Cactus Communications has launched PubSURE – a marketplace that brings together researchers and journals across STEM and HSS disciplines with the aim of making global scholarly publishing more efficient.
PubSURE is an integrated platform that is made up of a marketplace (PubSURE Connect) and an automated manuscript assessment check (PubSURE Report). While PubSURE Report serves as a proxy for manuscript reporting hygiene in terms of readability, compliance and completeness, among other key editorial criteria, PubSURE Connect builds semantic fingerprints for journals on the platform such that each journal can then see all matching manuscripts of acceptable reporting standard.
PubSURE hopes to add more features to its manuscript assessment check, such as research integrity and image manipulation, in the coming months. Currently, the articles on PubSURE come from a variety of sources including preprint servers and direct submissions to the platform. Inflow of content should continue to refine the concept fingerprinting, improving the match rate and speeding up time to peer review.