Research paper and publication support
From a thesis chapter to a paper a real journal will review.
Yes, we help you turn a thesis chapter into a paper and prepare it for a Scopus or Web of Science journal.
For most PhD scholars in India, publishing a paper is compulsory. The rule comes from your own university and not from the UGC. It decides how many papers and in which journals. Anna University will not accept your synopsis till one full-length article is published in a journal from its Centre for Research list. VTU is now asking newer scholars for a paper in a Q1 to Q3 Scopus journal. At Osmania you need two Scopus or Web of Science papers, written jointly with your supervisor, before you submit.
Because of this, the paper decides when your synopsis can move. One journal sitting on the paper for five months and then rejecting it is enough to push your synopsis to next semester. Our work is to send the paper out with less chances of such a rejection. We sit with you on choosing the journal and on shaping the paper for it, and we catch the avoidable mistakes before you submit. Whether it gets accepted, that only the journal’s editors and reviewers will decide.
Who this suits
- Your results chapter is finished and your guide told you to “make a paper out of this”. But you are not sure what to remove from it.
- Some unknown journal has written to you that publication will happen in two weeks, and you are doubting whether that journal is real or not.
- Your paper got desk-rejected two times and no one told you why.
- Before spending months on one submission, you want to know which journals your university will actually count.
What you get
- A journal shortlist with reasons
A small list of journals that match your topic and your university’s rule. Each one is checked by its ISSN on Scopus Sources, or on Clarivate’s Master Journal List for Web of Science. For every journal we note scope, indexing and article charges. Quartile is noted when your university cares about it, and review time when the journal publishes its own figure.
- A paper shaped from your chapter
We help you bring a 60-page chapter down to the length the journal accepts. A paper needs one question and the method used to answer it. After that come the key results and a discussion written for that journal’s readers. You do the cutting along with us, so the paper remains your own writing.
- Language editing in tracked changes
We correct the English to clear and simple academic language. Every change shows in tracked changes. With clean language the editor can concentrate on your science.
- Formatting to the author guidelines
We format the paper as per the journal’s author guidelines. That means word count, abstract structure, keywords, headings, figure resolution and reference style. Most journals now also asks for declarations on funding, conflicts of interest, ethics approval and data availability, and we add those too.
- A cover letter
This is a short letter to the editor. In it you give your main finding in two or three lines, and also say why this particular journal is the right place for it. Editors read it in a minute, so it must be specific.
- Help with the submission portal
On a shared screen we go through Editorial Manager, ScholarOne or whatever system the journal uses. Author details, ORCID and suggested reviewers we fill in together. The final submit button you press yourself, from your own account.
How the work runs
Check your university’s rule
First we read your university’s publication rule. That rule tells us which journals are worth trying. A good journal your university will not count is of no use right now.
Shortlist and check the journals
We prepare the shortlist and check every journal on official indexes. We don’t go by the journal’s own website, because a website can claim anything. You and your guide then select one.
Shape and edit the paper
We go through the structure with you first. Only when you and your guide are happy with it, we start on the English. Formatting to that journal’s author guidelines we keep for the last.
Submit, then wait
You submit from your own account. After that the journal sends an acknowledgement mail, and if anything in it is confusing, we explain it to you. The status also we watch along with you. If the status stays at “under review” for months with no change, we tell you whether it is time to write a polite enquiry to the editor or better to wait some more weeks.
After the decision
When the journal asks for revisions, our reviewer response help comes in at that stage. If the paper is rejected, we go through the reasons with you and choose the next journal from the shortlist.
Ask about research paper and publication support
Only four fields to fill. We will call or WhatsApp you back by the next working day, and many times earlier than that. First talk with us is free, you don’t pay anything for it.
How long it takes
| Work | Typical time | Depends on |
|---|---|---|
| Reading your university’s rule and preparing a shortlist | 3 to 5 working days | How narrow your field is, and how specific the rule is |
| Shaping one thesis chapter into a paper along with you | 2 to 3 weeks | Length of the chapter and number of rounds with your guide |
| Editing and formatting a manuscript that is already written | 4 to 7 working days | Manuscript length and what the journal requires |
| Review by the journal, after you submit | Commonly 3 to 8 months | The journal, the field and the reviewers, and nobody can control these |
The last row is a common range only, not a statistic. Some journals are much faster or slower. Many journals put their own “time to first decision” on the journal page, so look up that figure for each journal in your shortlist. Plan backwards from your university deadline, not forward from your submission day.
What it costs
The fee changes with your starting point. Manuscript already written means only editing and formatting is left. A thesis chapter takes more work, because first it has to be cut down into a paper. If the journal has article charges, you pay them to the journal directly, and that money never comes through us. Before any work starts you will get written scope with the fee for each stage.
The quote depends on
- Whether you have a ready manuscript or only a thesis chapter
- Length, and how many figures and tables are there
- How detailed the journal’s author guidelines are
- Whether you need a journal shortlist or have already chosen a journal
- How near your university deadline is
This service, for scholars in
Who you’d be working with
Thesis Writing Service is run by Saaira Technologies from Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu. We work with scholars by phone, WhatsApp, email and video, so you never need to travel. The figures are the company’s own.
- years of research support
- 10+
- scholars helped
- 1,500+
- subject areas
- 12+
- countries
- 25+
Questions scholars ask
What happened to the UGC-CARE list?
The UGC no longer treats it as an approved list. At its 584th meeting on 3 October 2024 the UGC decided to discontinue UGC-CARE listing, and a public notice dated 11 February 2025 announced this. Then came a UGC notice dated 16 July 2025, and in this one the final “suggestive parameters” for judging journals were given. It also put up the old list of 1,474 titles, frozen on 10 February 2025, only as reference. The notice says being on this list, or not being on it, “does not imply validation or endorsement”. So no journal is “UGC-CARE approved” now. Some university rules still mention CARE, though, and for your degree your university’s own wording is what counts.
Does the UGC require a paper before thesis submission?
No, not now. It was required earlier. In the 2016 regulations a scholar had to publish one paper in a refereed journal before submitting. The 2022 regulations, in force as of October 2026, don’t have this requirement. But most universities have made their own publication rule, and you still have to follow that rule.
How do I know a journal is really in Scopus?
Search with the ISSN on Scopus Sources. Searching by the name is not enough. Then compare the publisher and the website address with what the journal has shown you. Cloned journals copy the real title and ISSN and put them on a different web address. Check Scopus’s list of discontinued titles also, which is updated every month.
What’s the difference between Scopus and SCI?
These are two separate indexes. Scopus is owned by Elsevier. SCI, now mostly called SCIE, comes under Clarivate’s Web of Science. One journal may be in Scopus or SCIE, in both, or in neither. Some universities accept either one and some name only one. KTU, for example, will not count a Scopus journal that charges authors, unless SCI, SCIE or SSCI also indexes that journal.
What does Q1 or Q2 mean?
Q1 and Q2 are quartiles. A quartile shows where a journal ranks inside its subject category, and Q1 is the highest quarter. Amrita, for instance, treats a journal as Q1 when it is at or above the 75th percentile on Scopus metrics. One journal may rank Q1 under one subject and Q2 under some other subject, so look at the category your paper belongs to.
A journal says it will publish in 15 days. Should I pay?
Please be very careful here. Genuine peer review rarely gets over that fast, and some of these offers come from cloned journal websites. Our advice is, first check the journal properly, and only after that think of paying anything. Some universities keep their own journal list, as Anna University’s Centre for Research does. Then search the current version of that list also, not an old copy somebody forwarded last year.
Will you suggest conferences too?
A few universities want conference presentations in addition to papers. We can check whether the conference is a genuine one. Preparing the conference paper or the slides, that also we help with. Acceptance at the conference also we cannot promise.
Stuck on a chapter? Talk it through with us.
Call or WhatsApp, say where you are in your thesis, and we’ll tell you plainly what kind of help makes sense, if any.