Publication Support
Editing and formatting of research articles for scientists whose working language is not English — especially authors in Japan, South Korea, China, and other ESL countries — before submission to serious journals.
Experience
More than 2,000 articles edited; more than ten million words. Consistent quality rating above 93 percent. Range: STEM, with the centre of gravity in Earth and Environmental Sciences. Target venues have belonged to the major STEM publishing groups.
What is done
- Language editing that keeps the author’s scientific meaning
- Structure and clarity for methods, claims, and limits
- Formatting to a journal’s house style and submission checklist
- Advice on whether a manuscript is aiming at the right bouquet — not a promise of acceptance
The bouquets in view
STEM publishing is concentrated. Authors usually mean one of these families when they say “a good journal”:
- Commercial groupsElsevier (Cell Press, The Lancet, ScienceDirect). Springer Nature (Nature Portfolio, Springer, BMC, Scientific Reports). Wiley (Wiley-Blackwell, Advanced Materials). Taylor & Francis / CRC Press in engineering and environmental science.
- SocietiesAAAS (Science family). IEEE in computing and electrical engineering. ACS and RSC in chemistry. APS (Physical Review) in physics.
- University pressesOxford, Cambridge, and MIT Press — prestige with institutional distribution, strong in medicine, mathematics, earth science, and computing.
- Open-access housesPLOS, Frontiers, and MDPI. High volume; the editorial question is always fit and rigour, not the logo alone.
What this is NOT
geokin does NOT sell authorship, citations, or a guaranteed accept. The work is to make a paper readable and correctly dressed for the door the author has chosen.