After compliting my doctoral dissertation, I was requested to publish two articles related to my research topic before accepting my thesis for public viva-voce. Then the university underlined that the articles in question should be published in a scientific research review, journal with international impact, well designed as an indexed Review or journal. If I could publish my articles as contributor, the book shoud be published in a publishing house having an international impact, i.e. an indexed publishing house. This was not so easy. I published my firsf paper in Nigeria, and the second as a contributoer to a book, in France. But it took much time to appreciate the journal and the book publishing house. Thanks to the relevance of my articles, they deliberated in my favour. I wrote to NIgeria, they told me their journal has a certain international notoriety. The editor (Espérance) in France did not digest the conditions. Then I exhibited the book and my paper, but they did not find any electronic reference, which made my evaluators about to reject my article. I found that the question should debated through ResearchGate and I decided that I sould, henceforth, be publish my articles and books in indexed papers, reviews, journals or publishing houses. Then, can't ResearchGate help me to put me in contact_ with such scholarly institutions?
Thank you for the help!
Indeed, the publication of scientific papers can be rather difficult. Do you have an advisor for your Ph.D. work who is experienced and can publish together with you? Or someone else of the scientific staff? When I started to publish I read a lot papers in relevant journals and tried to bring my results in a similar form (scientific language, structure, form of citations, etc.). In some cases the cooperation with experienced coauthors was very helpful. I also had the opportunity to give the manuscript to someone who could polish my English.
Personal contacts may be helpful, but usually the author just send his article to a journal. You should identify the important journals in your field of research, read their instructions for authors carefully and follow these instructions to write and submit your articles.
Dear Dilubenzi Bitolo-Mabiala Can you reveal which journal published your paper and which publishing house was behind the book where you contributed a chapter?
As far as I understand your question you experienced difficulties in convincing the people that need to evaluate the scientific standard of the publishers that published your work.
In some countries require an x number of publications in well-indexed journals in for example Scopus, those having an impact factor or need to be listed in some (national) recognised list (UGC-CARE, NAAS etc.).
Best regards.
PS. It depends on the status of your already published papers whether you can republish them in another journal (or you will have to rewrite the paper(s) using the info/data of your thesis in another way).
ResearchGate itself offers some publishing services, such as the ability to share preprints of your articles, which can help you get feedback before submitting to a formal publication.