Engagement begins with a consultation to understand your data, timeline, and target journal. Once scope is agreed, we register the protocol (for systematic reviews) or lock the analysis plan (for original research), then execute — literature search, data analysis, and manuscript drafting — with regular sync calls. You review the complete draft, request revisions, and we finalize the submission package. From first call to submitted manuscript, most engagements close in eight to twelve weeks.

We have a strong track record with first-submission acceptance, particularly for systematic reviews where methodology is tight. But acceptance depends on the research question, the data quality, and the target journal — no consultancy that tells you otherwise is being honest. We select journals carefully and prepare submissions to survive peer review; we do not promise outcomes the peer-review process does not allow anyone to promise.

A single manuscript from a ready dataset: sixty to ninety days. A systematic review from protocol to submission: eight to twelve weeks. Manuscript rescue: three to six weeks. Faster timelines are possible but require scope to be matched accordingly; we do not compress quality to compress timeline.

Dr. Shakir Raza personally. Every engagement is led by the principal researcher from protocol through submission. There are no junior handoffs, no outsourced statistical work, no anonymous hands on your manuscript. This is the core commitment of the practice.

No. Anyone who guarantees publication does not understand peer review. We guarantee that your manuscript will be methodologically sound, written to journal standard, and submitted to a target journal chosen for fit — which is what actually maximizes the probability of acceptance.

We follow ICMJE authorship criteria. You are the first and corresponding author on work arising from your data or clinical question. Our role is acknowledged in the Acknowledgments section or, where our contribution meets ICMJE criteria and you agree, as a co-author. We never claim authorship we have not earned, and we never deny acknowledgment we have earned.

Yes. Many engagements begin with a dataset that has been sitting unanalyzed for months, or a draft that has been through several rounds of internal feedback and lost coherence. That is typical of our work.

Most of our clients are physicians in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, and the wider MENA region. We also work with clinicians in Pakistan, Europe, and occasionally elsewhere. Engagements are conducted remotely; we handle institutional-review and local-regulatory liaison on request.