Before starting your manuscript, preparing a study plan will enable you to easily follow a prescribed path while writing it. Controlling the progress of your study in this way will also streamline your study. Here are some important points regarding this issue:
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Journals generally reject manuscripts for the following reasons:
A study on 923 journals published between 2006 and 2009 showed that manuscripts initially rejected for publication received more citations than those accepted immediately. Furthermore, manuscripts that were rejected by one journal and then submitted to another and accepted for publication generally received more citations than manuscripts published in the first submission attempt in this second journal.
A reasonable explanation for this case could be that rejected manuscripts ...
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Many studies receive a rejection response after being submitted to a journal, but the reviews are often not shared among journal reviewers. Even in cases where there has been such sharing, the lack of a standard practice concerning this issue means every journal on the market requires the author to fulfill their own evaluation requests before making a decision.
This situation may result in reviewers having to repeat the...
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Up until a century ago, scientific studies were largely published in French, German and English, and before that, in Latin, but today the dominant language for such studies is English. This is because most of the prestigious journals publish in English, and publishing articles in these journals is very important for the career of a researcher.
According to the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) data, there are currently...
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Your articles’ number of citations are crucial for your career. Out of thousands of articles in your field, your article can be cited most. The number of citations also indicates the impact of your article on the literature. How would you like to be cited by scholars from around the world?
You can increase the number of citations of your articles by using these 20 techniques:
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In the process of writing, whether in one’s native language or a foreign language, one of the primary concerns of a writer should be the order of elements in a sentence. Decisions about this will create results at many levels, from intimacy with the reader to the scientific quality of a paper.
Sentence structure requires the attention of not only writers, but also translators and editors. The changes that are made when translating a manuscript from the source language to the target language are determined by the grammatical rules of the target language.
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