Shodhyantri Engineering Services
Research · Analysis · Editing · Publication Support
Align your clinical or health research paper with the reporting guideline, ICMJE recommendations and ethics requirements that medical journal editors check first.
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Medical manuscript support at Shodhyantri is for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists and public health researchers who have completed a study and need the paper to meet medical journal standards. Health journals expect more than good writing. They check that the study follows the right reporting guideline, that ethics approval and consent are documented, that trials are registered, and that authorship and conflicts follow ICMJE recommendations. We help you put all of this in order in your own manuscript.
We work from your protocol, data and draft. We match your study design to the correct guideline, such as CONSORT for randomised trials, STROBE for observational studies or PRISMA for systematic reviews, and complete the checklist with page references. We review statistical reporting, tables of baseline characteristics, flow diagrams and the abstract. Clinical judgement, data and conclusions remain with you and your co-authors.
Reporting guidelines are checklists that list what a paper of a given study type must report. Many are collected by the EQUATOR Network. Medical journals often ask authors to upload the completed checklist with the manuscript, and reviewers use it to judge completeness.
The ICMJE Recommendations, from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, set common rules on authorship, conflict of interest disclosure, trial registration and data sharing. In India, clinical trials are expected to be registered with CTRI, and ethics committee approval must be stated.
We match your design to the right reporting guideline and extension, so you complete the checklist the journal and reviewers expect.
Each checklist item is located in your manuscript, and missing items are flagged for you to add before submission.
We check that ethics committee approval, informed consent, registration numbers and patient privacy are stated clearly and in the right place.
Our analysts check effect measures, confidence intervals, sample size reasoning and baseline tables in the formats medical journals use.
References are set in Vancouver or the journal's variant, with PubMed-style abbreviations and accurate DOIs where available.
We do not alter data or ghost-author content. Authorship stays with those meeting ICMJE criteria, and our editing role can be acknowledged.
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 —
The stated study design matches what was actually done, and the guideline chosen suits that design.
Every checklist item is reported or justified as not applicable, with clear page references given.
Ethics approval, consent, registration and confidentiality are stated in line with journal and national requirements.
Sample size, analysis methods, missing data handling and effect estimates with intervals are reported.
Authors meet ICMJE criteria, contributions are stated and all conflicts and funding are disclosed.
Word counts, structured abstract, tables, references and files meet the journal's author instructions.
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 |
|---|---|
| Using STROBE for a randomised trial or CONSORT for a cross-sectional survey. | Identify the design first, then pick the matching guideline from the EQUATOR Network and its relevant extension if one exists. |
| Ethics approval mentioned without the committee name, reference number or approval date. | State the full committee name, approval number and date, and describe how informed consent was obtained from participants. |
| Trial registered after enrolment began, or registration number missing from the abstract. | Report the registry and number in the abstract and methods, and explain any retrospective registration honestly to the editor. |
| Only p-values reported, without effect sizes or confidence intervals. | Report the effect measure, such as risk ratio, odds ratio or mean difference, with its 95 percent confidence interval. |
| Gift authorship given to seniors who did not meet ICMJE criteria. | Apply the ICMJE criteria, list others in the acknowledgements, and agree authorship order with all contributors early. |
| Patient photos or case details that could identify the person. | Remove identifiers, mask faces where possible and obtain written consent for publication of any identifiable information. |
Use the reporting checklist as your outline. Writing against it from the start avoids large revisions later.
Register clinical trials with CTRI or another approved registry before enrolling the first participant, as many journals require.
A participant flow diagram shows screening, exclusions and losses clearly and helps you check numbers across the paper.
State how many values were missing for key variables and how you handled them in the analysis.
Follow the journal's headings, such as background, methods, results and conclusions, and include key numbers with intervals.
Discuss whether an effect matters to patients, not only whether it reached statistical significance.
Verify medical journals in trusted databases such as PubMed's MEDLINE listing or Scopus before you submit.
Collect ICMJE disclosure forms from every author in advance. Delays from co-authors often hold up submission.
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.
It depends on the design. Randomised trials use CONSORT, observational studies use STROBE, systematic reviews use PRISMA, case reports use CARE and diagnostic accuracy studies use STARD. We confirm your design and the journal's requirements, then guide you through the right checklist.
No. The study, data, clinical interpretation and conclusions must come from you and your co-authors. We review reporting completeness, edit language, check statistics presentation and prepare submission files. Editing support can be acknowledged in the manuscript, in line with ICMJE guidance.
No. Medical journals decide through editorial and peer review, and indexing is controlled by bodies such as the National Library of Medicine or Scopus. We help you avoid common reasons for return, such as incomplete reporting or missing ethics details.
Yes. We check that your manuscript names the ethics committee, gives the approval number and date, explains consent, and states trial registration where relevant. We cannot create approvals that do not exist. Statements must reflect what actually happened.
Yes. Our analysts review sample size reasoning, choice of tests, effect estimates, confidence intervals and the presentation of baseline and outcome tables. If you need reanalysis with your data in SPSS, R or STATA, we can discuss it separately.
Yes. We help you structure case reports using the CARE guideline, with timeline, diagnostic reasoning, intervention and outcome, and check that patient consent for publication is obtained and identifiers are removed.
Usually one to two weeks, depending on study complexity, checklist gaps and how quickly authors supply missing details. Collecting co-author disclosures and approvals often takes the most time, so start that early.
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.