Smart publishing tools for authors and publishers
Check your manuscript the way a journal screening desk would, before you submit. Catch the missing ethics details, undefined abbreviations and uncited figures that send papers back to authors.
The Manuscript Pre-Submission Checker
Upload a Word manuscript and get a clear, colour-coded report in seconds. It recognises research articles, case reports, reviews and letters, and applies the right rules to each.
Structure
IMRaD sections, abstract length and keywords, adjusted for case reports, reviews and letters.
Abbreviations
Used before definition, never defined, defined twice or never used again, in the abstract and the main text.
Figures & tables
Every figure and table cited, in numerical order, with matching legends.
Ethics & consent
Committee name, approval number and date; written, verbal or waived consent; consent for minors.
Study details
Sample size, study period, inclusion and exclusion criteria, questionnaires, and trial or PROSPERO registration where required.
Declarations & references
Conflict of interest, funding, author contributions, data availability, and citations that match the reference list.
Upload
Drop in one or more .docx manuscripts.
Check
Every rule runs in seconds, tuned on a labelled test set of manuscripts.
Fix
See each issue by section, and download the full report as Excel.
Built from the screening desk
The Grey Swan Editorial is run by Harsh Maan, a journal screening editor with a master's in microbiology. After screening hundreds of manuscripts for medical journals at an international publisher, and managing reviewer selection at a publishing-services company, he saw the same avoidable issues delay papers again and again.
These tools turn that experience into checks anyone can run, so authors can submit with confidence and editorial teams can spend their time on what matters.
On the roadmap
- Reference checks: invalid DOIs and retracted papers, via Crossref
- PDF support: check manuscripts in PDF as well as Word
- AI review (opt-in): deeper checks of ethics, consent and consistency between abstract and results
Work with The Grey Swan
Pre-submission screening for authors, screening support for journals, or feedback on the checker: get in touch.