Submission-Ready Dossier
Everything the submission portal asks for, prepared.
The deeper report: a reviewer-style critique from multiple perspectives, a journal-fit read, and the submission package around it. For the paper you are about to send rather than the one you are still drafting.
Start here
The free material that teaches the same skill. Read all of it without buying anything.
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
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
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
Also worth reading
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
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
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
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
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