Start where you are now You can join at any stage: an idea, your data, a draft, a reviewer's report or a rejection.
1. Choosing a journal
Where people get stuck: picking a journal that is not indexed, is predatory, or never publishes papers like theirs.
How MyGuide helps: checks a journal you name, live, or finds the journals that fit your work best, each checked for indexing, scope and safety. An unsafe or hijacked journal is always flagged, free.
2. Finding a topic
Where people get stuck: a topic that is too broad, already done, or not what the journal wants.
How MyGuide helps: reads what your chosen journal has published recently and suggests topics in its gaps, each with a clear research question and design.
3. Getting data
No data? You can still publish. Choose the route that suits you:
- Analyse free public data: we find datasets that fit your topic and journal and check each one.
- A systematic or scoping review of what has already been published on your question.
- A meta-analysis or bibliometric study that pools published results or maps a field.
- A conceptual or theoretical paper that builds an argument or framework from the literature.
Collecting your own data? MyGuide plans it with you: ethics approval first, the sample size, a validated questionnaire or an interview guide, a participant information and consent form, a small pilot, and how to keep the raw data trustworthy.
Already have data? We screen it for problems journals look for, and check ethics approval before any analysis.
4. Analysis
Where people get stuck: choosing the right test, and results that do not hold up.
How MyGuide helps: plans the analysis for your question, runs it twice in two independent statistical packages so the numbers agree, and gives you tables and figures. If a design is likely to give no clear result, we tell you before you spend time on it.
5. Writing
Where people get stuck: the blank page, structure, and the journal's style.
How MyGuide helps: drafts section by section in your journal's style, and you approve each one. You stay the author.
6. Checking before you submit
How MyGuide helps: a full manuscript check with scores and every fix, reference and figure checks, language editing with tracked changes in your name, and formatting to the journal's rules.
7. Submission
How MyGuide helps: the complete package: manuscript, cover letter, title page, declarations and a checklist of every file the journal asks for.
8. After submission
- Revision: a point-by-point reply to every reviewer comment.
- Rejection: what went wrong and the next journal to try.
- Proofs: every error found before publication.
9. A human editor's review
When your manuscript is final, our editors can review it in detail and give you recommendations, paid once per manuscript. You order it from your paper's page.
Stuck anywhere?
Every paper page has Ask MyGuide. Say where you are stuck in your own words and get a plain answer for your paper and your stage. Your first three questions are free; after that, each uses a few rupees (a few cents) of usage. Prefer a person? Message our team on WhatsApp.