From idea to publication, handled end to end.

How it works

You steer. We do the work. You stay the author.

How it works: six steps from question to accepted paper, showing what you do and what Cohira does Two lanes. YOU: bring the idea, approve the protocol, oversee, edit and approve the draft, act as corresponding author, keep your authorship. COHIRA: free feasibility note, protocol and analysis plan, the analysis, journal-ready manuscript, shortlist and submission, reviewer responses every round. Each step needs your approval before the next begins. YOUSteer & approve COHIRADo the work You bring a question, or just a clinical area. We return a free feasibility note: design, expected sample, realistic journals. STEP 01 Question Bringthe idea Feasibilitynote FREE You approve the protocol and the pre-specified analysis plan before any data is touched. STEP 02 Plan Approvethe protocol Protocol &analysis plan We run the analysis; you oversee and ask questions at any point. STEP 03 Data Oversee &answer questions Analysis& results We draft the journal-ready manuscript; you edit and approve every section. STEP 04 Paper Edit &approve the draft Journal-readymanuscript We prepare the journal shortlist and submission package; you are the corresponding author. STEP 05 Submit Correspondingauthor Shortlist &submission We answer reviewers, every round, until acceptance. Your authorship, intact. STEP 06 Accepted Your authorship,intact Reviewer responses,every round INCLUDED Dotted lines are approval gates. Nothing moves to the next step until you sign it off. Fees are per project, never per author.
1

Send your starting point

A clinical area, an idea, a dataset, or a rejected manuscript.

2

Receive a free feasibility note

Design, expected sample, and realistic journals. No cost.

3

Agree the scope and a fixed quote

Per project, never per author.

4

We execute; you oversee

You direct and approve; we deliver the methods, the analysis, and the draft.

5

Submission and beyond

Journal shortlist, submission package, and reviewer responses.

Pricing →

Choose a route

Thirteen study types, each with its own page and price.

Kaplan-Meier curves for two propensity-matched cohorts from a federated EHR network

TriNetX real-world studies

Propensity-matched real-world cohorts from 100M+ patient records.

How TriNetX studies work & price →
A large teaching hospital building

National Inpatient Sample (NIS)

National in-hospital outcomes from seven million US discharges a year.

How NIS studies work & price →
Hospital ward corridor

Nationwide Readmissions Database (NRD)

Thirty-day readmission rates, causes, and costs after any diagnosis or procedure.

How NRD studies work & price →
World map of disease burden by country

Global Burden of Disease (GBD)

Burden, trends, and projections for any disease, country, or region.

How GBD studies work & price →
Cancer-specific survival curves by stage at diagnosis, with numbers at risk

SEER cancer registry

Cancer survival and prognosis from decades of registry follow-up.

How SEER studies work & price →
Illustration of a DNA double helix

UK Biobank

Exposure, genetic, and prognostic questions in 500,000 deeply phenotyped people.

How UK Biobank studies work & price →
Analysis code on a laptop screen

AI & ML prediction models

Validated risk-prediction models, reported to TRIPOD+AI, with a web calculator.

How prediction-model studies work & price →
Forest plot of a pairwise meta-analysis, showing each study estimate and the pooled result

Systematic reviews & meta-analyses

Pairwise and individual-patient-data meta-analyses, PROSPERO to GRADE.

How systematic reviews work & price →
Evidence network of six treatments, connected by the trials comparing them

Network meta-analyses

Many treatments compared and ranked in one analysis.

How network meta-analyses work & price →
Summary ROC plot with individual studies and the bivariate summary point

Diagnostic accuracy meta-analyses

Pooled sensitivity and specificity, summary ROC, post-test probability.

How accuracy meta-analyses work & price →
Medical journals on a library shelf

Narrative & state-of-the-art reviews

Invited reviews, clinical updates, and editorials, no dataset needed.

How narrative reviews work & price →
Clinicians reviewing a questionnaire

Cross-sectional studies

You collect the data with the tool we design; we do everything else.

How cross-sectional studies work & price →
A clinician entering records at a workstation

Your clinical data

Retrospective studies on the records or registry you already hold.

How your-data studies work & price →

No research question yet?

Tell us your clinical area and we will propose several feasible ideas, each with the data source, the design, and the likely target journal.

What you receive

Sample deliverables, up close.

Illustrative samples with invented data. Full anonymised samples on request.

Sample feasibility note: question, gap analysis, expected sample, and target journals
Feasibility note
Sample study protocol cover with ethics submission checklist
Protocol & ethics package
Sample tracked-changes edit with internal reviewer comments
Editing & internal review
Sample point-by-point response to reviewers table
Response to reviewers

Pricing

One fee per study, starting from $1,500. Reviewer responses included.

Per project, never per author. You see the design, the expected sample and the realistic target journals in the free feasibility note, before you pay anything.

TriNetX real-world study
Propensity-matched cohorts on a global EHR network.
$1,800per study
National Inpatient Sample (NIS) study
Outcomes, trends, and costs from US hospital discharges.
$1,800per study
Nationwide Readmissions Database (NRD) study
Readmission rates, predictors, and burden.
$1,800per study
Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study
Incidence, prevalence, deaths, and DALYs, 1990 to today.
$1,800per study
SEER cancer registry study
Survival, competing risks, and nomograms.
$1,800per study
UK Biobank study
Exposure-outcome cohorts, Mendelian randomisation, polygenic risk.
$4,000per study, Biobank access included
AI & ML prediction model
Development, validation, and TRIPOD reporting.
$2,500per study, with a working web calculator
Systematic review with meta-analysis
Pairwise or individual-patient-data meta-analysis, PROSPERO to GRADE.
$1,500per study
Network meta-analysis
Many treatments ranked in one connected network, PRISMA-NMA to CINeMA.
$1,600per study
Diagnostic test accuracy meta-analysis
Bivariate and HSROC models, summary ROC, PRISMA-DTA.
$1,600per study
Narrative or state-of-the-art review
Structured, citable, and reviewer-ready.
$1,800per study
Cross-sectional study
You collect the data with our instrument, we do the rest.
$1,800per study
Study on your clinical data
Retrospective cohort, case-control, or registry analysis of your records.
$1,800per study

Included in the fee

  • Protocol, and registration or ethics submission where the design requires it
  • Dataset work and the pre-specified analysis
  • Journal-ready manuscript, figures, and supplements
  • Journal shortlist and the full submission package
  • Reviewer responses, every round, to a decision
  • Database access, for the database study types
  • A named lead and a second internal reviewer

Billed separately

  • Journal fees and APCs, at cost
  • Optional Acceptance Guarantee, offered at quotation

Discounts & group pricing

−10%Your first project with Cohira, once per client
−10%Second study booked together
−15%Third study onward, or three or more single stages
−10%Referral: invite a colleague who becomes a client, applied to your next study
QuotedDepartments and groups of 5 to 10 researchers: one contract, one named lead, monthly progress report, invoiced to the institution
Optional, priced with your quote

Acceptance Guarantee

Until your paper is accepted.

We sign a contract to keep revising and resubmitting across the agreed journal shortlist until your paper is accepted, with the timeframe and refund written down.

  • Unlimited rounds, revisions and resubmissions at no extra charge.
  • Defined refund if acceptance is not reached in the agreed period.
  • Persistence, not a shortcut, peer review and ICMJE authorship still apply.

Full terms in our Terms & Conditions, section 10. Complete fee schedule →

Test the fit at no cost

Send your area of interest, one idea, or one stalled dataset.

You get a short feasibility note, design, expected sample, realistic journals, free of charge.