Introduction to the Editors’ Group and today’s presentations: GRAEME PORTE

Introduction to the Editors' Group and today's presentations: GRAEME PORTE

 1 MARTA ANTON PRESENTING:  CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING A JOURNAL

  (to include getting to know what journals are most pertinent to the enquiry, Open Access journals, Scientific Rigor. A key indicator of journal quality is the scientific rigor of the publications published in the journal. ... Editorial Quality. ... Peer Review Process. ... Ethics. ... Editorial Board Members. ...Journal Reputation/Business Model. ...Author Rights and Copyright. ... Indexing Status.

 2 MARTIN EAST PRESENTING:  WRITING FOR A SPECIFIC JOURNAL OR SECTION IN THE JOURNAL

 (to include doing your homework on what typically gets accepted; tergetting tha readership specifically; examples of how certain journal strands require different approaches to presentation/style etc.) 

 3: WAYNE WRIGHT PRESENTING:  COMMON MISTAKES THAT CAN LEAD TO REJECTION

(to include Editorial (form and preparation) mistakes: Not paying attention to/ following guidelines in Information for Authors (IFA); Not using good grammar/proper English; Including poor quality tables/figures/illustrations; Submitting a topic that is outside the journal’s scope; Submitting a manuscript that lacks novelty/scientific significance; Using poor methodology and making poor/inappropriate statistical analysis; Ethical mistakes: Submitting your manuscript to more than one journal at once; Submitting a paper partially published elsewhere, etc.  REASONABLE USE OF AI. 

 4: JIM McKINLEY PRESENTING: REVIEWING FOR A JOURNAL. 

Based around Masatoshi's original request that “We could talk about the importance of peer reviews (academic citizenship?) so as to raise people’s awareness of and contribution to the academic publishing practices? I say this partly because I am aware that some universities bluntly discourage faculty members from reviewing papers (and instead encourage spending time on publishing, of course).” 

 5. MASATOSHI SATO PRESENTING: UNDERSTANDING JOURNAL DECISIONS (to include understanding how to re-submit and what to write in a cover letter, understanding rejection, resubmission and replying to feedback and SUBMISSION DANGERS/"WARNINGS" (to include similarity indices, ChatGPT attitude to, use of paper mills etc.).