Suggest a paper for the research map.

The map already covers the eight mechanistic threads of AS research, with new papers added each month from automated PubMed and bioRxiv searches. Automated searches miss things. Preprints from disciplines that don’t normally cross-reference AS literature — microbiology, metabolomics, immunology — fall through the cracks. So do papers published in non-English journals, grey literature, and case series that would benefit a patient even if they never make it into a clinical guideline.

If you’ve found something that you think belongs on the map, paste the link below. The editor reads every submission. Most are reviewed within a week. If you provided an email and the paper is added (or declined with a note), you’ll hear back. Submissions are not accounts. We don’t store anything about you unless you choose to fill in the optional fields.

What works well as a submission

• Peer-reviewed papers from a journal indexed by PubMed or CrossRef.
• Preprints from bioRxiv or medRxiv.
• Open-access reviews and meta-analyses.
• Studies on related conditions (RA, IBD, psoriasis, MS) where the mechanism plausibly informs AS biology.

What we’ll usually decline

• News articles and blog posts, even good ones.
• Social media threads, even from researchers we like.
• Industry-sponsored marketing material disguised as data.
• Anecdotal first-person accounts (these belong in the patient form, not on the research map).

Form fields land in Phase 1E — see spec/copy/contribution-form.md.