-: Let's move into the next part of the workshop.
The scholarly publication process.
So, some of you may have been through this before.
Some of you, this might be new territories.
But let's just talk about the process,
from the author's point of view.
So, we have talked about the prewriting and the drafting.
And now we are going to talk about
submitting to the journal for peer review.
What is the process?
So, these days all of the submissions are done online.
And so, this is the screenshot for the
scholar one submission system.
A lot of journals use this system.
Basically you have to create an account,
and then log in to that account
and submit all of the parts of the manuscript
through the website.
And so, once you've logged in
you'll see that you have some boxes to fill out.
You fill out the title.
You paste in the abstract.
You make some selections.
Basically it lists all of the steps
that you'll be going through.
And so, you put in some details,
about the authors, you have to select
some reviewers for this particular journal.
And then you upload the files and then you submit it.
So it's pretty straightforward.
Still this process might take one or two hours
to get through it and you need to have all the files
ready to go in the right format.
So, read those instructions to authors.
So, this is kind of a flow chart of what's going to happen.
So, once the authors have prepared the manuscript
the corresponding author is going
to submit to the journal.
So once that manuscript is submitted
it will go to an associate editor.
Different journals may have different titles
for their editors.
But it goes to the associate editor first,
who's going to take a quick look at it,
review it for technical aspects, and potentially
for all of those other things we talked about.
Is this going to be of interest to my journal?
So at that point the associate editor can reject the paper.
Just flat out rejection, without review.
Or if the associate editor want to have it reviewed,
he'll send it to a handling editor, he or she.
And the handling editor will then recruit peer reviewers
to review the manuscript.
The peer reviewers will give a recommendation
back to the handling editor.
And then the handling editor will decide
whether or not to publish.
So basically, the handling editor
will come up with a decision,
and he or she will send that decision back
to the corresponding authors
along with the peer reviewers reports.
So, at this point the authors will see
what the reviewers had to say
about the strengths, the weaknesses, the importance,
those kinds of things that go into reviews.
And the decision will be, basically, one of these four.
They will either be reject, reject and resubmit,
could be accepted with revisions,
they rarely will say will be accepted with revisions,
they'll usually say could be accepted,
or sometimes it will be accept directly.
Usually not accept directly.
Usually this is after it's gone through revisions,
then it can be accepted.
So those are the four options.
The authors will lean what happens
and then they need to respond to the decision,
and the reviewers reports.