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Start and organize a research project
Use these before the project becomes difficult to retrace: plan the literature search, organize citations, and decide how research data will be managed.
Build a Literature Search Strategy
Leave with a testable search, a retrieval check, and a record you can rerun.
Guide · interactive worksheet · 2-page PDF
Organize Citations and References
Prove that another author can edit the shared library and refresh the manuscript, then record a separate recovery route.
Guide · interactive worksheet · 2-page PDF
Write a Research Data Management Plan
Assign an owner, location, access decision, and release plan to each research output.
Guide · interactive worksheet · 2-page PDF
Prepare and submit a paper
Use these when you have a draft and need to turn it into a complete, journal-ready submission.
Research Manuscript Submission Checklist
Run 42 final checks across journal fit, reporting, methods, ethics, data, references, accessibility, and submission files.
Checklist with PDF and DOCX
Find the Right Reporting Guideline
Choose among CONSORT, PRISMA, STROBE, ARRIVE, and other frameworks based on your study design.
Decision guide
Check Journal Submission Requirements
Compare word limits, abstract formats, figure caps, reference limits, and supplementary-file rules.
Reference table
Write a Journal Cover Letter
Read a complete fictional letter, then build a journal-specific version whose claims and required fields you can verify.
Guide · interactive worksheet · 2-page PDF
Understand Desk Rejection Risk
Learn the recurring reasons editors stop manuscripts before peer review and what you can check before submission.
Research report
Choose and evaluate a journal
Use several signals together to build a realistic shortlist and check whether each journal is credible and appropriate.
Explore the Journal Intelligence Dataset
Inspect publisher metric observations with definitions, reporting periods, source links and explicit coverage gaps.
Dataset with CSV and JSON
Compare Journal Acceptance Rates
Look up a journal's acceptance rate, with each figure tagged as publisher-reported, reported or an estimate.
Journal directory
Compare Peer Review Timelines
Look up the median time from submission to acceptance, measured from PubMed records, with first-decision times tagged by source.
Measured dataset + CSV
Interpret Journal Impact Factor
Verify a JIF observation, inspect its context and distribution, and document the narrow conclusion it supports.
Evidence guide + PDF record
Use Journal Metrics Responsibly
Compare CiteScore, SJR, Eigenfactor, h-index, and altmetrics without reducing quality to one number.
Metrics guide
Check Whether a Journal Is Trustworthy
Check a journal's claims against independent records before submitting or paying a fee.
Guide · interactive worksheet · 2-page PDF
Navigate peer review and revision
Understand what happens after submission, respond constructively, and make the next revision or response clear.
Decode a Manuscript Status
Separate what a journal status establishes from what it cannot predict, then record the review model and next controlled action.
Status decoder + PDF record
Respond to Reviewer Comments
Turn one reviewer concern into a traceable decision, revision, and response. Repeat for each comment.
Guide · interactive worksheet · 2-page PDF
Build a Peer Review Decision Record
Trace invitation fit, confidentiality, claims, evidence, issue priority, comments, and the final editor handoff.
Guide + PDF record
Find funding and build your research career
Use these guides for graduate fellowships, postdoctoral awards, academic applications, and research career skills.
Apply for an NIH F31 Fellowship
Review eligibility, application components, scoring, timelines, and common mistakes for PhD applicants.
Guide + PDF
Control an NSF GRFP Application
Lock the current field deadline, verify the eligibility route, map evidence across both statements, and coordinate references.
Guide + PDF
Apply for an NIH F32 Fellowship
Review postdoctoral eligibility, stipend structure, application components, and training-plan expectations.
Guide + PDF
Map an NIH K99/R00 Transition
Verify the current route and research-experience clock, then map what must transfer from mentored K99 work into an independent R00 program.
Guide + PDF
Build a Scientific CV Evidence Record
Arrange scholarly evidence for the reader's decision and label every publication status without inventing a universal template.
Guide + PDF
Build a Faculty Research Statement Evidence Map
Control the exact posting, connect past evidence to a credible future program, and verify every institution-specific fit claim.
Guide + PDF
Run a focused check on your paper
Use one of these free browser checks when you need a quick answer about journal fit, reference integrity, or citation support.
Journal Fit Predictor
Find journals that fit a title and abstract, with scope reasoning and practical strengthening notes.
Free browser tool
Reference Checker
Check a bibliography for missing references, retractions, and evidence that a cited record exists.
Free browser tool
Citation Claim Checker
Resolve a cited paper, inspect source coverage and a verified passage, then export a bounded evidence record.
Free browser tool
Strengthen methods, references, and research workflows
Use these resources when you need practical help with statistics, references, journal fit, or responsible tool use.
Build a Statistical Analysis Decision Record
Trace a scientific question through design, units, outcomes, data states, methods, uncertainty, sensitivity checks, and a bounded claim.
Guide + PDF
Map a Responsible Research AI Use
Set the information boundary before choosing among AI tools, then record accountable judgment, validation, reproducibility, and disclosure.
Guide + PDF
Build a Systematic Review Control Map
Preserve the decisions and evidence that move from protocol through search, selection, study linkage, appraisal, synthesis, and PRISMA reporting.
Guide + PDF
Research datasets and evidence
Check methodology, coverage, and limitations before reusing a finding.
Journal Submission Source Map
Trace the official journal, publisher, society, and author-center instructions that control a real submission decision.
Official-source map · Versioned study · methodology · downloadable data
Journal Requirements Observatory
Compare how journal requirements differ, then use the linked official sources to verify the rule before you act.
Requirements dataset · Transparent scope · comparison view · change history
Retracted Citation Study
See how often 12,402 recent biomedical papers cite retracted, corrected, or expression-of-concern references, with downloadable data and methodology.
Data study · CSV and JSON · methodology · citation badge
Research Publishing Support Observatory
See how clearly universities publicly surface support from literature search through publication, with evidence and limitations shown.
Institutional evidence preview · Provisional calibration release · correction path · methodology
Teaching and library materials
Use an existing guide in a class, workshop, or institutional resource list.
Source Map teaching kit
Practice tracing a submission decision to its controlling source.
Teaching guide · PDF
Journal requirements workshop
Compare requirements and identify what needs verification before submission.
Workshop guide · PDF
Library and research support kit
Review reuse terms and copy a resource listing for a library or research-support page.
Library kit · PDF
For library systems and research portals
The versioned catalog lists every reviewed live edition, stable distribution, reuse boundary, and correction route. Internal review is stated explicitly and is not institutional endorsement.
Trusted external resources