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Editorial Office, Peer Review and Production Services for Academic Publishers
Pubrica supports academic publishers, societies and journals with editorial office, peer review and production services. We provide manuscript screening, statistical review, research integrity casework, copy editing, metadata and accessibility remediation, at volume and to your house standards. Our work helps editorial teams manage submission growth, reviewer workload, integrity checks and accessibility requirements across new titles and the backlist.
We follow your house style and decision thresholds; your editors make and sign the decisions.
- Your house style and thresholds
- Editors’ names stay on decisions
- COPE-aligned casework
- Mutual NDA on request
- Confidential to your journal
Service Scope
Editorial office support that leaves decisions with your editors.
We take on editorial office tasks your team does not have capacity for. We do not make editorial decisions: we screen, check and report so your editors can decide faster and with better information.
Follows
Your thresholds
Your house style, your screening criteria and your decision rules, not ours.
Decisions
Stay with your editors
We report what we found. Accept, reject and revise stay with your editors.
Applies
Consistent criteria at volume
The same criteria applied to every manuscript.
Our Services
Editorial, integrity and production services for journals.
Available by service, by title or across a portfolio.
Deliverables and the standards they follow
All Services
Services available for publishers.
Grouped by type of work, so you can start where you need to. Services governed by a different regulation are listed on the relevant sector page.
55 services, grouped
Available individually or together. When several run at once, one named lead coordinates them so the documents are consistent.
Who We Serve
Teams we work with at publishers and societies.
The scoping read is tailored to the team that requests it.
Roles we support
Standards and Guidelines
Standards our work follows.
We work to the standards your journal follows, at the current edition. When a standard has changed recently, the deliverable states which version was used.
Standards we apply
Our Use of AI
Used for search and formatting. Not used to write your science.
This policy applies to every service, sector and deadline.
AI use policy
How it works
A five-step process, starting with a free scoping read.
We review your project before providing a quote.
One
Scoping read
Two business days, at no cost. We set out the work required, the assigned team and the cost.
Two
Named team
You are told who is assigned and what they have worked on, before anything starts.
Three
Outline signed off
Every section, what goes in it and its source — approved before drafting.
Four
Draft and review
Independent review, quality control and reference verification, each signed off separately.
Five
Handover
The deliverable with its working files, version-controlled and revised within the agreed scope.
Throughout
One named lead
One person coordinates the engagement, so documents stay consistent.
What you provide, what we provide
Send us what you have. We will tell you what is missing.
The scoping read includes an inventory of existing material.
You send
The source
What exists already, your templates, and the date it has to be finished by.
We send back
A written view
What is there, what is missing, and what condition the existing material is in.
Then
A scope and a figure
Quoted per programme, with the named team and the timeline, before you commit.
Our Experts
Our editors, reviewers and specialists.
Experts are assigned by subject and sector. Writers hold a master’s degree or doctorate in life sciences, medicine, pharmacy or a relevant discipline and have at least five years of experience in the field. Where specific guidance applies, they keep up to date with it.
Specialists available for publishing work
Sample Work
Sample deliverables.
Published where the client agreed, redacted where they asked.
Benefits
Benefits for publishers.
What clients told us they value.
What you get
Packages
Quoted per programme, not per page.
Pricing is based on the work involved, not word count. The free scoping read produces a quote you can budget for.
First
Scoping read
Free, two business days. A written assessment of what the work needs.
Then
A written scope
Deliverables, standards, named team and timeline, agreed before work starts.
Quoted
Per programme
One figure for the scope agreed, with revisions inside it rather than billed per round.
Quality Assurance
Revisions within the agreed scope.
If a deliverable does not meet the agreed scope, we rework it at no extra charge and repeat the independent review.
What the guarantee covers
FAQs
Common questions from publishers and journals.
No. We triage, review, check and report; your editors decide. A supplier making accept and reject decisions would create a governance problem for your journal, so we do not take on that role.
We follow the COPE flowchart for the case type and document every step. We provide an evidence pack and an assessment; the decision to correct, retract or take no action is the editor’s. Where an author needs to be contacted, this is usually better done by the journal.
We check for both and report what each check can support. Image duplication and manipulation can be demonstrated. AI-generated text can be flagged as consistent with generation but rarely proven, so acting on a detector score alone carries risk. Our reports state which type each finding is.
Yes, in ScholarOne, Editorial Manager, eJournalPress and the others, under accounts you control with the permissions you set. Where you would rather we worked outside it, that works too.
We can run the office function: triage, reviewer management, chasing, production and metadata. The editorial board, scope and decisions stay with the society.
We do not make editorial decisions, act as peer reviewers under our own names on your journal, or guarantee indexing outcomes. We prepare the application; DOAJ, Scopus or Web of Science make the decision. We do not name our publisher clients.
Related Services
Related sectors and services.
Our team can support work that spans more than one sector.
Other sectors and other ways in
Discuss your publishing project requirements.
Tell us what you are working on and your deadline. The scoping read is free, takes two business days, and gives you a written assessment of what the work needs and who would lead it.