Editorial: How to develop a quality research article and avoid a journal desk rejection

A Synthesis of the Formats for Correcting Erroneous and Fraudulent Academic Literature, and Associated Challenges

“…Thus, in order to increase published volumes, subscriptions or open access (OA) article processing charges (APCs), standards of entry of literature into a journal might be lowered, making it “easier” to publish, but doing so can also engender an indistinguishable mix of exploitative and predatory publishing practices (Teixeira da Silva et al 2019 ; Allen 2021 ). The editorial barrier of entry into a journal, which is usually in the form of a desk rejection (Dwivedi et al 2022 ), may be excessively lenient or strict, or it may be unfair or based on non-academic reasons (Teixeira da Silva et al 2018 ). This may cause anxiety among academics, who might feel pressure to publish their scientific findings quickly or, in order to prove their productivity, rush to publish work.…”

What does rejection look like? A photovoice study on emotions and coping regarding manuscript rejection

“…Many studies on rejection (e.g., Dwivedi et al, 2022 ; Khadilkar, 2018 ) focus on the factors related to journal desk rejection and rejection after the manuscript review process (with peer review). These studies investigate how to avoid a journal desk rejection by developing a quality research article (Dwivedi et al, 2022 ; Streiner, 2007 ).…”

Editor’s Comment

“…(Kautz, 2021) It is therefore affirming to read Chattjee and Davison's (2021) editorial plea for compelling problematization in IS research in the Information Systems Journal (ISJ) as well as the MISQ editor's comments on qualitative research methods in IS including a call for phenomenonfocused problematization (Monteiro et al, 2022) which is based on the MISQ Knowledge Sharing online sessions 2022 on Qualitative Research, in one of which I had the opportunity to participate.Further based on the journal's published articles I also sketched out some reasons for desk rejections. In this context Professor Yogesh Dwiwedi, the current Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Information Management (IJIM) and colleagues in a recent editorial of the IJIM (Dwivedi et al, 2022), likened submitting to a journal to participating in a conversation and that, beyond lack of fit with a journal's scope, not participating in a journal's ongoing conversation and not being connected with the existing research conversations in a journal through a demonstrated lack of familiarity with existing work published in the target journal increases the risk of a desk reject. I highly recommend these three editorial to all IS researchers, who seek support for their development of quality research articles.After some years of online gatherings in 2022 it became possible again to meet in person for workshops, seminars, and conferences and in the second half of the year I attended four such events: Digital Futures, an event by the Disrupt.Sydney conference series at the University of Sydney, Australia (disruptsydney.net) (I really recommend this series to you if you are interested in challenging common sense, in learning about new ways of thinking, and in critically engaging with our disicipline); the Australian Cybernetic 2022 event at the Australian National University (ANU) (cybernetics.anu.edu.au) in Canberra (more about it later); the Australasian Conference on Information Systems…”

“…Further based on the journal's published articles I also sketched out some reasons for desk rejections. In this context Professor Yogesh Dwiwedi, the current Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Information Management (IJIM) and colleagues in a recent editorial of the IJIM (Dwivedi et al, 2022), likened submitting to a journal to participating in a conversation and that, beyond lack of fit with a journal's scope, not participating in a journal's ongoing conversation and not being connected with the existing research conversations in a journal through a demonstrated lack of familiarity with existing work published in the target journal increases the risk of a desk reject. I highly recommend these three editorial to all IS researchers, who seek support for their development of quality research articles.…”