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Desk Rejection Criteria: What to Screen, in What Order, and What to Leave to Reviewers
Good desk rejection criteria do two jobs at once: they stop the wrong papers reaching your reviewers, and they stop the right papers being held...
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Fabricated references are no longer a rare curiosity in scholarly submissions. They are a routine screening problem, and most small journals have no process for...
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Editorial Workflow: How to Earn Author Trust and Indexer Attention
Every journal editor eventually hits the same wall: submissions are coming in, reviewers are slow to respond, and somewhere between the inbox and the archive,...
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Why Your OJS Journal Isn’t Getting Indexed in Scopus or WoS (And What to Fix First)
Most OJS journals that apply for OJS journal Scopus indexing or Web of Science inclusion are rejected not because their research is weak, but because...
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OJS Peer Review Quality: 7 Common Mistakes Journal Editors Make (And How to Fix Them)
The quality of your peer review process is the single most consequential factor in your journal's long-term impact — more than your submission volume, your...
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How to Reduce Desk Rejection Rates in Your OJS Journal: A Practical Editorial Screening Guide
If you run an OJS-powered journal, you have almost certainly dealt with the silent drain of OJS journal desk rejection — manuscripts that consume editorial...
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Submitting an abstract to a conference is the first formal step toward presenting your research — but the process is less intuitive than it appears....
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