Due to increasing competition in publishing of the research papers, authors find it tough do a research that would definitely add in the literature of the subject. Since high-indexed journals publish one out of hundred research papers, the researcher has to write a unique and effective manuscript.
Science Citation Index (SCI) indexes the leading journals of Science and Technology by checking the quality of it. Since SCI seems like a brand name for the scientific journals, your manuscript should meet the criteria of SCI Indexed Journals.
The rigid norms of SCI include:
- Citation impact (the impact factor of the journal)
- Publishing standards ( includes Peer review, acknowledgement, ethical publishing rules & format, full english text, fresh content and a timeline of its editions)
- International audience
- Citation analysis
But does your manuscript match up the author guidelines of the journals? Choosing the appropriate journal publication for your research paper, you must adhere to the aim, scope and author’s guidelines to get selected in the selected publication. Yet how would you edit the manuscript?
Read rigorously
Reading counts as the most important part of editing as you won’t be able to find flaws in the manuscript unless you spend time reading it, consistently. Try reading it at different times and if possible, at different places. It could be dull and boring to read the same research at a same place in continuation, however a change in time and place would freshen up your mind to spot the errors you could have skipped otherwise.
Adhere to the format and style
Your research paper might not be marginalised or double spaced as required by the publication, hence giving it a chance to get rejected at the desk, i.e, the manuscript would be rejected by the editor even before the peer review. How disheartening that would be? Inspect the figures, style, tables and every minor detail of the manuscript to not face desk rejection.
Influence through the title and the abstract
The title and the abstract of a research paper unveils the complete story of it. Both of these elements provides the first picture of the conducted research to the reader and that should be clear enough for them to know the insights of it. The title summarises the theme of the research, however the abstract gives a brief overview of the theory, methodology, findings, and limitations.
Edit it professionally
A scientific research has to be clear and concise in terms of the content. Your manuscript should avoid wordiness and be accurate with the information it wants to provide to the reader. Nevertheless, the text and the tables & figures should be edited professionally for the peer-reviewers to consider it as a high quality research paper.
Cover letter- the essence of it
The cover letter might not be as important as the manuscript to you but it gives an impression to the journal publication to review it further. Your cover letter should include the necessary details of the research paper, such as Title & the Author, the importance of the paper and the fact that it is a new research for the journal to publish it.
Therefore, to get your manuscript published in a high-indexed journal, it has to be edited coherently without degrading the quality of the research.