2026 Update: Simpler submission workspace

From Draft to Submission, One AI Framework

Review your manuscript, detect likely AI-generated text, choose the right journal, get feedback, simulate reviewers, verify citations, measure novelty, find related published papers, and more in one workflow.

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Product Suite

One Workspace,
Connected Tools

War Room

Your all-in-one submission meeting room: propose journals, check references, simulate peer review, suggest improvements, predict acceptance, and more - in one flow.

Open War Room

Deep Review

Run 13 specialized agents (abstract, introduction, experiments, methodology, figures & tables, and more) and get a structured feedback report.

Open Deep Review

AI Detector

Analyze your draft to estimate AI-generation probability with verdict, confidence, and model attribution.

Run AI Detection

Reference Checker

Auto extract references, verify them, and export in any format (BibTeX, RIS, IEEE, APA, and more).

Check References

Summarizer

Upload a paper and get a structured summary covering the overview, key contributions, methods, experiments, results, and limitations.

Summarize Paper

Keyword & Abstract Studio

Generate 10 targeted keywords and 3 publication-ready abstract variations directly from your draft.

Open Studio

Academic Explorer

Surf our academic database to find top journals, most-cited publishers, leading institutions, and more in one place.

Open Academia

Journal Recommender

Get AI-powered journal suggestions based on your manuscript to speed up submission targeting.

Open Recommender

Peer Review Simulator

Predict likely decision outcomes before submission, with each review outlining strengths, weaknesses, suggestions, and key questions.

Simulate Review

Novelty Checker

Automatically find the most related papers, extract their contents, and run per-paper similarity scoring to measure how novel your work is against existing literature.

Check Novelty

Grammar Checker

Refine grammar, style, and scholarly tone to make your manuscript submission-ready.

Check Writing

Submission Tracker

Keep every manuscript in your pipeline in view - track target venues, deadlines, review status, and reviewer notes so nothing slips through the cracks.

Open Tracker

Teams

Create multiple research teams, invite members, fund a shared token pool, choose shared or percentage-based access, and follow team activity.

Open Teams
Platform Features

An End-to-End Submission Strategy,
Not Standalone Tools

War Room

War Room Live Meeting Room

Run one coordinated meeting where AI specialists handle venue targeting, reference checking, review simulation, revision planning, and acceptance prediction together.

  • Recommends target journals, suggests external reviewers, and extracts keywords from your manuscript
  • Runs novelty scoring against related papers, extracts and validates references, and generates a refined abstract
  • Simulates three peer reviewers and outputs a revised draft with next-step guidance
Deep Review

Deep Review with 13 Specialized Agents

Analyze your manuscript with 13 role-based agents, each focused on one domain like abstract, experiments, methodology, and figures.

  • One specialist per role: title, abstract, methodology, experiments, results, figures, references, ethics, and more
  • Returns actionable findings with severity levels, rationale, and suggested fixes
  • Generates exportable feedback reports and feeds directly into War Room planning
Originality

Novelty Checker

Measure overlap against related papers and quickly spot where your manuscript is most original.

  • Generates per-paper similarity scores (0%-100%)
  • Highlights potential overlap risk before submission
  • Helps strengthen novelty framing in your final draft
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Literature Support

Find Related Papers Fast

Find related papers from your manuscript and open source links directly while refining your references.

  • Suggestions based on your manuscript topic
  • Direct links for quick source checking
  • Helps with literature gap analysis
Citation Integrity

Reference Checker

Turn bibliography blocks into structured, verified references with one-click export options for submission workflows.

  • Extracts and structures references from manuscript PDFs with AI parsing
  • Re-verifies citation metadata and proposes clean updates where needed
  • Exports publication-ready formats including BibTeX, RIS, JSON, and plain text
Grammar Checker
Your paper contain many mistaks .
We help your improve the writing quality.
Grammar "contain" → "contains"
Spelling "mistaks" → "mistakes"
Writing Support

Grammar Checker

Find grammar and spelling issues, then improve clarity before submission.

  • Grammar and syntax correction
  • Clarity and readability improvements
  • OCR support for PDF workflows
Academic Explorer
Search 50,000+ journals…
Journal H-Index Citations
Nature 1,300 56M
The Lancet 800 12M
IEEE Trans. on AI 215 3.4M
Filter by country Sort & compare
Explorer

Academic Explorer with Copilot!

Explore journals, papers, authors, publishers, and institutions across our database with a comparison workspace.

  • Ask the Academic Copilot any research question in natural language and get answers instantly
  • Let Copilot query journals by impact, citations, and topical relevance to shortlist the strongest targets
  • Retrieve comparable evidence on publishers and leading institutions to validate submission strategy
Review Simulator
Reviewer 1
Accept
Reviewer 2
Minor Revision
Reviewer 3
Major Revision
Before Submission

Peer Review Simulator

See likely review outcomes before submission with three independent reviewer simulations.

  • Three independent reviewer perspectives per run
  • Structured output: strengths, weaknesses, questions, summary
  • Verdicts: accept, minor revision, or major revision
Journal Recommender
Upload PDF
AI Analysis
Matched
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Springer Nature Major Publisher
2
IEEE Technical Society
3
Elsevier Major Publisher
Venue Matching

Journal Recommender

Upload your manuscript and get AI-recommended journals for your paper.

  • AI-powered journal recommendations based on manuscript content
  • OCR and keyword extraction included
  • Similarity scores from title and abstract matching
Authenticity Check

AI Detection

Scan your draft content to estimate AI-generation likelihood before submission.

  • Returns overall AI probability with verdict and confidence signals
  • Surfaces section-level risk so you can revise high-flag passages quickly
  • Supports compliance checks before journal or conference submission
Rapid Comprehension

Summarizer

Drop in a PDF and get a clean, structured summary of the entire paper — grasp a study in seconds instead of hours.

  • Applies OCR to your PDF, then summarizes the full text with an AI chat model
  • Organizes the paper into clear sections: overview, key contributions, methods, experiments, results, and limitations
  • Runs as a background task, with one-click copy and Markdown export
Built for Research Groups

One Lab. One Token Pool.
Every Project Moving.

Bring supervisors, students, and collaborators into a shared ScholaRef workspace without mixing team resources with anyone's personal account.

Collaboration without the admin fog

Give your research group a clear home base.

Create dedicated workspaces for labs, projects, or courses. Invite researchers by email, decide how team tokens are shared, chat with teammates, and keep the work visible from one focused dashboard.

Multiple team workspacesSwitch between labs and projects without losing context.
Flexible token distributionUse one shared pool or allocate percentages to each member.
Activity at a glanceSee member papers, War Room sessions, balances, and join dates.
Built-in team chatMessage teammates directly or bring the whole group into one conversation.
Build Your Team Sign In

Invite in seconds

Send email invitations, resend when needed, and manage pending access from one place.

Fund work, not seats

Buy team tokens once and let members use them across ScholaRef's research tools.

Stay in control

Keep access simple with a shared pool or define percentage allocations for tighter planning.

See the whole picture

Review team membership, balances, papers, and sessions without chasing status updates.

Token Plans

Choose a Token Pack

Core Small
C$25 One-time token pack

15 tokens, including 5 gift tokens.

Tokens 10
Gift Tokens +5
  • 15 Tokens in total
  • Supports simulator, studio, and recommender runs
Buy Core
Pro Medium
C$79 One-time token pack

55 tokens, including 15 gift tokens.

Tokens 40
Gift Tokens +15
  • 55 Tokens in total
  • War Room: 8 tokens | Deep Review: 6 tokens
  • AI Detector: 1 token | Studio/Recommender/Simulator: 1 token each
Buy Pro
Elite Large
C$199 One-time token pack

165 tokens, including 45 gift tokens.

Tokens 120
Gift Tokens +45
  • 165 Tokens in total
  • Supports parallel manuscript runs
Buy Elite
Apex Custom
Custom No fixed cost

A fully custom token plan.

Token Plan Custom
Support Dedicated
  • Rollout and onboarding support
  • Custom token plans and usage controls
  • Dedicated account support
Contact Us
Our Team

Team Behind
ScholaRef

Thierry Warin

Thierry Warin

Lead Researcher & CEO

Professor of Data Science for Global Transformations at HEC Montreal.

Hugo Warin

Hugo Warin

Project Manager

Leads project planning, team coordination, and delivery execution.

Rambod Azimi

Rambod Azimi

AI Software Engineer

Builds and scales AI systems, RAG pipelines, and LLM-powered features.

Mazarine Culot

Mazarine Culot

AI & Digital Transformation Consultant

Guides the strategic integration of AI and digital innovation across ScholaRef.

Apolline Baudouard

Apolline Baudouard

AI & Digital Transformation Consultant

Advises on digital transformation strategies and AI implementation best practices.

Thomas Warin

Thomas Warin

Human Resources

Nurtures the ScholaRef team culture and manages talent recruitment.

FAQ

Common Questions
About ScholaRef

ScholaRef is an end-to-end AI workspace for academic submission prep. It combines Deep Review, War Room orchestration, Reference Checker, Novelty Checker, Peer Review Simulator, Journal Recommender, Keyword & Abstract Studio, Grammar Checker, and Academic Explorer in one platform.

It also includes AI Detector for targeted checks on likely AI-generated text before submission.

ScholaRef is for researchers, PhD students, postdocs, supervisors, and labs who want stronger submissions and faster review cycles.

  • Individual researchers refining a manuscript before journal submission
  • Graduate students preparing thesis papers or conference drafts
  • Labs and advisors reviewing multiple manuscripts in parallel

Create an account, open a module from your dashboard, and upload a PDF (or paste text for Grammar Checker). New accounts start with 5 free tokens, so you can test core workflows immediately.

Your profile includes saved Deep Review reports, War Room reports, revised drafts, token purchases, usage analytics, referral invitations, notification preferences, and public profile sharing tools.

War Room is the planning workspace. It combines review results with tasks like reviewer suggestions, keywords, abstracts, and venue targeting.

Deep Review is the 13-check manuscript audit. You can run it alone or use it inside War Room.

Yes. Use Journal Recommender for ranked matches, then validate journals, publishers, authors, and institutions in Academic Explorer before deciding where to submit.

Academic Explorer includes one interface for journals, authors, papers, publishers, institutions, plus an Academic Copilot.

  • Search, filter, sort, and compare entities with research metrics
  • Browse large OpenAlex-backed datasets from one dashboard
  • Use Copilot chat for natural-language queries (1 token per prompt)

Beyond War Room and Deep Review, you can run:

  • AI Detector (AI-likelihood score with model-attribution signals)
  • Keyword & Abstract Studio (10 keywords + 3 abstract drafts)
  • Reference Checker (extract, verify, export references)
  • Novelty Checker (overlap scoring with related papers)
  • Peer Review Simulator (3 reviewer-style outputs)
  • Grammar Checker (text + PDF OCR writing correction)

Supervisors can create multiple teams and invite up to 50 members to each one. Team tokens are purchased separately from personal tokens and can either stay in one shared pool or be distributed to members by percentage. The team dashboard also shows member balances, papers, War Room sessions, and pending invitations.

Yes. Deep Review reports are exportable as HTML, War Room reports can be saved/exported, and revised drafts can be saved and downloaded from your profile.

Yes. Deep Review and War Room support background processing with live progress tracking, stop controls for active runs, and completion emails when enabled.

No. ScholaRef helps you prepare before submission. Final decisions are still made by human editors and peer reviewers.

ScholaRef uses token-based pricing. Standard costs are:

  • War Room: 8 tokens
  • Deep Review: 6 tokens
  • AI Detector: 1 token
  • Peer Review Simulator: 1 token
  • Journal Recommender: 1 token
  • Keyword & Abstract Studio: 1 token
  • Novelty Checker: 1 token
  • Reference Checker: 1 token
  • Academic Copilot prompt: 1 token

Grammar Checker and standard Explorer browsing do not consume tokens.

Billing uses one-time token packs (no subscription) through Stripe Checkout, with support for promotion codes. Purchase history, token balance, and billing records are available in your profile.

Yes. Each account can invite up to 10 people; when an invite is accepted, both users receive referral tokens. You can also manage detailed notification preferences and submit bug reports for token compensation when issues are validated.

Yes. Manuscripts are processed to run your requested analyses and are not used to train external public AI models. You can also permanently delete your account and related data from profile settings.

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Tell us your research stage and we will suggest the best path.

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