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If you need an experienced academic editor, try my services. I do not use GenAI in my editing or writing, and I do not provide ghostwriting services. My approach is to support academic integrity while allowing you to retain responsibility for your own scholarly work. I am a Diamond Editor (ranked top 0.1%) at TopEdit, where I do developmental editing to help social scientists, especially psychologists, publish their manuscripts in respected journals. My internal rating is 9.7 out of 10. I only work with clients who are graduate students or above. My clients include academics at respected institutes, such as the Ohio State University, the University of Toronto, National Taiwan University, and Peking University. I understand academic publishing from the perspectives of authors, reviewers, researchers, and instructors/mentors. Between 2018 and 2022, I was an instructor of record at Iowa State University and a teaching faculty member at Florida State University. Between 2022 and 2023, I mentored five graduate students at Auburn University as a postdoctoral fellow. I have published five first-authored articles in SSCI Q1 or Q2 journals and have been an ad hoc reviewer for SSCI Q1 and Q2 journals for a total of 37 reviews. I was a reviewer for 8 grant proposals for the Society of Research in Child Development in 2024 and 20 proposals for the National Council on Family Relations Annual Conferences in 2025 and 2026. I have two consultation services on Upwork: a semistructured meeting wherein we focus on academic issues; and one similar to my good old office hours provided to my students at U.S. research-intensive universities. Historically minoritized students may encounter discrimination in the United States. We could either talk it over or come up with workarounds. I am the Founder of BC Academic Editing and Statistical Consultation, where I provide the following services: (a) Editing academic manuscripts in social sciences (e.g., psychology, family and developmental sciences): Please inquire about the price after you have a draft and a target journal. I provide line/deep editing and developmental editing services. The payment rates, per 1,000 English words, are $200 for developmental editing, $150 for line/deep editing. Within 2 business days of accepting your request, I will let you know whether an upgrade of service is recommended to ensure that your manuscript will be competitive to be published in an SSCI journal. On accepting your request for a designated service, please allow me 5 business days to complete the assignment. If you request line/deep or developmental editing, I will provide a cover letter for the manuscript as a supplementary service. Regarding the payment, for instance, if you want me to do developmental editing on your manuscript written in 10,000 words, you will need to pay me $2,000 via Upwork in advance. Alternatively, you could pay me $1,200 via Upwork in advance and the rest $800 after receiving my edited manuscript. The same logic applies to the other services. For developmental editing, we need to have two rounds of editing. You are required to carefully read my edits, comments, and questions as well as provide me with the revision in a timely fashion so that I can do the second round of editing for you. Please allow 5 business days for each round of developmental editing. (b) Quality evaluation report: If you are uncertain about the competitiveness of your manuscript, you could request a service called "Quality Evaluation Report," where I will provide you with ratings (i.e., ranging from 1 to 5) on your manuscript's (1) novelty, (2) data sufficiency, (3) manuscript structure, (4) potential for publication in Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)-indexed journals, (5) writing quality, and (6) adequacy of figures and tables. You need to pay $150 (3 pages), $175 (4 pages), and $200 (5 pages) for this service. (c) Consultation on research design, (advanced) quantitative modeling, and academic writing in social sciences (e.g., psychology): You should have preliminary plans before consulting me. I will serve as a consultant instead of a ghostwriter. It is crucial for my clients to write their own manuscripts or projects, otherwise it would be academic misconduct. You will pay $120 (for 30 mins) or $240 (for 60 mins) for my consultation. It could be a meeting wherein we get to know one another before working on a long-term project wherein I could serve as your statistical consultant or academic or admission writing consultant. All works should be written in accordance with APA 7 unless requested otherwise by the journal or agency. (d) Editing application materials (e.g., a statement of purpose, curriculum vitae) for U.S. graduate schools: To optimize your documents, please provide the requirements that the schools or programs post on their websites. The payment rates are identical to my academic editing services. My official name is Chia-Feng Chen. :)