Comment by captn3m0

Elizabeth Bik (who is known for submitting such reports to journals) has a nice interview about this problem[0], which covers software as well.

> After I raised my concerns about 4% of papers having image problems, some other journals upped their game and have hired people to look for these things. This is still mainly being done I believe by humans, but there is now software on the market that is being tested by some publishers to screen all incoming manuscripts. The software will search for duplications but can also search for duplicated elements of photos against a database of many papers, so it’s not just screening within a paper or across two papers or so, but it is working with a database to potentially find many more examples of duplications. I believe one of the software packages that is being tested is Proofig.

Proofig makes a lot of claims but they also list a lot of journals: https://www.proofig.com/

[0]: https://thepublicationplan.com/2022/11/29/spotting-fake-imag...