Smarter, Faster Publishing Decisions

  • How our AI recommends the best journals for your project
  • Increases acceptance rates and saves time
  • Examples of researchers finding perfect fits

As a clinician involved in research, I’m sure many can relate to the balancing of two worlds. The fast paced and often brutal reality of ward rounds and on call shifts, and then the frustratingly slow paced, often cumbersome world of research. In particular, the process of submitting work to journals can feel like a toss of a coin.

The submission process should feel like the glorious end to a long project, where plaudits received and deserved recognition is granted, celebrating contributing to the academic community. More often than not, finishing a paper is just the start of a laborious search for the right journal, multiple convoluted submission processes, followed by rejections and frustration. This can lead to questioning why you ever bothered submitting to that journal in the first place.

ResearchConnectX has been developed to improve this process, and its mission statement lies solely in improving access, efficiency and outcomes for clinicians across the world in academia. RCX’s AI-driven journal and conference finder reads your manuscript, analyses its content, and recommends the specific journals and upcoming conferences that are the right match. Think Tinder for journals and conferences, except you’ll always get a message back, and all the matches are great. Not only does this matching process consider your paper’s suitability, but also the paper’s acceptance trends and citation patterns.

Picture Dr Khan, a junior academic in colorectal surgery. She’s uploaded her paper’s draft on the RCX platform. The AI has matched it to a mid-tier European surgical journal with a strong record in gastrointestinal innovation. She’s never heard of this journal, but RCX tells her it has a 25% acceptance rate for similar topics. She submitted, and it was accepted, first shot.

The time for applications is another common frustration experienced by prospective authors. Months of rewriting, reformatting, re-uploading and waiting for responses. Every new submission means starting the process again, and time feels so precious yet its being squeezed away. RCX doesn’t just suggest journals, it saves you time. By recommending journals with clear formatting tools and templates, streamlined submission portals and faster peer-review cycles – this helps researchers choose smart, not just hopeful.

Again, humour me with a theoretical example. Dr Wong is an academic FY2 and needs her systematic review submitted before the end of her post. Fortunately, she uploads her paper to RCX, and the AI recommends a journal with an average review time of 21 days and even highlights to her a manuscript template to help her submit it. Time saved: at least 4 weeks of formatting headaches…