- How and why?
- How does publications/impact factor (IF) or specialty of authors influences the publications of articles?
- If not then why journals require the ORCID/Scopus/Researcher ID or Loop ID of the author?
- Your opinion matters and will be gratefully appreciated.
ORCID is a global unique ID for a researcher. The primary reason for journals to require it is because it helps pre-populate many fields for the author at the time of submission, reducing risk of error and workload. The need is justified because researchers may share the same name, or have different names during their career. Being an editor for a lead journal in my field I can say that ORCID is not used for profiling although we collect it. There is a possibility that some may do it.
I think that the author’s profile definitely affects the journal's decision on the acceptance of their articles. For example, a nurse staffing and patient outcomes have been a hot potate in my research area, where garner immense interest in the nurse science community and increase the possibility of those papers' being cited, leading to increase JIF accordingly. For that reason, if a researcher submits articles to address such a hot issue, it is more likely to be peer-reviewed and also accepted for publication. If the researcher is well-known in that area, it is much more likely for his/her articles to be accepted. Contrast to this tendency, like me, a researcher who crticizes such a hegemony-led main stream research and proposes a new paradigm, it is never easy for the new innovator's articles to be accepted because of invisible disturbances by the cartel and vested interests. This is based on my personal experiences and cannot be generalized; however, I carefully think that we need to establish a fair research competition culture in order to protect the new innovators' idea and different way of thinking.
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Think in another way. Output from an experienced author is likely to be far better than an author new in the field. So an author with better profile is likely to get preference over others just because of the superior quality of work. New authors should never be disheartened. They should try to improve the quality of the work at par with experienced authors. Can strive even for better quality.
Subir Bandyopadhyay
Right, I do agree with your opinion. However, you know, the quality of the manuscript is subject to peer reviewers' subjective evaluations. No matter how well-done articles are, the articles can be rejected by the journal editor and peer reviewers regardless of the quality of the manuscript. My work is multidisciplinary study (Article Optimizing Staffing, Quality, and Cost in Home Healthcare Nu...
), which presented a new way of thinking to the science community. It has been rejected as more as three times just because the journal editors could not understand the nature of my work. The fact that my work is considerably strange to them at this moment, and further, I am a young investigator might make the publication be delayed.
Dear Claire Su-Yeon Park,
I suggest you to consider publishing your work elsewhere.
Best of luck.
Dear Drs, I already published the paper in one of top nursing journals in my research area in 2017 and also got a scholarly award from the Korean Nurses Association. My point is that we do need Intellectual Humility.
I think, it has no effect. It is the quality of articles.
Regards.
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