Choosing the Right Journal for Your Academic or Scientific Paper
Deciding where to submit an academic or scientific paper intended for publication can be pleasantly straightforward or notoriously complicated. If you published a scientific article in a journal a year ago and now have a closely related manuscript ready for publication, that same journal will be an excellent first choice. If, on the other hand, you have never published a journal article before or are seeking to publish a paper unlike your previous publications, choosing the right journal may take some serious thought and a little research as well. The three resources I describe here offer advice on how to find out what you need to know to make the best decision for your academic or scientific manuscript.
The advice of colleagues and mentors can be enormously helpful when a researcher is seeking the right journal for an academic or scientific paper, but the final decision must be the author’s. Learning everything possible about the journals under consideration for a manuscript is therefore essential, as this post suggests. It also draws attention to the kinds of information about a journal and its guidelines that will prove most important for a perfect fit between paper and journal.
Even when a journal seems the perfect fit for an academic or scientific paper, some adjustments are usually necessary before a manuscript is ready for submission. This post discusses the ways in which a research-based document might be revised, reshaped and otherwise tailored to fit the requirements of a specific journal. It explains that publisher guidelines can also be most helpful when an author is making decisions about the appropriateness of a journal for a particular manuscript.
This final post delves into journal guidelines and instructions for authors in more detail and offers useful advice for researchers who are choosing a journal as well as for those who have already made that decision and are preparing an academic or scientific paper for submission. The structure of a research paper as well as its internal headings, abstract, references, tables, figures and other elements likely to feature in journal guidelines are discussed.
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If you are in the process of preparing an article for an academic or scientific journal, or planning one for the near future, you may well be interested in a new book, Guide to Journal Publication, which is available on our Tips and Advice on Publishing Research in Journals website.
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