Open Journal Systems

What Open Journal Systems does

Open Journal Systems is a Phoenix, Arizona-based, privately-held for-profit technology company founded in 2013. Per firmographic data, the company operates with a headcount of 1-10 employees and is registered at openjournalsystems.com. The sole disclosed member of the leadership team is David Green, holding the CTO position (CXO-level), suggesting a technically-led but very small organizational footprint.

The company's product surface, technology stack, and go-to-market approach are not documented in the available source material. The api_details record explicitly indicates no public API exists, and there are no disclosed products, services, integrations, proprietary features, certifications, patents, or partnerships. The company's own website (openjournalsystems.com) renders only a verification/loader page ("One moment, please... Please wait while your request is being verified") rather than substantive commercial content, which limits external verification of the company's actual offerings. Notably, the company's name shares surface similarity with the well-known open-source Open Journal Systems (OJS) software maintained by the Public Knowledge Project, but the available data does not establish any relationship between this for-profit Phoenix entity and that academic publishing platform.

No revenue, funding, pricing, customer, or geographic-operations data is disclosed. Ownership structure (parent company, subsidiaries), legal entity name, app presence, and operating geographies are all unspecified in the source. For investment analysis, the company presents as an under-documented, micro-cap private entity with no verifiable commercial activity in the available dataset.

Name

Open Journal Systems

Website

https://openjournalsystems.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Open Journal Systems is a Phoenix-based, privately-held for-profit technology company founded in 2013 with 1-10 employees. Its products, customers, revenue, and technology stack are not disclosed in available source data, and its website renders only a verification/loader page.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Scholarly Publishing Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Periodical Publishers (513120)

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721)

akta.pro primary industry

Academic & Scholarly Journals Publishing (Peer-Reviewed) (MPAJABAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Open Access Scholarly Journals & Monographs (EDAGAFAJ), Open Educational Resources (OER) & Open Access Academic Publishing (MPAJABAG)

Keywords

• Scholarly publishing software
• Journal management platform
• Academic publishing technology
• Open access journals
• Editorial workflow software

Headquarters

HQ city

Phoenix

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations

Core offering

Based on available evidence, Open Journal Systems is a small Phoenix-based for-profit technology company founded in 2013. Its name implies technology products or services related to open journal management and scholarly publishing, but the company website does not render substantive product content, and no specific products, features, or service descriptions are disclosed in the source material.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Emerging players

• Open Academia / Scholastica: Provides hosted OJS journal management and peer-review tools aimed at smaller open access journals and university presses. Comparable as a closer-to-direct commercial peer offering managed journal platforms in the OJS-adjacent space.
• eLife: Open access journal publisher with a custom-built submission and review platform (eJournalPress-based / Libero). Comparable as an open access journal that has invested in proprietary journal technology.
• Frontiers: Large open access scholarly publisher using proprietary submission and review platforms. Comparable as an open access-native publisher/operator that has built its own technology stack rather than relying on OJS.
• PeerJ: Operates open access peer-reviewed journals in the sciences, publishing on its own platform rather than via OJS. Comparable as a tech-forward open access publisher illustrating the competitive end-state for vertically integrated players in this category.

Broad incumbents

• HighWire Press: Hosts and delivers scholarly journal content for society and university publishers, including platform and discovery services. Comparable as a long-standing host and platform provider for the same publisher customer base.
• Silverchair: Offers platform and hosting services for scholarly and professional society publishers, including journal and book workflows. Comparable as an established commercial peer serving society and specialty publishers with hosted journal management.
• Clarivate (ScholarOne Manuscripts): Operates ScholarOne Manuscripts, a widely used peer-review management platform for scholarly journals. Comparable as a large incumbent serving the same journal-publishing workflow segment the subject company targets.
• Atypon: Provides Literatum, a leading SaaS publishing platform for scholarly journals, books, and reference works used by major commercial and society publishers. Comparable as a much larger, established commercial alternative to open-source OJS for scholarly journal hosting.

Direct peers

• Aries Systems (Editorial Manager): Provides Editorial Manager and ProduXion Manager, dominant manuscript tracking and production workflow tools used by peer-reviewed scholarly journals. Comparable as a directly competing journal workflow vendor with deep penetration among established publishers.
• Public Knowledge Project (OJS): The maintainer of the open-source Open Journal Systems software at the core of the subject company's category. Directly comparable as the incumbent open-source journal management platform that any commercial offering in this space must differentiate against.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks6 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/openjournalsys

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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