PROPHY REFEREE FINDER
Every referee, ranked and explained
60M+ researchers, ranked by semantic match to your manuscript or proposal — with conflicts of interest flagged and every candidate explained.
What Referee Finder does
Semantic matching, conflict detection, and explainability — across your pool or ours.
AI reads the meaning of manuscripts and proposals to find referees who actually understand them — not just keyword matches.
Co-authorship, shared affiliations, and institutional links detected automatically — across name variants and languages.
Bring your own reviewer pool and we'll enrich every name with rankings, publication history, and COI flags — or draw from 60M+ researchers. Use yours, ours, or both.
Each referee comes with their most relevant articles, the reasoning behind the match, and contact info — one click away.
REFEREE FINDER
Diversity and control you can defend
- Balance gender, geography, seniority, and industry in every shortlist.
- Include academic, medical, and industry experts — or restrict to the pool you choose.
- Proper experts for each topic of an interdisciplinary manuscript or proposal.
- Every discipline covered: from physical and life sciences to social sciences and humanities.
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Fits where you already work
- Publishers: integrate with your editorial management system — referee shortlists appear inside the tool your editors already use.
- Funders: connect to your grant-management platform, distribute proposals across panels, and track assignments.
- API access for custom workflows.
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Privacy and compliance, by design
- Your manuscripts and proposals are stored securely, separately from other documents, with a proper lifecycle.
- Fine-grained access control.
- Documents may never leave your premises — only non-human-readable fingerprints are sent to Prophy.
What our clients say
Dr. Veronika Schöpf
Head of department of natural sciences and technology
Prophy helps us and our board members to identify and select reviewers for research proposals. Especially for interdisciplinary research proposals Prophy has shown to be a great asset. The finding process is fast and convenient and comparison between suggested reviewers is a huge advantage.
Dr. Martine Vernooij
ETH Zurich. Office of Research
Prophy provides a very good basis to find appropriate peer reviewers for the evaluation of applications to our internal funding instruments and saves us a lot of time.
Frequently asked questions
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- What subjects do you cover?
- Physical sciences and engineering, life sciences and medicine, social sciences, economics, and humanities.
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- My subject is not covered — can you help?
- Yes, we have both the tools and the experience to expand into new domains quickly.
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- Our articles or proposals are multi-disciplinary — can you provide experts for each topic?
- Yes. Advanced settings let you choose which topics to analyze and we'll rank experts for each.
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- What if an author is not active anymore?
- We don't propose authors who haven't published in the last two years. You can also report an author as inactive.
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- Can we analyze only people from our own list?
- Yes. We can restrict suggestions to the pool you provide, or combine yours with our 60M+ researchers.
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- We already have a long history of choosing referees — can we use that somehow?
- Yes. We adjust rankings based on additional information you provide (availability, promptness, quality of refereeing, etc.).
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- Do you detect conflicts of interest when affiliations are written in different forms and languages?
- Yes. Our AI matches EPFL with École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CERN with European Organization for Nuclear Research, Bohr Inst. with Niels Bohr Institute (part of Copenhagen University), and so on.
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- We have strict privacy rules and cannot share our papers — can we still use Referee Finder?
- Yes. We provide a tool that creates non-human-readable fingerprints of your documents on your premises. You retain full control over what is transferred to Prophy.
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- What's your approach to security?
- Security is a first-class concern. Our practices are aligned with ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2. We run continuous vulnerability scanning, require security training for all staff, and commission regular third-party penetration tests. If you need further detail for a vendor security review, our team is happy to walk you through our controls.