Strong science, written to be published.

Writing a manuscript around your data needs a clear picture of what the data support, what is missing, and which journal it suits — and that has to happen before any writing. The fee comes off the project in full if you book development within 30 days, so if you go ahead it costs you nothing. If you choose editing instead, 50% of the fee comes off when you book within 30 days. With editing the assessment is an optional extra, not a first stage — if all you want to know is which editing level your manuscript needs, send it with your enquiry and I will tell you free of charge, with your quote.

You work with me directly. The same person reads your manuscript, does the work and answers your questions, with no hand-offs between editors or project managers.

For manuscript development, including papers that have come back from review, yes: I write the manuscript from your analysed data, methods and conclusions. You remain the author, I do not generate data or analyses, and my writing support is acknowledged in the paper following ICMJE guidelines.

No. I work in English only, so please send your manuscript already in English, however rough the language. If your draft is in another language, have it translated first and I will edit the translation. If you have the data, methods and results but no usable English draft, manuscript development is the right service: I write the paper in English from the material you provide.

Yes. I check it as carefully as any draft, including whether references exist and whether numbers are consistent, since AI tools can introduce errors. Follow your target journal's policy on disclosing AI use. Telling me in advance helps.

No one can guarantee acceptance, since decisions rest with journal editors and reviewers. I make your manuscript clearer and more submission-ready, and the language guarantee covers language-related outcomes on text I edited.

Your files are used only for your project and are never shared. See the privacy section of the terms for details.

Yes. I am happy to sign your institution's non-disclosure agreement, or to provide one. Everything such an agreement normally covers — that your manuscript and data are used only for your project, never shared, never used as a sample, and deleted once they are no longer needed — is already how I work and is set out in the terms, which also says exactly how long I keep your files and why.

I use software the way most editors now do, and I would rather set out exactly where.

Two of these steps involve your manuscript text passing through a cloud service. They are marked below, and the opt-out at the end covers both.

Finding literature. I use AI tools to search for references and summarise related papers. I search with keywords and topic descriptions only — your manuscript and your data are never put into these tools. I then read the papers myself and use only what belongs in your manuscript.

Reference formatting. Zotero, which runs on my own computer.

Language and consistency. Microsoft Word's spelling and grammar check and PerfectIt, both installed locally, and occasionally Grammarly when I want a second opinion on a particular term.

Drafting — your text passes through. I use AI to help draft the cover letter from a short summary of the study, and to polish the wording of the comments I write explaining my changes. Those comments often quote a sentence of yours, so some of your text does go through a cloud service at this step. The manuscript itself is not rewritten by any tool.

A final check before delivery — your text passes through. I run the finished manuscript through a review tool that flags anything I may have missed. It does not retain the file.

What does not happen. No tool writes your manuscript, generates your data, analyses or conclusions, or decides anything about your science. Every judgement in the work is mine, and every word is checked by me before it reaches you.

If you would rather I didn't. Say so when you send your manuscript, or answer no on the enquiry form, and I will skip both of the steps marked above and work with locally installed tools only — Word, PerfectIt and Zotero. Nothing of yours then leaves my computer. There is no extra charge and the only difference is that you receive plainer comments.

Clinical and biomedical research across the major specialties, including obstetrics and gynaecology, internal medicine, cardiology, orthopaedics, surgery, paediatrics and oncology. Outside clinical medicine I work on genetics and molecular biology, pharmaceutical sciences, microbiology, food science, marine biology, environmental sciences, and the plant and agricultural sciences. If your paper sits outside these, send it anyway and I will tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it.

Yes. Authors outside India are quoted and invoiced in US dollars — ask for a quote and the rate card comes with it. Everything else is the same: the same services, the same milestones and the same guarantees. Payment by Wise is preferred; bank transfers are accepted for invoices of $150 or more, and PayPal is available with a 10% processing fee added. I work Indian business hours (IST) and reply within one working day, so please allow for the time difference when you set a deadline.

Either. Tell me your preference, or I will follow your target journal's style.

Yes, at every level — but only where I have edited the whole article, the reference list and the figure legends included. If you ask me to leave a section untouched, or send the manuscript without its references or legends, I have not read the whole paper and cannot certify it. I will tell you before the work starts if that is the case.

Authors in India can pay by UPI or bank transfer. Authors outside India are invoiced in US dollars; payment by Wise is preferred, bank transfers are accepted for invoices of $150 or more, and PayPal is available with a 10% processing fee added, with any transfer charges borne by the payer. Larger projects are paid in milestones, as set out in the terms. An invoice is issued by email for every payment, and invoices to authors in India carry a UPI QR code with the amount and the invoice number already filled in; I send a receipt once the payment reaches my account, and I start work as soon as it does. I am not currently registered for GST, so invoices are issued without GST; I will tell clients if that changes.

In one sentence: you pay the full rate only for new writing. The detail below sets out exactly how that is calculated.

Responses and resubmissions on a manuscript I previously wrote or edited are priced by component rather than as a whole job. The response letter is charged per word of the explanation, whether I write it or edit yours; the reviewers' comments and quoted manuscript text are not counted. Writing new manuscript text is quoted for the project, since what it involves depends on what the reviewers have asked for; the rate is fixed in your quotation before any work starts. Existing text is charged at a percentage of the editing rate that depends on the work involved:

• I rewrite the manuscript: 35% of the editing rate for manuscripts I wrote, 50% for manuscripts I edited. Where a journal word limit means existing text must be compressed, those words are charged at 75% (wrote) or 85% (edited).
• You rewrote the manuscript and I check it: 50% (wrote) or 65% (edited).
• No revision needed, proofreading only: 10% (wrote) or 20% (edited).
• Response letter written by me: charged per word of the explanation only. Editing responses you have written is charged at the normal editing rate, with a small fee for cross-checking them against the manuscript — included at the Substantive and Scientific levels.

The total is capped at the standard price for the same job.

These reduced rates do not apply if the manuscript has changed by more than about 60% since my version, or comes back more than 12 months later; it is then priced as a new manuscript, at the 25% returning-manuscript reduction. A second or later round of reviewer comments is new work and is priced the same way again.

This guarantee applies only where the manuscript you submitted is the file I delivered, with my suggestions incorporated. Accepting my tracked changes, answering my comments, adding author details and journal formatting do not count as changes to the text. Rewriting sentences yourself or adding new text does. Where you rejected one of my changes, that sentence is not text I edited, and the guarantee does not extend to it.

• Rejected on language or writing quality alone. I re-edit the manuscript at no charge at the level you chose before, and reformat it for the new journal free. If you move up a level, you pay only the difference between the rate you paid before and the new level's rate.
• Language or grammar raised in reviewer comments, with the paper not rejected. The Language Edit rate comes off your rate for the revision, so a Language Edit revision is free. New sections and new analyses requested by reviewers sit outside this, and the response letter is charged at the usual rate.
• Free reformatting applies in two situations only: the paper was rejected on language or writing quality, or it was rejected as out of scope by a journal I recommended. It covers up to three journals in total, counted together with any journal formatting already included with your edit. Beyond three, formatting is charged at the usual rate.
• Any text added or changed after my delivery is charged at the full rate for the level you choose.
• The guarantee covers language and writing quality in text I edited. It does not cover scientific content.
• Sections you ask me to leave untouched are not text I edited, so the guarantee does not extend to them. Those sections are also excluded from the billable word count.
• Scope, novelty and journal fit are covered only where you submitted to a journal I recommended. If that journal rejects the paper as out of scope, I reformat it for the next journal and prepare a fresh shortlist at no charge.
• Please share the decision letter or reviewer comments and the manuscript file you submitted, so I can see what the journal raised and compare it with the file I delivered.
• One claim per project, within 12 months of delivery.

I collect only what is needed to respond to you and deliver your project: your name, contact details and files. Files are stored securely and used only for your project. I keep them until your paper is published, or for 12 months after delivery, whichever is later, because the language guarantee and the reduced rates for manuscripts I have worked on before both require me to compare what I delivered with what you submitted. After that they are deleted. You can ask me to delete them sooner, or to keep them longer. Your details are never sold or shared. Feedback is published only with your consent, in the form you choose. You can ask me at any time to access, correct or delete your information.

Where your files are held. Enquiries and any file you attach through the forms on this site are delivered through Netlify, which hosts the site, and are then stored on my own computer and my backup drive. Working files are not kept in shared cloud storage. Where a cloud-based tool is used on your manuscript, that is set out in the FAQ and you can decline it.

Your rights, and how to raise something. Write to ask@krpublicationsupport.com to see what I hold about you, to have it corrected, or to have it deleted, and I will reply within one working day. If you are not satisfied with how I have handled a request, tell me so in writing and I will respond in writing with what I have done and why. This is how I work rather than legal advice; I am a sole practitioner, not a large data processor.

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