Ensure Accurate Manuscript Submission: Master Pre-Submission Checks Using Our Platform Efficiently!
Academic researchers eagerly anticipate the final draft of their manuscripts, ready for submission to prominent journals. However, manuscript rejection before peer review can be a disheartening experience, often due to minor oversights such as missing conflict of interest or ethics statements. A significant contributor to these rejections is the manuscript's failure to pass the initial technical screening, as identified by Peter Thrower, PhD, former Editor-in-Chief of Carbon. Issues like outdated references, poor language quality, and incomplete disclosures are among the top reasons for desk rejection.
With the ever-expanding number of academic journals, the manuscript submission process can be challenging, particularly for first-time authors. Each journal has its unique set of instructions and submission guidelines, making it tough for authors to navigate the process. While journals share common submission requirements such as guidelines on manuscript metadata, disclosures, figures/tables, word counts, references, and language, the requirements vary between publications.
To ascertain whether these requirements have been met, introducing our platform, Preflight, could revolutionize the manuscript submission process. Preflight is an AI-powered manuscript submission readiness check that ensures your manuscript never fails the technical checks for submission.
Trained on millions of editorial corrections, Preflight assesses the pre-submission readiness of academic manuscripts. It quickly scans manuscripts for compliance with key journal requirements while identifying potential language errors that could potentially hamper journal acceptance.
The process simplifies when you upload your final draft manuscript for processing by Preflight. The AI tool scans your paper and checks it against the relevant journal requirements, promptly flagging inadequacies and explaining how to easily rectify them.
Preflight offers several pre-submission checks crucial to ensuring the manuscript's success. Some of these include:
- Language and grammar evaluation: Preflight's core AI-powered language and grammar error correction tool evaluates various aspects of English language, including grammar, readability, and vocabulary. Additionally, authors can download their document with language suggestions incorporated as tracked changes. This helps improve the manuscript's language and guarantees that your manuscript will never be rejected due to poor language.
- Reference quality assessment: Our platform individually analyzes each citation and reference in a manuscript, ensuring one-to-one correspondence between the citations and references. It also assesses the age of the references, the number of references included, and the use of self-citations.
- Structural compliance and adherence to word count: Preflight also scans manuscripts to ensure the presence of all the recommended structural components for journal submission, such as an abstract, main text, references, and conformity to the IMRAD format (Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion).
- Figures and tables: Our platform also checks for table and figure citations within the main text, validating the presence of respective captions within the manuscript.
- Key metadata and disclosure statements: The AI tool verifies the presence of relevant metadata (author names, affiliations, email IDs, keywords, etc.) and standard statements (conflict of interest statement, data availability, ethics statement, funding information, etc.).
In conclusion, Preflight's roster of detailed language and technical checks ensures that authors need not worry about missing details within lengthy journal guidelines. Moreover, Preflight eliminates the concern of desk rejection due to these avoidable oversights. As an advanced solution for manuscript submission in the age of automation, Preflight simplifies the manuscript submission process, making it as straightforward as possible for authors.
- To ensure academic manuscripts are ready for submission, authors can use Preflight, an AI-powered platform that checks manuscripts against journal requirements and identifies potential language errors.
- Preflight's language and grammar evaluation tool can improve the manuscript's language quality, preventing rejection due to poor language.
- In addition to language checks, Preflight assesses the quality of references, structural compliance, and adherence to word count, ensuring a successful manuscript submission.
- Preflight also verifies the presence of key metadata and disclosure statements, often overlooked in many manuscript submissions.
- The use of Preflight can simplify the complex manuscript submission process, especially for first-time authors navigating multiple journal requirements.
- With Preflight, authors can leverage technology for education and self-development, improving their academic writing and increasing their chances of publication in data-and-cloud-computing driven environments.
