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Every course, guide, and tool in the Academy, in one place. All of it free, and none of it needs an account to start.

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From the course

2 modules of The Submission-Ready System cover this. Free to read, no account.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Guide 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

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

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