World Brain Scholar
Empowering academic publishing
AI-software design and development for publishers.
Experience our AI-powered publishing assistant Eliza for free.
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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AI-software design and development
Beyond Eliza, we design and build AI software for publishers. Our team combines academic publishing expertise with hands-on experience in machine learning and software engineering to deliver solutions that fit your workflows.

Custom AI tooling

Tailor-made solutions for your editorial workflows, from manuscript triage and reviewer matching to decision support.

Integration with your systems

We connect AI capabilities to your existing submission systems and platforms through APIs and custom integrations.

Consultancy and prototyping

From an initial idea to a working prototype: we help you explore what AI can realistically do for your organization.

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News

Join World Brain Scholar and the Asian Council of Science Editors (ACSE) for a webinar introducing Eliza, our AI-powered peer review assistant. The session takes place on February 16 at 11:00 AM CET. Register now!

We are delighted to announce that World Brain Scholar has officially become a member of the Asian Council of Science Editors (ACSE).

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

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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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