Brooklyn, NY - November 15, 2022 - scite, ​​an award-winning startup that helps students and researchers discover and understand research findings more efficiently through Smart Citations, has recruited Rogier van Erkel as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO).

Van Erkel brings significant sales leadership experience in academia and corporate markets. Previously, Van Erkel served as CRO at Research Solutions, where he established and led sales in corporate markets and grew recurring revenue exponentially year over year. Before that, he served as a sales director at Elsevier for twelve years. He continues to support sales to startups and small and mid-sized companies through various universities and accelerators in the Netherlands.

Dr. Josh Nicholson, CEO of scite, says, “We’re thrilled to welcome Rogier to the team. Rogier brings a wealth of experience to the table, and his energy and tenacity will fit in well with our team. Our ability to recruit such a leader speaks to the innovative product and company we are building at scite.”

Van Erkel says, “Great to build the sales organization for this high potential, more than ready product. The scite team has devoted over four years to build a tool that has proven useful to researchers worldwide across all kinds of entities. Now is the time to roll out scite to enable all researchers to spend more time on their research and further improve the quality of research by finding and using the best possible information fast!”

scite is a Brooklyn-based startup that helps researchers better discover and evaluate scientific articles through Smart Citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.