Academic Journals - Science topic

As Editorial member of peer reviewed journals, I have been alerted to a new malpractice in the area of scientific publications. Currently, an increasing number of journals have been targeted by some organisations that aim to manipulate the peer review process, known as paper mills. What’s a paper mill? A paper mill is an organisation that offers services to individuals that include: - Writing a manuscript on their behalf and submitting to a journal of their choice; - Writing a manuscript which the paper mill submits to a journal, which when accepted, they sell the authorship of (with varying fees depending on the order of the author); - Writing an article which an individual will pay to add superfluous references to, in order to boost their citation score; - Installing reviewers into a journal site, who commit reviewer fraud. Paper mills operate globally, and there are academics from across the world involved. Papers can be perfectly acceptable research papers, or they may be research papers where the research was never conducted, or they do not make sense to the reader. There are procedures to prevent paper mill activities; however, it is our responsibility, as member of the research community, to engage in ethical behavior, and to promote fairness and rigor in research and dissemination activities.

Thinking of journals as “low tier” or “high tier” is distracting from what you actually need to do, which is good work. Do your work as best you can, and publish in the fanciest journal that will accept your papers. Trying to over-optimize will lead to a lot of wasted time and lost productivity, which might end up hurting your chances for future jobs. And you also don’t want to give the impression that you’re more interested in the journal you publish in than in the work you do.

The main difference between a “high tier” journal and a “lower tier” one is that the high tier selects papers that have more surprising results, and are more likely to be wrong. You read that right — results in “fancy” journals such as Nature or Science are pretty often wrong, which makes sense given that they are “groundbreaking”. When doing groundbreaking work, it’s likely you’ll make a lot of mistakes; that’s the price you pay for going too far off the beaten path. Results that make it to more average journals are more mundane, but for that reason it’s also easier to make them more rigorous, and thus it’s less likely they’re wrong.

Remember also that no journal has dedicated reviewers. The people reviewing your work will be essentially the same, whether in Nature (impact factor >30) or in PLOS (impact factor about 3). So a fancy journal selects for how amazing your work sounds more than for how good it is.

That said, of course you want to stay away from the creepy “journals” that invite you to publish your work in them without getting your name right or having any idea what your work is about. It’s probably better to not publish at all than publish there. In some fields — like theoretical physics and most of math — people only really care about the results being available on a preprint server like the arXiv and don’t care where the work ends up being published. This is starting to become more popular in some areas of biology, too, with the bioRxiv (preprint server for Biology).

Another common sense thing to do is to first try publishing your work in a journal that’s just a bit fancier than you think your results are. If they reject your paper, go down the ladder. So if you’ve found a nice, new result that seems somewhat surprising, it’s worth considering submitting it to Nature or Science (or whatever the fancy journal of choice is in your field), just in case they like it. But if your work is a rather obvious extension of existing work, you might be better off heading for a more specialized journal that puts less emphasis on groundbreaking results.

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Hi,

we have submitted to a number of Elsevier journals recently - and every time we pick a new journal, the editorialmanager web page requires us to register from scratch - i.e. we needed to enter a lot of information each time, instead of having a common profile (typically it takes at least 20 minutes to enter personal data, scientific fields, priorities, keywords, gender statement, and so on). I personally have found it annoying.

What is your opinion?

Thanks,

Csaba

What are the best ways to organize references in your academic journal manuscript?

Hello, ResearchGate community,

I'm curious if anyone else has experienced similar delays with IEEE Access or other academic journals recently. I'm also wondering if there are any strategies or best practices for following up with the editorial office to inquire about the status of a submission without appearing impatient or overly pushy.

Suppose, hypothetically, that a reputable journal publishes an extremely scathing review of a book of which they had received an advance copy. Meanwhile, the book's publisher changes the title of the book and makes it available on Amazon, where it appears with glowing endorsements. I’m wondering whether such renaming is sometimes used as a tactic by publishers to mitigate the effect of unfavorable reviews. Has anyone heard of publishers doing that sort of thing?

I just failed about my PhD application (Business field). I think one of the reasons is "No Publication". But I have limited access of academic journals (usually use Google Scholar) and no connection with any scholar, how can I publish a paper and raise my paper's accessibility?

Thank you very much!

Dear Researchers,

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Is it a good idea to send pre-submission inquiries to multiple journals to accelerate the publication process? or do we have to wait for the editors' response to a pre-sub before sending another one?

Thank you!

I have encountered significant obstacles in funding publication fees for my well-executed research, resulting in prolonged delays and discouraging responses from journals. Despite diligently submitting to fee-waived journals and ensuring that my research aligns with their scope, I consistently receive standardized rejections citing reasons such as 'out of scope,' which does not accurately reflect the nature of my work.

As a researcher striving to disseminate valuable findings, I am seeking guidance on how to navigate this challenging scenario effectively. How can I secure funding or explore alternative avenues to cover publication fees? Additionally, how can I address the issue of misaligned responses from journals and ensure that my research receives fair consideration within the academic community?

I would greatly appreciate any insights or recommendations from fellow researchers who may have encountered similar challenges in the publication process. Your expertise and advice would be invaluable in helping me overcome these hurdles.

I'm encountering challenges in funding publication fees and facing discouraging responses from journals despite my research aligning with their scope. How can I navigate this situation effectively?

Can anyone tell me some journals related to industrial design to publish a design thesis in a journal based in Pakistan? Or if there are any journals from abroad as well.

I am looking for an updated comprehensive list of open access scientific journals with high impact factors and without Article Processing Charges (APCs) in 2024.

Which is preferable:

publishing an article in a close-access journal like Elsevier (or Springer), or publishing in an open-access journal with a low impact factor?

An MBBS student of mine has worked very well on a non-funded research project that has reached the stage of paper writing. I want to decide on the journal so that the manuscript can be tailored to its guidelines.

I am unable to find any such journals on MedLine/ Pubmed / PMC except those pertaining to medical education/pedagogy.

I would appreciate suggestions of indexed journals with nominal APCs which are receptive to undergraduate medical research papers.

Otherwise, I will have to submit it to a usual journal where it will need to jostle around with papers coming in from more significant funded projects.

Thank you so much!

Can someone recommend reputable and relevant academic journals for subscription-based publishing of my research article?

Please avoid predatory and fraudulent journals.

Thank you!

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Institutions (universities) having their own journals:

It is possible that certain higher education institutions have their own journals that publish variety of submissions from local or international authors.

What are the advantages for institutions (universities) having their own journals over those not owing? Does university ranking consider it?

As universities are cutting budgets, these international, free registration online (attendance not in person) conferences, are gaining prominence. What is the downside of these conferences? Here I am not talking about "fly-by-night" conferences. I am talking about conferences associated with academic journals indexed in SCIE, Web of Science, etc, with IF upwards of 3.

When using non-publicly available data, some people argue the use of such information must recognise those who own/collected/designed it in the original country. This seems to happen with data from Low and Middle-Income countries.

Sometimes, local authors use an address from a High-Income country instead of their original country. All bibliometric information is based on authors affiliations and it is difficult to get information from the original country from abstract/title.

What are your views about it?

I recently reviewed a paper for a journal where I also serve as an associate editor, and the paper was accepted. Now, I am editing another paper on a similar topic (involving a different study group) as the previously accepted one. I reached out to all the authors of the accepted paper, inviting them to review the new one, but they all declined.

I find this situation to be somewhat unfair, especially considering their frequent publications in our journal, and the fact that I invest my free time in reviewing their papers. I am contemplating whether it would be appropriate for me to send them an email, inquiring about their perspective on the matter. Specifically, I am interested in knowing if they believe it's reasonable to benefit from the resources of the journal while declining similar requests from others. What are your thoughts on this?

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Anybody got invited to submit his/her article to OPAST group? I recently received several emails from this network of OPAST journals (e.g. International Journal of Health Policy Planning), and I could not verify the reputation yet. Is there anyone with any knowledge about this so far? Thank you for the attention.

Link: https://www.opastpublishers.com/

Hello ResearchGate community,

I'm currently seeking recommendations for computer science journals indexed in SCIE that are known for having a relatively low review time. I'm specifically interested in journals outside of Springer and Elsevier. If you have any suggestions or insights based on your experiences with journals that maintain an efficient review process, I would greatly appreciate your input.

Additionally, any information on average review times or personal experiences with the submission process would be valuable.

Thank you in advance for sharing your knowledge!

Hi,

I worked on my master's thesis several years ago, which was related to the LST of a basin with two methods: Single Window and Sebal using Landsat images, during the study period of 1984 to 2017.

Now I want to change this thesis into an article. Is it necessary for me to update the years until 2023 or not?

I am trying to get an insight of the above mentioned research paper, specially about the filtering process used to remove grid artifacts. However, I find it difficult to understand it correctly.

I would be much grateful if anyone could help me to clarify a few questions that I have.

My questions are as follows:

1) what are the pixel values of the Mean filter they used? they mention about using an improved Mean filter, but what is the improvement?

2) do they apply the Mean filter in the whole patch image (seems like it), or only in the grid signal region (characteristic peak range)?

3) what do they mean by (u1,v1) being Fmax value? does that mean that the center pixel of the Mean filter is replaced by this max value?

Thanks in advance!

Who else get frequent emails from Social Sciences (SS) e-ІЅЅN:2326-988X to join them as Editorial member?

What are your experiences?

Let's say that the editor receives three reviews, one from a well-known researcher in the field of the manuscript topic, one from a random professor, and one form a PhD candidate. Will the editor prioritize the "higher ranks" reviews and give the lowest value to the PhD candidate?

Or does the editor try to be completely unaffected by the reviewers background?

I have found one answer here that sometimes they might decide based on the reviewer's background but does sometimes=almost always? :D

I have a paper that proposed a hypothesis test that is heavily based on existing tests (so it is pretty much a procedure built on existing statistical tests). It was rejected by a few journals claiming that it was not innovative, although I demonstrated that it outperforms some commonly used tests.

Are there any journals that take this sort of papers?

My manuscript was accepted in an Elsevier journal on Sep. 26, 2018. The corrected proof is available online since Oct. 5, 2018 but I haven't received the final version yet. At the same time, I see more recent publications that are available as final versions. What could be the reasons?

Hi Academics,

Kindly could you clarify the meaning of the term " Researcher"?

Best.

Journal always asks authors to declare their conflict of interest. So is it ethical to invite someone who have a conflict of interest in the same paper to the review process??

If some of reviewers have a conflict of interest with my paper, how they will accept my paper?

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For academic journals--do people think that editorial board review journals equally belongs to "academic" journals" compared to the more stereotypical peer review ones? For me, I wonder because I am a PhD student and go back and forth on how to weigh this when formatting my C/V, choosing journals to submit to, etc.

How much money is needed to launch an academic journal?

Kanz Philosophia: A Journal for Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism is a refereed academic journal published by Sekolah Tinggi Agama Islam Sadra in Jakarta and in collaboration with the Association of Aqidah and Islamic Philosophy (AAFI). The journal conscientiously aims to provide a scholarly platform for critical and informed articles, particularly in the field of Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism. Such issues arise out of classical and contemporary discussions from varied traditions, either Eastern or Western, hoping to contribute to the resolution of various theoretical, methodological, and practical issues in the aforementioned fields. It covers the following scopes and issues: Philosophy of Philosophy (Epistemology and Ontology); Philosophy of Humans; Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Religion; Philosophy of Morals; Philosophy of History; Philosophy of Culture; Philosophy of Art; Philosophy of Politics; Philosophy of Sociology; Philosophy of Education; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Psychology; Theoretical and Practical Sufism.

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Dear all,

I would appreciate if you could tell me, where is it possible to publish academic texts written in the microlanguage as Silesian language (west-slavic) is? I would like to present certain aspects on Silesian Texans and write the article in Silesian. If you could advice me on academic journals, which like to support micro languages, I would appreciate your recommendations.

Thank you in advance!

Hi All,

I’m often asked to suggest academic Design Journals, but find it hard to find a 'one-stop' list so researchers/ students can review and select. I’ve started a rough list in no particular order (link below). Any Design related journal suggestions would be welcome, from Innovation to engineering, education to ergonomics, UX to Design history, etc. Discipline-specific or Interdisciplinary.

Please offer some suggestions and Il add them to the list. Looking for quality, peer-reviewed offerings.

Thanks alot!

P.J.

Does Clarivate Web of Science still have an "article search engine" function? I tried to search for journal articles but it seems like this is no longer possible possible.

Using services such as Science Direct, Springer Link, etc., will only yield results from their own conglomerate.

Is there a more inclusive & comprehensive search engine?

Thank you in advance!

I have some papers in "in-between" journals which are not peer-reviewed, but are more than strictly "popular." I have been putting them under a "semi-academic" header on my C/V, but I was wondering if there was a better way of putting this. Ideas that came to mind are "Scholarly, editorial review" and "Professional Publications." I am a PhD theology student, so it is relatively normal to also write to a wider audience than academics reading peer-reviewed journals.

Thank you!

My research thesis submitted but I have experimental data so I want to publish that data before viva examination.

Please suggest me any reputed journal and fast response journal name also free publication.

In today's complex academic landscape, determining a good journal involves considering multiple factors that go beyond traditional metrics, particularly given the rise of predatory journals and the proliferation of questionable practices in publishing.

Are traditional metrics like Impact Factor still relevant indicators of a journal's quality? What other metrics could be considered? How do we distinguish the good from the not-so-bad journals? What criteria should guide our assessment? I believe these questions are even more demanding for young/early-career researchers.

I would be interested to hear some honest opinions based on your experience and interaction with the academic publishing system.

Can I publish my design in my research article at the time of design patent submitted to IPR?

Two weeks before I submitted my design to IPR for patent purposes, I would like to upload the research article to the journal. In that journal, I used that particular design.

Is it okay to upload that article, or is there any other alternative way?

Is there anyone who can help me in finding the appropriate template for this Elsevier journal?

I want to know what it means of this status in the review process and what are further possibilities regarding the manuscript.

Thanks in Advance.

I recently became aware of this paper, which plagiarized one of my previous publications.

I left a comment on the RG article, contacted the authors of the paper and the editor @Alexei V. Dmitriev who replied, "I did not find too much plagiarism in the paper in the sense of “text much”. The main problem I found was that the authors did not cite the original technique of Cushley and Noel (2014) as well as other relevant papers. Unfortunately, this happens sometimes because of reviewer oversight."

It seems that the editors are not taking this complaint seriously. I would have expected the editors to be horrified that they published plagiarized materials and remove the paper. What else can I do? I have also informed Wiley, the publisher of the original Radio Science paper I wrote, since this clearly violates the copy-rights to the original paper:

Cushley, A. C., and J.-M. Noël (2014), Ionospheric tomography using ADS-B signals, Radio Sci., 49, 549–563,doi:10.1002/2013RS005354

What else can I do?

UPDATE:

The authors of the paper are cooperating and I was contacted by the Editorial Board of the paper to inform me they requested to revise or retract their paper. See my comment below for the course taken to resolve this issue.

Rule 1 – best not to contact the journal editor for an update on your paper status. Only if it has been a really long time (maybe like 2 months). The editor is really busy, and you don’t want to get them upset. The world is not your oyster.

Rule 2 – you might think acceptance of your paper is all up to the reviewers – not true. The editors make the final decision. They click the button to accept or reject. So best to be respectful.

Rule 3 – when submitting a manuscript, don’t take any shortcuts or leave anything out. It looks sloppy. Like, don’t leave out any of the coauthors on the title page when the submission process asks. Don’t leave out your academic address when the submission process asks. Answer all questions completely during the submission process. Remember to write a letter to the editor for the journal you are submitting to.

Rule 4 – whatever you do, don’t leave markers of a prior submission to another journal in your submitted manuscript, like, Dear XYZ (editor of prior journal from a prior submission) or the name of the other journal ('We’re submitting to journal ABC.' Wrong!), or your IEEE status for a non-IEEE journal.

Rule 5 – address all reviewer queries one by one. Make some changes as requested, and state where they are in the manuscript. Mark in the text (highlight copy). Don’t leave anything unanswered. Make substantiative changes. If you can’t do something the reviewer requests, state why. Be polite. Never be argumentative.

Rule 6 – On revision, only include latest highlight and plain copy in submission. Do not include old versions of the manuscript or old letter or old anything else. It can confuse the reviewers and the editor and waste their time. Reject! If by some chance your paper is accepted like that, the dopy typesetter may publish an old version from your many versions included in the last submission!

Rule 7 – if your manuscript is rejected, don’t complain. Either don’t go back to that journal, or try try again with some other work when you complete it. Even if you had a paper accepted there before, doesn’t mean your new paper will be accepted or even reviewed. Reviews take the time of the expert reviewers. The wise editor will only have a paper reviewed, or re-reviewed, if it seems to have a good chance of meeting the journal's standards - and as a result, reviewers will be happy to review for the journal.

Rule 8 – don’t be discouraged if your manuscript is rejected. Editors make mistakes. Your work may be excellent, it just takes another journal editor to recognize it. Or, it may take many reviews and many rejections at many journals and many rewrites before the manuscript becomes excellent. Happened to me.

Rule 9 – get your revision done promptly if possible. Don’t pester the editor for more time if at all possible. Editors have limited time, and changing a due date is a real time waster for them. They will remember when it comes to checking the accept or reject box! Have consideration and get your work done on deadline.

Rule 10 – check if the journal has a fee (APC) beforehand. Look for it yourself on the website. Don’t waste the editor’s time by asking them. If you have to ask how much the fee is, you can’t afford it! Go to a free journal.

Rule 11 – similarly, don’t ask if a journal is fully indexed. You should be able to determine that yourself. Even if it is not fully indexed yet, it may already be a mainstream journal that many authors send their work to. Support the journal as it goes for full indexing.

Rule 12 - “presubmission inquiry” – this new phenomenon and terminology is never a good idea. Sorry to inform you, this is not LaLa Land. The editor does not have time to provide a personal in-depth analysis, performance estimate, or summary review for the inquirer. You are not special! If that paper gets submitted to the journal - Reject! Only in the case of an editor’s colleagues and coworkers, who sometimes feel that they should send a preinquiry, with justification, to stave off conflicts of interest.

Rule 13 – don’t use impact factor as the only guide as to where to submit your article. Other factors are important, like, is the journal becoming more prestigious. Here a place where you can find that out. Add a journal name and scroll down to the graphs. Are the trends up or down? https://www.scimagojr.com/

Rule 14 – don’t try to cozy up to the editor and become their friend. They know what you are doing and they don’t like it. Reject!

Rule 15 – suggest reviewers if you like, but don’t think they will automatically be used. First of all, only use the reviewer’s academic email address, not gmail or anything else. But, editor may not even feel like using suggestions, or may not need them. And if they try, most often the suggested reviewer says no – either too busy or they don’t realize authors of paper they are being asked to review.

Rule 16 – if you don’t have the money for the APC fee, don’t agree to it and hope you will have the money to pay for it later. Doesn’t happen. Collection agents will call your workplace, even from overseas! Bank on it! Happened to me.

Rule 17 – paper must have good English. Use an English language service or if your university has an English language office if needed. Papers with poor grammar rarely get reviewed, let alone accepted. Otherwise, send your paper to a journal in your own language. Gotta do it. You think it's not fair that the English should be perfect? Too bad! Next!

Rule 18 – paper must be well written. Add senior authors who know how to write a paper if helpful. Do everything they tell you. It may take many revisions and months but you get a solid paper.

Rule 19 – hyperlinks are being used more often now in the text of the manuscript and even in the references. Every link better work. An editor finds broken links? Fail!

Rule 20 – check your paper for spelling. Every word must be perfect before submitting your manuscript. A spell check takes a few minutes. Do it!

Rule 21 – get your citations in order. Too lazy to fix it? The editor will think so. If you are doing references manually and you get something out of order and have to reorder everything, or in a revision need to add, tough. That’s life. Get it right.

Rule 22 – don’t complain that somebody published something out from under you. Get your work done. If you give a presentation at a meeting, let your work sit around for 2 years and then somebody else has published it – too bad! Life is unfair. A personal pity party won’t help.

Rule 23 - don't think the editor is discriminating against you on the basis of your country if you get a reject. Any editor worth their salt is considering the impact of the paper, not where it is from. If an editor starts rejecting papers on the basis of country, they are going to miss good papers, their journal goes downhill, and no more editor. So don't think 'poor little me' and believe that your country or your name is the reason for the rejection. More like, you need to improve your papers!

Rule 24 - don't expect special treatment on your submission if you review for the journal. There is a Latin phrase for that, it is quid pro quo. It would compromise the review process.

Rule 25 - if your manuscript does pass initial screening and is reviewed, in a perfect world, there would be maybe 2 or 3 reviewers, they would all hand their reviews in on time and they would all heartily agree on the fate of the submission. Wrong! Almost never happens. Reviewers are often late, sometimes they never even hand anything in (maybe they ask for another week and still turn nothing in), and some may say accept while others say reject. They can also get huffy if the editor doesn't do what they say. To make sure there are sufficient reviewers, and if there is a lot if interest, you might get 4 or 5 reviews. If there is less expertise or people are busy you sometimes only get 1 review - even a great paper. That's just the way it is. Some things will never change.

Rule 26 - Citations need to be in perfect form. Do not have some et al. and some full set of authors, unless that is the journal style. Do not show some cites in the text as numbers and others as author names. Sloppy! References should be in the journal style. Too lazy to do it? Fine! You can publish in low-level journals for the rest of your life!

Rule 27 – many authors have some notion of how their paper is screened being like the old days – the editor and editorial board are sitting around a huge conference table all day, studying stacks of submitted manuscripts in paper form, smoking pipes (at least the guys) and drinking tea and coffee, spending an hour or more discussing the merits of each submission, and then voting on it with a roll call. Wrong! The screening process consists of the editor taking a quick look at the paper, maybe on a tiny laptop, reading the Abstract and some of the content, checking for plagiarism, perhaps studying prior submissions by the authors and their outcomes. A seasoned editor can do that in 3 minutes and thereupon make a decision to send for review or to desk-reject. If the system is set up correctly, the editor receives an email assignment of the manuscript immediately after it is submitted, and if they’re not too busy, they may look at it then and there. So don’t be too surprised if your submission comes back with desk-reject less than 5 minutes after you submit it. It means the editor is on top of things!

Rule 28 – you might think that every manuscript submitted to a journal gets a review. Nope! At the best journals, it may be like 1 in 10. They get 5000 submissions per year. It would be virtually impossible and not fair to reviewers to ask them to review 10x their current workload just for one journal. So the wise editor limits reviews to those manuscripts with a fighting chance of being accepted. Everything else gets a desk-reject.

Rule 29 – if you don’t hear anything in 24 – 48 hours after submission, even for slow journals, it probably means that your work has passed the initial screening and is going to review. That’s good! The editor thinks the manuscript might have merit for their journal. But it’s only a first hurdle passed.

Rule 30 – if your submission comes back after review with request for revision, huge! It means the editor wants to publish it! Don’t blow it! Make sure that you do everything the reviewers ask as much as possible! Take the time to do it. Make the manuscript perfect! And often, it will then be accepted.

Rule 31 – if your submission comes back with suggestion for de novo submission, that’s still pretty good. It means the editor finds merit with the submission, but not all reviewers are on board, and / or there is a major amount of work yet to do. If you are willing to take the time to fix everything that they mention, you can resubmit a de novo version and probably get your work accepted.

Is it ok to check Plagiarism multiple times using Turnitin or any other software?

Some of my friends said plagiarism checking was allowed only twice. If we check for plagiarism a third time, it will be considered plagiarism and the data will be stored in cloud while plagiarism. Is it true?

How many times I can check my research article for plagiarism using software?

Do you recommend any bases for finding relevant magazines?

Where do you check, for example, how many days until the first decision? What is the average acceptance of manuscripts in the journal?

In general, Journals Impact Factor is released in the fourth week of June every year?

I recently got this message with a rejection to upload a preprint to ArXiv which is currently published in a peer-reviewed Q3 journal:

"While we acknowledge that this article has been published, our moderators determined it is not of plausible interest for inclusion within arXiv. As a result, this submission has been declined."

Do moderators in ArXiv act as professional and authorized reviewers for whatever subject the paper is submitted to their website?

As a research scholar, I feel that a lot of time is wasted in preparing a manuscript according to a journal format. The worst part is that if the paper gets desk rejected, then we have to prepare the manuscript in some other journal style. A lot of time is wasted in this cycle.

When the paper can be type set by the journal after getting accepted, then why dont journal allow a general free format submission.

#I_support_free_format_submission

Can you find the button？

I have two articles published in the African Journal of Paediatric Surgery. In both articles the DOI does not seem to work and leads to an error page. How can this be fixed?

Thank you

I someone would like to publish their findings in a research journal means, how can we confirm whether the journal is SCI indexed, SCOPUS indexed or predatory journal?

is there any best method or site to confirm the same?

Hi everyone! I got an invitation to submit a paper to the following SCI-E/SCOPUS MDPI journal (special issue):

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/life/special_issues/advances_eHealth

The Article Processing Charge (APC) is 1400 CHF (Swiss Francs) per accepted paper. However, the fees will be fully waived (as it is an invitation to contribute) if I can submit the paper by the end of June 2020.

If anyone have a collaboration idea, please send me a message.

This topic has generated a lot discussion on the ethical implications of using language models like ChatGPT in academic settings. It drives us to consider potential biases, accuracy issues, and professionalism in academia while employing such technology. Furthermore, it encourages the investigation of alternate ways or complementary approaches that can improve academic success while resolving concerns about the incorporation of ChatGPT.

By considering the use of ChatGPT as a catalyst, and given the controversy surrounding their role, what are the potential benefits and drawbacks of introducing ChatGPT or similar language models into the academic product creation process? and does it assist the academic researcher in producing an efficient and engaging academic output, or does it cause the researcher to lose their ability to communicate ideas clearly and concisely and conveying arguments in a logical and convincing manner?

I submitted a paper to Springer which was rejected, but the preprint was generated before editorial check.

After rejection, I submitted the same paper to Emerald which was accepted after critical modifications. I later received a message of Copyright Infringement from Emerald because the preprint of the rejected paper appears on Researchsquare.

Should preprint of rejected papers be a copyright infringement?

The academic journal Urban Art Bio,issn:2830-9618 Urbanism, Architecture, Territory, Bioclimatic and Biodiversity is an international multidisciplinary journal, with a reading committee, which publishes articles devoted to theoretical and applied research in Urbanism, Architecture, Territory Planning, Geography, Bioclimatic, Biodiversity and Environment, etc., edited by AJPS Publications. It is open to several multidisciplinary themes and welcomes authors from a diversity of disciplines.

The journal focuses particular attention on the practice of urban planning, architecture, geography and environment in Algeria, the Greater Maghreb, Africa and the Middle East, and other countries in the world, and is distributed in electronic version.

Urban Art Bio Academic Journal is published three times a year (May, September, December). Each volume contains three issues, the first issue for architecture and urban planning, the second issue for geography and spatial planning and the third issue for the environment, bioclimatic, and sustainable development.

Articles submitted should include a clear research question or problem, a grounding in the existing literature, an analysis of the results in dialogue with the literature, and a clear discussion of the original contribution of the article to the field of knowledge that the proposed articles focus.

Our international editorial board is composed of members who teach at the most prestigious universities. They are specialised in the following fields, related to :

Architecture, urban planning and urban professions Earth and Space Sciences Science and Technology

The journal publishes original theoretical or applied research articles related to the following themes and areas

Architecture: landscape design, project management, etc.

Urban planning: Urban project, urban development, renewal, renovation and urban restructuring...etc.

City: urban spaces, public spaces, urban art, actors, etc.

Geography: territory, territorial planning, territorial dynamics...etc.

Environment: sustainable development, biodiversity, bioclimatic...etc.

Do you know of any good non-intrusive ways of communicating updates to your research within the ResearchGate site to mimic the project update feature?

This question arises as Researchgate will discontinue the projects feature altogether on March 31, 2023 as announced at

and this decision is apparently final.

Call for Papers for “Advances in Machine Learning for Earth Science: Observation, Modeling, and Applications ”

Submission Open: May 1, 2023 Submission Deadline: May 1, 2024 Special Collection Organizers: Mengye Chen, University of Oklahoma Yang Hong, University of Oklahoma Guoqiang Tang, National Center for Atmospheric Research Yixin Wen, University of Florida Phu Nguyen, University of California Irvine

Machine learning (ML) methods have shown tremendous potential and advances in the understanding of Earth science. New datasets and ML models with high spatial and temporal resolutions are emerging at an unprecedented rate, which has opened various new avenues of research in the field. This collection aims to engage diverse earth scientific communities to share their novel ML methods and applications on radar & satellite observations, data fusion, Earth system modeling & forecast, natural hazards and extreme weather events, land-atmosphere interaction, precipitation, climate projection, environmental sustainability, explainable AI, etc. In general, the existing special collection focuses on the use of big datasets to understand and model complex phenomena related to the Earth system or Sun-Earth climate interaction. Our focus on ML methods enables us to include papers from data scarce environments where Big Data is not available.

This is a joint special collection between Earth and Space Science, Water Resources Research and JGR: Atmospheres. To submit your manuscript, use the standard submission portal of Earth and Space Science, JGR: Atmospheres or Water Resources Research and select the collection’s title from the drop down menu in the Special Collection field of the submission form.

What sources can we use to determine the total number of researchers in the field of Tourism and Hospitality research, as well as the number of journals and educational programs in the field?

Open Journal of Clinical and Medical Case Reports (ISSN 2379-1039)

(jclinmedcasereports.com)

Not indexed on PubMed but NLM/PubMed ID: 101658769 (citations only)

It claims Impact Factor: 2.1

Thanks in advance

Hello,

I am looking for research on the four day work and productivity in the work place, preferably published in Academic Journals.

While people focused on mdpi but surprisingly the de-indexing is from other reputable publishers.

Clarivate announced the exclusion of 82 journals from the Web of Science core collection. This also means that these de-listed journals lost their Impact Factor.

The announcement was made in the midst of a series of complaints that have been made against major scientific publishers suspected of not carrying out the due process of peer review, publishing articles without scientific rigor in exchange for high publication fees, mostly paid with public money.

The released note says:

Among the publishers most affected by the measure, we have:

It is important to analyze the number of de-listed journals and the total number of journals that each publisher has in the core collection. Wiley-Hindawi (15,4% of journals de-listed), AME Publishing Company (11,1% of journals de-listed) and Hindawi LTD (9,2% of journals de-listed) were the hardest hit. The Wiley and Hindawi partnership has been the target of criticism by researchers around the world, mainly due to the dubious reputation of the publisher Hindawi

In the coming months, further removals may occur, as stated in the note released by Clarivate.

The full list of all de-listed journals (March, 2023):

This style is usual in Arabic journals:

Title. Author(s). publisher. Place. Date.

And they order the bibliographic list at end by Title.

What is the referencing style that start with title?

What should be the criteria to choose a journal for publication? Either impact factor or quartile rank or any other?

What do you suggest?

Can we able to access editors/reviewers comments on a research paper ? If so How ?

Also I’d like to know which journals publish the comments of the editor/reviewer in a scientific paper so that we can know the authors response and how they are defending.

One point from my side is : eLife journal publish Decision letter and author response.

What parameter is the best indicator of a journal's reputability: Quartile ranking, impact factor, indexing, or something else?