Scholastica at 10: Betting on democratization over consolidation in scholarly publishing

"It’s 2022, and Scholastica is turning 10 years old this year! ...

We started with our flagship peer review product and, in those early days, began working with smaller social science, humanities, and law journals. We knew we wanted to support the growing Open Access movement, so we introduced Open Access journal hosting software in 2015. More recently, we added our machine-learning-augmented article production service to make it possible for journals of any size to publish content in machine-readable HTML and XML in addition to PDF. All together, the three products now amount to an end-to-end solution for journals, from peer review to article production to publication/hosting.

Since 2012, we’ve grown on many fronts:

• 1,100 journals now use Scholastica’s peer review software, together receiving hundreds of thousands of submissions each year
• 200 Open Access journals have published 25,000 articles on Scholastica’s OA hosting platform
• 50 journals use Scholastica’s article production service to generate XML, PDF, and HTML versions of their articles
• Our team has grown from the three co-founders to 16 full time and 4 part time employees, all based in the US. It’s amazing to look at those early hires and see them still with the company: George, Danielle, Anna, Raquel, Tatum. More members of our team are now approaching their 5-year anniversaries, and it’s heartwarming to see their professional growth over time...."