Prophy announced its integration with ScholarOne Manuscripts through the Silverchair Universe program. Publishers using ScholarOne can now access Prophy's Referee Finder directly within their editorial workflows, bringing AI-powered reviewer discovery to one of the most widely used manuscript management systems in scholarly publishing.
The integration addresses a challenge that editors face daily: finding qualified reviewers quickly while maintaining diversity and avoiding conflicts of interest. With manuscript volumes rising and reviewer fatigue increasing across disciplines, editorial teams need better tools to identify experts efficiently.
As a leading independent platform partner for scholarly and professional publishers, Silverchair has built ScholarOne to be open and interoperable. This integration with Prophy exemplifies that commitment, connecting Prophy's scientific intelligence capabilities with Silverchair's editorial workflow infrastructure.
Editors working in ScholarOne Manuscripts can now use Prophy's Referee Finder without leaving their workflow. The integration works through ScholarOne's Relay API, enabling real-time access to reviewer recommendations based on semantic analysis of manuscript content.
Publishers who contract with Prophy will be able to:
Prophy was founded in 2018 by physics professors who understood the complexity of modern scientific peer review. We built our platform specifically for scientific assessment, not as a general-purpose AI tool adapted to publishing. This focus on scientific rigor aligns naturally with Silverchair's commitment to building platforms across the publishing lifecycle—from idea to impact.
Our Referee Finder maintains up-to-date profiles for published scientists worldwide and applies a scientific semantic ontology covering more than 170,000 research concepts. This allows us to understand manuscripts at a deeper level than keyword matching, capturing the actual structure and language researchers use.
We support millions of confidential evaluations across more than 30 countries, working with major commercial publishers, societies, university presses, and public research funders including top national funding agencies, the European Research Council, and leading scholarly publishers. Our clients trust us to find the right experts, even in highly specialized or interdisciplinary fields.
We designed Prophy to work the way editors work. The platform provides recommendations with clear explanations, not black-box results. Every suggestion includes:
All processing happens in secure environments with privacy-first design. We understand that manuscript content is confidential, and we treat it that way.
"This integration brings Prophy's trusted reviewer-matching capabilities directly into ScholarOne, enabling our academic partners to expand their use of Prophy within established editorial workflows," said Prof. Oleg Ruchayskiy, CEO and co-founder of Prophy. "We're proud to support the growing need for high-quality peer review among scholarly publishers and grateful for the collaboration with Silverchair that made this possible."
Hannah Heckner Swain, VP of Strategic Partnerships at Silverchair, commented: "Finding the right reviewers is one of the most time-consuming aspects of managing peer review. We've purposefully designed our platforms to be open and interoperable, and the Relay API exemplifies this commitment. By enabling seamless integration with innovative tools like Prophy, we're helping our publishers address real pain points while maintaining complete flexibility in choosing the solutions that work best for their unique needs."
Silverchair's platform serves a growing community of scholarly and professional publishers through flexible technology and services that facilitate submission, peer review, hosting, dissemination, and impact measurement. Prophy's integration extends these capabilities by adding specialized AI for reviewer discovery.
From highly technical manuscripts to emerging interdisciplinary research, Prophy provides reviewer matching that adapts to each organization's policies and workflows. We work with publishers managing dozens of journals and funders evaluating thousands of proposals annually.
The platform scales to handle growing submission volumes while maintaining the precision editors need. And because we integrate directly with ScholarOne through Silverchair's infrastructure, there's no disruption to existing workflows.
Prophy joins a growing roster of Silverchair Universe partners providing enhanced capabilities across the publishing lifecycle. Publishers interested in activating Prophy for their ScholarOne Manuscripts sites can contact their ScholarOne account manager or email s1help@silverchair.com.
For more information about Prophy's Referee Finder and integration capabilities, visit www.prophy.ai or contact our team directly at info@prophy.ai.
To learn more about becoming a Silverchair Universe partner, email universe@silverchair.com or visit www.silverchair.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements about product integration and capabilities. Actual features and availability may vary by publisher agreement.