Vision
Abstract
This article presents a vision of the near future where technology eliminates key barriers that currently slow the progress of scientists, publishers, and universities around the world.
The global DrPaper platform unleashes human potential by streamlining repetitive, tedious, and administrative tasks, intelligently connecting people and resources, structuring and integrating information, and facilitating seamless communication. Scientists can focus on research, universities gain strategic foresight, and publishers elevate their brands to a global level.
This article is a call to action – we invite investors, researchers, publishers, universities, potential team members, and anyone eager to be part of the revolution driving the acceleration of global scientific progress. Join us at DrPaper.ai.
Introduction
This article was created as part of the DrPaper project and aims to connect with those who want to be part of the revolution that will accelerate scientific progress. Anyone can join the project and support its development (see the section ‘Join the Revolution’ for more details).
Mission
We’re building a global platform that helps scientists, universities, and publishers save time and reduce costs by streamlining routine tasks and accelerating workflows by up to 60x.
Scientist of the Future
Upon entering the DrPaper platform, a researcher:
- Writes and publishes scientific articles in one place – integrated databases, automatic creation of references and citations, contextual literature searches, and certification of content originality.
- Receives journal recommendation – the system analyzes the article topic and suggests the best match in terms of subject matter, impact factor, availability, publication time, and price.
- Submits articles for review without frustration – the file is automatically formatted according to the selected journal’s requirements, supplementary materials are generated with one click, additional required documents are in place, and all authors’ metadata is instantly attached in the submission system.
- Forms virtual research teams, discussion forums, and projects – the system recommends the best connections based on global matching of competencies, ambitions, work styles, and project requirements.
- Receives information instead of searching for it – grants, conferences, people, equipment, events. The system works in the background, constantly searching for the best matches to their goals.
- Analyzes their talents and defines directions for self-development using psychological tools – growth assistant supports personal development, recognizes passions, work style, dreams, and values, and helps to enhance scientific collaboration.
On the DrPaper platform, the researcher becomes the central manager of their personal and scientific development. They have all the necessary information at hand, engage in international collaboration, and the common barriers and obstacles are removed by technology.
Scientists’ Challenges DrPaper Aims to Address
- Difficulty in selecting the right journal for publication (Ali, 2010; Welch, 2012)
- Rejection of articles due to formal and formatting issues (Bradbury, 2012; CORREIA, 2020; Greiff & Ziegler, 2017; Teixeira da Silva & Nazarovets, 2025)
- Barriers in establishing scientific collaborations (Vaez-Alaei et al., 2022; Wu et al., 2024)
- Difficulties in managing research projects efficiently (Chernogorova et al., 2021; SLAEAT, 2024)
- Lengthy peer review and publication processes (Aczel et al., 2021; Dance, 2023; Horta & Jung, 2024; Powell, 2016)
Publisher of the Future
On the DrPaper platform, a publisher:
- Increases global visibility – the platform opens small and medium publishers to the global market, boosting their publishing reach.
- Gains a unique visual identity – each journal has its space, brand, and mission presented in a standardized space.
- Automates formatting and publication layout – even small publishers can now use professional technology that automates formatting and publishing according to their standards and publishing cycles, saving days of work per issue.
- Receives reviewer applications – researchers can easily apply as reviewers to selected journals. Based on article content and declared interests, the system calculates a matching score and enables journals to manage applications directly on the platform. Journals don’t need to send thousands of emails to scientists to find the right reviewer.
- Uses contextual matching of articles and journals – the platform supports thematic matching of articles to journals before the review stage, reducing the number of mismatched submissions and lowering the rejection rate.
- Supports high efficiency in the article review process – the reviewer panel provides access to sources, data, analyses, and recommendations based on similar works, and simplifies communication with authors.
- Improves communication with authors – comments and changes can be made directly in the system, without the need to send files back and forth.
- Provides language correction in any language – the platform improves article style and language, regardless of the language version.
Thanks to the DrPaper platform, publishers save time and resources, maintain the highest standards of review quality, streamline internal processes, shorten publication times, and increase global market recognition.
Publishers’ Challenges DrPaper Aims to Address
- Shortage of available reviewers (Aczel et al., 2025)
- Time-consuming peer review process and challenges in maintaining high review quality (Aczel et al., 2021; Dance, 2023; Horta & Jung, 2024; Powell, 2016)
- Lack of automation in internal publishing workflows (Riding, 2022)
- Low visibility and citation impact of journal publications (Schilhan et al., 2021; Wallace et al., 2021; You et al., 2022)
University of the Future
On the DrPaper platform, a university can:
- Decrease journal subscription costs – based on authors’ activity, the system recommends university collaboration in global library consortia, allowing joint journal subscription purchases and cost reduction.
- Optimize research processes – researcher efficiency is increased through implementing project planning tools based on best business practices.
- Connect science with business – an open collaboration system helps researchers find projects and connect with the experts they need, including an expert with experience in both business and science, to enable the fast introduction of a business approach in research.
- Analyze university development trends – based on reports of scientists’ publications, grants, and international collaborations, the system predicts evaluation results and potential funding opportunities.
- Invite businesses to engage in future workforce education – the system allows inviting business representatives to collaborate on curriculum development and conduct courses. By analyzing business inquiries about competencies and R&D projects, the system enables universities to adjust programs to real market needs.
With DrPaper, universities gain insight into their resources, project progress, and predictions of events affecting their funding and development. The global aggregation of university resources supports collaboration with researchers, students, businesses, government organizations, and other universities.
Universities’ Challenges DrPaper Aims to Address
- Bridging the gap between academia and industry (Rossoni et al., 2024a; University-Industry Collaboration, 2019)
- Difficulty in establishing collaborations with other institutions (Fabius & Krogan, 2021; Hedges et al., 2021; Rossoni et al., 2024b; Yao, 2021)
- High costs of journal subscriptions (Butler et al., 2023; Shu et al., 2018)
- Lack of data for strategic planning and forecasting (Biondi & Russo, 2022)
- Mismatch between academic programs and labor market needs (Achtenhagen & Achtenhagen, 2019; Pholphirul, 2017; Verhoef et al., 2021)
Where is the Revolution taking us?
The human potential of scientific experts and reviewers, freed by support and automation, can be harnessed in a global project to structure scientific data. This would mean transforming currently scattered and competing scientists, publishers, and universities into a research network with a shared mission: to develop a global model of scientific knowledge.
Knowledge Graph
The DrPaper platform enables the connection of knowledge contained in all journals and the implementation of the world’s largest project for structuring scientific data. In the first stage, a thematic network of journals is created, and the knowledge of experts makes it possible to define relationships between them using an object–relation–object approach. This creates the first layer of the knowledge graph — a foundation for modeling the scientific knowledge acquired by humankind. The second layer will emerge from analogous work at the level of individual article topics. The third layer will be an in-depth analysis of phenomena and the objects involved, as described in the content of scientific articles. This stage is the most complex and requires years of structured work by experts from around the world. In this way, a multidimensional model — a knowledge graph of humanity — will be built. It will deduplicate repeated data and naturally detect data that does not fit, and is therefore incorrectly deduced, erroneous, or fabricated, and previously not eliminated.
A Functional Model as a Research Tool
Initially, this will be a theoretical model based on natural language, which will help to clean up our knowledge and identify thematic or logical gaps. By adding a mathematical layer to the model, simple logical experiments can be conducted, producing conclusions or hypotheses that humans may have overlooked. Once technological advances provide sufficient computational power, we will incorporate a layer of physical calculations, enabling more sophisticated experiments at the levels of molecular systems, cells, and ultimately, tissues and whole organisms. This will be somewhat like current models of protein–ligand interactions or AI models that combine information about a protein’s structure and spatial arrangement with its functionality, but at a much higher level of complexity.
Autonomous Laboratory
Combined with robotics, this will lead to the creation of an autonomous laboratory that maintains precisely designed conditions and parameters, working continuously and reproducibly, free from human error. It will operate without light and oxygen, which exist in our bodies in far lower amounts than in today’s human-run laboratories. Such a laboratory could develop personalized therapies based on samples taken from individual patients. Initially, the knowledge model alone will save the lives of many suffering creatures currently used for scientific research, who often perish in large numbers and agony. Ultimately, the model combined with robotics will save human lives.
Global, Structured Collaboration
However, achieving such a challenge requires years of global collaboration among experts from various fields and, above all, a precisely designed data labeling system to ensure the resulting graph is functional. Any error or imperfection in the graph could render it useless. The greatest challenge is designing a system to verify the connections within the data. One approach could be to assign micro-tasks to scientists belonging to the DrPaper platform. Each micro-task solved by several to a dozen scientists would be confirmed as resolved and added to the network of solutions for other micro-tasks. Once a certain amount of such solutions accumulates in a given small area of knowledge, a test verifies the correctness of that fragment of the graph. The initial work related to building the graph must be supervised by people — specialists in specific fields. Over time, we will train systems to imitate human workflows so they can interpret the natural language found in articles and translate it into graph language. This will enable the unsupervised transfer of data from articles to the global scientific knowledge graph.
Call to Action: Join the Revolution
DrPaper is more than a platform – it’s a movement to accelerate science globally. We invite investors, researchers, publishers, universities, and anyone passionate about shaping the future of research to join us.
Scientist – you are at the center of the scientific galaxy!
If you believe DrPaper should exist, here’s how you can help:
Vote for the project
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Small and medium publishers – join our Partner Program
Together, let’s open a new chapter in the history of scientific publishing:
- From days to minutes
Fully automated typesetting of entire journal issues ready for publication. - From templates to style
Modern graphic design and a unique character for each journal. - From anonymity to visibility
Be present on a platform connecting scientists and editorial teams from around the world.
How to start?
The first step is easy – let’s meet. It’s the beginning of our shared journey into the future, where we save your time and invest it in growing your publishing brand
Investors wanted – without you, it’s impossible
We are gathering a group of investors willing to support the DrPaper project. You can join the first funding round until the end of June 2025. The goal is to raise 250,000 PLN, with a minimum ticket of 50,000 PLN.
The second funding round will run from July to the end of November 2025, with the amount and ticket size to be determined based on the response to this article and the project’s development stage.
We invite you to get in touch and start the conversation – we’ll be happy to answer all your questions and present our pitch deck, business plan, and additional materials.
Everyone can help
At this stage of the project, we are looking for both financial and strategic support.
Not an investor, but want to become a partner?
We offer the possibility of entering into a minimum two – year collaboration leading to co – ownership of the company.
We are looking for people with expertise in:
- Sales
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We are open to discussions, brainstorming, and your suggestions.
If you have ideas on how we can further improve the scientific world or explore other ways to collaborate – reach out to us.
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