Our Process
Stage 1: Language Edit
Your work is submitted for English Language Editing as the preliminary stage. This allows the editors in the later stages to focus on your ideas and not the language usage.
Stage 2: Developmental Edit
This is the main stage of the scientific editing process. It is performed by a Nature-standard developmental editor who is selected specifically for his or her understanding of the science within your paper. The edits and advice encompass:
- how well your argument reflects your central question or objective
- the structure, clarity, flow and relative emphasis of the arguments
- the description of your rationale, your methods and how your conclusions were derived
- the presentation of context and of any objectively justifiable implications of the research
- the clarity and suitability of your figures, tables and supplementary information
- any sections that lack detail or are unnecessarily long
- the effectiveness of your cover letter and other supporting materials (if provided)
Stage 3: Quality Assurance Edit
In the final stage, your text is comprehensively reviewed by another Nature-standard editor. This editor examines the text again in detail and provides additional edits and feedback to ensure that our editing and advice are as useful to you as possible.
Feedback Report
In addition to your edited files, you will receive a custom 4–8 page report containing:
- feedback on the most important issues identified during the edit
- journal recommendations based on our scientific assessment of the paper (if your text is a journal article)
- insight into how journal editors, peer reviewers and readers might view your text
- advice for improving your writing in the future
Note: you can request only the report, if you would like to revise the paper yourself based only on our overall editorial feedback. You can also request only the editing.
Click on the links below to download an example of an edited manuscript and the accompanying report.
Where our customers have published
Papers that we’ve edited have been published in many highly selective journals. Here are just a few:
- Advanced Functional Materials
- Cancer Research
- Developmental Cell
- Earth and Planetary Science Letters
- Energy and Environmental Science
- Genome Biology
- Geophysical Research Letters
- Journal of Experimental Medicine
- Nano Letters
- Nature
- Nature Climate Change
- Nature Communications
- Nature Genetics
- Nature Geoscience
- Nature Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States