For publishers and funders evaluating reviewer-finding tools

A wider, conflict-checked reviewer pool than enterprise tools or spreadsheets

Clarivate Reviewer Connect, Publons, an outsourced service, or a spreadsheet? See how Prophy compares: automated reviewer matching with conflict-of-interest checks built in, across 60M+ author profiles.

Used by 70+ research funders and scientific publishers, including:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Dutch Research Council (NWO)
FNRS
European Innovation Council (EIC)
Oxford University Press
SAGE Publishing
Taylor & Francis
The Royal Society

How Prophy compares to the alternatives

Most editorial teams and grant offices arrive from one of four ways of finding reviewers. Here is what Prophy replaces, and with what.

Instead of

Enterprise reviewer tools

Clarivate Reviewer Connect, Web of Science Reviewer Locator, Interfolio. Built for publishers who struggle with enterprise tools that lack a usable interface, and for funders weighed down by cumbersome suites. Prophy automates matching and detects conflicts inline, without the enterprise learning curve.

Instead of

Manual search and spreadsheets

For teams managing peer review by hand, Prophy offers semantic search and monitoring over millions of researcher profiles with AI matching. The result is consistent, high-quality reviewer selection at a scale handwork cannot match.

Instead of

Outdated citation databases

Scopus, Web of Science, Publons, Dimensions. Local databases age between updates. Prophy provides an extensive, continuously maintained pool, including reviewers at 4–10 years of academic age, for access to a larger, current set of experts.

Instead of

Outsourced reviewer services

For teams relying on unpredictable outsourcing, Prophy provides immediate identification and flagging of potential conflicts of interest during reviewer selection, in-house. That improves credibility and reputation.

See the comparison on your own submissions.

We'll run Prophy against a manuscript or proposal you bring and show how the matches and conflict flags compare to your current tool.

Confidentiality

The one comparison no enterprise tool makes

Some teams are building in-house reviewer tools on general-purpose generative AI, feeding confidential manuscripts and proposals into systems that may train on the input. Prophy took a different decision.

  • Prophy matches experts using unique non-human-readable digital fingerprints of texts. Submissions are processed as fingerprints for retrieval and matching, not read by a general-purpose model and not used to train one.
  • Transparency you can audit, not an opaque service: analysis of co-authorship and co-affiliation makes every reviewer choice defensible to your board or auditors.

Questions evaluators ask

How is Prophy different from Clarivate Reviewer Connect or Web of Science Reviewer Locator?

Prophy is a focused reviewer-finding tool, not an enterprise suite: it automates semantic matching and flags conflicts inline, without the training-heavy interface or enterprise-suite overhead.

We use Publons / Web of Science for reviewers — why switch?

Static citation databases age between updates and miss recently active and early-career experts. Prophy queries a continuously maintained pool, so you reach reviewers a static database has not indexed yet.

Does it integrate with our EMS/GMS?

Yes. Prophy connects to ScholarOne, Editorial Manager (Aries), eJournal Press, and grant-management systems via API, so suggestions land in the workflow you already run.

How is our data handled — and do you train on it?

Your data belongs to you, and you can delete it at any time or set up lifecycle rules. We also don't train any models on your data.

How defensible is the conflict-of-interest and diversity output?

Every choice carries its co-authorship / co-affiliation basis and an exportable record: the audit trail boards and procurement ask for.

How does buying work — and what does it cost?

Pricing maps to institutional and public-procurement norms; we'll walk you through what fits your volume rather than point you at a self-serve tier.

Contact us

Together we can carefully pick the best solution for you.
Or you can just drop us an email to info@prophy.ai