Trying to get onto the academic career ladder is tough for early career researchers, and getting peer-reviewed publications is an essential part of the process. As an Editor-in-Chief, I am often approached by authors about how to get published - the brutal reality is that our journal receives far more papers than it can publish and the vast majority of submissions will be rejected without being sent for review. That is a hard statistic for an author who has laboured for many hours in the hope of publication. So, how to increase those chances? Here are my suggestions.
Many academic journals are currently experiencing an exponential growth in submissions and consequently the standards required to publish are becoming exceptionally high. As one of the oldest public administration journals,
Public Administration and Development
has always adapted and changed to reflect the latest...
Mariana Chudnovsky, Ian C. Elliott, S. Bhuiyan et al.· Public Administration and De...· 0 citations
Our editors share their best advice for preparing your submission to Analytical Methods. Drawing on their collective experience and the issues they most often encounter in manuscripts, their top tips offer clear, practical guidance to support you. This advice reflects the editors' commitment to helping you strengthen y...
Abstract Academic peer review is in crisis—it is a structural reality that every editor, reviewer, and conscientious author now navigates daily. The symptoms are familiar: reviewer fatigue, inconsistent decisions, declining response rates, and a growing sense that the machinery of scholarly quality assurance is straini...
Zeynep Engin, J. Crowcroft, Stefaan Verhulst· Data & Policy· 0 citations
Many applicants for academic degrees are confident that their main task is to write a good dissertation. In fact, it is necessary to solve not one, but at least two tasks: first, of course, to prepare the work, and secondly, to successfully protect it. But this is not so much a scientific problem as a management proble...
ABSTRACT As I conclude a 10-year term as editor-in-chief of Clinical Gerontologist, I offer 10 practical tips to help authors—especially those early in their research careers—navigate the publication process more successfully. This article addresses three stages: preparing a manuscript and selecting a journal, navigati...
Jennifer A. Moye· Clinical Gerontologist· 0 citations
