Across Ayurveda, traditional medicine, and resource-limited settings, clinicians sit on years of cases, registers, and insight that never become published evidence — not for lack of substance, but for lack of methodological support. CollabScience exists to close that gap, without money changing hands.
A practitioner with two hundred OPD records and a genuine clinical question has three bad options today: shelve it, struggle alone through unfamiliar methods, or pay a "publication service" that sells ghostwriting and authorship — the kind of outfit that damages careers and corrodes trust in the literature. The missing fourth option is the obvious one: a credited collaborator. A statistician, methodologist, or writer who joins the project on the byline, does real work, and is recognised for it. CollabScience makes that introduction — and nothing more.
A researcher completes the Study Design Wizard, which turns a vague need into a structured project brief: suggested design, reporting checklist, ethics requirements, and the contributor roles the project needs. We match that brief to verified contributors by skill (CRediT roles) and language, and send one introduction email with a pre-filled ICMJE collaboration agreement. The parties work together directly — off-platform, on their own terms. When the manuscript is deposited to OSF, every contributor receives a timestamped CRediT Contribution Certificate anchored to that public deposit.
The opposite. Paper mills sell authorship to people who didn't contribute. CollabScience introduces collaborators who do the work and are credited for exactly what they did — with an agreement signed before work begins and a public, verifiable record after it ends. There is nothing to buy, and no way to pay.
Nothing, for anyone, in any direction. The platform runs on free-tier infrastructure and costs its maintainer roughly the price of a domain name per year.
You and your collaborators. CollabScience stores the project brief, the agreement, and the certificate — never your data, your drafts, or your correspondence.
Your certificates survive. They are deposited on OSF with persistent identifiers, independent of this website. The platform is designed so that nothing of lasting value lives only here.
No. CollabScience matches humans to humans. Every listing and every certificate carries a mandatory AI-disclosure statement, so the role of any AI assistance is on the record.
CollabScience is maintained by Akhil, a health economist at the Regional Resource Centre for Health Technology Assessment (RRC-HTA), SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram. It is a personal, non-commercial project — built because the fourth option described above should exist, and nobody else was building it.