How to Best Avoid Journal Rejections: 10 Tips for Successful Submission!

Session Agenda

Manuscripts submitted have to undergo several stages of screening—technical, editorial, and peer review—before they finally get published. Unerring submission fulfilling journals’ submission requirements and completing the submission process via online systems can be a daunting process. Researchers need to provide information such as images, data sets, cover letter, manuscript, supplementary information (if needed), ethical declaration, and consent forms to journal editors in a specified format. Enago conducted an informative webinar for medical practitioners and researchers from Jakarta Eye Centre to help them avoid making incomplete and incorrect submissions to journals leading to immediate rejection and understand the importance of publication ethics. Further, we discussed ways in which authorship dilemma and pre-submission queries can be addressed.

Researchers will have a better understanding of the following:

• Criteria for manuscript acceptance
• Common reasons for manuscript rejection
• Identify the right type of manuscript and preparing the manuscript as per the recommended format
• How to avoid ethical issues
• Tips for choosing the right journal and successful manuscript submission