Journal Submissions

What is a Rebuttal Letter? After submitting your manuscript to a journal (along with your journal submission cover letter), journal editors might include some reasons in their response to the author explaining why the article was not immediately accepted in the journal and what the author must address to further prepare the article for re-submission. […]

Dhruv Maniar has a Master’s in Biotechnology from Dr. DY Patil University in Mumbai and has been a research editor for over 4 years. He is also a BELS-certified editor, covering the subject areas of Medicine and Life Sciences. In his free time, he likes to travel, listen to music, and play table tennis. What […]

Ethical integrity is essential to promoting a healthy collaborative environment among academics. Due to the information explosion of the digital age, it has become even more imperative that we do our part to encourage transparency, trust, and reliability in the research publication system. These qualities allow us to promote the efficient sharing of vital information […]

The Internet has made it incredibly easy to find and copy-paste any kind of content, including academic work. And with universities and publishers gearing up for the fight against plagiarism, most students and researchers are well aware that passing someone else’s work off as their own is not only unethical–it can have severe consequences for […]

Find the Academic Journal that Fits Your Work One of the most common reasons editors reject research manuscripts is that they DO NOT FIT THE JOURNAL–either the goals and scope or the journal or the needs and tastes of its readership. With nearly 30,000 scholarly reviewed journals out there, it’s no surprise that finding the […]

If you’re looking for solid advice on how to write a strong journal submission cover letter that will convince journal editors to review your research paper, then look no further! We know that cover letterscanimpact an editor’s decision to consider your research paper further. This guide aims to explain (1) why you should care about […]

As academics, our careers revolve around the number of papers that we publish. Although the length of someone’s publication list does not necessarily reflect that person’s intelligence or contribution to the scientific community, research institutes, companies, and even nonprofit organizations use publication lists to compare the candidates’ merits. However, research projects can take a long […]

As you may recall from ourlast post, we defined “authorship” according to theguidelines developed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)and explained why authorship matters. Other, more flexible, definitions also exist, including oneproposed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE): While “there is no universally agreed definition of authorship… [at] a minimum, authors […]

In a previous article, we explored ways to improve your manuscript acceptance rate by examining the factors editors consider when making their decisions. We also looked at how to find a journal to publish in, examining aspects such as a journal’s scope and the peer review process. In this article, we will discuss practical issues about manuscripts before we launch into identifying […]

Being Informed About Reasons for Manuscript Rejection In the world of journal publications, rejections are the norm rather than the exception. There are of course many identifiable reasons for a manuscript not to be published–from lack of relevance, to the size of the submissions pool, to the specific tastes of a journal’s readership. However, researchers […]

In our lastarticle on choosing a journal manuscript, we talked about the general factors you should consider when deciding which journals to target for submission. In this post, we will look more closely at another of these aspects: a journal’s aim and scope. What is a journal’s scope? “Scope,” simply stated, is the journal’s purpose […]

As a researcher, you spend countless hours pursuing answers to important questions about how our world works. This research consumes a significant amount of your time. Sadly, none of it matters when you have to face a sad truth: Your work’s merit is judged by whether and where your findings are accepted for publication. Several […]