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Empowering academic publishing
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Eliza for individual users
Our specialized tools help authors, reviewers, and editors write and evaluate papers more easily and effectively. Try any of the tools below for free!

Scope check and journal suggestions

Find the right journal for your manuscript.

Reference analysis

Automated bibliography quality assessment.

Peer review support

Interactive human-first review writing with automatic feedback and chat support.

Fully automated reviewing

High-quality automatically generated manuscript reviews.

Editor support

Decision-making tools for editorial workflows.

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Join authors, reviewers, and editors using Eliza to enhance their academic workflow.

Eliza for journal and proceedings publishing
A complete suite of integrated AI tools designed to enhance your publishing workflows.

Higher reviewer participation rates

Reduce reviewer burden and increase acceptance rates with streamlined workflows that save time and eliminate tedious tasks.

Improve peer review quality

Get consistent, thorough reviews every time with structured processes that cover all critical manuscript dimensions.

Improved author satisfaction

Authors receive clearer, more actionable feedback that helps them improve their manuscripts faster.

Data-driven editorial insights

Make informed decisions with AI-powered analysis, automated summaries, and comprehensive manuscript intelligence.

Faster time-to-decision

Accelerate editorial workflows with automated aggregation, decision support tools, and pre-written communication templates.

Enhanced research integrity

Strengthen quality control with systematic review standards, issue detection, and comprehensive documentation.

How Eliza works
Manuscript preparation & submission

Journal matching

Smart scope checking and AI-powered journal suggestions help authors find the perfect fit for their manuscripts.

Reference analysis

Automated bibliography assessment with impact scores, recency analysis, and citation quality metrics.

Peer review process

Interactive review assistant

Chat with papers during review, get structured guidance, and receive feedback to improve your review quality.

Automated peer review

Automatically generated manuscript reviews help authors increase acceptance chances and reduce reviewer burden.

Editorial decision making

Decision support

Executive summaries, aggregated insights, and pre-written decision letter templates for faster editorial decisions.

Content search

Easily search paper content to verify reviewer comments with the actual source.

Human expertise meets AI capability

Eliza enhances human judgment rather than replacing it - empowering reviewers, authors, and editors with intelligent tools that make academic publishing more efficient and effective.

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News

We are excited to announce the launch of our redesigned AI-supported academic workflow tool Eliza, more flexible and accessible than ever before.

We have improved the dashboard and editor/reviewer consoles to make it easier to use Eliza and track paper progress.

Eliza now offers AI-powered scope-checking and in-portfolio journal recommendations, helping publishers streamline submissions and maximize retention.

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Meet our team
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Zeger Karssen

Founder & CEO

Zeger is an AI researcher and industry veteran with decades of experience in publishing. He founded Atlantis Press, which was acquired by Springer Nature in 2021, and currently leads WBS.

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Koen Dercksen

CTO

Koen is an AI researcher and software developer with a background in academia. He is responsible for the technical development of WBS solutions.

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Amy Beisel

Business Development Lead

Amy is a consultant and coach in the academic publishing industry, specializing in AI start-ups.

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Arjen P. de Vries

Advisory Board Member

Arjen holds a full professorship at Radboud University Nijmegen. He is a computer scientist specialized in information access through the integration of information retrieval and databases.

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Peter Hendriks

Advisory Board Member

Peter is a CEO and board member with leading international publishing companies Wolters Kluwer, Springer Nature and Sanoma. He has private equity experience with Cinven Candover, EQT and BC partners. He is currently active as an investor and advisor in publishing.

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Charles Chui

Advisory Board Member

Charles is a professor of mathematics at Hong Kong Baptist University and consulting professor in the Statistics Department at Stanford University.

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