academics, in addition to text similarity detection services with iThenticate.
The AI writing detector is designed to identify text that might be prepared or paraphrased by a generative AI tool such as large-language models, chatbots, and word spinners. The AI writing report is fully integrated into the new, enhanced Similarity Report experience within iThenticate. Now, iThenticate plus AI detection is available directly via TopEdit.
This new offering allows researchers using TopEdit’s services in China to receive comprehensive publication assistance, including editing, translation, text similarity check and AI writing detection. By adding Turnit in’s AI detector to its service offerings, TopEdit now provides the necessary tool to further guard research integrity—protecting institutional and individual reputations. The collaboration will support thousands of Chinese researchers with their publications in English-speaking academic and professional journals.
This continuing collaboration between TopEdit and Turnit in reflects the two companies' complementary missions. TopEdit’s mission is to provide personalized editorial and publication services and academic support for non-English speaking authors. Turnitin’s mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and research. Together, the companies can help further to support and advance global research and education.
“We recognise that research and academic integrity has been both supported and tested by technology. With the rise in AI in writing, there is a pressing need to understand where and if AI and AI writing tools have been used. We are pleased to be expanding our work with TopEdit to ensure the Chinese research community has the tools needed to continue their important work to the highest standard,” says Turnit in VP of Alliances, Todd Baker.
“The expansion of the collaboration will help further the contributions of Chinese researchers, scientists, and academics. I am so glad to see the new integration of the Turnit in AI writing detector to TopEdit, given AI tools are used inappropriately. The AI writing detector will help researchers, institutions, and publishers to protect their reputation and research integrity” says TopEdit CEO and founder Ning Zhang.
About TopEdit
TopEdit is one of the industry’s leading academic editing and author services providers.Since its establishment in Washington, DC, in 2015, TopEdit has edited more than 100,000 manuscripts. TopEdit’s services include academic editing, translation, journal recommendation, publication support, personalized consultancy, and educational training. To ensure that authors receive personalized, professional assistance, TopEdit’s more than 3,000 academic editors are highly experienced and hold advanced academic degrees. The company specializes in a wide variety of professional fields, including clinical medicine, basic medicine, biology, chemistry, geosciences, physics, engineering machinery, humanities, and social sciences. TopEdit has partnerships with major publishing organizations and prestigious academic institutions in China and abroad to provide researchers with up-to-date, high-quality assistance in their publishing journey.
About Turnitin
Turnitin is a global company dedicated to ensuring the integrity of education and meaningfully improving learning outcomes. For more than 25 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Turnitin products are used by educational institutions and certification and licensing programs to uphold integrity and increase learning performance, and by students and professionals to do their best, original work.
Turnitin has offices in Australia, Germany, India, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Sweden, The United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States.Over 16,000 customers in 185 countries use Turnitin services: Gradescope by Turnitin, iThenticate, Turnitin Feedback Studio, Turnitin Originality, Turnitin Similarity, ExamSoft by Turnitin, ProctorExam and Ouriginal.
