The moment an article goes live, ScholaRef notifies its authors, walks them through a guided visibility checklist — ORCID, Google Scholar, social sharing — and gives every scholar a live dashboard of their citations and impact. Journals get consent-based campaigns with full email analytics.
Free for authors. Built on open scholarly data. Consent-first email, always.
A paper that nobody sees doesn't get read, shared, or cited. Most authors never update their profiles, never announce their work, and never learn how it's performing — and journals have no tool to help them. Visibility is left entirely to chance.
Articles go online with no announcement. Authors often don't even know the exact moment their paper is live and citable.
Outdated Google Scholar profiles, missing ORCID records, unclaimed author pages — readers can't find the person behind the paper.
Authors never see how their work performs, and journals can't measure whether their articles are reaching anyone at all.
ScholaRef watches your journal's Crossref records. The moment a new DOI appears, the visibility machine starts.
New articles are detected automatically from Crossref. Authors receive a personal notification with their DOI link and a one-click path to their checklist — no passwords, no friction.
Step-by-step: add the article to ORCID (auto-verified), update Google Scholar, share on LinkedIn and X with prefilled posts, add to Zotero or Mendeley, notify colleagues. Progress tracked per author.
Every author gets live scientometrics — publications, citations per year, h-index, top-cited works — built on Crossref, OpenAlex, and Semantic Scholar open data, always source-labeled.
Send publication announcements and CFPs to consenting audiences with a proper template editor, scheduling, and a full funnel: delivered, opened, clicked, subscribed. Double opt-in built in.
ScholaRef monitors your journal's Crossref records. A new DOI appears — for example 10.32649/ajas.2026.18801 — and the article enters your feed instantly.
Authors get a personal "your article is live" email with the DOI link and a magic link to their checklist. You choose auto-send or review-first per journal.
The author works through the checklist: ORCID, Google Scholar, social shares with prefilled text, reference managers, department email. Every share link is tracked.
Watch citations grow on the author dashboard and checklist completion on the journal dashboard. Email funnels show exactly what reached whom.
Claim your profile once and ScholaRef keeps your scholarly presence working for you.
Citations per year, h-index, i10, top-cited works — from open data (Crossref, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar), refreshed automatically.
Connect with one click. New publications can be verified on your ORCID record directly from your checklist.
Step-by-step guidance to claim, clean, and maintain your Scholar profile — the single highest-leverage visibility task most authors skip.
Prefilled LinkedIn, X, Bluesky and Facebook posts for every new article, plus a QR code and a colleague-email template.
One-click DOI import to Zotero or Mendeley — build your personal research library as you publish.
A curated map of the free scholar stack: ORCID, Semantic Scholar, Sherpa Romeo, DOAJ, Connected Papers, and more — with honest one-line guidance for each.
Every new DOI in your prefix or ISSN appears in your admin panel the moment Crossref indexes it — matched to authors, ready to notify.
Announcements and calls for papers go only to your own authors or double-opt-in subscribers. One-click unsubscribe and global suppression are built into the pipeline — protecting your journal's sender reputation.
Full funnel per campaign: delivered, opened, clicked, bounced, unsubscribed. Know which subject lines work and which audiences engage.
Checklist completion rates, share-link clicks, and citation growth per issue — finally measure whether your articles are reaching the world.
A note on email. ScholaRef contacts authors about their own articles and sends campaigns only to people who explicitly opted in. We never use scraped or purchased lists — the sending pipeline enforces this in code, not just policy. Mass unsolicited CFPs are the hallmark of predatory publishing; ScholaRef is built to be the opposite.
Clean record. Complete metadata. Visible scholars.
No — and nobody legitimately can. Google Scholar has no public API. ScholaRef gives you direct links and step-by-step guidance, and you confirm each step on your checklist. Your profile stays entirely under your control.
From open scholarly data: Crossref cited-by counts, OpenAlex, and Semantic Scholar. Every figure is labeled with its source. Different databases count differently, so these are not the same as Google Scholar counts.
From the journal you published with — they import their own author records. Crossref metadata doesn't include emails, and we never scrape or buy contact lists. You can unsubscribe from anything with one click.
Yes. Claiming your profile, the checklist, the dashboard, and the tools directory are free for scholars. Journals and publishers pay for the detection, notification, and campaign infrastructure.
Yes — to subscribers who explicitly confirmed they want it (double opt-in), or to your own consenting author base. The pipeline refuses anything else by design, which keeps your journal off spam blocklists and on the right side of email law.
Same platform, three stages: CheckRef validates references before you publish, MetaRef audits your published metadata, and ScholaRef makes sure the work — and its authors — actually get seen.
Register your journal and ScholaRef starts watching Crossref today. Authors: claim your free profile in under a minute.