Research Publication Development Mentoring

Programme selection and fees

Participant information

Customer benefits

The programme is designed to give you the following practical benefits:

• A focused research direction aligned with novelty, feasibility and meaningful impact.
• A visible publication roadmap showing topics, paper sequence, responsibilities and target timelines.
• Improved academic-writing discipline from outline through internal review and submission.
• Better journal-fit decisions, reducing avoidable desk rejections and wasted submission effort.
• Stronger understanding of ethical authorship, contributor roles and publication integrity.
• Practical confidence in responding to reviewers and managing revisions.
• A more coherent research profile that can support future academic and professional opportunities.

What the service includes

• Research-topic development and paper portfolio planning.
• Journal targeting by scope, timing, access model and fee/waiver considerations.
• Authorship structuring, contributor-role clarification and dispute-prevention guidance.
• Outline, drafting, internal-review and submission-readiness mentoring.
• Cover-letter, highlights, keywords and graphical-abstract guidance where required.
• Reviewer-response coaching, revision tracking and resubmission strategy.
• Reference-management workflows using tools such as Zotero or Mendeley.
• Research-profile creation and maintenance guidance.

How the engagement works

• Baseline review of themes, experience, existing outputs and available data.
• Agreement of a realistic paper pipeline and contribution plan.
• Scheduled mentoring, drafting checkpoints and internal quality reviews.
• Submission-readiness review and ongoing revision support within the written scope.

Payment agreement

Select the proposed payment arrangement:

Journal processing charges, data-collection costs, software, conference fees and other third-party charges are separate.

Important service boundaries

To protect both you and GCA, please note:

• The £5,500 fee covers mentoring and development support, not the purchase of authorship or publication.
• The number of completed or accepted papers depends on participant work, evidence quality, journal decisions and the agreed timeframe.
• GCA does not guarantee acceptance, indexing, citations, awards or a specific h-index.
• All authorship must reflect genuine contribution and comply with publication ethics.

Participant responsibilities

• Provide accurate, complete and verifiable information and documents.
• Attend agreed sessions, complete actions and respond within reasonable timelines.
• Follow research-integrity, authorship, citation and confidentiality requirements.
• Pay fees according to the signed payment schedule and retain payment records.
• Inform GCA promptly of material changes to objectives, deadlines or circumstances.

Consent and acknowledgements

By submitting this form, I confirm that:

1. I am voluntarily enrolling in the selected mentoring programme.
2. I consent to the collection and secure use of my personal information for programme administration, mentoring delivery, payment records and directly related communication.
3. I understand that mentoring is developmental support and does not transfer decision-making authority from universities, journals, professional bodies, endorsing bodies or government authorities.
4. I understand that third-party fees are separate unless expressly included in the written programme scope.
5. I will review the final written scope and payment schedule before making payment.
6. I understand that authorship and publication must reflect genuine contribution and independent journal assessment.

Communication consent

Participant declaration