Is your paper ready for publication in a high-impact journal? With American Journal Experts' NewReviewTM service, published academics in your field will provide detailed comments about your paper that you would expect from peer review—before you submit your paper for publication.
Our staff of qualified reviewers will examine your work and provide feedback on the experimental design and interpretation of your data, in addition to your manuscript’s organization and clarity. With our NewReview service, you have an opportunity to increase your chance of publication by revising your paper according to our reviewers' suggestions. AJE peer reviewers have PhD and/or MD degrees and current university faculty appointments, are authors of a large number of peer reviewed publications in their fields, and have considerable experience as journal peer reviewers.
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The NewReview service includes English language editing. Each submission will go through our Standard Editing service before journal reviewers see your submission. Therefore, they can concentrate more completely on your research rather than your use of English grammar.
AJE's NewReview service provides:
- English language editing by experts in your subject area
- assessments of the introduction and background information
- evaluations of the experimental design and results
- commentary on the interpretation and conclusions
- feedback on the overall clarity and organization of the manuscript
- advice on altering the text to stay within word count limits
- a final edit for English grammar after you have made changes as suggested by the reviewers
Review levels of service
A field-specific Editor and Managing Editor will edit the manuscript for grammar and text flow.
A PhD expert will provide feedback on the organization, substance, and experimental design of your work.
Once you have revised your manuscript, a field-specific Editor and Managing Editor will edit the manuscript again for grammar and text flow.
Once you have revised your manuscript, a field-specific Editor, Senior Editor and Managing Editor will edit the manuscript again for grammar and text flow.
Our formatting service ensures that your manuscript follows all target journal guidelines, including layout, spacing and references.
Our editing certificate verifies that your paper has been edited for English language by AJE.
AJE now offers NewReviewTM for grants and dissertations:
Grant proposal reviews
- Improve your chances of getting funded. Expert referees in your field will give you an unbiased and confidential peer review of your grant proposal with suggestions for improvement. We guarantee that none of our reviewers are in competition with our customers for funding in the same discipline from the same funding agency.
Dissertation reviews:
- Write a higher quality dissertation for your pre-doctoral or doctoral degree. Our university-based reviewers typically supervise researchers in your area, and they have considerable expertise in guiding students toward their degree.
Questions about our NewReviewTM service? Contact us today.
FAQs
NewReview™
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No, we do not offer any kind of writing services at this time. Your reviewers will certainly point out areas that need to be revised, but writing and condensing papers is the author's responsibility.
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Researchers who use our service have the advantage of knowing which elements of their papers need to be strengthened or changed. Using this service will allow you to fix problems before you submit your paper to a journal. You will be able to submit a stronger manuscript, and your journal should be able to review your paper more quickly.
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Much like a journal peer review, authors can be certain that AJE reviewers are all university-based experts in areas of academic research that match the topics in their manuscripts. Our reviewers have published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and serve on journal editorial boards.
However, the NewReview service for authors is intended as preparation for a journal's peer review process, not as a replacement. Our reviewers are not making an assesment for acceptance for any one particular journal, but instead have the goal of helping a manuscript reach its highest potential in terms of overall quality. Unlike a traditional journal peer review, our experts work with authors to help improve the quality of their papers with the shared goal of producing an improved manuscript.
In addition to a confidential evaluation of your manuscript, NewReview experts also give you numerous suggestions for improving your paper, which is a service rarely offered by journal editors.
The NewReview service gives you faster feedback (about a week from time of submission), than peer review through a journal, which can take up to 6-8 weeks, or even longer. With this feedback, you can improve your paper before it goes to a journal’s peer review, increasing your chances of success.
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Our reviewers are published researchers in your field, tenured professors, and Principal Investigators. They have served on journal review boards and have the experience needed to provide you with detailed, constructive feedback on your paper.
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With both types of NewReview, your paper will receive an initial round of Standard Editing before being sent to our reviewers. After our reviewers comment on your paper, we will send you their report and give you an opportunity to revise your work based on their comments. Then, you can send us your final draft for one last round of English-language editing. This final edit will be either Standard or Premium Editing, based on whether you chose Standard or Premium NewReview.
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Publication is a subjective process, so we are not able to guarantee that you will be published after you use our services. We do guarantee that we will re-edit your paper for free if it is rejected by a journal for reasons of English language alone.
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e-mail us the same draft of your paper that you submitted to your journal along with all of your reviewers’ comments. We will review your files immediately and contact you with additional advice.
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AJE will provide a certificate confirming that your paper was edited by a native English speaker at AJE and, assuming all of the changes we proposed are incorporated into the manuscript, is ready for journal submission. It will allow journal editors to feel confident that the English language in your paper has been reviewed and verified. This certificate is limited to documents that are deemed the highest quality AJE submissions (documents that require only one round of language editing from AJE before they are publication ready). Not every paper will earn a certificate but every paper will have the opportunity. Visit our
Certificate Program page to learn more.
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Find out how much it will cost for the combination of services you need.
Services
Editing: Language polishing by our subject-expert editors.
Review: Our NewReviewTM service provides feedback on your research before you submit to a journal, and includes English-language editing.
Translation: Researchers in your field will translate your paper into English. Our English-language editors will polish your paper further before it's returned to you.
Standard and Premium
When you choose premium paper editing, your manuscript will be sent to two subject-expert editors as well as a managing editor. After the first editor corrects your spelling and grammar, the second editor will make changes and suggestions to enhance your paper's flow and writing style. The managing editor will then make a final round of recommendations and language polishing before returning your manuscript to you.
Length of files to edit
We do not edit numeric tables or references, so they are not included in the word count when calculating the price.
Preferred timeline
Weekends are included in our deadlines, so if you submit your paper on a Thursday with a four-day deadline it will be ready for you by the following Monday. AJE is closed for holidays five days a year and deadlines are delayed on those days. You will see an announcement in your AJE account if there are any upcoming holiday delays.
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