Academic publishing process guides
Academic publishing process and risk guides
Guides for publication ethics, preprints, acceptance-stage risks, rejection reasons, grant pressure, and broader publishing-process decisions.
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- Alternatives to Research Square for Manuscript Review and Preprints
- eLife APC and Open Access: Current Fee, Reviewed Preprints, and the Real Cost Decision
- eLife Pre-Submission Checklist: Is Your Paper Ready for the Reviewed Preprint Model?
- eLife Submission Process: The Reviewed Preprint Model Explained
- How to Get Funded When Grant Success Rates Hit 18.5%
- Is Research Square Worth It? Preprint Visibility vs. Submission Readiness (2026)
- Preprint Servers Explained: bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, and Real Tradeoffs
- Salami Slicing in Academic Publishing: Where Legitimate Series Become Misconduct
- Self-Plagiarism in Academic Publishing: What Counts and What Usually Doesn't
- Should You Post a Preprint Before Submitting to a Journal?
- The Manuscript Submission Crisis: Why Getting Published Is Harder in 2026
- What Happens After Your Paper Is Accepted, and What Still Goes Wrong
- Why Manuscripts Get Rejected: The Real Reasons by Stage and Discipline (2026)
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These collection links connect submission, selection, review-time, rejection-risk, and manuscript-preparation pages without relying on the interactive blog index.
- Journal submission guidesBroad journal-specific submission readiness and upload guidance.
- Pre-submission review guidesReadiness, novelty, scope-fit, and manuscript-review decisions.
- Journal selection guidesChoosing a realistic target journal before submission.
- Desk rejection guidesEditor-screen and early rejection risk by journal or field.
- Journal review time guidesFirst-decision timing, review duration, and delay risks.
- Journal status guidesUnder review, with editor, under consideration, and related statuses.
- Journal policy and metricsAI policies, formatting, APCs, acceptance rates, and journal metrics.
- Comparison guidesService, tool, and journal-vs-journal decision pages.
- Manuscript preparation guidesCover letters, abstracts, highlights, figures, and submission packages.