DeSci Reviewer Finder is an AI-driven reviewer matching tool built for journal editors and funding agencies. Instantly surface the most qualified, conflict-free referees, and see why they are suggested. Save time, improve review quality, and make better decisions.
Publons, 2018
Reviewer matching tool built for journal editors and funding agencies. Instantly surface the most qualified, conflict-free referees, and see why they are suggested.
Our AI calculates research papers’ content and context novelty scores, helping you quickly assess how original a manuscript is compared to existing literature.
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Instantly generate expert reviewer suggestions, cut hours of manual searching, and focus on content and decision-making.
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Our algorithm analyzes each submission, identifies key references, and recommends conflict-free reviewers based on authorship of closely related, recent peer-reviewed papers
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Use DeSci Reviewer Finder alongside your existing editorial systems. No extra setup, just fast, intelligent referee suggestions when you need them.
Recommendations are powered by an AI trained on over 250 million papers and 90 million unique author profiles.
Automatically flags recent co-authors, same institutions, and supervisor relationships. Editors retain full control to exclude reviewers and avoid bias.
See detailed profiles for each suggested reviewers, including relevant publications, expertise, and seniority. Editors get the context they need to make informed, confident choices.
Each submission receives AI-calculated content and context novelty scores, helping editors quickly assess how original the work is and where it fits within the field - plus, instant links to closely related, recently published research.
Our system identifies subject-matter and method experts who have recently published closely related work in peer-reviewed journals or whose research is directly referenced by the submission. Built-in conflict checks flag co-authors, institutional overlaps, and past supervisor-supervisees relationships. Editors retain full control, with access to author profiles, relevant publications, and indicators of reviewer seniority to support informed, confident decisions.
Find out how DeSci Reviewer Finder makes reviewer selection faster, smarter, and more reliable.
DeSci Reviewer Finder is an AI-powered tool that helps journal editors and research funders quickly identify qualified and conflict-free reviewers for scientific manuscripts or grant applications. It analyzes the submitted document, extracts key metadata (such as title, abstract, references, and authors), and utilizes OpenAlex to identify the most relevant experts. The tool also performs conflict-of-interest checks and provides novelty scores for manuscripts to support editorial decisions.
DeSci Reviwer Finder analyzes the manuscript or grant application you upload by extracting key metadata. It then uses OpenAlex to identify the most semantically related scientific publications from the past five years. From these, it extracts the authors of key references and related papers to build a pool of potential reviewers. Finally, it runs conflict-of-interest checks to exclude reviewers who have recently co-authored with the submitting authors, are from the same institution, or have had a supervisory relationship. The result is a prioritized list of qualified, conflict-free referee suggestions, along with a novelty score for the uploaded document to support editorial decision-making.
They are only stored on our servers internally. We are not sharing uploaded documents with third parties or the public. Uploaded documents are deleted 24 hours after the user last ran an analysis for that document.
We delete the uploaded documents from our servers within 24 hours. We only keep the extracted meta-data of these documents (e.g., author names, title, abstract) and the results of the analysis we conducted to enable users to look up the results of their referee suggestions later. Only DeSci Labs and the user will have access to that information. We're using cloud servers from Microsoft Azure or AWS to store and process the uploaded manuscripts.
No, uploaded data is used solely for generating referee suggestions and not for any other purposes.
All analyses are performed exclusively using the OpenAlex dataset.
Yes, please contact our support team through the in-app chat or email us at info@desci.com. We aim to respond within 1–2 business days.
Yes, we offer a Free plan for editors and funders with a small workload. It includes 10 AI Research Chats, 2 reviewer searches and novelty analyses per month, and unlimited access to research quality indicators.
Yes, you can choose between monthly and annual billing. Discounts may apply to annual subscriptions.
Yes, you can upgrade, downgrade, or cancel your plan at any time from your account settings.
If you go over your monthly quota of reviewer searches, you can purchase additional ones as needed. Extra reviewer searches cost $2.50 each if you're on the Free or Starter plan, and just $0.90 each if you're on the Pro plan. This allows you to stay flexible without needing to upgrade immediately.
