Submitting A Manuscript

and Afterwards

STUDIUMGEN - Writing in Science Workshop

10 June 2021
Outline

• Find the right journal

• What reviewers and editors want
• Submission process
• Dealing with a rejection
• After acceptance

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Find the right journal

• What journals you reads often?

• Who are your target readers?
• Open access or subscription?
• Review speed
• Check the journal metrics
✓ Quartiles (Q1 – Q4): These quartiles rank
the journals from highest to lowest based on their
impact factor
✓ Impact Factor
Measure of the number of times an average paper in a
particular journal is cited during the preceding two
year
✓ Etc.

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Let’s try it!
• Make sure that you have the title and the abstract written in
English. Think of your thesis or current research.
• Use the following tools to help you deciding the right journal for
you.
✓ https://journalfinder.elsevier.com/ (group 1)
✓ https://journalsuggester.springer.com/ (group 2)
✓ https://www.scimagojr.com/index.php

• What journal did you choose?

• Why?

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What reviewers and editor wants

• Fits with the journal’s aims and scope

• A high-quality manuscript
✓ Novel (stands out)
✓ Well structured
✓ Clarity (research questions,
methodology and data, answers to the
research questions)
✓ Language fluency and consistency (e.g.,
don’t mixed up between British and
American English)

Read thoroughly the journal’s Guide for Authors!

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Submission process
Cover Letter

Any comments?

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Submission process
Cover Letter

• Addresses the following questions:

✓ What is the novelty of this work?
✓ Is the paper appealing to a popular
or scientific audience?
✓ Why the authors think the paper is
important and why the journal
should publish it?
✓ Has the article been checked by a
native tongue speaker with expertise
in the field?

Submit an article to one journal at a time!

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Submission process
Track your paper

• Types of peer review: single blind, double

blind or open
• Paper status:
✓ Review by editor
▪ Can be rejected
✓ Review by reviewers
▪ Can be rejected
✓ Submission needing revisions
✓ Revisions being processed
▪ Rejected or Accepted

Submit an article to one journal at a time!

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Submission process
Receiving reviews

• What reviewers do:

✓ Determine the validity, significance and
originality of the work
✓ Suggest improvements to the manuscript and
the research
• Revision needed could be minor or major
• Address all comments from each reviewer
• Rebuttal letter
• We can also disagree with reviewers'
comments/suggestion. Justify your arguments!

Address each comment/suggestion

referring to associated page and line!

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Dealing with rejection
Keep trying!

• Always have backup journals in mind

• Improve manuscript based on feedback
from previous reviewers
• Resubmit the revised manuscript (to a
different journal)

A rejected manuscript doesn’t

necessarily mean that it is not
worth publishing!

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After acceptance
Promote your work

• Share link and offprint

• Be aware of the copyright
• Be discovered online (Google
Scholar, Scopus, ORCID,
Research Gate, Academia)
• Conferences
• Social Media
• Communicate your research with
a layman language (e.g., write a
popular article in media)
Tips: take advantage of a right
moment

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After acceptance
Monitor your impact

• Collaboration – how big is your network?

• Scholarly output – how productive are you?
• Usage – how often have your publications been
viewed?
• Altmetrics – how many times is your output shared in
collaboration networks?
• Journal status – what’s the status of the journals that
have published your work?
• Citation count – how many citations has your articles
received?
• h-index – this rates your entire publication career
based on both output and citation impact. (An h-index
of 5 indicates that 5 of a researcher’s articles have
each received at least 5 citations.)
Give back by accepting review invitations!

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Thank you!

kamia.handayani@pln.co.id