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HSCII • The Human Science Index • "H-Sci"

About

HSCII is a non-profit focused on improving the scientific process, academic culture, and knowledge access.

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Search & Answer

HSCII Organization, 2026

Search and Answer is our approach to navigable academic knowledge. Over 5 million new academic works are published each year (NSF S&E Indicators), with more than 250 million in circulation (OpenAlex). Countless archival resources remain indexed only by title or description, if at all. Search and Answer takes a fine-toothed approach, working at the passage level across tens of millions of academic resources from a fancy prebuilt concept index, The Index.

Basic Pipeline

arxiv.org 2022–present (~1 million papers)

In Development:

Research Platform

HSCII Organization, 2026

Academic publishing still largely follows the philosophy of a time when researchers exchanged letters by mail, first in the 1400s and later formalized in journals by the 1600s. Papers are treated as static, finished objects. Peer review is closed and opaque. Version history is nonexistent. The result is a system out of sync with how the scientific process actually works. Publishing should be iterative, versioned, and collaborative, reflecting the process it represents.

The HSCII Research Platform is a workspace for writing, reviewing, and publishing academic work with full version history, built-in reference management, and consistency checking. Review is open and community-driven, so anyone qualified can contribute. Final work can be packaged for journal or open-access submission directly from the platform.

Publication Workflow

Neptune, captured with the MUSE/GALACSI adaptive optics on ESO's Very Large Telescope. NASA/ESO

Contact

Questions, ideas, or collaboration inquiries. Or email us at contact@hscii.org.