Publishing Gateway partners with Global Campus on AI-powered reviewer discovery
Publishing Gateway has announced a partnership with AI-powered knowledge navigation platform Global Campus, aimed at improving peer reviewer discovery and speeding up scholarly publishing workflows.
The partnership will combine Publishing Gateway’s institutionally focused publishing workflow with Global Campus’ technology for identifying academic experts, reviewers and relevant journals.
A key focus will be peer reviewer identification, which can be a time-consuming part of the editorial process. Global Campus uses AI-based semantic matching to analyse research content and identify potentially relevant experts from its index of academic research, rather than relying primarily on keyword searches or citation-based metrics. The technology will be incorporated into Publishing Gateway’s workflow with the aim of helping institutions, publishers and researchers identify suitable reviewers more quickly.
Publishing Gateway says its platform provides publishers with visibility of the peer review process from article submission onwards, including reviewer identities, comments and author responses.
The companies said the partnership is intended to combine automated expert discovery with a more standardised institutional route through the publication process. Philipp Hess, CEO, Publishing Gateway, said: “Our mission is to give institutions and publishers a smarter, more standardised route to publication, and reviewer discovery has always been one of the hardest parts of that workflow to get right. Global Campus brings a depth of understanding to expert matching that complements everything we are building at Publishing Gateway, and together we can deliver an editorial process that genuinely serves the research community.”
Paul Tuinenburg, Director, Global Campus, added: “Keyword searches and citation counts have taken scholarly publishing as far as they can. What the sector needs now is a deeper understanding of content of who the right experts really are, and that is what we bring to this partnership. Combining our semantic AI with Publishing Gateway’s institutional workflow means smarter matches, faster decisions, and better outcomes for research.”