Top tips to be considered to accelerate your manuscript publication process

Discussion and Conclusion

Top tips to be considered to accelerate your manuscript publication process

  •  Given that the research is sound, following the writing conventions of a journal paper ensures that the research is properly reported but the journal needs to be carefully selected so that the manuscript is given due consideration.
  •  Checking out the scope of the journal is crucial as this is one of the first reasons for reviewers to reject a manuscript.
  •  After the manuscript is submitted for review, the wait for the reviewers’ comments begin. It is positive news if the manuscript is conditionally accepted with amendments.
  •  Care should be spent in the revision to address all comments raised by the reviewers and a detailed accounting of this is shown in the revision letter. However, if the manuscript is rejected and reviewers’ comments are provided, the writers should improve the manuscript and send it to another appropriate journal within the shortest possible time to begin another cycle of review which may take as short as four months to as long as a year.
  •  With online journals, the duration from manuscript submission to publication may be cut down to half a year but it can take up to two years to see a paper in print. The rigorous process of manuscript review and revision is necessary to ensure that research knowledge generated is reliable and valid for the advancement of knowledge.