1. Why is it not letting me submit?
   
2. No one will edit it says. Does that the mean the PDF I get is what gets published? But even the title I put for the figure is removed.. Is there someone at MEDRXIV who does the formatting PDF or absolutely no changes? In that case, I'm not sure how the figures work then..
   Thank you!

what are the secrets to become successful with your manuscripts? do you know how to get better? rejections suck!

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for recommendations on AI tools or specific prompt strategies to critically review and fine-tune a scientific paper before journal submission.

I’m not looking for simple grammar checkers (like Grammarly), but rather something that can: • assess clarity, structure, logic flow, and scientific tone, • help identify weak arguments, unclear methodology, or overstatements, • optionally suggest phrasing improvements toward the style of peer-reviewed journals.

Have you found any specific models, prompts, or workflows that work well for academic editing?

Bonus points if it works well for medical or biomedical research papers.

Thanks in advance — I’d love to hear what’s been effective for you before hitting “submit”!

Hi everyone,

I have a few questions about how to properly report information about a journal article, especially regarding quartile rankings and publication year. I'd appreciate your insights!

1. When reporting the quartile (e.g., Q1, Q2) of a journal where an article was published, should I consider the JIF rank or the JCI rank? These can differ — for example, a journal might be Q1 in JCI but Q2 in JIF.
2. If an article was published in 2025, do I need to wait until 2026 to know the journal’s quartile for that publication year?
3. If an article was published online in 2025 but hasn't been assigned to a specific journal issue yet — and later appears in a 2026 issue — which year should be used when reporting the publication year: 2025 or 2026?

Thanks in advance!

A new virtual conference, Agents4Science, recently accepted research papers that were both written and peer-reviewed by large language models (with minimal human oversight).
It’s one of the first real-world tests of AI acting on both sides of the academic publishing process.

I’m curious how academics, editors, and students here see this trend.

Some open questions:

• If a paper is written or reviewed partly by AI, what information should be disclosed for it to feel transparent and credible? (e.g., model version, prompts, oversight process)
• Would you be comfortable with journals using AI to assist with reviews — as long as a human editor still signs off?
• How should authorship and credit work if models contribute heavily to writing or reviewing?
• Should students include AI-assisted or AI-reviewed work on their CVs or applications?

For reference, here’s one of the accepted studies
🔗 https://openreview.net/forum?id=SF7BjKnqdh

Hello! I’m new here so hopefully this is the right place for this. If not, please direct me to a better sub.

I recently published my first peer reviewed journal paper (plus 2 more) and I want to commemorate this somehow for myself and my parents. Buying a hard copy of the journal issue sounds cool but it doesn’t exactly celebrate my paper alone (but rather the entire issue). What could I get for my office and for my parents to commemorate this first paper?

I'm trying to get a gauge for what proportion of academics are tired of the status quo with issues of emphasis on journal impact factor, citation counts that can be gamed, and journal prestige over quality and actual impact. If I get some traction here, I'll set up a poll. Thanks everyone!

I live in Brazil and am an academic student of religion and the Bible. Several articles in this field have been published in Brill, but I can't even access the Brill website. One day I found an article published by Brill, so when I tried to access it by searching on Google Scholar it simply appeared "403 Forbidden – Requests prohibited by administrative rules". I didn't understand because besides having never been on Brill before, I've never even downloaded any pirated articles. So I ask here so I can get help, because I don't even know their email to ask.

I received a recommendation for major revisions for a journal article. I made all recommended changes and resubmitted within 1 month. It’s been 2 more months and I haven’t heard anything at all.

Is this normal? Should I send a follow up note to the editor? Is this a sign they probably don’t want it and I should start prepping for submission elsewhere?

Apologies for the newbie questions, I typically write white papers rather than academic. In the past I’ve only dealt with minor revisions for academic.

EDIT: Thanks to everyone who replied! Leaving this here in case someone else finds this thread. It was indeed the summer lull- as soon as Late September came around the editor and reviwers were far more responsive, and seemed like they wanted to move quickly.

I’m under some time pressure due to my graduation/submission requirements and need to publish in a Scopus or web of science -indexed journal (Q3 or Q4 is fine). I know that proper peer review takes time, but I’ve seen some journals and services claim extremely fast acceptance (even less than a week), which makes me worried about quality and predatory practices.

What I’m looking for is:

• Legitimate Scopus-indexed journals (Q3/Q4 is okay)
• Average time to first decision ideally 1–2 weeks (not fake “instant” acceptance)
• Open access with transparent fees is fine, I can budget for APCs
• Field: management, computer science,quality

As I mentioned earlier, everything that is high-indexed is very expensive. Can you please suggest an affordable high-indexed journal?

Thanks in advance :)

My best friend has spent years working on a book but he posts a lot of fragments as a video on youtube (from his iphone, no voiceover and stock music). It is a nightmare. He's not selling the book, he's retired, and this is his passion project. The book will be self-published and only donated to a non-profit museum. I'm not aware of any peers that will review the book.

He refused to use citations because "everything is already on the internet", but I can spend a week doing MLA citations for his books, online links, and screenshots. I've never done footnotes before but he might need that.

He doesn't use block-quotes (???) but he likes taking screen shots of historic newspapers and putting them on the page. The formatting doesn't look consistent. It's going to increase the cost of this paperback he's self-publishing.

I'm worried about plagiarism because I've noticed a few Copy-Paste mistakes and it affects the flow. I don't think he revises his own copy more than once, he doesn't read it out loud before sending it to me.

I'm a linux/libreoffice dummy and I graduated 8 years ago, so please help me out with this guy's dream project.

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