Prophy Referee Finder ranks reviewer candidates for a manuscript or grant proposal by semantic relevance, reading the meaning of the document. Each candidate comes with relevant articles, the reasoning for the match and contact details, and the tool draws on more than 104 million researcher profiles. Co-authorship, shared affiliations and institutional links are flagged automatically as conflicts of interest, including across name variants and languages, and users can exclude authors with retracted articles. Users can filter by gender, geography, seniority and industry, and can search their own reviewer lists, Prophy’s pool or both. It integrates with ScholarOne Manuscripts, Aries Editorial Manager and eJournalPress, or through an API.
Benefits & outcomes
- Prophy says it is used by more than 70 research funders and scientific publishers.
Notes & quotes
- “Prophy provides a very good basis to find appropriate peer reviewers.” Dr Martine Vernooij, ETH Zurich Office of Research.
- “Prophy helps us and our board members to identify and select reviewers for research proposals.” Dr Veronika Schöpf, Head of department of natural sciences and technology.
Publisher / company: Prophy
Date of case study: Not stated
Status: Live
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