Through this partnership, Silverchair is integrating Signals Manuscript Checks, using webhook notifications and an API to retrieve metadata from submissions. Signals traffic light evaluations are displayed directly in ScholarOne workflows via custom flags.
With the added nuance of the evaluation flag, the administrator or editor will be able to access the full Research Signals report directly from ScholarOne, ensuring a streamlined addition to the research integrity workflow. Notifications can be signaled from each stage of the publishing workflow, so publishers and editorial teams can customize which integrity checks run at different stages of the review process.
The content of the Signals reports provide a comprehensive and transparent research integrity analysis, as it includes both an overall evaluation for quick prioritization and actionable insights from individual signals. It is delivered by the Signals Data Graph, which combines integrity intelligence from publication metadata with expert knowledge from the scholarly community.
As Josh Dahl, SVP of Product + General Manager, ScholarOne, describes: “Research Integrity is a rapidly changing issue for the research ecosystem. To ensure that we’re supporting strong research integrity in the ScholarOne workflows, we need to prioritize integration and collaboration. Our partnership with Signals allows us to bring these valuable checks to our customers quickly.”
Workflow integrations like this have great value to all participants. Tiago Barros, co-founder of Signals adds: “At Signals we strongly believe that delivering transparent, actionable research integrity evaluation of manuscripts, when and where publishers need them, is a crucial step towards restoring trust in research. We are thrilled to work closely with the ScholarOne team and our Publisher partners to prevent the publication of problematic articles and uphold the integrity of the scholarly record”.
This partnership is the first of several research integrity integrations planned for the first half of 2025. As we progress further, Silverchair and Signals will explore additional API integrations, exposing additional details of the Signals evaluation within ScholarOne, providing a more powerful user experience.
Silverchair’s research integrity focus is agile, iterative, and strategic. The goal is to relieve the burden on editors and peer reviewers by creating spaces for technology flags that evaluate risk or problems with incoming manuscripts, through integrations like this pilot with Signals, and with improved workflows in the ScholarOne infrastructure.
