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Jun 25, 2026

Publication Studio

The Publication Studio helps you take a research project from a finished draft to a published output. It sits on top of your target-journal directory: it matches your project to suitable venues, then tracks each submission through its lifecycle - compliance checklist, response to reviewers, status, and the final DOI / repository deposit.

You reach the Studio from a project: open the project, then choose Publication Studio. Everything is scoped to that one project.

Matching a venue

On the Studio home page, the Matching venues panel scores the journals in your target-journal directory against your project. The score reflects how many of your project's subject terms appear in each journal's scope. You can:

  • add extra scope terms to sharpen the match (for example a method or a source type that is not in your project title),
  • filter by accreditation market (the directory holds journals from many markets - DHET is just one of them),
  • limit to open-access venues.

Each matched journal shows its publisher, scope, accreditation, reference style, and whether it is open access. Use Submit to to start a submission against that venue. If your venue is not in the directory (a conference, an edited volume, a preprint server), use the free-text box to record it by name.

Working a submission

Open a submission to see four areas:

  1. Status - the lifecycle from drafting, through submitted, reviewed, revised, accepted, and published, with rejected as a terminal branch. Only the valid next steps are offered. The system stamps the submission date when you first mark it submitted, and the decision date when it is accepted, rejected, or published.
  2. Compliance checklist - a default list (word count, formatting, reference style, data-availability statement, ethics statement, author declarations, ORCID and affiliations) is created with every submission. Tick each item as you complete it, add a note, and add any venue-specific requirements of your own.
  3. Response to reviewers and revisions - record each reviewer point, your response, and what you changed in the manuscript. This builds an auditable revision history you can paste into your response letter.
  4. Venue, deposit, and metadata - the linked journal details, plus fields for the manuscript title, DOI, repository / deposit URL, and notes.

Optional AI fit suggestion

When AI is enabled for your site, the venue panel offers an AI fit suggestion: a short, labelled note on how well your project matches the chosen journal and what to close before submitting. This is guidance only - always verify it. All AI runs through the AHG gateway; nothing is sent to an external service.

Tips

  • Matching is heuristic. Treat the fit score as a starting point, not a ranking of journal quality.
  • The checklist is yours to edit. Remove items that do not apply and add the ones the venue requires.
  • Keep the response thread current as reviews arrive - it becomes your response letter.