Assessing journal legitimacy during literature reviews, publication venue selection, and citation verification requires consulting information scattered across multiple incompatible data-sets. This paper introduces Aletheia-Probe, an open-source tool that systematically aggregates curated databases and pattern analysis from multiple authoritative sources to provide transparent, confidence-scored journal assessments. The tool explicitly reports which sources were consulted, what each found, and where evidence conflicts. The tool integrates into research workflows through command-line and programmatic interfaces. It reduces manual assessment overhead while explicitly flagging uncertain cases. We present the tool's architecture, core design principles, and practical integration approach. Comprehensive empirical validation will be presented in forthcoming work.
翻译:在文献综述、发表渠道选择及引证核查过程中,评估期刊的正当性需要查阅分散于多个互不兼容数据集中的信息。本文介绍Aletheia-Probe,一种通过系统聚合来自多个权威来源的精选数据库与模式分析,以提供透明且带有置信度评分的期刊评估的开源工具。该工具明确报告所查询的来源、各来源的发现以及证据冲突之处。该工具通过命令行与程序化接口集成至研究流程中,在显著降低人工评估开销的同时,明确标记不确定案例。本文阐述了该工具的架构、核心设计原则及实际集成方法。全面的实证验证将在后续工作中呈现。