HOW to

SUCCESSFULLY
P U B L I S H
In a JOURNAL
By: Ani Wilujeng Suryani, Ph.D
 Workshops on scholarly research, writing,
and publishing can be especially useful to
the uninitiated because they offer advice that
a writer acquires only after years of
experience, turmoil, and frustration.
- Hauptman (2005)
Contents
01 Publishing Research

02 Authorship

03 Concluding Rule
PUBLISHING
YOUR
RESEARCH
SUBMISSION REVIEW
EDITOR
PROCCESS
YES REVIEWERS NO REJECTED

NO YES

REVISED ACCEPTED
DESK REJECTION
NO
PUBLISHED
YES

REVISED ACCEPTED
 Do not Jump
the Gun
• papers should be polished
• ready for submission before being submitted (read
author guidelines)
Submitting too early will
waste everyone’s time and
end up as a reject.

Source: Brennan (2019)

 If you want to
publish journal ...
• Papers need to be work-shopped
• More care taken over editorial matters
• A checklist for prospective authors is provided

Source: Bradbury (2012)

 Competencies
required
• Academic reading
• Academic writing
• Research methodology
• Time management
• Summarizing – paraphrasing – sythesizing –
quoting – citing & referencing
 Strategies
• Diversify research portfolio; One or two fields
• Don’t distribute your working papers to strangers
• From thesis: one or two papers
• Maintain a stock of papers
• Write clearly
• Scan current journals
• Present your papers before submission

Source: Choi (2002)

 Writing the
Manuscripts
• What you set out to do
• What you did
• What you found
• Discuss what you found
• Style
• Get help

Source: Klingner et al (2005)

Choose Name for
Publication
Take care in choosing name

Choose as distinctive a name

as possible

Use middle initials

Ex: Ani W. Suryani

Ani Wilujeng Suryani

Source: Brennan (2019)

 The Good Fit Paper

Fit is more important

than ranking of the Examine how other
journal papers in the target
journal are structured

Cite papers
from the target Hook into the
journal journal’s “back yard”

Source: Brennan (2019)

 DO NOT PUBLISH
IN OR CITE
PAY-TO-PUBLISH
JOURNALS

Pay-to-publish
journals can
damage your
Source: Brennan (2019) reputation
 How to Find Journal

Check Journal Make sure the Do not publish in

Rank publisher is predatory
credible publishers
https://www.scimagojr.com/journa http://wokinfo.com/mbl/publishers/ https://beallslist.weebly.com/
lrank.php?country=Latin%20Ame
rica

S c i e n c e T e c h n o l o g y E n g i n e e r i n g A r t s M a t h e m a t i c s
 Write a Compelling Letter
If the journal requires a cover letter
1 Address the editor formally by name, if known.

2 Include contact information, as well.

3 The name of the manuscript and authors

4 Describe what type of your manuscript

5 Describe the rationale behind your study

Explain why your manuscript would be a good fit for the
6 journal
7 Close with a brief paragraph
Source: Mudrack (2015)
OVERCOME YOUR FEAR
OF REJECTION
All top authors have experienced
rejection

“The most highly cited and influential paper

in my discipline, was rejected by The
Accounting Review” – Ball Brown, 2014
 Have a Plan B
In case your paper is rejected

PLAN
Have an alternative target journal in mind in

B the event your paper is rejected

Source: Brennan (2019)

 LEARN FROM
DESK REJECTION A desk rejection occurs
where the editor does not
consider your paper
suitable to send out to
review

Make sure you fully

LEARN understand why your paper
was rejected

Source: Brennan (2019)

 Reviewers Give Their Expertise Free
Embrace the reviewers’
comments with a possitive
mindset

Address (almost) every reviewer

comment in a revise-and-
resubmit

Address all the reviewers’

comments before targeting
another journal

Source: Brennan (2019)

Reviewer
 REVISE AND RESUBMITS

Put revise and resubmits TO DO LIST

to the top of your to do list
Getting published takes a long time, often
many years. Do not add to the time by
sitting on revise and resubmits.

Source: Brennan (2019)

Customise Rejected Paper for The New Target Journal

Say YES to reviewing

“You can learn from other people mistakes”

REVISE
Rejected Paper TheNew Target Journal
Source: Brennan (2019)
AUTHORSHIP
 CO-AUTHOR

Co-author can help

productivity

Co-author can hinder

productivity

Source: Brennan (2019)

 DONT TAKE ON A FREE RIDER

Source: Brennan (2019)

DONT BE A FREE RIDER
 AVOID PREDATORY
CO-AUTHORS
PREDATORY co-authors are likely to also be free riders

Not all free riders are predatory

Source: Brennan (2019)

Build Trust with
CO-AUTHORS
If your co-authors have
the original idea for the
research or have done
more of the work, put
their name first.

Source: Brennan (2019)

CONCLUDING
RULE
ENJOY YOUR
RESEARCH

The More You Do Research, The More You Will Enjoy It

Source: Brennan (2019)

 REFERENCES
Ball, R. and Brown, P.R. (2014), “Ball and Brown (1968): a retrospective”, The Accounting Review, Vol. 89 No. 1, pp.
1-26.
Bealls, J. (2018), “Bealls’ list of predatory journals and publishers”, available at: https://beallslist.weebly.com/
(accessed August 26, 2019).
Bradbury, Michael E, (2012), Why you don’t get published: an editors’ view, Accounting and Finance, Vol. 52 pp.
343-358, available at DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2012.00473.x (accessed August 26, 2019)
Brennan, Niamh N, (2019), 100 research rules of the game: How to make your research world class; how to
successfully publish in top international refereed journals, Accounting, Auditing, & Accountability Journal, Vol. 32
Issue: 2, pp. 691-706, available at https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-02-2019-032 (accessed August 25, 2019)
Choi, K. (2002), “How to publish in top journals”, working paper Iowa State University

Haupman, Robert, 2005, How to be a successful scholar: Publish efficently, Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Vol.
36 Issue: 2 pp: 115-119

Klingner, JK, Scanlon, D and Pressley, M. (2005), “How to publish in scholarly journals”, Education Researcher,
Nov Edition, p14-20.
Mudrack, B. (2015), “Writing a good cover letter. The goal of a good cover letter”, available at:
www.aje.com/en/arc/dist/docs/Writing-a-cover-letter-AJE-2015.pdf (accessed August 26, 2019).
Thank You

Questions?
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IT IS REALLY POSSIBLE
TO PUBLISH PAPER IN SCOPUS Q1
Dr. Syaiful Iqbal, Ak., CA., CPMA.
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Requirement

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Publication The Process is Not a straight line
Maze

Idea
Publication
Maze
Publication
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Maze
No-one undertakes research (in
physics) with the intention of
winning a prize. It is the joy of
discovering something no-one
knew before.

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Publication
Maze

{ REJECTED

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 Everybody
Gets Rejected

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 REJECTED CAUSES

1. Idea
2. Contribution
3. Theoretical Argument
{ 4. Writting Quality

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 IDEA

In Accounting Research,
the Low Hanging Fruits are
Gone

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Nowadays, even the Middle
and High Hanging Fruits are
almost Gone

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 IDEA

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1. Theoretical
2. Practical
Methodological
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 CONTRIBUTION

We asked two experts in the field of your research to evaluate your paper's suitability
for publication. Unfortunately, both of them recommend rejection. After reading
your paper and the reports more carefully, I am afraid I concur with their

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recommendation and decide to log the paper as a rejection.

The review reports should be of help to you in understanding the details behind this
decision. I share with first reviewer's concern that the contribution of the paper
is narrow.

- Rejection from Contemporary Accounting Research (April 2019)

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 CONTRIBUTION

Unfortunately, both reviewers have deep reservations about your paper's potential for publication
in AJPT, and I share their reservations. Because I cannot foresee a realistic and reasonable path to
success, I regret to report that I am rejecting the paper. The reviewers' comments should be helpful

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in understanding the details behind this decision.

Each referee has provided a detailed set of comments for your use in revising the paper. Both
reviewers raise similar concerns about the incremental contribution of the paper, i.e.,
there are numerous papers that link business risks to audit fees but your paper doesn't establish
why this is a special risk to be considered.

- Rejection from Auditing: Journal of Practice and Theory (April 2019)

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 CONTRIBUTION

{ Maximize our creativity

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Read Read Read ................

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Keep up with current trends

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 CONTRIBUTION

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 THEORETICAL ARGUMENT

1. To Explain
2. To Predict
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Abstract (200 words):

• What do we do?
• Why is it important?
{ • How do we execute it?
• What are we find?
• To whom are these contribute?

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Introduction:
• 5-6 pages maximum

{ • Editors and Reviewers focus a lot on

the introduction section
• This is where you can really sell the
research paper; So, invest a lot of time
and care here.

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Paragraph 1:
Clearly explain what you are doing in the
research study.

{ Paragraph 2 – 3:
Discuss motivation for your study
Why is the research important?
What problems are you tackling?

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Paragraph 4 – 5:
Concisely discuss your theoretical

{ argument(s) and hypothesis(es)

Paragraph 6 – 7:
Report and summarize your findings
and results

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Paragraph 8 – 9:

{ Contribution to business practice,

literatures, and/or methodologies

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Prior Literature
• Summarize what prior relevant research shows
• Discuss the seminal or foundational papers

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Discuss the most recent work
Cite papers from prominent journals
Cite papers from the journal you are targeted

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Hypotheses Development
Paper A finds….

{ Paper B finds…..
Paper C finds…..
Therefore, we hypothesize that……..

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Hypotheses Development
• Use your own words for why you are expecting to
find the effect you are hypothesizing
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•
Make theoretical (and even common) sense
Argument must flow nicely and completely
• Tension is a bonus, but be careful

VERY
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Closing, I believe every paper has a home, but the
author has reponsibility to choose the appropriate
type of it’s home