Resubmission · re-review $15

Answer the reviewers with a checked revision.

A major revision is where a paper is won or lost — and Reviewer 2’s statistical and methodological comments are the ones that sink resubmissions. Before you send the revision back, run the same two-engine, severity-scored review on the revised manuscript and see exactly what changed: which findings are gone, which remain, and what is new. Paste the decision letter and the report also answers it: every reviewer point, classified and grounded, with a draft response to edit.

An independent second read of the revised draft — not a rewrite of your paper, and not a promise about the outcome.

§01 What the re-review gives you

You upload the revised manuscript. The full review runs again — two independent engines, the deterministic statistical checks, the same seven severity-scored domains — and the report adds a finding-by-finding comparison against your first RigorMD report:

  • No longer flagged — findings from the first report that do not recur on the revised draft;
  • Still flagged — findings that persist, with any change in severity;
  • Newly flagged — issues the revision introduced.

The comparison matches findings by domain and content and is a reading aid, not proof that an issue was fixed. One re-review per study.

§02 The letter, answered point by point

Paste the decision letter (or the reviewer comments) with your submission — it’s optional, and it works on both the $15 re-review and the $10 review. The report adds a reviewer response section:

  • each reviewer point grounded in a verbatim quote from your letter — points that can’t be grounded in the pasted text are listed as dropped, never invented;
  • every point classified must-fix vs presentational ask — the distinction that decides a resubmission — with an adversarial second read on every must-fix call before it ships;
  • a draft response per point and an overall response scaffold, written to be edited — language that promises acceptance is redacted, flagged, and shown to you.

The response letter stays yours to send: drafts are scaffolds to edit against your manuscript and the editor’s instructions, not language to submit unread.

§03 What it costs

  • $15 when this manuscript was reviewed with RigorMD — the full review again, plus the finding-by-finding comparison against your first report;
  • $10 for a manuscript we haven’t seen — the standard pre-submission review, under the same no-identifiers attestation and confidentiality posture.

Your report is private to you and the recipients you name — never visible to an institution admin. See the full lifecycle and pricing, every check we run, or the free reference-integrity checker.

A second read. RigorMD re-reviews your revised manuscript and flags what a methodological reviewer is likely to flag — it does not rewrite your manuscript, submit your response for you, or promise that your revision clears peer review. Have a statistician or mentor read the final response on any complex revision.