# Silverchair

> Silverchair supplies publishing software and specialist services to scholarly and professional publishers. Its hosting platform, ScholarOne submission and peer-review systems, AI discovery tools, and research-impact partnerships support the work between manuscript submission and readership. Customers include university presses, learned societies, medical associations, and commercial publishers.

- **Founded:** 1993
- **Headquarters:** Charlottesville, United States
- **Founders:** Thane Kerner (Co-founder; former CEO), Elizabeth Willingham (Co-founder)
- **Products:** The Silverchair Platform, ScholarOne Manuscripts, ScholarOne Conferences, Sensus Impact, Silverchair AI Lab
- **Notable:** Expanded from medical textbook packaging into scholarly publishing software., Acquired ScholarOne from Clarivate in the fourth quarter of 2024., Reported 24% growth in hosted content and more than 99.99% uptime for 2025.

## Products & services

- **The Silverchair Platform** — Hosted platform for journals, books, multimedia, proceedings and other scholarly content, with discovery, access management, commerce and publisher tools. Development of its SCM6 predecessor began in 2010.
- **ScholarOne Manuscripts** — Submission, editorial workflow and peer-review management. Acquired from Clarivate in 2024; the product predates the acquisition.
- **ScholarOne Conferences** — Conference abstract submission and workflow management. Acquired from Clarivate alongside ScholarOne Manuscripts.
- **Sensus Impact** — Research-impact reporting initiative developed with Oxford University Press, combining publication usage, citation and attention metrics for funders.
- **Silverchair AI Lab** — Client-facing testing and piloting of AI features for publishing workflows and discovery.
- **Dynamic Discovery** — Natural-language discovery of articles, books and conference papers, using retrieval-augmented generation with contextual source results and preserved access rights.
- **ScholarOne Gateway** — Unified author and reviewer dashboard across a publisher’s journal portfolio; full commercial launch December 10, 2025.
- **Strategy and development services** — Product strategy, customization, user-experience research, content metadata expertise, migration support and retained development capacity.

## Achievements

- Expanded from medical textbook packaging into scholarly publishing software.
- Acquired ScholarOne from Clarivate in the fourth quarter of 2024.
- Reported 24% growth in hosted content and more than 99.99% uptime for 2025.
- Commercially launched ScholarOne Gateway in December 2025.
- Sensus Impact launched in February 2024 with Oxford University Press.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Announced Grounded AI partnership for Veracity citation analysis in ScholarOne Integrity Checks on September 29.
- **2026-08** — Announced Global Campus reviewer-matching integration was fully live in ScholarOne Manuscripts on August 31.
- **2026-07** — Portland Press expanded its partnership to include ScholarOne Manuscripts on July 28.
- **2026-07** — Announced new ScholarOne editor dashboards and Editor AI Console on July 21.
- **2026-01** — Announced Digital Science partnership to integrate Dimensions Author Check on January 29.

## Links

- Website: https://www.silverchair.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/silverchair/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/silverchairnews
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/SilverchairSIS
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- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/silverchairnews/
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/SilverchairNews/

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Last updated: 2026-10-01