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The five things that decide whether your paper gets published.
One short lesson a day, worked on the project you have right now. Most researchers are never taught any of this until a rejection teaches it the expensive way.
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- The 42-Point Pre-Submission Checklist, instant. Every reason a paper gets desk-rejected before a human reads it. It lands in your inbox the second you sign up.
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Built on the standard of a network of 35+ active reviewers, including current Nature, Cell, and Science reviewers.
What you walk away with
In five days, you will have built
Your Contribution Sentence
One sentence that says what you are actually claiming. Get this sharp and every later decision gets easier.
Your Gap Map
The three closest papers to yours, and exactly what you add that they do not. This is what separates "interesting" from "publishable".
A Design-to-Publish checklist
The decisions that become impossible to fix once your data is in. Catch them now, while you still can.
An abstract, and how the game works
Write your abstract before the paper to find out if you have a finding. Then see how editors and reviewers actually decide.
I built this with the scientists who make these decisions, reviewers for journals like Nature, Cell, and Science. It is the coaching a well-connected lab gives its students, written down for the researchers who do not have it.
Erik Jia, Founder of Manusights. I reply to every email you send back.