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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.
Course10 modules30 lessonsFree
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.
ToolInstantNo account
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.
GuideOriginal research
Journal fit finder
Describe the paper and get a shortlist of journals it actually fits, with the scope language each one uses to decide.
ToolInstantNo 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.
ToolInstant
Methodology check
Whether your methods section contains what a reviewer needs to believe the result, and what a replication would need to repeat it.
ToolInstant
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.
Data57 journalsFree
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.
Data57 journalsFree
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.
DataOriginal analysisFree
Word, figure and reference limits for 57 journals
Word counts, figure and table limits, reference caps and abstract requirements, gathered from current author guidelines in one table.
Data57 journalsFree
Which reporting guideline fits your study
CONSORT for trials, PRISMA for reviews, STROBE for observational work, ARRIVE for animal research, and ten more, with how to tell which one you owe.
GuideFree
How to identify a predatory journal
The red flags, the verification steps, and the harder question underneath: what separates a predatory venue from a legitimate low-tier one.
GuideFree
The NIH F31 predoctoral fellowship
Eligibility, award amounts, every application component, how reviewers score it, and the mistakes that sink an otherwise strong application.
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The NIH F32 postdoctoral fellowship
Eligibility, current stipend rates, the application components, and the strategy questions a postdoc has to answer before writing anything.
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The NIH K99/R00 award
The eligibility window that catches people out, how the K99 and R00 phases differ, the review criteria, and what makes an application fail.
GuideFree
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Eligibility, the Personal and Research Statements, how Broader Impacts is actually judged, and how the review process works.
GuideFree
Writing the cover letter, with examples
What editors actually read, what belongs in it, the mistakes that trigger a desk rejection on their own, and worked examples for different situations.
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The 42-point submission checklist
Journal fit, reporting standards, authorship, ethics, evidence and accessibility, worked as a checklist you fill in rather than an article you read.
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How to respond to peer reviewers
Writing the point-by-point response: what editors expect to see, how to handle a reviewer who is wrong, and how to disagree without losing the paper.
GuideFree
How peer review actually works
Single-blind against double-blind against open review, what happens between submission and decision, and who is deciding what at each stage.
GuideFree
How to write a peer review
For when you are the reviewer: structure, tone, declaring a conflict, and writing comments an author can act on rather than resent.
GuideFree
Open access, APCs and mandates
What an APC will cost you, what the NIH and UKRI mandates require, and the open-access route for 57 top biomedical journals.
Guide57 journalsFree
Preprints: bioRxiv, medRxiv and journal policy
When posting a preprint helps and when it costs you, how bioRxiv and medRxiv work, and the preprint policy for 57 top journals.
Guide57 journalsFree
Data sharing requirements
The NIH Data Sharing Policy in plain terms, what journals want in a data availability statement, and where each type of data should be deposited.
GuideFree
Research data management plan checklist
Planning files, documentation, storage, access, sharing and preservation before the data exists, which is the only time it is cheap.
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Statistics for biomedical researchers
Choosing the right test, doing a power analysis, and the statistical mistakes reviewers catch most often.
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How to conduct a systematic review
PROSPERO registration, building the search, data extraction, risk of bias, meta-analysis, and the PRISMA reporting you will be held to.
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Literature search strategy worksheet
Turning a research question into a documented, reproducible search, which is also what a systematic review will later require of you.
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Citation management that survives a project
Choosing a manager, organising sources, removing duplicates, and checking references before they embarrass you in review.
GuideFreeNo login
Journal metrics: impact factor, CiteScore, SJR, h-index
What each metric measures, how they differ, and which one answers the question you are actually asking.
GuideFree
Impact factor, explained for authors
How it is calculated, why comparing it across fields is meaningless, and how much weight it deserves when you choose where to submit.
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What rights you keep after publication
Copyright transfer against licensing, what you may still do with your own work, green open access, and where repositories fit.
GuideFree
Writing a scientific CV
Section order, formatting publications, authorship notation, and what a hiring committee is scanning for in the first thirty seconds.
GuideFree
Writing an academic research statement
Past work, current work and future direction, written so a faculty hiring committee can see a programme rather than a list.
GuideFree
AI tools for researchers, by workflow stage
Forty-plus tools sorted by what you are actually doing: literature search, writing, journal selection, pre-submission review, figures.
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The journal intelligence atlas
Benchmark records, field maps, review timing, submission requirements and fee structures, browsable rather than searched one journal at a time.
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The biomedical publishing reference library
The curated index of everything above: desk rejection, submission readiness, journal benchmarks and the rest, in one place.
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The academic publishing process
Preprints, publication ethics, why papers get rejected, the risks that appear at acceptance stage, and how the process fits together.
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Journal selection and fit
Scope fit, novelty checks, journal comparisons, and how to read a selective journal honestly before you spend three months on it.
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Preparing the manuscript
Cover letters, figures, responding to reviewers, and the preparation decisions that are made long before submission.
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Desk rejection
What the editor screen actually catches, journal by journal, and the manuscript patterns that end a submission before review.
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Open access and APCs
What publishing open access costs, how to read a fee structure, and how to assess journal quality when the incentives run the other way.
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Reading the decision letter
Major revisions, rejections, appeals and transfers: what the letter is actually telling you, and what it is asking you to do next.
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Revision and rebuttal
Working a major revision, writing the response letter, and when an appeal is worth making rather than moving the paper on.
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What reviewers actually flag
Reviewer behaviour, the statistical red flags that get caught, figure-level feedback, and how a cover letter changes the read.
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After a rejection
Why it happened, whether to transfer, how to retarget, and the submission strategy that follows rather than starting over blind.
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Publishing ethics and preprints
Preprint practice, salami slicing, prompt injection in review, and the trust questions that now sit around a submission.
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Journal AI policies
What each journal requires you to disclose about AI use, how authorship rules are changing, and what compliance looks like now.
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Research funding
Grant databases, funding pressure, and how publication strategy and funding strategy pull on each other.
CollectionGuide collection
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.
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