Publishing Research

In engineering and computer science (CS), choosing between conference papers vs. journal articles can shape how fast your findings reach the community and how your research…

Format-free submission (also marketed as Free Format or Your Paper, Your Way) is now widely promoted across major scholarly publishers. The promise is straightforward: reduce time…

A fast “rejected for scope” decision can feel like a dead end especially when the editor adds a crucial qualifier: the work appears sound, but it does not fit the journal.…

Universities and journals are tightening policies on generative AI, and many researchers now face a practical concern: a legitimate research manuscript that used AI for support…

The rise of visual summaries has changed how researchers discover and share papers online. Early evaluations found that tweets with visual abstracts produced substantially higher…

Multimedia summaries of research are no longer niche: publishers and authors are increasingly using short videos to explain findings, boost discoverability, and widen reach. A…

A concise, informative abstract is the gateway to any review article. Editors and readers often decide whether to read a full review based on the abstract alone. It must therefore…

Visual summaries are now a mainstream element of scholarly publishing. Dozens of major journals request or encourage a graphical abstract at submission, and more than 100 journals…

A growing number of journals now screen submissions for text overlap before peer review, and similarity reports can flag not only copied material from other authors, but also…

Image Resolution, Pixel Dimensions, and Aspect Ratio: Preparing Publication-Ready Figures Poor-quality figures are a frequent cause of desk rejection and delays during production.…

Many manuscripts fail at the first gate: the abstract. Studies show that a substantial proportion of published abstracts contain data that cannot be verified in the article body…

Graphical abstracts (also called visual abstracts) are single-image summaries that help readers quickly grasp a paper’s purpose and main findings. They have become a mainstream…