Prophy blog
Analysis, implementation guides and webinar recaps from the team that builds Prophy.
Peer review & publishing
Desk rejection means an editor declines a manuscript before peer review. What it is, why journals do it, and who should make the call.
9 min read
Peer review & publishing
How long does peer review take? Sourced ranges by field, where the weeks go, and why time to first decision is a weak measure of review.
8 min read
Product & company
Prophy's Referee Finder is now available to ScholarOne Manuscripts clients through Silverchair Universe, with the reasoning behind every recommendation.
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Webinars & events
A Prophy Predicts recap: four experts, including Prophy's own CEO, on who should, and shouldn't, build the tools science runs on.
8 min read
Webinars & events
Four publishing practitioners predict where journals, books, and AI fit in scholarly publishing over the next 2-5 years—from a live Prophy Predicts panel.
6 min read
Webinars & events
Prophy’s Dr. Oleg Ruchayskiy will moderate “Publishing 3.0” at the 48th SSP Annual Meeting on the future of peer review, AI, and research integrity.
3 min read
Product & company
Postmortem of the May 2026 outages: a slow Referee Finder search query and a web-server deadlock combined. What happened and what we changed.
6 min read
Research integrity
The AI disclosure gap in academic publishing is widening. Here's what's driving it—and what publishers can do about it.
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Webinars & events
Gareth Dyke of Prophy joined the R2R 2026 panel in London to discuss what researchers actually want from peer review–the Researcher to Reader 2026 Recap.
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Webinars & events
Four panelists on the future of academic assessment: impact factor limits, AI disclosure gaps, trust signals and Goodhart's Law. A Prophy Predicts recap.
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Research integrity
Learn how modern peer review systems protect research integrity through automated conflict detection, diverse reviewer pools, and transparent AI tools.
8 min read
Research integrity
Research integrity and peer review have always been linked—but modern threats now demand defenses that sit upstream of the review process itself.
7 min read
Webinars & events
Four publishing experts predict the biggest research integrity threats of the next five years. Paper mills, AI-generated content, citation fraud, and more.
8 min read
Product & company
Prophy and Pensoft bring AI-powered reviewer discovery to editors across more than 90 open-access journals on the ARPHA Platform.
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Peer review & publishing
A publisher's guide to implementing AI peer review: how it works, integration, KPIs to track and what changes in practice for editorial teams.
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Product & company
Prophy's Referee Finder now integrates with ScholarOne Manuscripts, bringing AI-powered reviewer discovery to publishers through Silverchair Universe.
4 min read
Peer review & publishing
Discover how near-real-time updates help scientific publishers find emerging peer reviewers faster and more accurately than static reviewer databases.
6 min read
Peer review & publishing
What changes when publishers move from enterprise tools to Prophy: reviewer search time down about 70%, conflict detection and six-month results.
7 min read
Peer review & publishing
Why do peer review invitations get ignored? Learn how to improve acceptance rates through smarter targeting and personalization in the peer review process.
8 min read
Peer review & publishing
Fast peer review without sacrificing quality: how publishers and funding agencies cut reviewer selection time by 40-80%, and what the gain depends on.
5 min read
Peer review & publishing
Exponential field growth and interdisciplinary research expose peer review's limits. Learn how semantic technology helps publishers find expert reviewers.
7 min read
Peer review & publishing
ChatGPT can't verify reviewers, detect conflicts or explain its suggestions. See why publishers and funders need AI built for peer review decisions.
7 min read
Research funding
A practical roadmap for funding agencies adopting AI-driven reviewer selection, from first demo to full deployment, with timelines and success metrics.
8 min read
Peer review & publishing
Essential KPIs for evaluating AI-powered reviewer selection: response times, quality metrics, technical requirements & implementation success factors.
4 min read
Peer review & publishing
A practical guide to AI in peer review for publishers: organizational readiness, technical integration and workflow fit without disrupting editors.
8 min read
Research integrity
How to keep human judgment, transparency and bias checks in AI-assisted peer review, and the ethical questions publishers face when adopting it.
5 min read
Peer review & publishing
How academic publishers are solving the 2025 peer review crisis with AI technology. Transform reviewer shortages and editorial challenges into competitive advantages.
4 min read
Peer review & publishing
How Prophy keeps editors in control of AI peer review. At one client, knowledge-mismatch rejections fell from 8% to 2% with human-AI collaboration.
4 min read
Peer review & publishing
Why academic publishers resist AI adoption: editors who love demos, procurement teams that fear them, and the signs an organization is ready.
5 min read
Product & company
How Prophy's recommendation engine turns a manuscript into ranked reviewers, from PDF upload to semantic matching across millions of researcher profiles.
5 min read
Research funding
Grant review taking weeks instead of days? Discover 5 red flags that signal your process needs modernization - plus real solutions from leading agencies
5 min read
Product & company
Learn how customer feedback drives scientific software development at Prophy. From search rebuilds to feature prioritization frameworks that work.
4 min read
Peer review & publishing
Publisher and funding agency reactions to Referee Finder demos: relevant reviewers, conflict checks and diversity filters in under a minute.
4 min read
Peer review & publishing
Why peer review tools can wait six months for internal approval after a successful demo, and how aligning legal, procurement and end users speeds it up.
6 min read
Research integrity
Why adding conflict-of-interest filtering to a peer review API exposed hidden complexity, and how a phased rebuild made conflict detection consistent.
5 min read
Peer review & publishing
Lessons from integrating peer review tools with your editorial or peer review management system: API insights, debugging and workflow tips for publishers.
10 min read
Peer review & publishing
How Prophy's Referee Finder recommends experts from millions of articles while people make the final call, and why the price of error matters.
2 min read
Product & company
How Prophy's similarity scoring ranks peer reviewers by their most relevant papers, not publication volume, and why author position stays out of the score.
7 min read
Peer review & publishing
Scientific publishers face a breaking point with 6-month peer review cycles. Learn how to solve speed-quality challenges reducing peer review time by 60%.
5 min read
Peer review & publishing
Oleg Ruchayskiy at the Perimeter Institute Theory + AI Symposium: blockchain attribution, AI 'golems' for papers and recognition for peer review.
4 min read
Peer review & publishing
How AI-powered reviewer search changes peer review economics: the hidden cost structure, four value pillars and how to turn benefits into metrics.
5 min read
Research integrity
Learn how modern peer review systems use author identification and statistical modeling to detect conflicts of interest and ensure objective manuscript evaluation.
7 min read
Peer review & publishing
Why finding peer reviewers is slow, and how semantic search helps publishers and funding agencies find better reviewers faster.
7 min read
Research funding
How funding agencies can balance fundamental and applied research, invest in infrastructure and use AI-assisted evaluation to maximize scientific impact.
6 min read
Product & company
How two physicists' frustration with paper discovery tools grew from a 2009 academic project into Prophy, and how it helps researchers find expertise.
4 min read
Research funding
How Prophy's semantic search helps grant agencies find qualified peer reviewers by matching specialized expertise to research proposals.
6 min read
Peer review & publishing
How Prophy's CTO built semantic search for scientific text: abbreviations, speed and use cases, from matching ERC grant proposals to finding reviewers.
6 min read
Peer review & publishing
How AI-powered matching connects manuscripts with the right experts, detects conflicts of interest and widens reviewer diversity, with editors in the loop.
5 min read
Peer review & publishing
How AI in academic publishing speeds reviewer selection, flags conflicts of interest and supports research integrity, with editors keeping the final say.
4 min read
Peer review & publishing
Discover why 53% of scientific papers go uncited. New analysis of 172M papers reveals a crisis in research visibility. Learn what this means for science.
3 min read
Peer review & publishing
The future of peer review reimagined: Learn how AI and human expertise work together to create a more efficient scholarly publishing ecosystem.
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Peer review & publishing
Explore how diversity in peer review is affecting scientific publishing. Improve research with Prophy's guide to IDEA principles.
2 min read
Peer review & publishing
Watch an expert panel on applying diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (IDEA) principles in peer review, with practical strategies for editors.
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Product & company
How Our AI Streamlines the Peer Review Process Trends for now: At Prophy, our mission is to enhance…
2 min read
Peer review & publishing
An expert panel on AI in peer review: faster, more transparent evaluation, algorithmic bias, overreliance on AI and ethics. Watch the full recording.
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Product & company
Welcome to Prophy! In today’s video, we’ll guide you through our comprehensive Prophy Referee Finder tool, designed to…
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Product & company
No need to struggle with multiple tabs anymore as we are introducing ‘Article Extended’ view and ‘Author Popover’.…
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Webinars & events
As we dive into #PeerReviewWeek, we wanted to shed light on the evolving landscape of academic publishing. Our…
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Product & company
Prophy and ReviewerCredits pair AI-powered reviewer matching with a pool of vetted, verified peer reviewers and reward researchers for their reviews.
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