The Publishing Toolkit.
One practical tool for each step, from idea to acceptance. Your drafts stay in your own browser. Bookmark this page and share it.
- 1Learn the essentials
- 2Plan the study
- 3Choose the journal
- 4Write it right
- 5Submit
- 6Revise
LEARNLearn the essentials
PLANPlan the study
Study Idea Suggester
Describe your study in plain words. Get the design, PICO, rephrased titles, objectives, hypotheses and analysis plan. Built with NLP rules and a statistical classifier, with no AI chatbot.
Open toolResearch question, objectives & hypotheses
Turn your idea into a research question in every framework (PICO, PECO, SPIDER, PCC, PIRD and more), check it with FINER, and get SMART objectives and H₀/H₁ hypotheses.
Open toolStudy design finder
Answer 2–3 questions. Get the right design, what it can and cannot claim, and its reporting guideline.
Open toolSample size calculator
Prevalence, two proportions or two means, with design effect and non-response. Gives a ready Methods sentence.
Open toolReporting guideline finder
EQUATOR-based: pick your study type and get the checklist, current version and extensions (AI, routine data, abstracts).
Open toolCHOOSEChoose the journal
WRITEWrite it right
Manuscript readiness check
Scan your abstract for causal overclaiming, spin, p-value and abbreviation problems, then work through the submission checklist.
Open toolReference & DOI checker
Paste your reference list. Each one is checked against Crossref: does the DOI exist, does it match the title, is it retracted? Catches typos and AI-fabricated references.
Open toolAuthorship & CRediT builder
Tick each author’s roles and check them against the four ICMJE criteria. Get a ready contribution statement.
Open toolResponsible AI kit
Build safe prompts for language editing and feedback, and generate an AI-use disclosure statement for your manuscript.
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