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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.
Course 30 lessons 15 quick checks 50 min read Free
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
How often papers cite retracted work
We checked 744,770 citations across 12,402 papers in 54 selected biomedical journals. 1.4% (about 1 in 73) cited work that had been retracted or given an expression of concern by June 2026; 7.1% including corrections.
Guide Original 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.
Tool Instant No account
Citation claim checker
Compare one claim with one resolved source, inspect the exact passage and coverage boundary, and export a citation evidence record.
Tool Instant
How the free tools work
The data sources, models and rules behind the free tools, what each one checks, and what it cannot verify.
Tool Instant
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
Teaching the source map in a class or a lab meeting
A ready-to-run session on finding where a journal states its requirements, built on the source map. Made for librarians and supervisors to use as it is.
Tutorial For librarians and supervisors Ready to run
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 by journal
Acceptance rates across publishers, each labeled as publisher-reported, reported or an estimate. A journal statistic, not the odds for your paper.
Data Labeled by source Free
Peer review timelines by journal
Median time from submission to acceptance for research articles, measured from PubMed records, with first-decision times alongside, so you can plan a submission rather than guess at it.
Data Measured from PubMed CSV 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
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.
Data 57 journals Free
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.
Guide Free
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.
Guide Free
The NIH F31 predoctoral fellowship
Eligibility, award amounts, every application component, how reviewers score it, and the mistakes that sink an otherwise strong application.
Guide Free
The NIH F32 postdoctoral fellowship
Eligibility, current stipend rates, the application components, and the strategy questions a postdoc has to answer before writing anything.
Guide Free
NIH K99/R00 independence transfer
Current routes, the postdoctoral research-experience clock, Forms-I limits, review criteria, and a portable K99-to-R00 transition worksheet.
Guide Free
NSF GRFP 2027 application control
Current NSF 26-526 eligibility, field deadlines, statement controls, reference tracking, review criteria, and a printable planning pack.
Guide Free PDF
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.
Guide Free
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.
Guide Free No login
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.
Guide Free
Peer review status decoder
Interpret a manuscript status from the named publisher source, document the review model, and avoid turning a dashboard label into an outcome prediction.
Guide Free PDF record
Peer review decision record
For invited reviewers: protect confidentiality, trace claims to evidence, prioritize issues, and build comments another editor or author can act on.
Guide Guide + PDF record Free
Open access route decision record
Choose the required manuscript version, repository, timing, license and funding route before paying a publication charge.
Guide Guide + PDF Free
Preprint release decision
Run a go/no-go gate across journal policy, author consent, intellectual property, ethics, public claims and version stewardship.
Guide Guide + PDF Free
Data sharing release record
Trace each data object through rights, access, repository, metadata, release timing and stewardship decisions.
Guide Guide + PDF Free
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.
Guide Free No login
Statistical analysis decision record
A source-backed provenance record connecting the research question, design, data state, method, uncertainty and bounded claim.
Guide Guide + PDF Free
Systematic review control map
A protocol-to-reporting decision ledger for search provenance, selection flow, study linkage, appraisal, synthesis, and PRISMA locations.
Guide Guide + PDF Free
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.
Guide Free No login
Citation management that survives a project
Choosing a manager, organising sources, removing duplicates, and checking references before they embarrass you in review.
Guide Free No 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.
Guide Free
Interpret Journal Impact Factor responsibly
Verify the edition, inspect the formula and citation distribution, reject invalid uses, and make a reproducible interpretation record.
Guide Guide PDF
Author rights decision record
Review one work, version and intended use against the signed agreement, funder or institutional rights, repository policy, open license and third-party material.
Guide Guide + PDF Free
Scientific CV evidence architecture
Arrange scholarly evidence for the reader's decision, label publication status accurately and distinguish a CV from the current NIH biosketch.
Guide Guide + PDF Free
Faculty research statement evidence map
Control the posting, map contribution evidence, design a credible future programme and verify institution-specific fit.
Guide Guide + PDF Free
Research AI permission map
Choose the information boundary before the tool, then record accountable judgment, validation, reproducibility and disclosure.
Guide Guide + PDF Free
The journal intelligence atlas
Benchmark records, field maps, review timing, submission requirements and fee structures, browsable rather than searched one journal at a time.
Collection Free
The biomedical publishing reference library
The curated index of everything above: desk rejection, submission readiness, journal benchmarks and the rest, in one place.
Collection Free
The academic publishing process
Preprints, publication ethics, why papers get rejected, the risks that appear at acceptance stage, and how the process fits together.
Collection Guide collection
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.
Collection Guide collection
Preparing the manuscript
Cover letters, figures, responding to reviewers, and the preparation decisions that are made long before submission.
Collection Guide collection
Desk rejection
What the editor screen actually catches, journal by journal, and the manuscript patterns that end a submission before review.
Collection Guide collection
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.
Collection Guide collection
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.
Collection Guide collection
Revision and rebuttal
Working a major revision, writing the response letter, and when an appeal is worth making rather than moving the paper on.
Collection Guide collection
What reviewers actually flag
Reviewer behaviour, the statistical red flags that get caught, figure-level feedback, and how a cover letter changes the read.
Collection Guide collection
After a rejection
Why it happened, whether to transfer, how to retarget, and the submission strategy that follows rather than starting over blind.
Collection Guide collection
Publishing ethics and preprints
Preprint practice, salami slicing, prompt injection in review, and the trust questions that now sit around a submission.
Collection Guide collection
Journal AI policies
What each journal requires you to disclose about AI use, how authorship rules are changing, and what compliance looks like now.
Collection Guide collection
Research funding
Grant databases, funding pressure, and how publication strategy and funding strategy pull on each other.
Collection Guide 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.
Tool Free preview Your own paper
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