If publications are meant to educate or explain new concepts or new ideas to the public so that the concepts or the ideas could be useful for various applications, why then Journals prefer it written complicated
Why do Journals accept complicated manuscripts and reject simple to understand ones even though both have new ideas?
Olaniyi - in my experience it is not as straight-forward as that. It depends a lot on the journal and the quality of the submission. I review for many international journals. If a manuscript is written well, is creative and/or original, conforms mostly to the journal house-style and its intended scope and audience - then it doesn't matter if it is simple or technical. Somewhere in-between is always good. Some discipline-specific technical journals will more likely encourage complex manuscript submissions (as often would theory, philosophy and methodology-based journals) - but that does not mean to say that they cannot be written in clear language that is reasonably accessible to the audience. More 'generic' international journals are more likely to want to cater to a wider audience of different language abilities - so 'clarity' is very important - but that doesn't necessarily mean 'simple'.
Thank you very much Dean. I agree with you and when I say simple, I mean clear and broken down.
I am actually talking in the perspective of Mathematical journals. I have heard many Professors saying they submitted paper written in a very simple form which could be easily understood by graduate students but the journals usually reject such. The same concept is then made complicated in written through many notations and use of very technical words and so on, then it would be accepted.
So what some researchers do is to upload both versions into a forum like research-gate and then many would like to download the one that is easy to understand.
No problem Olaniyi. I like the idea of two versions available to consumers. Most journals will not have that - but there are some source i.e. The Cochrane Library where published systematic reviews of clinical trials have the elaborate technical versions - but part of it is to also present a 'lay' audience summary of the technical detail in a simple and accessible form.
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