The Submission-Ready System

What you will be able to do

By the end of each module, and the artifact you keep from it.

• 00

  You will know exactly where your paper stands and what the system will do about it.

  You keep: Your starting snapshot

• 01

  You will have a claim worth publishing and the three journals it belongs in.

  You keep: Journal-selection shortlist

• 02

  You will read impact factor and the other metrics correctly, and pick the right-tier, real journal for your claim.

  You keep: Your target-journal metric and indexing check

• 03

  You will know the high-leverage moves (preprints, registered reports, pre-submission inquiries, and the small levers) that most researchers never learn.

  You keep: Your submission-tactics checklist

• 04

  You will have a skeleton reviewers cannot reject on structure.

  You keep: Manuscript skeleton + section checklist

• 05

  You will write clearly and catch the objections a reviewer would raise, first.

  You keep: Pre-submission self-review checklist

• 06

  Your figures and tables will make the argument at a glance and survive a reviewer reading them fast.

  You keep: Figure and table review checklist

• 07

  You will have a cover letter and a clean, complete package ready to submit.

  You keep: Cover letter + submission checklist

• 08

  You will understand the review models and timelines, pre-empt the reviewer, decode any decision letter, write the response that gets a paper accepted, and ladder down without losing momentum.

  You keep: Response-to-reviewers template + your rejection cascade

• 09

  You will turn one paper into a publication habit, and set the next one up to move faster.

  You keep: A repeatable system for the next paper