Ideally, every research project should be designed with a specific journal's aims and scope in mind, but in practice, we often find ourselves with findings that require us to search the literature for a suitable journal.

The most common style manual in my field is the APA Publication Manual (6th edition) which helps the manuscript preparation process significantly. The Method and Results sections can be prepared even before a targeted journal is selected, and a generic literature review can also be prepared, but this will need to be revise to fit the expectations of the journal once a submission priority has been established. At the very least, relevant articles previously published by your target journal need to be cited.

For me, the Discussion section is often the most difficult to prepare, but this too should cite relevant material from the target journal.

So my advice is:

1. Prepare your Method section in accordance with the dominant style manual in your discipline.

2. Prepare your Results section in the same manner.

3. Identity a series of journals with aims and scopes suitable for your findings and rank order them.

4. Write your introduction and literature review with an awareness of relevant articles in your priority journal.

5. Write you Discussion in the same way.

6. Submit. Then revise and resubmit as necessary until you receive acceptance..

Ideally, every research project should be designed with a specific journal's aims and scope in mind, but in practice, we often find ourselves with findings that require us to search the literature for a suitable journal.

The most common style manual in my field is the APA Publication Manual (6th edition) which helps the manuscript preparation process significantly. The Method and Results sections can be prepared even before a targeted journal is selected, and a generic literature review can also be prepared, but this will need to be revise to fit the expectations of the journal once a submission priority has been established. At the very least, relevant articles previously published by your target journal need to be cited.

For me, the Discussion section is often the most difficult to prepare, but this too should cite relevant material from the target journal.

So my advice is:

1. Prepare your Method section in accordance with the dominant style manual in your discipline.

2. Prepare your Results section in the same manner.

3. Identity a series of journals with aims and scopes suitable for your findings and rank order them.

4. Write your introduction and literature review with an awareness of relevant articles in your priority journal.

5. Write you Discussion in the same way.

6. Submit. Then revise and resubmit as necessary until you receive acceptance..

Please read carefully the attached file.

Esam H. Mansour

How do you plan for a research paper for publication ?

You can also consider the following RG links:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_do_I_write_an_academic_article

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_do_you_plan_your_personal_research_ahead

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_are_the_steps_involved_in_publishing_a_paper_in_a_journal

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Basic_tips_before_submission_of_a_manuscript_to_a_journal_how_to_write_compile_a_manuscript_improve_its_presentation_and_acceptance_rate

How.to write paper, you should consider the following points : title of paper, affination of.southern,abstract, keywords, introduction, aims or scope of work, material and method, results, conclusion , knowledge meant and references

If you have a written a draft, send me I shall see whether there is possibility of joint publication, during the process you can understand the whole cycle. 

first selection of research topic and experimentation

So easy when your research is complete or one phase is complete your data is generated you can bring it to the descriptive form with various steps . Like abstract ,introduction,methods adopted, statistical technique adopted,results obtained,discussion your findings and finally concluding it .adjusting the format according to journal tobe submitted in

First of all, I Identify a journal that relates to my field iand decide whether to submit the article to a general, multidisciplinary journal or a specialized one. Then I usually check for the impact factors of journals using ResearchGate data or any other source.  

In the starting of any research, most of the time it is inspired by the previously published articals, so first of all see where these artical has been published.

Secondly, the refernces you have taken in your paper were perfectly resemble with your work so the journals in which these papers have been published will be most suitable for you.

I totally agree with Peter A Kindle. In addition quality assurance is necessary to increase researcher's credibility, to improve research paper processes and efficiency, and to enable the researcher to better compete with others.•The Quality of the paper can be assessed through publishing it in a top-ranked peer-reviewed international journals

Dear Dr. Saifeldin 

Very interesting responses. It is very important to consider the reputation of a journal because nowadays there are many online low ranking journals, with the the aim of fast publishing at the expense of quality. The whole editorial processes (receiving manuscript, peer review, decesion, editing, publishing, etc.) take less than a month. 

thanks dear Dr.. Peter we are and will learn from your advises 

appreciate your contribution Dear Dr. Mohamed in addition to your important point there are some journals with face IF and ranking not only that but they also request high publication rates

I thinks all participators indicate the basic requirements for publication but in my estimation, we have focus first on how to be innovative and creative researcher. Don't try research on what is already been rigorously researched topics. Try first first to focus on unique areas. After that try to use a sophisticated methodological evidences to get a unique findings moreover try to have an applicable research.

After that Search the appropriate journal based on specialization and its impact factor.