Manusights Academy
Learn how to get your research published
Clear, practical help for the next publishing decision, from a first idea to a response to reviewers. Free, and you do not need an account to start.
For librarians and instructors
Bring free publishing support to your researchers.
A ready-to-link kit for a LibGuide, workshop, or research-support page.
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Start with the next decision
All 54 resourcesBegin with a useful action now, then keep building your own publishing judgment.
The Submission-Ready System
The full method, worked on your own paper one task at a time: from naming your contribution to reading the decision letter and writing the response.
Course 30 lessons 15 quick checks 50 min read Free
Read your paper the way an editor will
Upload a manuscript and get the desk-screen read for free: scope fit, the framing problems, and what a reviewer would object to first.
Tool Free preview Your own paper
How often papers cite retracted work
We checked 744,770 citations across 12,402 papers in 54 biomedical journals. 7.1% cited at least one retracted, corrected, or flagged reference.
Guide Original research
Run a check on your paper
All free toolsEvery one of these runs on your own manuscript in the browser, free, with no account.
Reference integrity check
Paste a reference list or a DOI and see which citations are retracted, corrected, or carry an expression of concern, before a reviewer finds them.
Tool Instant No account
Journal fit finder
Describe the paper and get a shortlist of journals it actually fits, with the scope language each one uses to decide.
Tool Instant No account
Citation claim checker
Check whether the paper you cited actually supports the claim you attached to it. Miscitation survives peer review more often than it should.
Tool Instant
Methodology check
Whether your methods section contains what a reviewer needs to believe the result, and what a replication would need to repeat it.
Tool Instant
Continue from where you are
Researchers do not navigate by topic. Pick the situation that sounds like this week.
Getting started
You have results, or nearly, and no idea what the next step looks like.
13 resources
Choosing a journal
Where the paper actually fits, and what the metrics do and do not tell you.
12 resources
Writing the paper
Structure, framing, figures, and the sentences reviewers stop on.
2 resources
Submitting
Cover letters, formatting, declarations, and the desk-screen checklist.
9 resources
Surviving peer review
Reading the decision letter, and writing the response that gets it accepted.
7 resources
Research integrity
References, retractions, statistics, and reporting standards.
11 resources
When you want deeper support
Explore the Manusights products only when the next step is clear. Every product page also includes free material that explains the skill behind it.
Reference data, free to use and to cite
All reference dataAcceptance rates, review timelines and submission limits across 57 biomedical journals, compared in one place and not restricted to one publisher’s list. Free to read, quote, and link from a course page or a library guide.
Where a journal actually states its rules
Scope, package, review model and editorial decisions traced to the official publisher pages that state them, with the review date on every source and the whole dataset open.
Data Official sources Versioned CSV and JSON
What 90 official journal sources show
Reproducible findings from the Source Map corpus, with exact counts, study boundaries, open files and deposit-ready citation metadata.
Data Original findings Open data Citable
The requirement that changes your submission package
The one requirement that differs per journal and quietly reshapes the package, each traced to the publisher page that states it, with evidence status and review dates.
Data Official sources Evidence-dated
Acceptance rates for 57 biomedical journals
What your realistic odds actually are, by field and by journal. Cross-publisher, free, and no subscription, which the publisher-owned journal finders are not.
Data 57 journals Free
Peer review timelines for 57 journals
Time to desk decision against time to first decision after review, compared across journals, so you can plan a submission rather than guess at it.
Data 57 journals Free
The desk rejection report
The editorial patterns that end a submission in four days without a reviewer ever reading it, and what top-tier journals screen for first.
Data Original analysis Free
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The receipts
Taught from real review work
The science that gets published is not always the best science. It is the best-packaged science, and that packaging is learned informally, from someone who has reviewed for a top journal.
Manusights is a working pre-submission review company. We validated the engine against real peer review and published what we found: 12,402 papers and 744,770 citations checked. The Academy teaches from that same corpus of editorial findings.
- 240+
- researchers have paid for a review
- 300+
- manuscripts reviewed before submission
- 35+
- active peer reviewers trained the engine
The Academy is free. What we sell is the platform: the pre-submission review that reads your actual manuscript, and the tools around it.
Read my paper freeAbout this library
- Maintained by
- The Manusights editorial team, from pre-submission review work across thousands of manuscripts.
- Last reviewed
- August 2026
- Reuse
- Free to read, quote and link, with attribution. See the reuse policy.
- Cite this library
- Manusights. Manusights Academy. August 2026. https://manusights.com/academy
Manusights is a for-profit manuscript review company. This library is free to read and needs no account, and a link to it does not imply endorsement of our paid products.