What’s new in academic journal publishing, and how to navigate the peer review system with your paper and integrity intact!

What will you get?

1. Cover crucial information and give guidance relating to topics such as choosing journals for publication, journal status (impact factor, rankings), reviewing processes
2. Explain why papers get rejected - guarantee it won't happen for the wrong reasons!
3. Work with real examples of rejection letters and reviewers' comments, enabling you to learn to 'read' them in a way that places you in a strong position to respond and decide what to do next
4. Explore examples of responses to editors, so you can influence the editor's decision and hopefully increase your chances of acceptance

Pre-workshop preparation

1. Watch this video about academic publishing (32 minutes) – this is important as we will be doing some real reviewing during the workshop, and we need to do so helpfully and ethically. If you prefer to watch it in smaller chunks, you’ll find the links here. You will find more (optional) videos focusing particularly on rejection on Nick’s youtube channel. Based on video(s) come to the workshop with notes outlining: Key things you learned from the video; Any questions that have come up that you would like answered; Anything you do in relation to these issues that was not covered (eg. Other factors you use in journal choice?)
2. Choose one from the collection of real rejection letters (Rejections combo 2019). It includes examples for a range of disciplines. Make notes on why the paper was rejected – not all the flaws, but which were the crucial ones?
3. Bring either a hard or soft copy of a short collection of real reviewer comments – we will work on these in detail in the workshop (Peer review combo 2019)

For ethics reasons these documents must not be shared with others not attending the workshop.

Venue: Pipitea campus, RH MZ 03

Presenter:

Associate Professor Nick Hopwood teaches at the University of Technology, Sydney. You can find out more about Nick from his blog, youtube channel, and twitter feed