A good cover letter can help to “sell” your manuscript to the journal editor. As well as introducing your work to the Editor you can also take this opportunity to explain why the manuscript will be of interest to a journal's readers, something which is always at the forefront ...
These prerequisites for successful submission are indispensable, because an editorial board will flatly reject as unreliable even the most interesting results if they are vague, poorly substantiated, and/or the manuscript is incomprehensible. In this study, these three pre-requisites—the level of the...
Manuscripts that do not mention the implications of the study are often desk-rejected by journals. What constitutes the ‘implications’ of research, and why is it important to include research implications in your manuscript? Research implications: An overview ...
What makes a good article? Generating an insightful manuscriptcommunicationauthorshipresearch resultsPurpose - The purpose of this editorial is to provide guidance to EJM authors about the structurernand presentation of manuscripts that are likely to be insightful and that will probably providern...
Facebook Live Q&A – Tracking your manuscript in journal submission systems Visit the Q&A Forum Help authors by answering these questions Can I submit to the same journal after desk rejection? What does ‘conflict of interest’ mean? Is there any requirement of funding body, which mentions about...
There is an option for "research square" when submitting to a journal under Springer. What is "research square"? I heard that you can submit the manuscript directly to this platform so that your research content will not be plagiarized by others. Is that true? Thanks in advance. ...
In the world of social media, posts containing images can boost viewer engagement by over 200% (Li and Xie 2020). The scientific world is no different. Effective graphics can promote interest in research—not only among colleagues within our field but also among nonscientists who...
If you studied the genetic basis of a disease in some animal model, then make sure you have good reason to draw conclusions about the treatment of the same disease in humans if you don’t want to put off the editor who decides whether to even send your manuscript out for review. Likewis...
a computer science professor at Stanford University and founder of Stanford's Knowledge Systems Laboratory. The world was moving from data processing to "knowledge processing," Feigenbaum said ina 1988 manuscript. That meant computers had the potential to do more than basic calculations and were capab...
What is research preprint? A preprint isa version of a scientific manuscript posted on a public server prior to formal peer review. As soon as it's posted, your preprint becomes a permanent part of the scientific record, citable with its own unique DOI. By sharing early, you can accelerate...