ScholarOne

What ScholarOne does

ScholarOne is a suite of workflow platforms for scholarly publishers, operating as a product line of Silverchair (founded 1993, headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware). The suite comprises ScholarOne Manuscripts — a peer-review and manuscript submission system launched in 1999 that the company states processes more than half the world's scholarly output — and ScholarOne Conferences, launched in 2010 to manage conference-abstract workflows for scholarly societies and associations. The platform is delivered as enterprise SaaS, sold on subscription to academic, medical, scientific, and engineering publishers who license it to manage editorial workflows for thousands of journals and millions of researchers, reviewers, and editors globally.

The underlying technology is the Silverchair Platform, which hosts the ScholarOne applications and an integration network called the Silverchair Universe that connects editorial systems with downstream publishing and discovery tools. The company has established a ScholarOne AI Lab to develop and embed machine-learning capabilities into editorial workflows, and has partnered with Oxford University Press on Sensus Impact, a research impact assessment offering. The stated development model for AI is client-led and iterative rather than research-led.

The go-to-market is direct enterprise sales to scholarly publishers and societies — academic presses, medical associations, scientific societies, and engineering bodies — under multi-year subscription contracts. Documented customers include AACR, American Diabetes Association, ASME, Company of Biologists, Duke University Press, GeoScienceWorld, JAMA Network, MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Portland Press, Rockefeller University Press, and the Society of Petroleum Engineers. Revenue mechanics are recurring subscription-based with no disclosed usage-based or transaction components.

Name

ScholarOne

Legal name

Silverchair

Website

https://scholarone.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

ScholarOne, a Silverchair product suite, provides enterprise SaaS for manuscript submission, peer review, and conference management, serving scholarly publishers and academic societies worldwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Scholarly Publishing Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210), Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (5192), Libraries and Archives (519210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721)

akta.pro primary industry

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

akta.pro secondary industries

Scholarly Societies & Conference Proceedings Publishing (MPAJABAK), Digital Library & Electronic Resources Operations (e-Resources, Repositories, Licensing) (EDAEAGAF)

Keywords

• Scholarly publishing software
• Manuscript management systems
• Peer review workflow
• Conference management software
• Journal hosting platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Charlottesville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Platform/Subscription Licensing: Subscription-based licensing of the ScholarOne Manuscripts platform to scholarly publishers. The platform supports publishers across the research lifecycle from submission to publication.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

ScholarOne provides cloud-based software solutions for scholarly and professional publishers, encompassing manuscript submission management, peer review workflow, research integrity checks, journal content hosting, and conference event management. The product suite spans The Silverchair Platform for content hosting, ScholarOne Manuscripts for submission and peer review workflow, ScholarOne Conferences for event management, and the AI Lab initiative for iterative AI tool development across the publishing lifecycle.

Product overview

ScholarOne operates as part of Silverchair's unified platform-plus-modules architecture. The core offering consists of The Silverchair Platform for content hosting, supplemented by ScholarOne Manuscripts (submission and peer review workflow management) and ScholarOne Conferences (event management). AI capabilities are embedded across the product suite through The AI Lab, which develops tools iteratively with clients to solve real problems in the scholarly publishing ecosystem.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ScholarOne Manuscripts: Comprehensive workflow management solution for manuscript submission, peer review, and research integrity checks, used by millions of researchers, reviewers, and editors worldwide.
• ScholarOne Conferences
• The Silverchair Platform
• The AI Lab

Products and services

• The Silverchair Platform Core content hosting platform for scholarly publishers, providing best-in-class hosting for all content types publishers need to diversify their publishing strategy.
• ScholarOne Manuscripts Comprehensive manuscript submission and peer review workflow management solution used by millions of researchers, reviewers, and editors worldwide for 25 years, processing more than half the world's scholarly output with built-in research integrity checks.
• ScholarOne Conferences Event management technology for scholarly publishers and associations, streamlining meetings and adding efficiencies to conference operations.
• The AI Lab AI tools development initiative embedded across Silverchair products to solve real problems in the scholarly publishing ecosystem through iterative client collaboration.

Quantifiable outcome

• 70% reduction in journal management burden

Named customers12 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

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Sensus Consortium (Oxford University Press, funders)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOxford University Press and Silverchair engage in the Sensus Impact initiative to enhance the ability of funders and publishers to showcase and assess the impact of funded research, increasing transparency in academic publishing.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Clarivate: Clarivate offers scholarly publishing workflow tools and research analytics (including historical lineage to ScholarOne), operating broader research-information services that overlap with adjacent workflow categories.
• Wiley: Wiley owns Atypon and operates significant scholarly publishing operations, competing with ScholarOne in platform services while also being a potential customer of workflow and integrity tooling.
• Elsevier (RELX): Elsevier operates a vast portfolio of scholarly publishing services and owns Aries Systems (Editorial Manager), making it both a workflow competitor to ScholarOne and a publisher customer of similar platforms.
• Springer Nature: Springer Nature is a major scholarly publisher with proprietary submission and peer review infrastructure, an incumbent operating across the same publishing workflow and content hosting space.

Direct peers

• HighWire Press: HighWire Press provides digital publishing platforms and workflow tools for scholarly journals, historically a direct peer in journal hosting and content delivery now part of the MPS scholarly ecosystem.
• Atypon: Atypon provides content hosting and publishing platforms for scholarly publishers (now owned by Wiley), directly competing with the Silverchair Platform across journal hosting and content delivery.
• Aries Systems (Editorial Manager): Aries Systems, an Elsevier company, provides Editorial Manager — the most direct head-to-head competitor to ScholarOne Manuscripts in submission and peer review workflow management for scholarly publishers.

Emerging players

• Frontiers: Frontiers operates a peer review platform with proprietary workflow tooling for open-access journals, an emerging alternative to traditional submission and review platforms.
• PLOS (Public Library of Science): PLOS is a leading open-access scholarly publisher with proprietary submission and peer review infrastructure, representing the alternative open-access publishing model competing for share of scholarly output.

Others

• Digital Science: Digital Science offers research analytics and workflow tools (Dimensions, Figshare) that operate in adjacent categories of the scholarly research lifecycle, enabling similar publisher and researcher workflows.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/scholaronenews
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/scholarone-inc.

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

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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