Native-English academic editing for theses, manuscripts, and research papers
Research Gold's academic editing service is for researchers who have written the science but want a native-English editor to make it read like the strongest papers in their field. We edit theses, journal manuscripts, conference papers, book chapters, grant applications, dissertations, and research proposals across medicine, public health, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, psychology, education, business, and the social sciences.
Every editor is a native English speaker with a PhD or terminal degree in a research field, and every project is matched with an editor who has published in your field, spanning health sciences, nursing, psychology, education, social sciences, and beyond. We do not assign editors to fields outside their training; a public health editor will not touch a literary criticism paper, and an organic chemistry editor will not touch a finance paper. You retain full authorship; our editing improves language and structure only, without changing your meaning. You can review the standard of our work in our published sample deliverables.
What is included
Three depths of editing are available, choose the one that matches your draft's stage.
Substantive edit (most common). The editor reworks sentence structure, paragraph flow, argument logic, and section transitions. Repetition is cut, hedging is calibrated, terminology is harmonized to your field's preferred conventions (CONSORT, STROBE, PRISMA, ARRIVE, MOOSE), and reasoning gaps are flagged with author queries. This is the right depth for a draft you have read three times yourself but that still feels rough.
Copy edit. In our copy editing service, the editor fixes language and grammar, clarity and flow, punctuation, article use, preposition selection, verb tense consistency, subject-verb agreement, parallelism, capitalization, hyphenation, consistency, reference formatting (APA, Chicago, Vancouver, Harvard), table and figure caption alignment, reference list cross-checking, and style-guide compliance for the standard your target journal or committee requires. Reference formatting follows the APA Publication Manual, 7th edition (American Psychological Association, 2020) or The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition (2017), depending on your target journal or committee. This is the right depth for a near-final draft.
