How we research and review these guides

Manusights publishes journal guides on impact factor, acceptance rates, review times, fees, and submission strategy. This page explains how those guides are made, what we verify, where our analysis stops, and who is responsible for it. We would rather tell you exactly how the content is produced than dress it up as something it is not.

Who makes these guides

The guides are researched and maintained by the Manusights editorial team. They use the same AI review engine calibrated from early work with 35+ CNS-experienced reviewers and senior scientists. Every guide draws on what we see across the thousands of manuscripts that come through our pre-submission review. That is the part a generic summary of a journal cannot reproduce.

To be clear about what that means: the reviewer work shaped the engine. It does not mean a named reviewer reviews your specific manuscript at the AI tiers. Our $39 Full Review and $99 Submission-Ready Dossier are AI reviews. A human review is available at the premium Concierge tier.

Our sources

For factual claims about a journal we work from primary sources, and we say which one:

• The journal's own author guidelines and editorial pages for scope, format, and policy.
• The 2025 Journal Citation Reports for the Journal Impact Factor, labeled by its data year.
• Scopus and CiteScore, and community reports such as SciRev, for review-time ranges.
• Our own pre-submission review observations, kept visibly separate from official figures.

We do not attribute acceptance rates to the Journal Citation Reports, and we do not invent year by year trend tables. Where a value is an estimate, we label it as one.

What we verify

Content runs through automated checks before it publishes: retraction and citation-integrity checks, metric consistency across the journal cluster, corpus-claim verification, and link liveness. The aim is to catch the easily verified factual errors that erode trust, not to bluff certainty we do not have.

Where our analysis stops

These guides are our analysis, not the journal's official position. Editorial boards, fees, and acceptance criteria change, sometimes between our update and your submission. Before you submit, confirm the current values on the journal's own pages. If you find something wrong on one of our pages, tell us at team@manusights.com and we will fix it.

Who is responsible

Manusights is the publisher of this content. Editorial responsibility sits with Erik Jia, Founder, Manusights. Corrections and questions about how a guide was researched are welcome.