Getting your paper published: Simple advice on how to navigate peer review and scientific publishing

Simple advice on how to get your paper published in a peer-reviewed journal. I will first talk about why you should consider making a preprint available, how to select a suitable peer-reviewed journal, and how you can help yourself by helping the editor with good reviewer suggestions. I will then go over how to make a strong point-by-point response to reviewer's comments, and finally the last few steps after your manuscript is accepted.
0:00 Introduction: experience with peer review as author, reviewer, and associate editor
0:35 Consider preprint: sharing before peer review, bioRxiv, earlier access, open access, and citable
1:08 Select a journal: scope statement, past publications, visibility, indexing, open access, and predatory journals
2:06 Help the editor: happy editor = good editor and criteria for suggesting good reviewers
2:59 Respond to reviews: reviewers are wrong but not stupid, respond to everything, act on all comments
4:10 Shorten the paper: when asked to shorten, make text more concise, and move less important material to supplement
4:50 Check page proofs: last chance to fix mistakes, reformatting of tables, low-quality figures, figure references, citation formatting, and formula

[@elvior6198]

Many thanks Lars. I'm just finishing the writing of my first work as first author, and it's hard to find useful videos explaining this kind of topics. Keep sharing your experience. Surely there's more pepole over here that will find it valuable.

[@larsjuhljensen]

Thanks, I definitely plan to continue sharing my experience!

[@Lukas-wm8dy]

Great video, thanks a lot for sharing your advice!

[@larsjuhljensen]

My pleasure - I hope you get your paper published :-)

[@hbjornnielsen]

Thanks Lars. Good insights. What's your opinion on cover letters and pre-submission enquires? Is it ok, simultaneously, to send a series of pre-submission enquires to multiple editors before choosing journal?

[@larsjuhljensen]

Sending multiple presubmission inquiries is in my opinion fine; you are just asking a journal if they are interested, not committing to submitting to them. However, except for "top journals" with strong editorial selection, I find presubmission inquiries fairly useless. If your manuscript falls within the journal's scope - which you can easily judge yourself - they will typically just give you a useless answer saying "sure, send us the full manuscript and we will look at it".

[@jerelmercurio4754]

Rather enjoyable video.
My question is.
Is this the venue to go for science that crosses too many, normally unrelated fields? That there might not be a journal that would publish.
Let's say hypothetically, a regular guy off the street finds ancient images, figures and text, millenia older then anything to date.
All in our anatomy.
Who would ever hypothetically publish something like that?
I never hear of pictures. diagrams, charts or links to essential footage being included in peer review articles. Without such. How could the fictional senerio above get anywhere?

[@larsjuhljensen]

Not sure I fully understand your question. If it is about how one would refer to such data in an article, the solution would be to digitize it, upload the data to an open repository like like figshare or Zenodo. Once the data is in such a repository, it will get a DOI, which you would then use to refer/link to it in an article.

[@jerelmercurio4754]

@@larsjuhljensen
Yes, that is exactly what I meant. Thank you. I am a jack of all trades but master of a few. Finding or discovering is one. Communicating, Relating it and getting it out is not.
I have had no professional want to work on this with me. I have looked into paid peer review article services. Your answer makes that look viable now.
I wouldn't be trying so hard, if the discovery wasn't important. When someone looks into anatomy and sees over a dozen images of 3 main well known figures, with text in an ancient script. Much older then any to date.
That our DNA is being read.
You can understand how I can't let my own vast short cummings, make me sit on this. Especially when you understand what it's saying.

[@jerelmercurio4754]

I also have many stills to go along with the rough draft 3D.
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