Scientific Editing

Get expert in-depth editing and strategic advice on your manuscript, review article or grant proposal from a team of editors following the quality standards set by Nature Research. Scientific Editing includes a premium English language edit, a developmental edit, a quality assurance edit and a summary report. We specialize in research papers, reviews and grant proposals within the natural sciences (medicine, biology, chemistry, physics and earth sciences) and engineering.

Developmental Editing

Editing and advice from a PhD-qualified, professional developmental editor, selected specifically for their understanding of the science within your paper, to address the presentation of:

your central question or objective
structure, clarity and flow of arguments
rationale, methods and conclusions
context and objective implications of the research
figures, tables and supplementary information
detail, emphasis and excessive length
cover letter and other supporting materials provided

English Language Editing: Gold

Your work is edited by a native English speaker in your field to remove language mistakes. They check grammar and punctuation and create natural and professional phrasing. Later editors can then focus on issues such as structure.

Thorough Strategic Report

A custom 4-8 page report providing insight into how journal editors, peer reviewers, and readers might view your text. It also includes strategic advice for improving your writing in the future.

Novelty and Impact

By looking at the presentation of the novelty of your findings and their potential impact, we can help readers understand their value and help you decide where to publish.

Journal Recommendations

Based on the current text, we suggest journals that fit the topic and seem appropriate in terms of impact.

Download one of our sample files to see the types of suggestions and edits made by our Scientific Editors

Scientific Editing Sample Edit (.DOCX)

Scientific Editing Sample Report (.DOCX)

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Developmental Editing

Get language editing and in-depth comments throughout your paper from expert Developental and English language editors following the quality standards set by Nature Research

Developmental Editing is similar to Scientific Editing, but does not include the strategic report or journal recommendations. Included in this service (descriptions above):

English Language Editing: Gold
Developmental Editing
Commentary throughout the manuscript Areas of study accepted for the Developmental Editing service include all clinical and life sciences, environmental sciences, and chemistry. Note: Developmental Editing is not yet available for engineering.

Download a sample file to see the types of suggestions and edits made by our Developmental Editors

Developmental Editing Sample Edit (.DOCX)

Request a quote for Developmental Editing starting at $900

Manuscript Assessment Report

We provide actionable next steps to improve your scientific paper, starting with an overview of top recommendations and then examine each section of your paper in detail. We provide feedback on the most important issues in your paper, with actions and improvements listed in a clear, checklist-style report.

While language editing is not included with the Manuscript Assessment Report, we can add this if requested. Please indicate that you would like language editing when completing the quote form below.

Areas of study accepted for Manuscript Assessment Reports include all of the natural sciences (medicine, biology, chemistry, physics, and earth sciences) and engineering.

Download a sample file to see the report format and types of suggestions made in the Manuscript Assessment Report

Manuscript Assessment Report (.DOCX)

Request a quote for the Manuscript Assessment Report starting at $600

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Confidentiality Assured

We never show your paper to anyone so you can be confident that when you submit to a journal, the editor's decision will be independent and fair

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Our Quality Guarantee

We guarantee that if you language-edited paper is rejected by a journal because of the English alone, and we believe that you have made a good faith effort to incorporate our changes, we will re-edit your paper once for free.

Where our Customers Publish

Advanced Functional Materials
Cancer Research
Developmental Cell
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Energy and Environmental Science
Genome Biology
Geophysical Research Letters
Immunity
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
Science
Science Advances

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Testimonials

I would like to express my sincere appreciation for your work. You did really an excellent job. What I liked in particular was that you gave comments with substantial suggestions how to improve. Although I have published till now quite a number of scientific papers (>300) and many of them in high impact journals I learned a lot throughout this. I Iook forward to future cooperation of mutual benefit.

Full Professor · University of Bayreuth · Germany

The report with the feedback summarizing edits and comments is very informative. We appreciate a lot your editor’s work, with changes tracked and comments on the text improving clearly our manuscript. Finally, your recommendations concerning the most appropriate journal for publication will decidedly help us for the next submission of our manuscript.

Research Director, CNRS/Team Leader · Sorbonne University · France

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We openly and clearly declare to potential and current customers that we are part of Springer Nature, and we inform potential customers about our independence from the publishing process.
We aim to be publisher-neutral in our editing and advice, and especially in our journal recommendations (where applicable). We take steps during the editing process, when giving advice, and when recruiting and training editors to help us achieve this aim.
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We do not involve ourselves in the publishing process.

We do not guarantee publication of papers or funding of grant applications. We expect journal editors and grant review panels will make these decisions entirely independently of Nature Research Editing Service and other author services providers.
Draft journal articles and their scientific content are not shared with professional editors who make decisions on research papers at Springer Nature journals.
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When editing documents, wherever possible, we provide our edits and comments in an easily reviewable format. We encourage authors to review our input critically, rather than accepting all of our edits and suggestions without review.
We never confirm that any document is ready for submission, submit anything to a journal or funding body, or correspond with journal editors or peer reviewers on behalf of authors.
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We do not engage in or encourage practices that contravene relevant ethical guidelines.
For Scientific Editing, if we suspect unethical practice in a submitted document or correspondence, we will point it out and explain it. If we suspect severe infringement of ethical requirements or laws (particularly unacceptable harm to humans or animals), we act on this where possible.
We review these policies on a regular basis and keep up-to-date with issues arising in the publication ethics landscape.
We train editors to follow these policies, we monitor adherence to these policies, and we take action in the event of any failure to follow them.

Scientific Editing

Scientific Editing