ORCID-verified · Encrypted messaging

Sixteen digits are the only introduction you need.

Scholar Chat checks every member against the public ORCID registry, then gets out of the way. Find the author of the paper you just read, and write to them directly.

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Free for researchers No advertising Encrypted in transit and at rest
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Verified scholars Every one checked against ORCID
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Digits of identity Your ORCID iD is the whole credential
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A secret per conversation One thread never unlocks another
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Messages kept as plain text Sealed before it leaves your browser
Registration, in order

Verification comes first. Everything else follows.

It takes about a minute. We check who you are before you can see anyone else — that ordering is what keeps impersonation out of the directory.

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Sign in with ORCID

You authenticate on orcid.org, and ORCID tells us the iD is yours. Typing an iD would prove nothing — they are public, printed on every paper you have written.

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Complete your profile

ORCID gives us an iD and a name, and nothing else. Add an address colleagues can reach you at, your title and your field, and the directory has something to show.

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Search, then write

Browse by discipline, institution or iD. Open a thread in one click — every message is sealed in your browser before it is sent.

The platform

Built for how correspondence actually works

I read a preprint at 11pm and had its author's notes on my draft by morning.

What the directory is for — finding one specific person, fast

Researchers only

ORCID at the door and a completed profile behind it. No anonymous accounts, no bots in your inbox.

Search that knows the field

Name, institution, research interest or a full ORCID iD — with the h-index and publication count beside every result.

Live, not near-live

Messages stream over an open connection, and a single tick turns blue the moment your colleague opens the thread.

Manuscripts in the thread

Attach PDFs, figures and datasets where the discussion is, instead of losing them in a mailbox.

Encryption

Unpublished results stay unpublished.

Opening a conversation derives a secret that belongs to just those two people. Every message is sealed in your browser before it is sent, and stays sealed where we keep it.

  • Messages are encrypted before they leave your browser and are never stored as plain text
  • A separate secret per conversation, so one thread never unlocks another
  • No advertising, no analytics on message content, no training on your work
Free for verified researchers

Your next collaborator already has an iD.

Join the researchers using Scholar Chat to review, correspond and co-author — without handing over their unpublished work.

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