Transparent research tools for consequential decisions
Free to use, no sign-up required, with named sources and limitations on every result. Six tools process inputs entirely in your browser. The journal shortlist, Journal Evidence Checker, Recorded APC Lookup and Reference & DOI Integrity Checker send the search term, ISSN, DOI or reference text to the named public databases only when you press their action button; APC Invoice Triage works entirely in your browser except for one optional recorded-APC lookup. Gurjas does not receive any of these queries.
Eleven established tools, three public-beta workflows
Start with the decision in front of you: design the study, publish safely, or strengthen institutional readiness.
Connected governed decision workflows
Move from a stated research, publication or institutional evidence problem to an inspectable local decision record. Answers are not sent to Gurjas.
Research Design Selector
Group defensible design families, alternatives and exclusions from the stated objective, time structure, assignment and evidence maturity.
Journal Evaluation Workflow
Record dated manual checks and stop on unresolved identity, policy or payment evidence without a blacklist or legitimacy verdict.
Evidence Pathway Navigator
Sequence ownership, governance, inventory, verification and review without inferring compliance or authorising access.
Doctoral planning & research design
Triage the evidence controls, sequence the work, justify the sample and inspect measurement quality before interpreting results.
Research Readiness Triage
Turn eight self-reported evidence-control states into a gap register and next-control plan—without an invented readiness score.
PhD Timeline Planner
Registration date in, milestone plan out — aligned to the UGC PhD Regulations 2022 timeframes, printable, with the honest sequencing most scholars discover too late.
SEM Planning Bounds Explorer
Compare three disclosed planning approximations—and see why none is automatically a model-specific SEM power analysis.
Reliability & Convergent Validity Calculator
Calculate CR, AVE and Cronbach's alpha with explicit data checks, assumptions and non-universal reference markers.
Journal selection & publication integrity
Find candidate journals, verify identity and indexing, check your reference list's registry record, and triage a proposed article-processing charge before submitting or paying.
Journal Evidence Checker
Assemble source-labelled identity, registration, indexing-snapshot and clone-alert signals without an unsupported legitimacy score.
Literature-neighbour Journal Shortlist
Find related journal-type, ISSN-bearing OpenAlex sources as a shortlist to investigate—not an endorsement or submission recommendation.
Reference & DOI Integrity Checker
Check each reference's DOI against Crossref — title, author and year comparison, plus any recorded retraction or correction.
Recorded APC Lookup
Inspect APC and open-access fields recorded in OpenAlex without treating missing data or directory status as payment advice.
APC Invoice Triage
Turn a questionable invoice into a discrepancy register — documented fraud patterns and factual comparisons, never a legitimacy verdict.
Institutional readiness & research funding
Turn broad requirements into a documented readiness conversation and keep official funding calls visible.
Institutional Evidence Readiness
Review present, partial and missing records across the legacy seven-criteria structure—without generating an unofficial NAAC score.
Grant Deadline Tracker
ICSSR, ANRF and allied funding calls for Indian researchers on one page, reviewed monthly, with every row linked to its official source.
These tools support planning and evidence review; they do not replace study-specific methodological judgement, current official requirements or formal advice. Inspect every tool's processing, outbound requests, sources and decision boundary in the public tool-contract registry. Suggestions welcome at [email protected].
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