I have written for Academia-Research and have had a few rough spots with them in the past but they have been paying correctly and almost according to schedule in recent months. I don't agree with some of the posts made here as they do not jibe with my own experience.

What I can say is that if customers complain about your work, or they AR people themselves don't like your work because of frequent grammatical, syntax, and other errors, they can make life difficult for you. I had one experience when a customer got negative feedback from her professor and who sent back the paper for revision by somebody else (it didn't find its way to my panel), and I would not be able to get any replies to my queries with the ADMIN people. Fortunately, nobody picked up the paper for revision. It turned out that the professor had made a mistake and remembered the wrong paper when first talking to her. Once this was rectified, the paper was returned to my completed works panel and I was subsequently given a premium status. The lack/absence of transparency by both customer and ADMIN almost did me in.

I don't like to generalize. I can only make a guess as to why some writers have had some bad experience with AR. It is this: If ADMIN does not like your work, it will communicate that displeasure by making it difficult for you to collect, by imposing substantial fines on minor faults or delays. You take the hint and just leave.

I don't care about nationality or whatever of the owners of AR. A number of writers can bear out that they have generally had good experiences with AR.