**February 2, 2021 | North Andover, Massachusetts –

Aries Systems Corporation, a leading technology workflow solutions provider to the scholarly publishing community, and scite, a platform for discovering and evaluating scientific articles via Smart Citations, are pleased to announce their partnership to facilitate the veracity of scientific references.

Upon release, the collaboration will leverage Aries’ new manuscript analysis API to integrate scite’s Reference Check tool with Editorial Manager® (EM), the industry-leading manuscript submission and peer-review tracking system. Reference Check automatically extracts the references listed within a submitted manuscript in EM and generates a report that details important context and classifications describing whether there is supporting or disputing evidence for the cited claim via Smart Citations. Additionally, scite’s Reference Check also identifies if references have been retracted, withdrawn, or received some other editorial notice. The report can be made available for Authors, Editors, Reviewers, and publishers through EM’s flexible configuration options and can be used as a new decision-support tool within the system. In addition to validating Author research, this integration will allow journal offices to efficiently verify references ultimately improving the quality of their scholarly output.

Josh Nicholson, co-founder and CEO of scite, said of the partnership, “We’re very excited to be integrating our Reference Check into the Aries submission system to help ensure reliable references are cited. Recent news has highlighted that many new studies are erroneously citing retracted COVID-19 research. We think our integration can help stop this problem and help authors, editors, and peer reviewers ensure that reliable references are used. ”

Aries Managing Director Jennifer Fleet added, “The validity of scientific research is critical, and even more so in these times of uncertainty. Scite delivers a powerful tool that will allow Editorial Manager users to easily evaluate citations, which will help Editors make informed decisions on submitted manuscripts. We are thrilled to partner with Scite through our new manuscript analysis API and are eager to offer this extended functionality to EM users.”

The Smart Citations and Editorial Manager integration will become available with the release of Editorial Manager/ProduXion Manager version 17.0.

#### **About scite | scite.ai

scite is a Brooklyn-based startup that helps researchers better discover and evaluate scientific articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contradicting evidence. Scite is used by researchers from dozens of countries and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health. For more information, please visit scite, follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook, and download our Chrome or Firefox plugin. For careers, please see our jobs page.

#### **About Aries Systems | www.ariessys.com

Aries Systems transforms the way scholarly publishers bring high-value content to the world. Aries’ innovative workflow solutions manage the complexities of modern print and electronic publishing — from submission, to editorial management and peer review, to production tracking and publishing channel distribution. As the publishing environment evolves, Aries Systems is committed to delivering solutions that help publishers and scholars enhance the discovery and dissemination of human knowledge on a global scale. Aries Systems was acquired by Elsevier, Inc in September 2018. Publish faster, publish smarter, with Aries Systems.