Manuscript preparation and journal selection for indexed journals — with the honesty that the process requires.
Scope mismatch is the single most common reason for desk rejection, and it has nothing to do with the quality of your research.
We read your manuscript, identify what it actually contributes, and match that to journals whose aims and scope genuinely fit — then check that each one is currently indexed where you think it is.
| Index / Publisher | What you should know |
|---|---|
| Scopus | Elsevier's abstract and citation database. Coverage is reviewed continually and titles are discontinued, so we verify indexing at the time of submission rather than trusting a downloaded list. |
| SCI / SCIE | Science Citation Index Expanded, part of Web of Science. Impact factors are published annually in the Journal Citation Reports. |
| SSCI | Social Sciences Citation Index — the equivalent for social science research. |
| Springer Nature | Manuscript preparation to Springer templates, including their specific reference styles and figure requirements. |
| Elsevier | Elsevier journal formatting, graphical abstracts, highlights and their submission system requirements. |
| SAGE | SAGE house style, structured abstracts and their author guidelines. |
| Emerald | Emerald's structured abstract format, which is stricter than most and a common reason for return. |
| Taylor & Francis | T&F templates, reference styles and supplementary material rules. |
| ABDC | Australian Business Deans Council list — A*, A, B and C categories, widely used for management and commerce in Indian universities. |
| UGC-CARE | The University Grants Commission's list for Indian institutions. Membership changes; we check the current list rather than an archived copy. |
If you have published once, your inbox is already full of these. Here is what they have in common.
Genuine peer review takes weeks at minimum. A promise of rapid acceptance is a promise that nobody will read your paper.
"We admired your esteemed article" — usually about a paper only loosely related to the journal's stated scope.
"Impact Factor" from an organisation nobody has heard of. Real impact factors come from Journal Citation Reports.
Legitimate journals publish their article processing charges openly, before you submit.
Named academics who have never heard of the journal, or a board with no institutional emails.
Check the index's own site, not the journal's claim about itself. This is the single most useful check you can do.
Not in a Scopus journal, not in a Q1 journal, not anywhere. Acceptance is decided by editors and reviewers who have never met us. Any service that guarantees publication is either misleading you or working with journals that do not review — and a paper in one of those can do more harm to your record than no paper at all.
Read our full ethics policySend your topic, your dataset or one draft chapter. We will tell you honestly what it needs — before you pay anything. The first consultation is free.