Scholarly Publishing

From the Times Higher Education Spotlight Series, this is a guide to the complex and changing world of academic publishing and how to work with it to get your research out there.

Links to topics on preparing and publishing your manuscript, presenting and speaking in public, writing and speaking inclusively, and communicating with the public.

These PDFs provide information about manuscript rejection rates, circulation data, publication lag time, and other journal statistics.

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Publishing the results of scientific research is more than a personal choice; it is an ethical and increasingly regulatory obligation.

From the blog, Get a Life, PhD: How to Succeed in Academia and Have a Life, Too, by Dr. Tanya Golash-Boza. She details how to avoid common mistakes when writing an article for an academic journal.

ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from every other researcher. You can connect your iD with your professional information — affiliations, grants, publications, peer review, and more. You can use your iD to share your information with other systems, ensuring you get recognition for all your contributions, saving you time and hassle, and reducing the risk of errors.

From the Introduction: "This guide provides an overview of the process of preparing and submitting a scholarly manuscript for publication in a psychology journal. Drawing on the experiences of authors of scholarly writings, peer reviewers, and journal editors, we seek to demystify the publication process and to offer advice designed to improve a manuscript’s prospects of publication. To exemplify the process, we describe specific publication procedures for journals of the American Psychological Association."

Enter your manuscript title and keywords to find possible journals for your work. You have the option to filter by subject, indexing, and journal type now or you can do so later. The Journal Recommender utilizes an advanced AI technology to then recommend journals that have published articles with a similar content your manuscript, ranking them in the order of the journals that have published the most articles with similar content.

A manuscript is often the most important scholarly output of a research endeavor in academia. This chapter presents an overview of the process of academic publishing, including manuscript submission, peer review, proofreading, and final publication. It is the ethical and professional responsibility of the authors to comply with the standards and requirements of each step.

SPARC is a non-profit advocacy organization that supports systems for research and education that are open by default and equitable by design. We believe everyone should be able to access and contribute to the knowledge that shapes our world.

Publishing in journals that are not reputable can diminish the credibility of your research, limit your career, and may result in little or no dissemination and uptake.