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SciFlow GmbH

SciFlow GmbH offers a collaborative authoring and publishing platform tailored for researchers, students, academic institutions, and publishers to simplify scientific writing and publishing workflows.

Scientific WritingCollaborative ToolsPublishing SoftwareAcademic TechnologySaaSHigher EducationInformation Technology
Founded: 2016

About

SciFlow GmbH provides an online platform designed to simplify and streamline the process of scientific writing and publishing. The platform enables researchers, students, institutions, and publishers to collaborate in real time, automate formatting for thousands of journals, manage references, and seamlessly publish scientific works. SciFlow integrates with various reference management software and offers tools for editing, change tracking, team collaboration, and exports to multiple professional formats (PDF/UA, HTML, JATS/XML, EPUB). The company emphasizes data privacy, accessibility, and open science, hosting all user data on servers located in Germany. SciFlow supports universities and research institutions through campus licenses and partnerships, and works with both academic and university publishers to improve the efficiency and accessibility of scholarly publishing.

Products & Services

  • SciFlow Authoring Platform
  • SciFlow Publish
  • Collaborative online text editor for scientific writing
  • Automated formatting and citation management
  • Integration with reference managers (Zotero, Mendeley, Citavi, Endnote)
  • Change tracking for collaborative work
  • Templates for journals, theses, and institutional requirements
  • LanguageTool Premium integration for spell and grammar check
  • Professional export formats: PDF/UA, HTML, JATS/XML, EPUB
  • Case studies and implementation support for institutions
  • Campus licenses and group accounts
  • Onboarding webinars and support

Use Cases & Case Studies

  • Automating conference proceedings at Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI): processing 600+ submissions, reducing publication time by 70%
  • Automated, accessible Diamond OA publication workflows
  • KIT Scientific Publishing: Simplified open access book publishing
  • MLU Halle: Improving collaborative writing and integration campus-wide
  • Göttingen University Press: Streamlined Open Access journal publication workflow

Partnerships & Collaborations

  • Max Planck Society
  • KIT Scientific Publishing
  • Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
  • Göttingen University Press
  • Lehmanns Media
  • BoD Books on Demand
  • OpenD
  • PubliQation
  • Diamond Open Access
  • Various universities and research institutes across Europe and internationally

Awards & Recognition

  • 2020 Catalyst Grant Winner at Digital Science
  • Berlin Valley - Leipzig Book Fair 'Neuland' Winner
  • Gründerpreis der Berliner Sparkasse
  • Featured by Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung as an innovative Open Access project

Contact Information

sciflow.net
Berlin
DEU

Certifications & Compliance

  • Data hosting in Germany with ISO 9001, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS certified data centers
  • GDPR compliance