New and innovative research, proper methodology, precise and accurate measurements, valid results, good conclusions, and recommendation is probably going to help you in publishing paper in a reputed journal.
Writing a good article is an art too. Publishing an article in a reputed journal need to be more scientific activities. Some very high impact factor journal may be reluctant to accept articles from developing countries because we can not fulfill or we may not convince the reviewer about the reliability and validity of data we have collected.
A scientific article must answer the following questions: What is the problem that is addressed? Why is it important? What are your results? What do you recommend as further study for others?
One may write a paper which is very good methodologically and with reach references but everything may be spoiled by formal fallacies, or even by its poor language qualities, including English translation.
Good packaging of the research conducted in term of good writing skill, proper presentation and following the format specified by each journal per time.
Agree with all, especially Arben and Dmytro, reading and reading research papers is a key, but not reading everything in specialty, reading is more effective when choosing papers from highly reputed (high h-index....) journals and conferences.
In my opinion publishing qualified articles depends on many factors. To investigate and know the literature in detail, to know the subject very well, to give a comprehensive answer to a scientific problem, to make an innovative research, to give the valid results explicitly, to present the novelty in methodology in a proper way, to write the paper obeying a technical language rules, to write an impressive abstract, to give previous important studies related to that subject in the introduction part and then to emphasize properly the importance of the paper, to give proper and qualified figures and tables, to use update and sufficient references and to make an in-text citations properly and not to keep the paper too long...etc. These are the main skills which come to my mind at first thought, to write a qualified paper in a reputed journal.
Thank you once more for the interesting question Dr. Bassam Tayeh. Motivation is very important in publishing good articles. It requires creativity, right facility, recent articles in related field of research, working with team especially focused and positive minded researchers...
In my opinion, good command on subject and writing skills. Outcome of the research results may be connected with global point of view which typically makes international reader attention.
As a rule, a good researcher and a good writer are different people. It is necessary to have a strong team, in which there are at least an idea generator, a critic and a doer. But it is impossible for each team member to do only one thing (given the abundance number of modern methods, and the organization hierarchy, the list of co-authors of an ordinary physicochemical article becomes immense (in Russia this is called a “steam train”)). Usually in a good team there are no too narrow specialists, each one performs 2-3 or even more functions (well, the youngsters should be, not only admirals...). Here among these people there must be a person who sees the work as a whole and is able to clearly state the results (of course, some pieces may belong to other team members, but these must be sewed and presented in the same style and logic). I came across very ridiculous cases when a person does very complex and important experimental things, but cannot describe it coherently (like a dog ..., he understands everything, cannot say).
The most important thing. The talent of the writer of scientific articles differs little from the talent of the writer-narrator. Knowledge of the subject, logic, structure, style, completeness ...
One of the main secret of writing is to be a good reader. Ability to source for good published articles in related field is important. By constantly reading sourced journals, your mind will allow you to create your thoughts giving you the power to effectively write on your particular area of interest.