Terms
Website terms
Terms for using the MedRigor Research website and requesting a suitability assessment.
Website purpose
The website describes independent research-quality services and provides a way to request a preliminary assessment. Submitting the form does not create a professional engagement, duty, partnership, agency relationship, quotation, or obligation to accept work.
Screening and acceptance
Every inquiry is screened for scope, expertise, timing, conflicts, integrity, and information-security needs. Work begins only after a separate written scope, fee, exclusions, timeline, responsibilities, and acceptance are agreed.
No medical advice
MedRigor Research does not provide diagnosis, treatment, emergency assistance, or patient-specific medical advice. Contact qualified healthcare professionals for clinical decisions and local emergency services for urgent needs.
Live chat
Live chat is optional and is intended for general questions about MedRigor Research services. It is not a secure route for research files, patient or participant information, protected health information, credentials, payment details, clinical advice, or emergencies. A chat exchange does not create a professional engagement or obligation to accept work.
No publication guarantee
Research support cannot guarantee journal acceptance, peer-review outcomes, funding, regulatory approval, or academic results. Authors and investigators remain responsible for their work, decisions, disclosures, and submissions.
Independent pre-submission peer review
Expert Medical Peer Review and Pre-Submission Optimisation is an independent advisory service provided before journal submission. It is not commissioned by, affiliated with, or performed on behalf of a journal unless expressly stated in a separate written agreement. It does not replace editorial peer review, confer endorsement, or guarantee acceptance.
Originality and AI-detection reports
Similarity and AI-generated-content detector results are imperfect screening signals. MedRigor may review flagged text, sources, citations, paraphrasing, author voice, and disclosure requirements, but does not guarantee a score or provide detector evasion, authorship concealment, or misrepresentation.
Target-journal preparation
Submission-preparation work is based on the current author guide and other requirements available for the stated journal and article type at the time of review. Journals may change their requirements. Authors remain responsible for verifying final compliance, approving every file and declaration, and making the submission.
Prohibited requests
Do not request fabrication, falsification, plagiarism concealment, AI-detector evasion, ghost authorship, manipulated significance, fabricated citations, undisclosed submission, assessed-student work, or other deceptive or unethical activity.
Files and datasets
The assessment form accepts limited permitted research files for suitability review. Uploaders confirm that they have authority to share the material and that files contain no direct or indirect patient or participant identifiers, protected health information, raw clinical records, credentials, payment data, malware, or prohibited content. Datasets must be appropriately de-identified before upload. Unsupported, unsafe, unauthorized, or higher-risk material may be rejected or deleted.
Security limitations
Uploaded files are stored privately and quarantined, but no internet transfer or storage system can be represented as risk-free. Format and signature checks are not antivirus scanning and do not verify de-identification or legal authority. A separately reviewed transfer method and written data-handling agreement may be required for higher-risk work.
Accuracy and availability
Reasonable care is taken with public content, but it may be incomplete or changed without notice. The pilot, particular services, and the website may be limited, suspended, or withdrawn.
International use
Users are responsible for complying with laws, institutional rules, journal policies, export controls, professional duties, and research-ethics requirements applicable to them and their projects.