About us
About PhD Desk
A small research-guidance team in Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu.
PhD Desk is a small research-guidance team that works with doctoral scholars in India. Mostly we come in where a scholar needs one experienced person to read the work a second time. Some bring a rough proposal, some a thesis chapter for review and editing, some a paper they want to send to an indexed journal. Reviewer comments they don't understand, and statistics or code they are stuck on, also come to our desk many times.
We started PhD Desk to give scholars clear, realistic information at every stage. For example, how long indexed journal actually takes for review. What a similarity report can show and what it cannot show. And how much work goes into a thesis that you can defend in the viva-voce. With these facts in hand you can pick the right journal, budget your time and go for the viva prepared. So we plan every project around what is realistic only.
Ownership
Who runs PhD Desk
PhD Desk works from our office on Mead Street, WCC Road, Nagercoil, in Tamil Nadu. The legal entity behind it is Saaira Technologies, and that name is what you will see on our invoices, our terms and our privacy policy. You should know who is behind the website before sending your thesis, so we put it here itself.
PhD Desk does one kind of work only. We review, check, edit and teach, and the scholar does the research and the writing. Each service has its own page, and our timelines and pricing principles you can read before even talking to us. The free guides try to properly answer questions scholars really ask.
Track record
Our team in numbers
These figures count every scholar our team has worked with over the years, including the years before PhD Desk had a website of its own.
- years guiding PhD scholars
- 10+
- scholars supported
- 1,500+
- countries served
- 25+
- research domains
- 12+
People
How the team works
Your work goes to people who know your subject.
Subject reviewers
Our reviewers come from research backgrounds in broad subject areas. These include engineering and computing, management and commerce, life and physical sciences, and social sciences and humanities. Your work is sent to a reviewer from your own area.
Academic editors
Editors do the corrections in language, structure and consistency using tracked changes. You can see every change they make, and you only decide whether to accept it or reject it.
Statisticians and analysts
Quantitative and qualitative analysts pick methods that suit your objectives. They hand over the syntax and outputs also, so you can rerun everything yourself.
MATLAB and Python mentors
They take one-to-one sessions on MATLAB, Simulink and Python, and review the code you write. The aim is simple, you should be able to explain every line of it in your viva.
Principles
What we believe
Say what is realistic
In an indexed journal, peer review takes months. We plan your work keeping that in mind and tell you at the start.
Quality you can verify
You get similarity report along with the draft. Journal indexing is checked live and every edit is tracked, so you can verify the quality yourself.
You stay the author
We help with structure, language, method and analysis. But the research belongs to you, and you must be able to defend every part of it.
Fixed prices, agreed first
We quote in writing after seeing your material, before any work starts, and the agreed price does not change.
Confidential by default
Your material is seen only by the people working on it. It is used for your project only, and we delete it when you ask.
Free advice is free
You don’t need any sign-up to read our guides. And we check free of cost whether a journal is indexed, even if you never work with us.
Where to go next
Want to see the steps once you engage us, and how we reach a price? That is all in how we work and how pricing works. Some work we will not do for a scholar, and the line is written in our ethics policy. Please read it once before hiring anybody, us also. If you have just one small doubt, check our free guides first because many times the answer is already sitting there.
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