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Where to send the work, what the destination requires, and the declarations that have to be right before anybody reads the science. Everything here is free to read, written by the people who do the work, and revised when the standard underneath it moves. Where a sub-topic has nothing published under it yet, this page says so rather than listing a title that leads nowhere.
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Items may be browsed by sub-topic — journal selection, submission, peer review, publication ethics and open access — or the whole category may be searched at once. Every item names the standard to which it is built and states whether it is currently available, and the filters allow further narrowing by item type and by the service the item supports.
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A Systematic Review of Quality Standards for Medical Devices and Practice Measures for Patient Safety
A 2017 systematic review of medical device registries identifies the quality criteria — scope, data collection, enrollment, governance, data security — that separate credible registries from unreliable ones.
Posted 10 October 2026Reading time 7 minBy Pubrica Academymedical device registrysystematic reviewpatient safetyquality criteriapost-market surveillanceJournalResearch PublicationAmerican College of PhysiciansAvailableAnnals of Internal Medicine: A Guide to Its Manuscript Formatting and Submission Requirements
Publisher, scope, CiteScore, reporting-guideline fit, and submission requirements for Annals of Internal Medicine — every field traced to the journal's own materials or a named source.
Posted 10 October 2026Reading time 7 minBy Pubrica AcademyAnnals of Internal Medicinejournal finderCiteScoreCONSORTSTROBEPRISMAExampleResearch PublicationAvailableAnnotated rebuttals
A real objection answered two ways, with the reasoning for each marked in the margin.
Posted 10 October 2026Reading time 6 minBy Pubrica Academyannotated rebuttal exampleconcede or defend reviewer commentrebuttal letter exampleresponding to reviewers examplepeer review responseResponse to reviewersConceptResearch PublicationICMJE Recommendations; Allen et al. (2014) NatureAvailableAuthorship Criteria vs Contributorship: Why "Who Helped" and "Who Qualifies as an Author" Are Different Questions
The four ICMJE authorship criteria and why all four must be met together, what the CRediT contributor taxonomy is built to solve, and why a contributor and an author are not interchangeable categories.
Posted 10 October 2026Reading time 6 minBy Pubrica Academyauthorship criteriaICMJECRediTcontributor roles taxonomyghost authorshipChecklistResearch PublicationAvailableBefore you respond to reviewers
Every comment numbered, every change located, every disagreement evidenced.
Posted 10 October 2026Reading time 6 minBy Pubrica Academybefore you respond to reviewers checklistrebuttal letter checkresponse letter numberinglocating manuscript changesevidenced disagreementResponse to reviewersChecklistResearch PublicationICMJEAvailableBefore you submit
Declarations, reporting checklist, figure specifications and reference check, in the order a screening editor applies them.
Posted 10 October 2026Reading time 7 minBy Pubrica Academybefore you submit checklistmanuscript screening checkpre-submission orderdeclarations checklistreference checkManuscript checkQ&AResearch PublicationPubrica AcademyAvailableCan I Submit the Same Manuscript to Multiple Journals at Once?
A verified look at ICMJE, COPE, and WAME guidance on duplicate and simultaneous journal submission, what counts, what doesn't, and what happens when a journal discovers it.
Posted 10 October 2026Reading time 7 minBy Pubrica Academyduplicate submissionICMJECOPEpublication ethicsArticleResearch PublicationPubrica AcademyAvailableChallenges in Research and Publication: Navigating the Impact of AI in Academia
A verified, evidence-based look at how generative AI has intersected with the academic retraction crisis and introduced specific new research-integrity challenges, and how current editorial policy responds.
Posted 10 October 2026Reading time 8 minBy Pubrica AcademyAI in researchretractionsresearch integritygenerative AI academiaGuidelineResearch PublicationPubrica AcademyAvailableCommon Formatting Errors in Scientific Journal Submissions: A Guide to Avoiding Mistakes
A verified, checklist-based guide to the formatting and structural errors that cause manuscripts to be rejected before peer review, including a documented editor-triage study and reference-style standards.
Posted 10 October 2026Reading time 8 minBy Pubrica Academyjournal submissionmanuscript formattingcitation styleeditorial triageTemplateResearch PublicationAvailableCover letter and rebuttal shells
A cover letter an editor can scan in thirty seconds, and a rebuttal table separating what you concede from what you defend.
Posted 10 October 2026Reading time 7 minBy Pubrica Academycover letter templaterebuttal letterresponse to reviewersmanuscript submissionpeer review responseCover letter writingShelved by what each item is rather than what it is about: templates, guidelines, process flow charts and the twelve free tools each have a shelf of their own. To search across all four categories at once rather than this one, open the Academy library.
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