What eJournalPress does

eJournalPress is a private, for-profit software company founded in 1999 and headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, that builds web-based workflow technology for the scholarly publishing industry. The company serves scientific, technical, medical, and engineering (STM&E) journal publishers and scientific societies, offering three tightly integrated products: EJPress (online manuscript submission and peer review), JPS (Journal Production System for production tracking from copyediting to online publication), and BPS (Billing Payment System for fee calculation, invoicing, and payment collection). EJPress is licensed under US Patent 7,620,555B1, which covers the automated peer review workflow from submission through acceptance.

The platform is built on a single codebase shared across all customers and customized through 5,000–8,000+ configuration flags, allowing each journal to tune roles, terminology, workflows, notifications, and vendor integrations without forking. New functionality is delivered through eleven code releases per year under a "Continuous Innovative Process" in which features are customer-driven and R&D costs are shared across the installed base. The single-codebase architecture is paired with individualized implementation services — each setup includes 24 hours of structured consulting time split across training, configuration, and data loading — making the product highly sticky once deployed.

eJournalPress monetizes through multi-year software subscriptions bundled with setup and configuration services, with additional custom coding available at standard development rates. Go-to-market is consultative enterprise field sales, with prospects engaging via [email protected], a direct phone line, scheduled demonstrations, and roadmap webinars. The customer base includes marquee publishers and societies such as JAMA Network, PNAS, Nature Publishing Group, AACR, AHA, eLife, AIP, AGU, SIAM, and the Society for Neuroscience. The company operates with 11–50 employees, has never raised external capital per the available data, and is led by CEO Joel Plotkin.

Name

eJournalPress

Legal name

eJournalPress

Website

https://ejpress.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

eJournalPress is a Rockville, Maryland-based software company that provides web-based manuscript submission, peer review, production tracking, and billing workflow systems to scientific, technical, medical, and engineering journal publishers and societies. Founded in 1999, it serves enterprise customers including JAMA Network, PNAS, and Nature Publishing Group via a subscription model with deep per-journal customization.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Editorial Workflow Software for Scholarly Publishing

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Scholarly Societies & Conference Proceedings Publishing (MPAJABAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Open Access Scholarly Journals & Monographs (EDAGAFAJ), Digital Publishing Creation & Formatting Tools (EPUB, conversion, layout) (MPAJAMAG)

Keywords

• Scholarly publishing software
• Peer review systems
• Manuscript tracking software
• Journal production workflows
• Scientific publishing platforms

Headquarters

HQ city

Rockville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Software Subscription/License: eJournalPress provides customizable software products (EJPress, JPS, BPS) to scientific, technical, medical, and engineering publications. Revenue is generated through software licensing or subscription fees with setup and configuration services included.
2. Professional Services (Implementation & Customization): 24 hours of consulting time included in setup fees for EJPress and JPS systems, with 8 hours each allocated for training, configuration, and data loading. Custom coding and additional enhancements available at standard development rates.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

eJournalPress develops and licenses web-based software for the scholarly publishing community, providing customizable online manuscript submission, peer review, journal production tracking, and billing systems. Its three core products — EJPress (peer review), JPS (production tracking), and BPS (billing and payment) — together cover the full editorial-to-production workflow for scientific, technical, medical, and engineering journals and the societies that publish them.

Product overview

eJournalPress offers a unified platform consisting of three integrated products: EJPress (online manuscript submission and peer review system), JPS (Journal Production System for production tracking), and BPS (Billing Payment System). These products work together to provide a comprehensive solution from the beginning of the editorial process (manuscript submission and peer review) through production tracking to billing and payment collection. The company employs a continuous innovation approach with eleven code releases per year, using a single codebase with over 8,000 configuration flags allowing customization for each customer's needs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• EJPress Online manuscript submission and peer review system that facilitates the editorial process from manuscript submission through acceptance for scientific, technical, medical, and engineering journals. Features 5,000+ configuration flags for workflow, roles, terminology, and notification customization, patented automated workflow technology, configurable reports and letters, and online collection and tracking of customized disclosure and copyright forms. Includes 24 hours of consulting time in the setup fee covering training, configuration, and data loading.
• Journal Production System (JPS) Customizable production tracking workflow engine that supports both article-based and issue-based publication models and addresses every step in a journal's production tracking process from copyediting through export for posting on an online publishing platform. Tailorable per publication to roles, vendors, and email templates, with seamless data and file flow from EJPress peer review sites via import/export to external vendors. Includes 24 hours of consulting time in the setup fee covering training, configuration, and data loading.
• Billing Payment System (BPS) Full billing workflow engine for journal operations that can be tightly integrated with JPS or used as a standalone system. Facilitates fee calculation, discount application, invoice creation, and payment collection, with support for fee types such as open access fees, color charges, page charges, and figure alterations. Designed to be fully automated for seamless invoice creation and payment collection.

Quantifiable outcome

• Eleven code releases per year ensuring continuous improvement and up-to-date functionality
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers15 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Aries Systems (Editorial Manager): Aries Systems' Editorial Manager is the leading direct competitor to EJPress for online manuscript submission and peer review in the STM journal market, serving a similar set of publishers and societies with comparable workflow functionality.
• Clarivate (ScholarOne Manuscripts): ScholarOne is a flagship peer review and manuscript management platform owned by Clarivate, competing head-to-head with EJPress for STM journal publishers and offering broader analytics and metadata capabilities.
• Manuscript Manager: Manuscript Manager provides online submission and peer review systems for scholarly journals, directly competing with EJPress in the same STM and society-publisher segment with a similar feature set.
• River Valley Technologies: River Valley provides editorial and production workflow tools (e.g., Editorial, ProduXion Manager) for scholarly publishers that directly overlap with EJPress and JPS in STM society journals.

Emerging players

• Kriyadocs: Kriyadocs offers an AI-enabled scholarly publishing platform spanning submission, peer review, production, and distribution, overlapping with EJPress and JPS for newer and mid-sized publishers adopting modern cloud-native stacks.
• Pensoft (ARPHA Publishing Platform): Pensoft's ARPHA platform is an end-to-end publishing platform with built-in peer review and production workflow, increasingly adopted by open access journals that might otherwise license EJPress and JPS.
• Inera (eXtyles): Inera's eXtyles is an editorial production and XML authoring tool that competes with portions of the JPS production tracking workflow, particularly at the copyediting and typesetting stage.

Broad incumbents

• HighWire Press: HighWire, a subsidiary of MPS Limited, hosts and delivers scholarly journal content for many of the same society publishers that eJournalPress serves, providing a broader content delivery and hosting stack that competes at the platform level.
• Silverchair: Silverchair provides an integrated platform for scholarly society publishers covering hosting, workflow, and discovery, competing with the combined EJPress+JPS stack for society journals seeking a single-vendor solution.

Others

• Cactus Communications (Editage): Editage provides scientific editing, publication support, and related technology services to STM authors and publishers; while not a direct platform competitor, it is an adjacent ecosystem participant that interacts with EJPress-implemented journals.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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