AI peer review
for the papers you read — and the ones you write.
Critical appraisal of any paper for your journal club. Rigorous pre-submission review of your own manuscript — plus the journals it is realistically ready for. Both in minutes, grounded in the source.
Executive Summary
Critical Appraisal — Slide 6
One-sentence verdict
"A well-designed multicenter study demonstrating clinically meaningful AI sensitivity gains — constrained by retrospective design and modest specificity."
Built for medical rigor
Designed for how clinicians evaluate evidence
By a practicing physician — with the rigor a peer reviewer expects.
Never fabricates
Strictly grounded in the paper you provide. The model is constrained never to invent study details, numbers, or conclusions — only what is in the source.
Critical-appraisal frameworks
Internal and external validity, bias analysis, PICO framework, statistical appropriateness — the same lens a senior reviewer applies.
Direct PubMed integration
Search millions of peer-reviewed citations directly. Every result links back to PubMed for full traceability.
Designed for major medical specialties
Catch what gets papers desk-rejected — before you submit.
Upload your draft. Get a rigorous AI peer review against CONSORT, STROBE, PRISMA and the other reporting guidelines — a prioritised must-fix list with location pointers, in minutes rather than weeks. Then find out which journals your manuscript is actually ready for.
Rigorous critique across 8 dimensions
Methodology, statistics, reporting compliance, structure, language, references, discussion, title & abstract. Each with concrete strengths and weaknesses anchored in your manuscript.
Journal selection, calibrated to your actual paper
Two shortlists of three from 5,225 MEDLINE-indexed titles — one worth aiming at, one you can realistically clear as the draft stands. Each pick says why the scope fits, how much of a stretch it is, what that editor weighs, and what to change in your manuscript to fit it better.
Revision validator — close the loop
Revised your draft? Upload it again. We check item-by-item whether each previous finding was addressed, partially addressed, or still open — plus any new issues introduced.
Confidential by design
Your manuscript is auto-deleted within 24 hours. Never used to train any model. No human reviewer. Full audit log of every access — viewable by you.
PDF and Word, in and out
Upload PDF or .docx. Get a structured report you can save to your library, export as PDF, or iterate on. Built for the way researchers actually work.
3 manuscript reviews per month · journal recommendations included · 3 revision checks per manuscript · cancel any time
A clinical trial of [your study title]
Randomised controlled trial · CONSORT · Solid, minor revision
Executive Summary
A well-designed randomised trial with a clearly pre-specified primary outcome and adequate sample-size justification. Two must-fix items remain before submission, both addressable within a half-day of revision.
Must fix before submission
2 itemsCONSORT diagram missing
→ Add a CONSORT flow diagram covering enrollment, allocation, follow-up and analysis (item 13a).
Sample-size assumption parameters incomplete
→ Methods state α and power but omit assumed effect size and SD. Add to methods, paragraph 2.
Revision check — 6 of 8 addressed
Ready for submission — all must-fix items addressed.
Finding a journal that fits your topic is easy.
Finding one that fits your paper is the hard part.
Conventional journal finders compare your abstract against scope descriptions and hand you whatever sounds similar. That tells you where your topic belongs — not whether your study is strong enough to survive review there. Aiming too high costs you months. Aiming too low costs you the paper's reach.
Our recommendation runs after the full peer review, so it already knows your study design, your methodological weaknesses and your readiness verdict. It matches on scope and on whether your manuscript realistically clears that journal's bar — and tells you, in plain sentences, why each one made the list.
5,225 MEDLINE-indexed journals
Sourced from the public NCBI NLM Catalog. Because the catalogue holds only currently-indexed titles, predatory venues never enter your shortlist in the first place.
Calibrated to your quality tier
An underpowered single-centre pilot will not be pointed at a flagship journal. The recommendation is deliberately realistic, even when that is not what you were hoping to read.
Your own shortlist, sanity-checked
Name the journals you were already considering and the review tells you whether they are a plausible fit — before you burn a submission cycle finding out.
Suggested target journals
Aim high
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Methods-forward readership, but expects the confounding limitation resolved and a longer follow-up window first.
American Journal of Epidemiology
Strong fit on design; single-centre cohorts of this size rarely compete here without external validation.
International Journal of Epidemiology
Broad epidemiological remit — a plausible target once the sample-size justification is rewritten.
Realistic now
BMC Medical Research Methodology
Scope fits a methods-focused observational study, and it routinely publishes single-centre cohorts of this size.
BMJ Open
Explicit remit for well-reported observational research — your STROBE compliance after the must-fix items clears its bar.
PLOS ONE
Reviews for methodological soundness rather than novelty, which suits a solid but non-headline finding.
You listed The Lancet as a target. Based on sample size and single-centre design, a desk rejection is the likely outcome — the shortlists above are the stronger use of your next submission.
From draft to ready in three steps
Upload your draft
Drop in a PDF or Word file. Answer five short questions about your study type and concerns.
Read the review
Findings appear live as the reviewer writes: must-fix, should-fix and nice-to-have — each with a concrete recommendation, and three realistic target journals at the end.
Revise & validate
Make the changes. Re-upload. See exactly which findings you addressed and which still need work. Iterate until you're submission-ready.
Everything you need for journal club
From quick summaries to deep critical appraisals — all structured for teaching and presentation.
Structured Paper Summary
Automatically extract background, objectives, methods, key findings, and conclusions into a clean, presentation-ready summary.
Critical Appraisal
Systematic evaluation of internal validity, external validity, bias, confounding, statistical robustness, and clinical relevance.
Slide-Ready Outline
Generate a slide-by-slide presentation tailored to your time slot — from a 5-minute overview to a 30-minute in-depth session.
Discussion Questions
Evidence-based questions covering methodology, clinical relevance, bias, statistics, generalizability, and future research directions.
Speaker Notes
Natural, spoken-language presenter notes for each slide — helping you explain results accurately and confidently.
Statistics Explainer
Plain-language breakdown of statistical methods, confidence intervals, and effect sizes — ideal for teaching statistics to trainees.
Three steps from paper to presentation
No account required to get started. Fully functional in under a minute.
Search PubMed — or paste & upload
Search PubMed — or paste & upload
Search 36M+ PubMed articles right inside the app and import any paper in one click — the fastest way in. Prefer your own source? Paste an abstract or upload a PDF.
Configure your presentation
Configure your presentation
Choose your specialty, audience, duration (5–30 min), and output sections. Tailor everything to your teaching context.
Generate & present
Generate & present
Receive a complete journal club package — structured outline, critical appraisal, speaker notes, and discussion questions.
Built for medical education and research
Journal Club AI supports teaching and academic discussion at every level of medical training and research.
Residency Teaching
Help residents develop critical appraisal skills with structured, systematic paper reviews tailored to their specialty.
Medical Student Presentations
Support students in presenting evidence-based content confidently — from PICO to interpreting confidence intervals.
Research Meetings
Quickly synthesize recent literature for lab meetings, research group discussions, and grant preparation sessions.
Departmental Journal Clubs
Generate consistent, high-quality presentations across departments — reducing prep time while maintaining academic rigor.
Manuscript Discussion
Critically review papers under consideration for practice change, protocol development, or guideline updates.
Simple, transparent pricing
Start free today. Upgrade to Pro whenever you need more — a monthly subscription you can cancel to the end of any billing period.
Free
Get started with core features. No credit card required.
- 2 journal club generations/month
- All core output sections
- Copy to clipboard
- Slide outline (up to 10 min)
- Discussion questions
- Pre-Submission Check & revision validator
- Export to Word / PowerPoint
- Saved projects
- PDF upload
Pro
Total price including statutory VAT. No further costs apply. Everything in Free, plus the Pre-Submission Check, higher limits and exports.
- 50 journal club generations per month
- ★ 3 Pre-Submission Checks per month
- ★ 3 revision validations per manuscript
- PDF & Word manuscript upload
- Save to library + export to PDF / Word / PowerPoint
- Speaker notes, slide outlines, discussion questions
- Priority generation speed
About Journal Club AI
An academic productivity tool designed to support medical education, research discussion, and evidence-based teaching.
Educational tool
Designed for paper summarization, critical appraisal, and presentation preparation — not clinical decision-making.
Built for clinicians
Created with input from physicians, residents, and medical educators who run journal clubs regularly.
Privacy-aware
Designed for use with published, anonymized academic text. Do not input identifiable patient information.
Important Disclaimer
Journal Club AI is intended for educational and academic use only. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, treatment recommendations, or patient-specific clinical decision support.
Users are responsible for verifying all generated content against the original publication. The AI may produce errors or omissions — always check the source paper.
Not a medical device. Do not use for clinical decision-making.