Prophy Partners with Pensoft and ARPHA to Bring AI-Powered Reviewer Discovery to 90+ Journals

Scholarly publishing is evolving, and peer review is at the center of that transformation. Today, Prophy announces a strategic partnership with Pensoft and their ARPHA Platform, delivering intelligent reviewer discovery to editorial teams across more than 90 open-access journals.

Manuscript submissions are growing faster than the reviewer pool. Editors face an increasingly urgent dilemma: invite the same overworked experts repeatedly, accept longer review cycles, or risk missing qualified researchers who simply aren't on their radar. The result? Delays, reviewer fatigue, and a peer review ecosystem that struggles to scale sustainably.

Our integration connects ARPHA's editorial workflows with Prophy's database of millions of active researchers worldwide. Editorial teams can now opt to receive intelligent, data-driven recommendations based on semantic analysis of publication history, expertise, and research focus, matched precisely to each manuscript's topic and field.

"We're excited to work with Pensoft and ARPHA to bring smarter reviewer discovery to their editorial teams. Peer review should be efficient and fair, and this partnership helps with both. Editors can find the right expertise faster, which means less time searching and fewer delays. This integration helps editorial teams manage growing submission volumes without burning out their reviewer networks."

– Oleg Ruchayskiy, CEO of Prophy.

"By working with Prophy, we're helping editors discover expertise that might otherwise be overlooked, opening the door to a more inclusive, well-distributed, and resilient peer review ecosystem. This is about using technology not to replace human judgment, but to support it in a smarter and more responsible way."

 – Prof. Dr. Lyubomir Penev, founder and CEO of Pensoft and ARPHA.

Partnership Impact

The integration is available now across ARPHA's network of peer-reviewed journals spanning biodiversity, earth sciences, environmental research, and beyond.

To accelerate adoption and support editorial teams, Pensoft and ARPHA are offering the Prophy integration free of charge through the end of 2026.

To get started, chief editors and managing editors at ARPHA journals can activate the integration by contacting their ARPHA team. The service is available free of charge through the end of 2026.