PAPER PUBLISHING PROCESS

 Understanding the paper publishing process might be crucial for many new authors.
 The publication of a research paper in a journal is a long and painstaking process.
 It involves many stages that need to be completed at the author’s end before submission to a journal.
 After submission, there are further steps at the publisher’s end over which the author has no control. In order to get a
successful publication in good time, it is important for an author to understand the various steps involved in the process.
IMPORTANCE OF PAPER PUBLISHING
 A research project cannot be considered complete until its results are effectively communicated to its users or consumers.
Therefore, communication of research finding is one of the essential and final steps of research process.
 It is the responsibility of the researcher to ensure that the outcomes of a study are communicated effectively, which
means preparing the work for local and/or national audiences.
Purpose for effective communication
• Promotion of learning of new knowledge among professionals
• Expansion of the base for the evidence based practice
• Improving the health care outcome by refining the existing body of professional knowledge
 Criteria for Communicating Research
• Selecting proper channel for communicating
• Knowing the consumers
• Developing an effective plan for writing a research report
• Careful selection of a journal for publication of report
• Careful review of authors manuscript guidelines

STEPS
Major steps involved in publishing a research paper from the manuscript preparation to publication are as follows-
1. Perform Research Work
 Have original research work of current interest.
 Scholars should focus on high-quality research to enable advancement in the field.
 An extensive literature review will be helpful in finding the current challenges in the field.
2. Prepare Manuscript
 Identify a journal with aims & scope close to your research work.
 This is the time when the author requires to find all detail and policy of the journal
including copyright, authorship, submission policy, and publication charges.
 After finding a suitable journal, format manuscript according to the author guideline of the targeted journal.
 While you are writing up your findings, come up with what you believe are unique hypotheses, base your work on
robust data, and use an appropriate research methodology.
 Provide theoretical insight, and share theoretical and practical implications for your work.
3. Submit Manuscript
 Submit your manuscript online through the targetted journal’s homepage and add complete detail in the online
submission system.
 Do not submit the manuscript to more than one journal at the same time
4. Editorial screening
 Any research paper submission for publication in a journal goes through an editorial screening to start with.
 The authors must ensure their research paper matches the focus area and objectives of the selected journal so
that it is not rejected at the first stage.
 The best way to go about it is to follow the journal’s instructions with precision and consistency.
 Research papers that clear editorial screening are then forwarded for peer review.
5. Peer-review
 After the editorial screening, the peer-reviewing process will get initiated for a well-formatted manuscript within
the scope of the journal.
 Keep patience and wait for a reply from the editor during the review process which may take couple of weeks.
 Reviewing time varies from journal to journal, you may visit about section of an individual journal to find
approximate required reviewing time of that journal.
6. Decision
Based on the reviewer’s recommendation, the editor will send you one of the following decision letters-
 Revision Required: Revise manuscript as per comment and resubmit. A video tutorial for submitting the revised
manuscript in AIJR Journals is available at this link.
 Decline: Look at your manuscript and decline reason. Spend plenty of time to improve your overall manuscript
and resubmit as a fresh manuscript.
 Accepted: It’s time to celebrate, your manuscript will be copyedited by the journal for final publication.
7. Publication
 Few days after acceptance of the manuscript you will receive a galley proof version for minor proofreading
corrections and your paper will be published.
 It’s time to share your published work and cite in other related papers as per the licensing policy of the journal.