Expert review for academic writing
Know what a reviewer will say. Before you submit.
Upload your paper, thesis, proposal, or report. Parsing is free. When you're ready, an expert review returns an annotated PDF, scoring against a rubric tuned to your document type, and a prioritised improvement roadmap. The same review generates a cover letter for your target venue and a point-by-point response when reviewers come back. Reviews start at $10.
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What you get
Three things that make your work stronger
Every expert review delivers these, whatever you upload. Reviews start at $10.
Annotated PDF
Your document with our comments
Your document returned with inline comments linked to exact quotes. Every strength, weakness, and suggestion points to the specific passage. Click any comment to highlight the passage in the PDF.
Review Report
Download and share
A standalone PDF with scoring across six criteria, editorial decision, strengths, weaknesses, and claim-evidence analysis. Save it, share it with co-authors, or print it.
Improvement Roadmap
Prioritized action plan
A prioritized list of exactly what to fix, ranked by impact. Each item names the specific section, figure, or claim. Effort estimates tell you what to tackle first.
Also included in every review
For every stage of your research
Not just papers. Every document you actually write.
OpenRevyu is calibrated for six distinct academic writing formats, each with its own rubric, its own standards, and its own decision vocabulary.
Conference paper
Reviewed to top-tier venue standards (NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, CVPR). Novelty, methodology, results, related work.
Journal article
Reviewed to premier-journal depth (Nature, Science, IEEE TPAMI, JMLR). Rigor, contribution, evidence, presentation.
PhD thesis
Evaluated against the doctoral standard: is there an original, defensible contribution? Chapter-by-chapter comments.
Master's thesis
Evaluated against the Master's standard: competent method, coherent argument, appropriate scope. Not judged for novelty.
Grant proposal
Reviewed as a competitive panelist would: significance, feasibility, innovation, timeline realism, risk mitigation.
Technical report
Judged on fitness for purpose: clarity, completeness, accuracy, supported conclusions. Not judged for novelty.
Pick your document type at upload. The rubric, the reviewer voice, and the decision labels adapt automatically.
How it works
Upload. Review. Improve. Submit.
Upload your document
Drop your draft. Paper, thesis, proposal, or report. Any field, any length, up to 20MB. Upload and parsing are free.
Automatic parsing
We extract your document's structure, figures, and references automatically. Free.
Expert review
Purchase credits, then get content and language analysis against a rubric tuned to your document type.
Download everything
Annotated PDF, review report, and improvement roadmap. All yours to keep.
Total time from upload to complete review:
2 to 4 minutes
From draft to submission
Every artefact you need, generated from one review
The review is not the finish line. It is the source. The same review generates a cover letter tailored to your target journal, and a point-by-point response when reviewers come back.
1. Run the review
Annotated PDF, scoring across the rubric for your document type, decision, and a prioritised roadmap.
2. Draft your cover letter
A 300 to 400 word cover letter for journals, or a letter of intent for proposals. Tailored to your target. One click, edit, save, download.
3. Respond to reviewers
When reviewers come back, generate a structured point-by-point response. Edit, save, and download as Markdown or plain text.
Every letter is one-shot per review, persisted, and editable. Your work stays in the platform.
Built for researchers who can't afford a desk rejection
Your first submission or your fiftieth. OpenRevyu catches the problems you miss.
PhD students
Catch the five weaknesses your committee will flag
Postdocs
Submit to top venues with confidence, not anxiety
Research groups
Consistent quality across every paper your lab publishes
Departments
Give every researcher access to expert pre-submission review
Your paper stays private
Never used for AI training. Delete your data anytime. Your unpublished work remains yours.
Built by researchers, for researchers
We know what reviewers look for because we've been on both sides of the process.
Pricing
Simple, transparent pricing.
Upload and parse your papers for free. Purchase credits when you need an expert review. No subscription.
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