I am looking forward to publish my work in the Science or Nature. I have submitted a paper before to the Science but it was rejected with decision as transfer option. However, on submitting the same paper to an SCI journal, it got accepted without any revision.
I want to know that what journals like these expect in a paper. What essentially is the criteria. I have seen many papers related to my field published in the Science and Nature and they are just like the papers published in journals of Springer or Elsevier. I personally feel, the work published in journals of Springer or Elsevier are more exhaustive and enriched with a lot of experiments.
Kindly guide me on the same.
Akhil Kumar Regarding your question, see the attachment, may be you had seen it before. But now concentrate deeply on the red box and specifically the red line.
We know that "A picture is worth a thousand words".
@Rahim Alijani Thanks for providing the valuable input. I will think considering this route.
@Akhil Kumar,
I think I need to clarify my previous message.
1- When there are so many good manuscripts, potentially valuable for publication in Nature or Science, why this prestigious journal (in the case of this photo Nature Journal) needs or shows to showcase those authors by writing "identified the most prolific scientists of recent years."
2- Any valuable books directly written on peer review systems in journals, rejects bias. was not that last sentence bias in favour of some authors? and motivating readers to read the paper? and even go for other publications by those authors?
3- If every thing is ok about this journal, but may be peer review is broken in this journal, because simply not only they (all and all those who have responsibility in that journal) were not neutral towards an article and its authors, but also they (the journal) did not go to investigate about background science and research publications of authors!
4- The Octopus sketch in that photo has its very bad meaning in the world of scientific research, did not officials in Nature journal know that the first author (John P. A. Ioannidis) is publishing every four days or even less? Who is that Octopus, then?
5- Did not the Nature know that while, being and working at Stanford university, Ioannidis is also a partner for a company active in RESEARCH INTELLIGENCE( scitech-strategies) and the two others (Richard Klavans and Kevin W. Boyack) are the first and second persons in that company? does not it mean "conflict of interest"? which is a very serious issue in academic research!
6- To shorten every thing, content of the article shows peer review in that journal has problems (they did not investigate about authors), the sketch and other editorial stuff, we see in that article, show even there are problems in management of that journal) were all occurred accidentally? unintentionally? I doubt!
- Now lets return to a part of your writing in this discussion
...I want to know that what journals like these expect in a paper. What essentially is the criteria. I have seen many papers related to my field published in the Science and Nature and they are just like the papers published in journals of Springer or Elsevier...
Maybe now the Scene is a bit more clear.
FYI: I have written extensively about scientific publications of John Ioannidis in other discussions (initiated by me myself or by others) all are available in RG.
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