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🔥 Score 47.5
authentication • Confidence 38%

PaperProof: Authorship Verification Engine

Academic communities face rampant fake authorship that slips through manual checks, eroding trust and skewing conference outcomes. PaperProof automates identity and reputation validation, cross‑referencing authorship data to flag and prevent fraudulent submissions in real time.

Quantitative Score Breakdown

complaint frequency
1.5
growth rate
9
competition density
10.5
monetization potential
14.25
technical feasibility
7.5
search interest
4.8

Evidence Signal (1)

Raw Posts
hn • r/hackernews

Comment on: I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals

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