Getting your paper published: Simple advice on how to navigate peer review and scientific publishing
Channel: Lars Juhl Jensen
Date: 2022-09-05

Simple advice on how to get your paper published in a peer-reviewed journal. I will first talk about why you should consider making a preprint available, how to select a suitable peer-reviewed journal, and how you can help yourself by helping the editor with good reviewer suggestions. I will then go over how to make a strong point-by-point response to reviewer's comments, and finally the last few steps after your manuscript is accepted.

0:00 Introduction: experience with peer review as author, reviewer, and associate editor
0:35 Consider preprint: sharing before peer review, bioRxiv, earlier access, open access, and citable
1:08 Select a journal: scope statement, past publications, visibility, indexing, open access, and predatory journals
2:06 Help the editor: happy editor = good editor and criteria for suggesting good reviewers
2:59 Respond to reviews: reviewers are wrong but not stupid, respond to everything, act on all comments
4:10 Shorten the paper: when asked to shorten, make text more concise, and move less important material to supplement
4:50 Check page proofs: last chance to fix mistakes, reformatting of tables, low-quality figures, figure references, citation formatting, and formula