One manuscript, many possible homes.
Choosing where to submit is a high-stakes decision made under uncertainty. PASS starts from the manuscript itself — and builds the reasoning in stages you can inspect, audit, and contest.
From a manuscript to the right journal,
with the evidence to show why.
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PASS recommends an appropriate journal for a manuscript through three coordinated agents: a manuscript-understanding agent, a literature-retrieval agent, and a journal-fit reasoning agent.
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Input · Manuscript
Manuscript-understanding agent.
Taking a paper as input, the manuscript-understanding agent analyzes the title, abstract, and main sections to construct a compact summary of the paper's storyline, contribution, and limitations, producing manuscript-derived signals.
- Storyline
- Contribution
- Limitations
- Claims
- Evidence
Literature-retrieval agent.
The literature-retrieval agent converts the manuscript profile into targeted queries and uses retrieved related papers to assess overlap, novelty and positioning relative to prior work, while review and benchmark papers provide broader field trends.
- PubMed
- Europe PMC
- Semantic Scholar
Journal-fit reasoning agent.
The journal-fit reasoning agent integrates task-specific instructions, manuscript metadata and literature evidence to jointly generate a ranked list of candidate journals with rationales and manuscript-level assessments of novelty, impact, soundness and writing quality.
- Novelty
- Impact
- Soundness
- Writing
A ranked list — with reasons.
The final output provides best-fit journals, evidence-grounded rationales and feedback for strengthening the manuscript before submission.
Four scores, one holistic assessment.
PASS evaluates each manuscript across four complementary dimensions, making the result interpretable.
Impact potential
The likely influence of the work, breadth of audience, citation potential, and relevance to the field.
Novelty
How original is the contribution relative to existing methods and findings in the retrieved literature?
Conceptual soundness
Evaluates study design, statistical rigor and whether limitations are clearly addressed.
Writing quality
Clarity of the manuscript structure, presentation and reproducibility of the methods.
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Each recommendation is paired with its evidence trail, so you can know the rationale behind each suggestion.