Yes, I agree! Researchers should be given some space and such strict structural rules limit autonomy.

Yes, I agree! Researchers should be given some space and such strict structural rules limit autonomy.

بالفعل ان وضع القيود على العمل البحثي يبعدنا عن الاستمتاع بالعمل وبالتالي عدم ظهور العمل بالشكل الذي نطمح إليه. لذا انا ارجو ان لا توجد مثل هذه القيود ضمن المجلات

Indeed, putting restrictions on research work keeps us away from enjoying the work and thus the work does not appear as we aspire. So I hope that there are no such restrictions within magazines

The requirements for the structure and design of various magazines are related to editorial policy. They are aimed either at the convenience of presenting the article to the reader, or should reflect the scientific level of the journal, its inclusion in the database. Compliance with these requirements forces the scientist to more strictly structure the article.

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I agree with dr . Hassan

I think such matters are written in the website of very bad category journals.

Personally, I am very closely associated with one journal which is recently indexed in SCOPUS.

For such good indexing, the rules and regulations are very tough to follow.

You have no scope to write such silly things in your journal website, if you have any intention to make or keep the standard of your journal at a good state.

Regards,

According to me most of the scientific journals of good standing do not impose rules as to the number of citations in the manuscript. However, due credit should be given to pioneers in research, and all the more if the article is a review article.

I totally agree with you that authors should cite references as they like& really need, not according to what editorial boards of journals demand.

The author should have freedom in arranging his manuscript.

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Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak

Wahag Abass

Rekha Rani Koduganti

Amjad Hazim Al- Naemi

Jasim Hassen

Thanks for your answers. Definitely the researchers need more space and freedom to enjoy the investigative work, if we put some chains just help to limite its creativity.

As Shibabrata Pattanayak comment, I beleive that journals have to forgot this crazy rules and put its mind on the really important about research and science.

And as Preston Guynn said is excessive and I do not think this will help its indexing numbers...

Well, this is really a good one : Not more than 4 or 6 authors , I have seen so many authors that is ridiculous...

Aparna Sathya Murthy Yes, that is another, I mean, maybe in this case we can take some common sense, about the work of writting and maybe the content, you know, an article with 6 pages could not be did for 20 authors... Its not necessary to put as a rule...

Good question Wileidys Artigas to follow , i agree with all ideas.

Broad guidelines such as length of the article, formatting, etc. are okay to impose. However, the author should be given the widest latitude in terms of citations.

Anastas Ivanov Ivanov Is true, sometimes you just have to follow some suggestions even when you are not sure to it, and you did for have the paper published.

Thanks for the answer Fares F. Fares Srini Vasan

It is total nonsense!

Tell a complete story in the abstract Communicate why the paper matters in the introduction

Deliver the results as a sequence of statements, supported by figures, that connect logically to support the central contribution

Structural rules are good for establishing some order, obligation, discipline in writing, but to the point when they are transformed into limitations or fulfillment of some requirements that at one point are incomprehensible, unexpected, unnecessary and even unattainable.

This type of constraint loses us the pleasure of research work and also compels us to cite research that is not at the heart of the research in large proportion.

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Dmytro Leshchenko

Kosta Sotiroski

Amal Saadoon Majeed

Maya Lambovska

Thanks for the answers!

We are clear in the importance of rules and order to make uniform the content. But sometimes journals extra-limit this rules. I mean, sometimes is a myth and ourselves really beleive that and apply that... Like: The references must be new (I mean, Marx must be sad if a paper about Marxism do not cite him because of the old of the book)...

As researchers that are constructing the new way to make science we have to talk loud and make some common sense to some myths in this things... And also to promote the writting as a pleasure to show our findings, of course we have to be learning all the time about science and its practices (in every area we work on).

I am not promoting the disorder, I am editor of a journal (of course I apply rules), I just want the people write in my journal shows its way (without forgot the principal rules and to follow the scientific method in the way works for its case)...

The discussion just continue....

an important question

hi,

Writing liberty has completely diminished in recent times. The authors are forced to delight the reviewers and change the whole representation before it is accepted. Majority of the reviewers are compassionate while some ridicule the work and write us off in no time. THese days, publishing an article is becoming a gamble (atleast for me, my colleagues, and fellow researchers in the country).

I agree with all answers

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At the same time the researcher is not obliged to publish in these journals.

Amer Hamed Suliman For sure we are not, we are just trying to discuss the common odd rules... Thanks for the answer....

A valuable question and the answers actually reflect the suffering of researchers when try to published in some journals but find they put such structural rules.

Asmaa Mahdi Al-Hashimi Yes, when reserachers want to learn and have all this rules just feel exhausted about it, and decline before even start...

The number of autocitas should not be excessive unless the author demonstrates that his work is a sequence of the previous one or is part of a Research Program. The autocita just to increase its indexes should be considered a bad practice. The author or the authors can be requested to justify the excess of self-citations at the time of submitting the article for evaluation.

Ilya Casanova I agree with you, is ussual that the researcher work on a line and maybe the paper is a sequence of work in a timeline!

ماهو الفرق بين الاعمال المادية والاعمال القانونية?

بيّن مدى صحة العبارة الآتية

(الاعمال المادية هي كل عمل لايترتب عليها اثرا يعتد به قانونا)

1: Focus on one idea . 2: Abstract: Compact summary of paper . 3: Introduction. 4: Results. 5.Discussion. 6. Conclusions.

Unfortunately, some journals require that they citations at least two papers from the same journal.