JOIN2026 Innovators showcase technologies tackling scholarly publishing’s most pressing challenges
STM has announced the 20 innovators selected to participate in the Innovator Fair at STM Innovation & Integrity Days 2026, taking place in London on 8 December.
Chosen from more than 40 submissions, this year’s cohort reflects the pace of innovation across scholarly publishing, with new approaches to research integrity, peer review, provenance, identity verification, AI and publishing workflows:
- Appetence – Turning research integrity signals into actionable editorial insights.
- Cashmere – Creating licensed AI access pathways for trusted scholarly content.
- ErrorBarbarian – Using AI to identify statistical errors and inconsistencies in manuscripts.
- First Pass Research Reporting – Automating manuscript triage and editorial assessment.
- Focal Image – Verifying the provenance and authenticity of scholarly content.
- GetFTR – Connecting AI workflows to trusted, authoritative research sources.
- Impelsys – Orchestrating AI agents across publishing workflows under publisher control.
- IOP Publishing – Detecting duplicate peer review reports using machine learning.
- LibLynx – Distinguishing human users from bots without disrupting access.
- Metis Foundry (Prev. I Am Violet) – Verifying researcher identities, affiliations and claims against trusted registries.
- Olive Turn – Connecting AI tools directly to trusted scholarly full text.
- opensci.id – Bringing verified contributor identities and credentials to scholarly publishing.
- Proofig AI – Combining image and content integrity screening in a single platform.
- Prophy – Matching manuscripts with the right peer reviewers and experts.
- RefCheck – Detecting unsupported claims and verifying references to prevent AI-generated citation errors reaching publication.
- River Valley Technologies – Helping publishers assess and manage integrity risks at scale.
- SciFlow – Using AI to streamline the journey from manuscript to publication.
- Scitably – Bringing auditable scientific evidence into AI systems and agents.
- Silverchair – Embedding AI-powered insights directly into editorial workflows.
- Straive – Unlocking the value of supplementary research content while identifying risks.
Attendees will have the opportunity to see these innovations demonstrated live and speak directly with the teams behind them.
“The innovations selected this year reflect challenges that matter to stakeholders across the full scholarly publishing ecosystem. The Innovator Fair offers a unique opportunity to see new ideas in action, engage directly with founders and product teams, and explore solutions to these shared challenges together.” – Hylke Koers
Registration for Innovation & Integrity Days is now open.