What the work involves

You build and grade evaluation items drawn from the material you already work with daily: peer-reviewed manuscripts, abstracts, conference posters, and slide decks. A typical task means taking an AI-generated draft section — a results paragraph, a discussion, a plain-language summary — and deciding whether it holds up. That means tracing each claim back to the Clinical Study Report, protocol, or TFL shells it should derive from, flagging misread confidence intervals, unsupported causal language, selective outcome reporting, or a CONSORT item that has quietly vanished. Every judgement is accompanied by a written rationale precise enough that an engineer who has never read a statistical analysis plan can tell what the model got wrong and why.

A second stream is structural and compliance review: does the draft follow the target journal's structure and word limits, does it handle authorship and contributorship correctly under ICMJE, does it respect GPP expectations around sponsor involvement and disclosure, does it reproduce copyrighted figures without permission. You will also be asked to help sharpen the rubric itself — documenting where reviewers disagree, where a guideline is genuinely ambiguous, and where a rule is being applied more strictly than any real journal would.

What the platform screens for

micro1's screening is AI-led and conversational. Expect it to probe specifics: named journals and therapeutic areas, your role on particular publications, how you handled an author dispute or a statistical query from a reviewer. The decisive signal is your ability to separate a true scientific error from an editorial preference — candidates who treat every stylistic difference as a defect score poorly, as do those who wave through interpretive overreach because the prose reads well. No AI or machine-learning background is expected or asked about.

Logistics

  • Fully remote, contractor engagement, asynchronous task queues
  • Observed band of $50–80/hr, typically scaled to credentials and depth of publications experience; rates are as reported, not guaranteed
  • Flexible hours; most contributors work part-time alongside existing consulting or agency work, with volume varying by project phase
  • Task-based output with written rationales, plus occasional calls with project leads on rubric refinement