Question

Discuss the steps required to submit research to a professional journal, and what you feel will be the biggest obstacle? Why?

Answer 1

Ans) Steps to submission and publication:

1) Consult Author Resources and prepare your initial manuscript in Word, or LaTeX, using our Word or LaTeX templates. Collaborative online sites Overleaf or Authorea also support direct submission to journals. For initial submission, we prefer a single file that includes text, figures, and tables. For supplemental information please use our templates here. Please follow our submission and revision or resubmission checklists.
2) If you are using figures from other sources, obtain permissions where needed. We cannot publish your paper until any copyright issues are resolved.
3) Review the publication fees. All journals have excess length fees and/or length limits. These are billed after acceptance.
4) Submit your manuscript files to our submission system, GEMS. You will be updated as the peer review process moves along.
Your manuscript will be evaluated and, if appropriate to the journal, sent for external review by the journal editors.
5) Final files and separate figures must be uploaded at revision or resubmission.
If accepted, congratulations! Your manuscript will be sent to our publication partner. The accepted article will be posted online within a few days with a DOI and considered to be published and citable. You will also be notified to transfer copyright or, for a fee, select open access and a Creative Commons license in any of our subscription journals. Following copyediting, you will receive proofs and notification of any publication fees.
6) The final manuscript will be posted shortly after the proofs are returned and then included in an online issue.
7) Follow our range of resources to promote your paper and communicate your science effectively to a broader audience.
SUBMISSION PROCESS

Journals use an electronic manuscript submission and peer review system called GEMS (Geophysical Electronic Manuscript System).

For submission, please have the following information ready:

- Manuscript file(s). For submission only, the text, figures, and tables can be combined into one file.
- Copies of Any other papers under consideration elsewhere that are related to you.
- A list of the emails of all the authors (helps enter co-authors efficiently)
- A cover letter explaining the submission and any other information needed for the editor, such as author conflicts of interest, companion manuscripts, or manuscripts related to this paper under consideration elsewhere.
Three key points:
- Plain language summary (optional) and abstract
- Up to five suggested reviewers and their emails
At revision, please have the following information ready (can also be provided at submission):

- Funding information for all the authors.
- Contributions of each author using the CRediT taxonomy (optional).
- Separate files for the text and each figure in the main manuscript.
- Data sets should be archived in appropriate repositories as soon as possible, and by publication at the latest.

Obstacles:

- Publish research findings in good journals (in English) with impact factor is really the challenge of every good researcher. Good journals insist certain standard and formats for accepting an article. Non-English speaking people who doesn't have good English learning background often feel it difficult to get into a global platform for discussion in English (Journal in English) of their original important findings.
- It is quite natural that even when one has good finding, when journal editors insist improvement in language, frustration occurs in researchers, especially in researchers from non-English speaking countries. Often the language barrier is felt as an obstacle for the non-English speaking people to publish their research findings in reputed journals in English medium.
But now there are different software tools to improve the language edition. Moreover, good institutions provide support for their researchers in improving their English writing skills.
- There is no need to feel the instruction to authors imposed by journal editors as an obstacle. Good researchers should take it as challenge to become 'effectively expressive' in the international medium of expression, which is English Language.
- Now, a day there are a number of open access journals, which demand money for publishing articles in them. Good journals also demand money for opting the open access mode of publication. But in every subject, there are a number of reputed journals where we can publish with out any payment, of course not in the 'open access mode'.
- Doing research in the global standard and publishing the same in reputed journals with impact factor must be taken as a challenge. A researcher can become successful by hard efforts, careful procedures and continuous positive followups to every criticism.
- Research acumen of researchers only improve by this process of trying to overcome the obstacles of publishing in good Journals.