Fixed-price service
The report a hostile methods referee would write about your manuscript, delivered five working days before you submit it rather than four months after. Signed by name.
What arrives
You send the manuscript and name the journal you intend to submit to. Five working days later you receive a referee report on it. Every report carries all five parts below, whatever the manuscript.
Scope fit, length and abstract limits counted the way that journal counts them, required sections and declarations, blinding, reporting standards. Everything that can stop a manuscript before a reviewer ever sees it. This part alone can be worth the fee, because a desk rejection costs weeks and explains almost nothing.
Each objection carries the section and the sentence it attaches to, the wording a referee will actually use, and a verdict: real defect, defensible, or reviewer-noise. Then either the specific fix or the reasoned defence of the paper as it stands, and a line on what happens if you do nothing.
Whether the numbers support the claims made from them. Estimator fit to the design, assumptions stated and checked, effect sizes and intervals, reliability evidence wherever a score is interpreted, and measurement-comparability evidence wherever a claim compares groups, languages, time points or countries.
For the objections that are defensible, one response block each: the point as a referee will put it, the line of defence, and the space for your own wording. Drafted for you to finish, so the real revision round starts most of the way done.
What state the manuscript is in, what the largest remaining risk is, and what to do first. It is explicitly not a prediction of acceptance, and it says so in those words.
Two tiers
Fixed price, fixed scope, nothing to negotiate before the work starts. A manuscript outside the fields below is declined and nothing is invoiced.
The full five-part referee report on one manuscript, at one named venue.
You receive
Turnaround. Five working days from a complete intake.
Tier 1, plus a check of your revised manuscript against the first report.
You receive
Turnaround. Three working days for the re-read.
Invoiced once the scope check has accepted the manuscript, payable before the five working days start. Prices exclude VAT. The doctoral rate is 30 percent off either tier, on your own statement that you are currently enrolled. No document is asked for.
If the report is more than two working days late for any reason on my side, the engagement is refunded in full and you still get the report.
Scope
What is being sold is one reviewer's competence, so the scope is the scope of that competence and not a wider claim. A manuscript outside these fields is declined and the fee is not taken, however interesting the paper. Manuscripts are reviewed in English here; for manuscripts in Montenegrin, Serbian, Croatian or Bosnian, see the Montenegrin edition of this page.
Declined, with the reason given
Ethics, limits and conflicts
Paid pre-submission review sits next to a part of the academic services market that sells authorship, ghost-writes manuscripts and promises acceptance. Nothing separates an honest version of it from that one except what it commits to in public and what it refuses to do when asked. So the commitments are here, before you pay, rather than in terms afterwards.
01
The report is written about your manuscript and not into it. No sentence in it is meant to be pasted into your paper: a suggested fix describes the change that is needed and does not supply the text that makes it. The reviewer does not appear as an author, is not acknowledged unless you choose to, and acquires no interest in the work. If you ask for the discussion to be rewritten or the analysis to be run, the answer is no.
02
The report says what a referee will probably object to. It does not say what an editor will decide, because that depends on the editor, on which reviewers are drawn and on what else is in that issue. No report, page or message from this service carries an acceptance probability, a readiness score or a grade. A manuscript reviewed here can still be rejected.
03
Milos Kankaras referees for academic journals and is registered with grant-evaluator pools, so this is a real conflict rather than a theoretical one, and an intention is not a control. Every engagement is entered in the firm's conflict register at intake, before the report is written, with the manuscript, the author, the venue and the date. Recusal from your manuscript is permanent and covers every reviewing capacity, including later versions under a changed title. For twenty-four months the paid relationship is disclosed before any review of your other work.
It is stored in the folder for your engagement and nowhere else. It is never used as training data, never added to any corpus or example library, and no part of it appears in any sample, page or talk. It is not forwarded to anyone; there is no second reader. It is deleted on your request, at any time, and the deletion is confirmed to you in writing. Otherwise it is deleted six months after the report is delivered.
Limits
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