ORBITA readiness check tests a finished manuscript against a specific journal's submission guidelines before you submit it, so formatting problems are found before an editor desk-rejects for them. ORBIT runs 122+ checks across 12 categories and returns a score with a specific fix for anything that fails. It reports; it does not rewrite.
The manuscript is never uploaded. The .docx is unzipped and analysed by JavaScript on your own machine. No server receives the file, no copy is stored, and no third-party model sees the text.
An unstated rule returns "not stated", not a pass. Where a journal publishes no limit for something, that check is excluded from the score rather than guessed at — so the score reflects rules the journal actually states.
Guideline pages are re-fetched on a schedule and hash-compared. When a page changes, the profile is flagged for human review rather than rewritten automatically, because an automated misreading would silently corrupt a good profile.
A readiness check tests a finished manuscript against a specific journal's submission guidelines before you submit it. ORBIT runs 122+ checks across 12 categories — formatting, structure, content, referencing, figures and tables, language, consistency, submission risk, metadata, file clean-up, review readiness, and statistics — and returns two scores, journal fit (that journal's own rules) and manuscript checks (good practice for any submission), with a specific fix for anything that fails and the five that matter most listed first.
No. The .docx is parsed and analysed entirely inside your browser using your own machine's processor. The file is never transmitted, never stored, and never seen by ORBIT. Only the resulting score, the journal name and a one-way fingerprint of the title are recorded against your account. The fingerprint cannot be turned back into the title; it only lets a re-check of the same paper within 24 hours go free. One optional switch, off by default, sends the funder names in your funding statement to the Crossref Funder Registry and any trial number to ClinicalTrials.gov to confirm they exist — those names and numbers only, never the file, and the report lists exactly what was sent.
11 journals are available today, scoped to computer science, AI and machine learning: IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Pattern Recognition, Expert Systems with Applications, Neural Computing and Applications, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Scientific Reports, and Heliyon. 8 of them are transcribed directly from the publisher's own author-guidelines page. You can also paste any journal's guidelines URL and ORBIT will read the rules from it.
The check returns 'unknown' and is excluded from the score. ORBIT never guesses a number and never counts an unstated rule as a pass or a fail. A journal that publishes no word limit produces no word-limit verdict.
A scheduled job re-fetches every monitored guidelines page and compares a hash of its content. When a page changes, the profile is flagged for human review rather than rewritten automatically — an automated misreading would silently corrupt a good profile. Each journal card shows the date the journal states for its own guidelines and the date ORBIT last confirmed the page unchanged, labelled separately.
No, they are two different tools. Formatting rewrites your .docx into a journal's template. The readiness check reads your paper and reports where it does not yet comply, without changing it. A built-in format costs 1 credit and a custom template 2; a readiness check costs 1 against a style system and 2 against a named journal, all from the same pool.
Four things a copy-editor catches and a journal never states: an abbreviation used before you spell it out or spelled out twice, both spellings of the same word (organise and organize, behaviour and behavior), figures or tables numbered out of order or skipped, and a unit written two ways (10 % and 10%, 5 kg and 5kg). Every finding quotes the words it was made from. Your reference list is left out of all four, because a cited title spells words the way it was published and you must not change it. These are recommendations, never blockers, and they are scored in their own section rather than counted in the overall score — they are true of your paper wherever you send it.
If you switch it on, yes. The switch sits above the button and is off unless you move it. When it is on, the funder names in your funding statement are checked against the Crossref Funder Registry and any NCT number against ClinicalTrials.gov. Only those names and numbers leave your browser — never your file, your title, your abstract or your grant numbers — and the report lists exactly which strings were sent. India's CTRI publishes no public interface, so a CTRI number is checked for format and reported as not confirmed, never as confirmed.
1 credit against one of the built-in style systems, 2 against a named journal — a journal check runs against that journal's own submission rules and produces more checks. There is a single shared pool and you choose what to spend it on. Every account gets 5 free credits each month, which cover either kind, and additional credits cost ₹150 each.