Summary: The production of scientific publications requires usually the participation of several authors that contribute to the final result according to their role in the work being described. Nevertheless, this is obviously a cooperative activity and requires the simultaneous presence of the collaborators or the exchange of documents and annotations through email. Cooperative editors introduced a further step in the cooperation, but the current solutions do not accommodate issues like referencing and publishing. This gap motivated us to build a platform that integrates the three main functionalities required to effectively produce scientific publications: a cooperative text editor, a cooperative reference manager and a connector to scientific digital repositories. This paper presents this solution, which we called PaperFlow and was specified with the aid of a study conducted with Portuguese and Spanish researchers, which results are also presented, with the aim of evaluating the platform requirements.