Sarbananda - the critical points for publication in any journal/publishing source are 'follow the rules' to give yourself a better chance of success through paying careful attention and detail to what the process is and avoiding the known common barriers/pitfalls that most authors (especially emerging/new authors) face. Perhaps the attached chapter on disseminating research findings will assist. The principles are generic to most authors from most disciplines. With any 'specific' source, the difference to any other source, is to look for anything that they are looking for that is different/unique to other sources.
The Scopus indexed journals can be covered and keep their index for the following years in the database if their articles recive citations from other Scopus indexed journals. For this reason the Scopus indexed journals are really selective and looking for novel/new results. According to my experience the critical points can be summed up as follows:
- Novelty (explain what is the new/novel part(s) of your research that contribute to improve your field), if there is no, highlight that how your results confirm recenlty published hypothesis/study results e.g.. "the results presented in the current study are in accordance with XY et al., 2019... results..."
-Authorship (most of the Scopus indexed journals require minimum one author having Ph.D or other doctoral title)
-Transparency (most of the Scopus indexed journals require raw datasets uploaded to a data repository eg. Figshare)
-Citations (cite as many Scopus indexed sources as possible that aid the readers' understanding on the state-of-the art)
One important point is to have the article clearly written in good English.
Another point is to make sure that your work is a good fit for the journal you submit to (for one, check whether the journal has recently published any works on the subject).