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Institutional research agreements

One agreement.
A clear plan for your research.

Bring your departments, available data, and publication priorities into one coordinated program. Sanad offers research and scientific writing support to hospitals, associations, universities, and other organizations.

Paid programs are scoped around your material, priorities, and available expertise. Original research requires data that have already been collected and are available for authorized use.

One agreement. Several research workstreams.

An institutional agreement can coordinate original articles from available data, institution-selected reviews, and documented case reports, with a scope and responsibilities for each article.
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  • Original articles. Collected and available data
  • Review articles. Topics selected by your institution
  • Clinical case reports. Complete records and publication consent

Choose the workstreams and article count after feasibility review.

Discuss an institutional agreement

For organizations with funded research priorities.

  • Hospitals and health networks
  • Professional associations and scientific societies
  • Universities and research centers
  • Foundations and research sponsors
  • Pharmaceutical and life sciences organizations

Choose how we work together.

Start with a defined project or coordinate a wider portfolio. The agreement sets the framework; each workstream has its own deliverables and responsibilities.

Multi-project program

A coordinated portfolio across departments.

One institutional agreement with a scope for each article or workstream. Agree on priorities, department leads, data readiness, review milestones, and reporting.

Best suited to a defined group of research and writing projects.

Focused project

Start with one well-defined assignment.

Scope an original article, evidence review, case report, analysis, or manuscript revision. Use the first engagement to establish a practical working relationship.

Best suited to a clear immediate need or an initial paid pilot.

Ongoing agreement

Support recurring research priorities.

Agree on a defined period, work allocation, review cadence, and service limits. Add assignments through approved scopes as your priorities develop.

Best suited to organizations with a continuing research or writing workload.

A program sized to your priorities

Planning ten manuscripts across departments?

We can scope a multi-project program around that target. Begin with an inventory of available datasets, proposed review topics, and fully documented cases. Together, select the scientifically justified articles and agree on a staged delivery plan.

Ten is an illustrative planning target, not a completed portfolio or a promise of ten journal acceptances. The final article count follows feasibility review.

Each article needs a distinct scientific purpose. Overlapping work is reviewed together rather than divided simply to reach a paper count.

Build a program around the work you need.

Combine selected services under one proposal, with the right reviewers and a defined scope for each assignment.

  • Original research from existing data

    Research question refinement, methodology review, analysis planning, statistical analysis, interpretation, and manuscript development from collected, usable datasets.

  • Reviews on your institution's priorities

    Our team can develop narrative, scoping, or systematic reviews on agreed topics of interest. Meta-analysis is included when the question and available evidence justify pooling.

  • Case reports and case series

    Prepare a clear scientific account from complete clinical documentation, relevant diagnostic material, and appropriate permissions. Case series follow the reporting and approval requirements of their design.

  • Statistical and methods support

    Standalone study-design advice, data-readiness assessment, statistical review, analysis plans, reproducible analyses, tables, and figures as agreed.

  • Writing, editing, and journal preparation

    Manuscript development, language and structural editing, reference checks, journal fit assessment, formatting, cover letters, and submission preparation.

  • Revision and reviewer responses

    A point-by-point revision plan, response editing, manuscript alignment, and separately scoped additional analyses or literature work when required.

  • Scientific communication

    Conference abstracts, posters, plain-language summaries, referenced educational slides, and other agreed medical-writing outputs with institutional scientific review.

  • Research office and team support

    Publication planning, methodological consultations, protocol and ethics-document support, and research capacity-building sessions within an agreed scope.

Case reports

A well-documented case deserves a careful account.

Case reports can form part of a paid institutional program. We assess the documentation and educational value before agreeing on manuscript support.

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Use CARE and the selected journal's current instructions. Relevant image types depend on the case; clinical, radiology, and pathology images are not all mandatory in every report.

  • Clinical record

    Relevant history, examination, clinical timeline, diagnostic workup and reasoning, treatment, and follow-up.

  • Supporting material

    Available clinical photographs, radiology, pathology, and other diagnostic material where relevant, with suitable quality and permissions.

  • Patient account and consent

    Include the patient perspective where feasible and confirm informed consent for publication, including identifiable images.

  • Author and journal review

    The responsible clinicians verify the account and address documentation gaps before submission.

A clear agreement keeps the work moving.

Agree on the framework before the program begins. Actual authorship follows contribution and the applicable authorship criteria.

  • Shared program brief

    Objectives, article types, departments, and proposed outputs.

  • Article-level scope

    Available inputs, methods, deliverables, authors, and review responsibilities.

  • Delivery and review plan

    Milestones, dependencies, revision allowance, and points of contact.

  • Commercial and data terms

    Fees, currency, payment milestones, journal charges, confidentiality, and approved data access.

Before we scope your program.

Can one agreement cover several departments?
Yes. A shared framework can cover multiple departments, with a clear scope and accountable institutional lead for each workstream.
Do we need an existing dataset for a review article?
No. For reviews, agree on the topic, review type, evidence sources, and responsibilities. Original data-based articles require collected and available data.
Is publication in a Q1 journal guaranteed?
No. We can target suitable Q1 journals when appropriate, but journal fit and editorial decisions determine the outcome. Agree on deliverables the team can control.
Are article processing charges covered?
Yes. APCs are covered when a paper is accepted in a well-indexed Q1 or Q2 journal. If it is instead accepted in a lower-tier journal, the APC is shared among all members of the project team. Our publications to date have been predominantly in Q1 journals, with a small number in Q2.
How is a program priced?
After reviewing the material, complexity, planned outputs, and support required. The proposal states the scope, currency, milestones, and applicable terms.

Tell us what your institution wants to achieve.

Start with your organization, departments, available material, planned outputs, and preferred timing. A nonconfidential outline is enough for the first conversation.

Please do not send patient records, identifiable images, or datasets through the public inquiry form.