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World Brain Scholar joins ACSE as Corporate Member
The Asian Council of Science Editors (ACSE) is delighted to welcome World Brain Scholar as its newest corporate member. In this partnership, ACSE will help promote World Brain Scholar’s AI-powered tool Eliza, designed to assist reviewers, editors, and authors in making peer review more efficient, reliable, and equitable.
This collaboration underscores ACSE’s commitment to supporting innovations in scholarly publishing across Asia and beyond.
“We warmly welcome World Brain Scholar to the ACSE community. Their tool, Eliza, is highly aligned with our mission to strengthen editorial workflows, enhance review quality, and reduce burdens on editors and reviewers,” said the ACSE Executive Board.
“We’re thrilled to join the ACSE community. This partnership will allow World Brain Scholar to connect with a broader audience across the Middle East and Asia. Through this collaboration, we’re confident that Eliza will engage with many new authors, reviewers, and editors, strengthening our shared mission to advance scientific quality, integrity, and global collaboration.”said, ZegerKarssen, Founder & CEO of World Brain Scholar.
What is Eliza?
World Brain Scholar’s Eliza is an AI-driven assistant that supports multiple roles in the publishing process:
- Scope and journal matching: Helping authors find journals fit for their submission.
- Reference analysis: Automatic bibliography quality assessment and suggestions for reviewers and editors.
- Peer review support: Interactive human-first review writing for reviewers, including constructive feedback and chat support.
- Editorial assistance: Synthesizing reviewer comments, aiding decision support, and improving workflow efficiency.
- Fully automated reviewing: High-quality manuscript reviews designed to strengthen papers before submission.
While supporting little-experienced, non-native English reviewers, Eliza enables faster and better-quality reviews and speeds up editorial decision cycles.
Partnership Goals
Through this membership and partnership, ACSE and World Brain Scholar will aim to:
- Promote Eliza to ACSE’s regional journals and editorial community.
- Facilitate training and pilot usage of Eliza in member journals.
- Foster feedback loops so that Eliza evolves with the needs of Asian editors and reviewers.
We believe this collaboration can empower journals to adopt smart tools without losing sight of editorial judgment, while ensuring that innovation in AI supports scholarly integrity.
For ACSE Members: We encourage members to explore Eliza’s features, participate in pilot initiatives, and share feedback. This partnership is a great opportunity to experience how intelligent tools can support editorial quality and workflow efficiency.
Why does this matter for scholarly publishing?
The peer-review ecosystem is under increasing pressure: the volume of submissions is growing rapidly, and securing qualified reviewers is a challenge.
Many academic journals report delays in review cycles, difficulty in finding suitable reviewers, and inconsistency in review quality.
In this environment, AI-powered tools like Eliza offer meaningful support. AI tools can assist in screening manuscripts, summarising content, identifying gaps or ethical issues, and supporting non-native English reviewers.
At the same time, there are important caveats: AI cannot replicate the nuanced domain-expert judgement of experienced editors and reviewers. Therefore, the value of a tool like Eliza lies in augmenting, not replacing, human editorial judgment.
The value of the ACSE-World Brain Scholar alliance
By joining forces, ACSE and World Brain Scholar position themselves to bring technology and region-specific editorial needs into closer alignment. For instance, many journals in Asia face unique challenges, including language barriers, reviewer shortages, and diverse publishing standards.
Through pilot usage and training, this partnership can help embed the tool in real workflows of regional journals, not just as a novelty, but as a functional component of editorial operations. The feedback loop ensures that Eliza is tailored to the needs of Asian editors and reviewers, which increases its relevance and potential uptake.
For ACSE members, the invitation to explore Eliza offers a tangible benefit: an opportunity to see how AI support might reduce editor/reviewer burden, improve turnaround times, and enhance review quality, while retaining editorial oversight.
Looking ahead
As AI tools become more integrated into scholarly publishing, as documented by recent policy surveys, editorial guides, and industry reports, regional collaborations like this one are likely to accelerate. The key will be finding the right balance: enabling efficiency and equitable access while protecting scientific integrity and human judgment.
Members of ACSE and their editorial teams should consider:
- Engaging early with workshops/training on Eliza’s features and use-cases.
- Piloting the tool in select journals to assess fit and outcomes.
- Providing feedback to the developer so the platform evolves in line with specific regional needs.
- Monitoring review cycle times, reviewer satisfaction, author feedback, and editorial decision metrics to measure impact.
In this way, the collaboration between ACSE and World Brain Scholar could serve as a model for how regional editorial communities can partner with technology providers to respond to global publishing pressures.
About the organizations
World Brain Scholar is a provider of AI-powered tools for academic publishing, focused on assisting authors, reviewers, and editors to improve writing, review, and evaluation workflows. Their platform includes features such as scope checking, reference analysis, peer-review support, and editor tools.
Website: https://www.world-brain-scholar.eu
ACSE (Asian Council of Science Editors) is an organisation that supports editorial excellence and integrity across Asia and globally. Through training, collaboration and community building, ACSE helps journals, editors, and publishers strengthen scholarly publishing practices.
Website: https://theacse.com
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