Shodhyantri Engineering Services
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ESCI journals are often a scholar's first step into Web of Science, and we help you present regional or early-career research to an international editorial standard.
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The Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) is part of Clarivate's Web of Science Core Collection. It covers journals that meet Clarivate's quality criteria across science, social science and humanities, including many regional and specialist titles. Our ESCI manuscript support is designed for scholars who are writing their first international paper or reporting a study rooted in an Indian state, district or institution. Many of these scholars come to us from state universities.
ESCI journals often welcome local and applied research, but they still expect international clarity. A reader in another country must understand your setting, sample and why the findings matter beyond one place. We help you frame that context, tighten your methods and edit the language. The research and the writing remain your own, and you approve every change. We explain each change in plain words.
ESCI was launched by Clarivate in 2015 to widen coverage of peer-reviewed journals of regional importance and in emerging fields. Journals in ESCI pass the same quality criteria as other Core Collection indexes, such as peer review, ethical publishing practice and editorial content. They are evaluated against impact criteria separately, which decides movement into SCIE, SSCI or AHCI.
Since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports release, ESCI journals receive a Journal Impact Factor. Many are published by universities, learned societies and regional publishers, and some publish in more than one language. Their author guidelines can be less detailed than large publishers' guides, so careful reading and conservative formatting choices become part of good ESCI manuscript support.
We help you explain your Indian setting, policies and terms so that an international reviewer understands the context and the wider relevance of your findings.
If this is your first journal paper, we explain each section's purpose and show you what editors expect, so you learn while your manuscript improves.
Where a journal's instructions are brief, we study its recent papers and apply consistent, conservative choices for structure, style and references.
We help with abstracts in two languages, translated quotations and transliterated terms when the journal or your sources require them.
Regional studies often involve surveys, schools or patients, so we check consent, approval and anonymity statements are clearly reported.
We edit for short, direct sentences and consistent terms, which helps reviewers who also read English as an additional language.
Ten stages, each with a clear output. Nothing moves to the next stage until you have reviewed the last one.
— You review every stage first, then decide —
Current ESCI coverage of the journal is confirmed on Clarivate's Master Journal List.
Setting, local terms and policy background are explained for readers outside India.
Sample, instruments and procedures are described clearly enough for reviewers to judge reliability.
The discussion connects local findings with international literature and with broader research questions.
Approvals, consent and participant protection are stated plainly where people were involved.
Structure, references and tables match the style of the journal's most recently published articles.
Every stage is shared with notes explaining what was changed and why. You and your supervisor check it, and the next stage starts only after your go-ahead.
| Common problem | How Shodhyantri helps |
|---|---|
| Assuming ESCI journals accept weaker papers than other Web of Science indexes. | Prepare the manuscript with the same care as for any peer-reviewed journal; ESCI titles meet the same quality criteria. |
| Using local abbreviations and scheme names without any explanation. | Expand every abbreviation at first use and add a short line explaining what each local scheme or body does. |
| Describing the study area at length but the sample in one line. | Keep the study area brief and give full details of sample size, selection method, response rate and inclusion criteria. |
| Discussion that compares findings only with other studies from the same state. | Add comparisons with national and international studies, explaining where your results agree, differ and why that matters. |
| Survey studies submitted with no consent or approval statement. | State how consent was taken, which body approved the study, and how participants' identities were protected in the data. |
| Guessing the reference style when the guidelines are unclear. | Copy the style used in the journal's latest issue, apply it consistently, and ask the editorial office if still in doubt. |
When guidelines are short, recent articles are the best guide to structure, length, headings and reference format.
Add one or two sentences in the introduction linking your local problem to a wider national or global question.
Name the questionnaire or scale, its source, adaptations and reliability values so reviewers can trust your measurements.
Use clean tables with clear headings and units; avoid colour shading and merged cells that break during typesetting.
Some ESCI journals publish in more than one language; confirm which language your full paper and abstracts must use.
Search the journal on the Master Journal List rather than trusting badges or claims on the journal's website.
Treat reviewer comments as training; the skills you gain carry directly into future SCIE or SSCI submissions.
Use one name format and link your ORCID iD so your first indexed paper starts your researcher record cleanly.
Your work is handled by people who read your field's literature, not by a single generalist.
A PhD-qualified specialist from your field who checks the research logic, gap and contribution.
Handles statistics, models and qualitative coding, and documents every analytical decision.
Improves structure, flow, clarity and academic tone without changing your meaning.
Builds and validates MATLAB, Python, ANSYS or COMSOL work where your study needs it.
Checks grammar, consistency, numbering, citations and the small errors examiners notice.
Applies your university or journal template, reference style and front matter exactly.
Yes. ESCI is one of the indexes in Clarivate's Web of Science Core Collection, alongside SCIE, SSCI and AHCI. Journals in ESCI meet Clarivate's quality criteria. Whether your institution treats ESCI equally with other indexes depends on its own rules, so check locally.
Since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports release, ESCI journals receive a Journal Impact Factor. Values and categories change each year, so check JCR directly for your target journal rather than relying on figures displayed on the journal's website.
Many ESCI journals welcome regional and applied studies. The key is to explain the setting clearly, use sound methods and connect your findings to wider literature. We help you frame your study for an international reader while keeping your findings exactly as they are.
No. Editors and peer reviewers make that decision, and we never promise publication, indexing or timelines. We focus on what can be improved: clarity, structure, method reporting, references and language. A well-prepared paper is judged more fairly, but the outcome is the journal's call.
Yes. We explain the purpose of each section, why we suggest each change and what reviewers usually look for. Many first-time authors find the tracked comments useful for later papers too. You remain the author and make the final decisions.
Yes. If the journal requires an abstract in a second language, we can edit or help translate your abstract in Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi or other Indian languages, keeping terms consistent with your English version. We also check the transliteration of names and places.
Search the title and ISSN on Clarivate's Master Journal List and check that the listing names ESCI. Compare the publisher and website details carefully, because lookalike journal names exist. Keep a dated screenshot for your university records.
We provide research guidance, statistical analysis, editing, formatting and training support. All research content remains the scholar's own work, in line with UGC and university academic integrity norms. We do not guarantee publication, acceptance, indexing or academic outcomes: journals decide through peer review and universities award degrees.
Share your topic, draft or data. We will tell you honestly what it needs, and what it does not, before you pay anything.