Submission guidelines

What we publish

The Review documents achievement in academic, research and professional life. In practice this means doctoral and professional doctoral completions, sustained research contributions, academic leadership, published books and monographs, granted patents and recognised innovation, fellowships and election to learned societies, honorary conferrals, and distinguished professional achievement where it carries a substantive academic dimension.

We publish selectively. A submission that documents a genuine achievement clearly and with verifiable references is considerably more likely to be published than one that lists a great many claims without substantiation.

What we ask of you

Accuracy above all. Do not overstate. If a paper is under review, say so. If a doctorate is in progress, say so. We would far rather publish a modest, accurate record than withdraw an inflated one.

References, not adjectives. The single most useful thing you can supply is a link — to an institutional staff page, an ORCID record, a thesis repository entry, a DOI, a patent record. These allow us to describe your credentials as externally referenced rather than merely provided.

Plain prose. Write your research summary as you would explain it to an intelligent colleague from another field. Our editors will shape the published text, but they cannot recover meaning from prose that has none.

What we will not do

We will not describe a credential as verified unless our desk has actually verified it. We will not state or imply that an institution endorses a profile, that a publication has been peer reviewed by us, or that publication confers a qualification of any kind. We will not fabricate citation counts, affiliations, awards or metrics, and we will not publish figures we cannot source.

We do not sell placement. Editorial decisions are not influenced by payment, and there is no fee for consideration or publication.

After you submit

You receive a reference number and a private status link when you submit. Your submission moves through editorial review and, where appropriate, credential review. We may write to request supporting material — this is routine and not a sign of difficulty. If your submission is approved, you will see the draft profile before it is published.

If we decide not to publish, we will tell you. We do not always give detailed reasons, but the most common ones are insufficient substantiation and a submission that falls outside what this publication documents.

After publication

Your profile receives a permanent URL and a publication reference. You may request corrections, additions or withdrawal at any time through our corrections page. Substantive changes are recorded in a visible update history on the profile itself.