A 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 41+ checks across 7 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 41+ checks across 7 categories — formatting, structure, content, referencing, figures and tables, language, and metadata — and returns a score with a specific fix for anything that fails.
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 and the journal name are recorded against your account.
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. Both cost 1 credit, drawn from the same pool.
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 ₹500 each.