r/academicpublishing

Hi everyone

Had another rejection from a call for papers, that part isn't what bothers me, what bothers me is I know I didn't put my best foot forward with this paper and honestly, I'm starting to get quiet angry at myself.
I know I'm not lazy, but I seem to always choke when it comes to writing articles and remembering submission deadlines,

I want to ask for some advice from any who have a methodology or a routine when it comes to writing articles for publication?

Tips, hints, help, guides, even avenues of research on whatever the topic seems to be?

My research is haphazard at best, I seem to stumble across quotes and relevant information rather than have tried and true sites/research areas

I feel like I'm drowning, and any help would be greatly appreciated

A lot of us have seen the news about arXiv banning authors for 1+ years over hallucinations and other obvious AI slop in preprints.
To me, as a PhD student in CS, this seems like a great thing… an additional skim through of one’s own work to look for these should suffice. After all, no one is banning the use of LLMs. They’re only banning the unaudited use of LLMs.
It also seems like junior students/faculty are the ones to benefit a lot as it won’t “bury” their work under piles of AI generated slop.
In the field of CS, top tier venues like ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, EMNLP, etc. have a shit ton of submissions.

However, I was hoping to gain some insights from the community as to why (some) people are mad about this? I can’t seem to understand this.

Hi! I’m an undergraduate student and have been active in university journals in past so I have some idea of what published work should include. Since I have a couple months off for the summer I’m interested in working on a paper I could get published. The area I’m interested in is foreign policy and diplomacy. I would love any tips you could send my way and would appreciate all guidance on how to make it happen.

***Ok, that’s us done! Thanks so much to everyone who contributed. It's been lovely and a real pleasure. If you’d like to follow up on anything you’ve read here, or if you have a book idea you’d like to discuss, please feel free to contact me directly at lynda.cooper@jkp.com***

I’m Lynda Cooper, Senior Commissioning Editor at Jessica Kingsley Publishers where I publish books for our autism list. I have worked in the industry for over 20 years, including time as Lecturer in Publishing at the University of Plymouth. I'm also parent to two fantastic kids, one of whom has an autism diagnosis - AMA!  

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Some of the books I’ve published over the years include: 

Cathy Wassell's Nurturing Your Autistic Young Person | Jessica Kingsley Publishers - UK

Eliza Fricker's Can't Not Won't | Jessica Kingsley Publishers - UK

Catherine Asta's Rediscovered | Jessica Kingsley Publishers - UK

Pete Wharmby's What I Want to Talk About | Jessica Kingsley Publishers - UK

More about Jessica Kingsley Publishers: 

At Jessica Kingsley Publishers, our authors have been celebrated for both their lived experience and specialist expertise on autism, social work, and arts therapies since we started in 1987. Since then, we've broken ground in mental health, gender diversity, adoption, and neurodiversity, as we persist in seeking out voices that have been, and continue to be, underrepresented in our world. Our publishing aims to address the challenges our communities face, while establishing positive narratives about difference that uplift and empower. 

Hi everyone,

I'm a Master's student from Indonesia, and I'm about to submit my first paper to Administrative Sciences (MDPI). The APC is 1,600 CHF, which is way beyond my budget as a self-funded student.

I've already emailed the editorial office to request a waiver. Does anyone here have experience obtaining discounts or waivers from MDPI, particularly as a researcher from a lower-middle-income country?

If you have unused MDPI reviewer vouchers you don't plan to use, I'd really appreciate it if you could share them. Feel free to DM me.

Thanks in advance!

Working on a side project that pulls the newest published work across arXiv, PubMed, and bioRxiv, ranks what is most relevant to your field, and delivers concise weekly briefings to your inbox.

Was working on an AI model to do the summary and ranking, but AI sentiment seems really low among researchers right now.

Is free trial -> $9 a month fair?

Any advice would help!

I was wondering what people's experience are with article publication charges (APCs) with correspondence to the editor.

I am a clinician researcher, and the university I am affiliated with has a read and access agreement with all major publishers. I have published original research in open access journals using this without problems.

Recently an editorial was published in a Springer journal which I disagreed with, and so I wrote a letter to the editor challenging some of the assertions. The journal itself is fully open access. The letter has been accepted for publication. However I have now been told that read and access agreements do not cover correspondence, and so they would like me to pay the full APC for publication of the letter, which is £2590.

I do not have any grants that would cover this, so it would need to come out of my own pocket. Does anyone else have any experience with this sort of thing? Charging a full APC for three non peer-reviewed paragraphs, challenging a position put forward by the same journal, seems a bit steep and potentially limits the ability of people to validly critique the output of said journal. I can understand the APC in relation to other manuscript types, but I would have thought a letter to the editor probably doesn’t put a huge financial burden on the publisher.

I suppose my options could be to either write back and request a waiver, or submit elsewhere, but it does seem a little backwards. I would be interested to hear if others have also encountered this and found ways to address it.

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Hi everyone,

I submitted a manuscript to a little over 2 months ago, and the status has been “With Editor” for more than 1 month.

For those who have submitted to this journal before:

How long did the “With Editor” stage take for your paper?

How long was the total time from submission to first decision?

I know timelines vary depending on the editor and reviewers, but I’d really appreciate hearing about your experiences.

Thanks a lot!