Common reasons for not accepting manuscripts for further processing after editor’s triage and initial screening

Jawaid, Shaukat Ali; Jawaid, Masood

doi:10.12669/pjms.35.1.28

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“…According to the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) Publishers ( 6 ), around 42,500 scientific peer-reviewed English and non-English language journals actively contribute to publish scientific works; considering such a huge number of journals, choosing the right one to submit a manuscript is not easy ( 4 ). Choosing the wrong journal may lead to fast rejection, delayed publication, and waste of time/resources ( 7 , 8 ). Targeting the best journal has no clear-cut criteria or a practical model; it is a complex issue, compounded by the increasing numbers of journals and the emerging changes in the publishing landscape ( 8 , 9 ).…”

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“…The manuscript needs to be relevant and fit within the “Aims and Scope” of the journal. Not falling within the scope of the journal (~11%) and irrelevant topic to the journal mission (~37%) are some of the most common reasons for a fast rejection in the field of medicine ( 7 , 56 ). Prior to submission, authors are therefore encouraged to carefully read the journal’s mission/vision statement and be familiar with the topics and types of manuscripts published by the journal ( 56 ).…”

Section: Factors Affecting Journal Targetingmentioning

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Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine: How to Choose a Journal?

Bahadoran

Mirmiran

Kashfi

et al. 2020

Int J Endocrinol Metab

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: Publishing in peer-reviewed high-quality journals is a gold standard method for disseminating scientific work. Choosing the right journal is one of the most important and difficult aspects of publishing research results. Submitting to an inappropriate journal is one of the most common reasons for fast rejection of manuscripts, resulting in time wasted by the authors and journals’ editors. Here, we discuss important factors that should be considered for choosing the right journal to get your work published successfully and effectively. The most important factors for journal targeting are: (1) The journal’s characteristics, that is its scientific prestige, performance, publishing model, acceptance possibility, and specialty; (2) the manuscript’s characteristics, including its relevance to the journal’s aim and scope, its intrinsic value, meaning the novelty of the research, soundness of the methodology, potential impact in the field, and its implication; and (3) authors’ priorities and limitations.

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Section: Factors Affecting Journal Targetingmentioning

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Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine: How to Choose a Journal?

Bahadoran

Mirmiran

Kashfi

et al. 2020

Int J Endocrinol Metab

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“…1 Up to 80% of the submissions are not processed further and are rejected early on within a few days without an external review. 2,3 Most journals have elaborate details in author guidelines for the preparation of manuscripts to avoid this. Also, editors and reviewers spend lots of time in various forms of training to help authors improve their scientific writing and publication skills.…”

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Desk-rejection of manuscript: How to avoid it

Shah

2020

J Patan Acad Health Sci

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It is true that authors do not like their manuscripts being rejected early at the editorial level, and they even think that it is an arbitrary judgment by the editor. Editors and journals take this rather seriously. Desk-rejection (DR) is an important issue for all, authors and editors alike. It occurs even before the peer review of the submitted manuscript begins. Most authors experience DR sometime during their careers, though we are not aware of it until we encounter one, and may take it as a shock. Many a times, the journal editor rightly points out that a DR is mostly due to a ‘premature’ submission of a ‘half-cooked’ manuscript. It may not pass through in the very beginning due to abstract of poor construct, lack of clearly defined purpose of the paper, low standard of procedures undertaken, and insignificant principal findings, also referred to as the important 3Ps. Up to 80% of the submissions are not processed further and are rejected early on within a few days without an external review.

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“…There is a clearly laid down criteria for authorship by International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and most good quality peer review journals follow this with little bit of modification 10. Hence, those submitting the manuscripts have to be very careful as regards authorship and enlist only those as authors who are eligible for authorship otherwise they risk their manuscripts being rejected from most reputed peer reviewed biomedical journals 11…”

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Need to have more Biomedical Journals with Impact Factor and importance of Publication Audit

Jawaid¹

2019

Pak J Med Sci

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doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.35.4.1300 How to cite this:Jawaid SA. Need to have more Biomedical Journals with Impact Factor and importance of Publication Audit. Pak J Med Sci. 2019;35(4):882-886. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.35.4.1300 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Common reasons for not accepting manuscripts for further processing after editor’s triage and initial screening

Cited by 14 publications

References 5 publications

Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine: How to Choose a Journal?

Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine: How to Choose a Journal?

Desk-rejection of manuscript: How to avoid it

Need to have more Biomedical Journals with Impact Factor and importance of Publication Audit

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