Gaps and challenges in publishing in English nursing

journals with high impact factor: how to

be successfulRoger Watson

2015:56 countries1126 submissions

Understand the publishing process

Quality assurance in the publication process:authors, editors, reviewers, publishersSubmission

Peer review

Editorial decision and input

Revision

Production

Publication

• submission requirements based on international standards (e.g. ICMJE) re content, ethics, authorship etc

• peer review (blind or open)

• reasons for rejection/revision include plagiarism, redundancy, sub-standard research, faulty or incomplete analysis, poor or incomplete reporting

• revision aims to improve quality

• further checks at production

• post-publication scrutiny

Understand the publishing process

Write first for:

• Editors

• Reviewers

• Your audience

Journal guidelines

Journal guidelines

Journal guidelines

Length

Layout

Organisation

Referencing system

Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research

Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research

CONSORT http://www.consort-statement.org/

Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research

CONSORT http://www.consort-statement.org/

PRISMA http://www.prisma-statement.org/

Promoting integrity in research publication

COPE http://publicationethics.org/

Seeking criticism

Find a ‘critical friend’

Seek criticism of your writing

NOT THIS

OR THIS

THIS

Expect to have several revisions

…I’m one of the world’s greatest rewriters

James Mitchener

One of the first problems encountered in writing by those with poorly developed skills is the presentation of relatively simplistic conceptual analyses in sentences which are far too long and which try to encompass too many ideas, including the use of bad grammar and poor sentence construction, that by the time the reader has got to the end of the sentence the point of the sentence has been lost and it is also the case that long single sentence paragraphs are a mistake which is often also made.

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One of the first problems encountered in writing by those with poorly developed skills is the presentation of relatively simplistic conceptual analyses in sentences which are far too long and which try to encompass too many ideas, including the use of bad grammar and poor sentence construction, that by the time the reader has got to the end of the sentence the point of the sentence has been lost and it is also the case that long single sentence paragraphs are a mistake which is often also made.

An initial problem for inexperienced writers is presenting relatively simple concepts. sentences which are far too long and which try to encompass too many ideas, including the use of bad grammar and poor sentence construction, that by the time the reader has got to the end of the sentence the point of the sentence has been lost and it is also the case that long single sentence paragraphs are a mistake which is often also made.

An initial problem for inexperienced writers is presenting relatively simple concepts. They use sentences which are far too long and which try to encompass too many ideas, including the use of bad grammar and poor sentence construction, that by the time the reader has got to the end of the sentence the point of the sentence has been lost and it is also the case that long single sentence paragraphs are a mistake which is often also made.

An initial problem for inexperienced writers is presenting relatively simple concepts. They use sentences which are too long with too many ideas. including the use of bad grammar and poor sentence construction, that by the time the reader has got to the end of the sentence the point of the sentence has been lost and it is also the case that long single sentence paragraphs are a mistake which is often also made.

An initial problem for inexperienced writers is presenting relatively simple concepts. They use sentences which are too long with too many ideas. including the use of bad grammar and poor sentence construction, that by the time the reader has got to the end of the sentence the point of the sentence has been lost and it is also the case that long single sentence paragraphs are a mistake which is often also made.

An initial problem for inexperienced writers is presenting relatively simple concepts. They use sentences which are too long with too many ideas. They use bad grammar and poor sentence construction. that by the time the reader has got to the end of the sentence the point of the sentence has been lost and it is also the case that long single sentence paragraphs are a mistake which is often also made.

An initial problem for inexperienced writers is presenting relatively simple concepts. They use sentences which are too long with too many ideas. They use bad grammar and poor sentence construction. that by the time the reader has got to the end of the sentence the point of the sentence has been lost and it is also the case that long single sentence paragraphs are a mistake which is often also made.

An initial problem for inexperienced writers is presenting relatively simple concepts. They use sentences which are too long with too many ideas. They use bad grammar and poor sentence construction. By the time the reader reaches the end of the sentence the point has been lost. and it is also the case that long single sentence paragraphs are a mistake which is often also made.

An initial problem for inexperienced writers is presenting relatively simple concepts. They use sentences which are too long with too many ideas. They use bad grammar and poor sentence construction. By the time the reader reaches the end of the sentence the point has been lost. and it is also the case that long single sentence paragraphs are a mistake which is often also made.

An initial problem for inexperienced writers is presenting relatively simple concepts. They use sentences which are too long with too many ideas. They use bad grammar and poor sentence construction. By the time the reader reaches the end of the sentence the point has been lost. Single sentence paragraphs are also a mistake.

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International relevance

Keep asking yourself whether a reader in a region or country very different from your own will be able to make sense of everything in your paper

Abstract

• refer in the aims and/or background to the global relevance of the topic

• include name/s of country/ies in which the work was undertaken

• emphasise the international relevance of the conclusions

Dealing with reviewer’s comments

Apply the ‘golden rules’ (Williams 2004)

Rule 1. Answer completely

Rule 2. Answer politely

Rule 3. Answer with evidence

Answer completely

Deal with every point, even if you don’t agree or can’t change it

Make a list of points – even if not presented with a list

Answer politely

Don’t start with:

‘We completely disagree with the comments of the reviewer’

‘Who on earth are your reviewers?’

…etc!

Answer with evidence

If you disagree with the reviewer then provide evidence: facts and references

Edited by Karen Holland and Roger Watson

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