Springer Nature helps streamline researcher workflows and boost open sharing with AI-powered protocols
New AI capabilities on protocols.io help researchers create, translate, and reproduce methods—all with the aim of accelerating global collaboration in open science and improving workflow efficiency
London | New York | Berlin, 17 December 2025
Springer Nature, the world’s largest publisher of protocols, has made open sharing easier for researchers by integrating new generative AI-powered features into its protocols.io platform, reducing manual effort and supporting researchers with more efficient workflows. These enhancements will help scientists collaborate globally and advance reproducible research by enabling protocols to be automatically created, providing multilingual translation, and improving discoverability – saving them time.
Robin Padilla, Product Director, Digital Life Science Solutions, Springer Nature, commented:
“At Springer Nature, we see responsible AI use as one way to accelerate open, transparent, and reproducible science. By integrating these features into protocols.io, we are enhancing our offering for researchers, making open research practice simple and accessible for all - while improving research workflow efficiency and ensuring ethical and accountable AI practices.”
The AI-enhanced features support researchers with:
- Prompt-based protocol creation with error-reduction suggestions to improve reproducibility.
- Automatic conversion – of Word or PDF files into structured protocols—saving time and reducing manual formatting.
- Multilingual collaboration – automatic translation of private protocols across 36 languages, enables global teams to work in their own language, on the same protocol, without losing precision.
- AI generated summaries of feedback highlighting key points and unresolved comments on a protocol, for faster review and action.Experimental troubleshooting – automatic suggestions to resolve common issues, reducing errors and keeping experiments on track.
- Smarter AI search improving discovery across 23,000+ public protocols.
- Automatic translations of public protocols into French, Spanish, German, Chinese, and Japanese, helping to improve discoverability and equity.
Lenny Teytelman, Founder of protocols.io, added:
“Since launching protocols.io in 2014, we’ve worked closely with researchers to understand the barriers to sharing and reproducing methods. These new AI-powered capabilities directly address those challenges—making protocols easier to create, more discoverable, and faster to reuse. Researchers can now spend less time on admin and more time advancing their work – boosting productivity and collaboration.”
Scientific advancement depends on data credibility and work that can be verified, built upon and reproduced. Sharing all elements of research, including data, methods and materials, and even negative results, makes research more efficient, enables reproducibility and therefore builds trust in science. By laying out detailed step-by-step instructions for research methods, aiming to standardise the process, ensure accuracy of results and enabling research to be reproduced, protocols have a vital role to play in addressing this.
With these AI enhancements, protocols.io — a platform for creating, managing, sharing, translating and reproducing research methods and protocols — becomes an even more powerful platform for researchers worldwide—supporting transparency, collaboration, and accelerating scientific progress for the global community.
More on the publishers’ approach to the use of AI can be found here, and its commitment to open science here, alongside its OA report.
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Please note, some areas of protocols.io require a subscription. For details on access visit https://www.protocols.io/ .
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Felicitas Kalb-Behrendt | External Communications | Springer Nature
felicitas.kalb-behrendt@springernature.com
