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A scientific writing assistant from Cactus Communications: edits manuscript language for an academic tone, finds sources, and checks for borrowed text. Built around submitting a manuscript to a journal.
Facts
- The product's legal entity is Cactus Communications Services Pte Ltd, Singapore; the company has worked in scientific publishing for more than 24 years (paperpal.com, Aug 19, 2026).
- Claims more than 5 million researcher users, representatives from 200+ universities, and checks against the requirements of 1500+ journals (paperpal.com, Aug 19, 2026).
- Paraphrasing draws on a corpus of 250+ million academic papers, while the citation generator supports over 10,000 citation styles (paperpal.com, Aug 19, 2026).
- Works in MS Word, Google Docs, Overleaf, and as a Chrome extension; the extension publisher in the Chrome Web Store is Cactus Communications Services Pte Ltd (paperpal.com; Chrome Web Store, Aug 19, 2026).
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