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Ready! Aim! Fire!

August 4, 2021
 - Tim Hardman

Since 2013 we have been sharing our understanding on key issues with friends and clients via our Insider’s Insights. Earlier releases have addressed subjects ranging from clinical study design to designing professional posters. This knowledge has been distilled from our 18 years working in the industry. Writing these documents is great fun for our team, allowing them to explore just how much they have learned. They also get the benefits of sharing these key learnings with their peers and getting encouraging feedback thanking them for their insights.

The experience is particularly sweet when appreciation turns into action. We received some great recognition that we wanted to share it with everyone. After the distribution of a recent Insider’s Insight entitled ‘Ready! Aim! Fire! An Insider’s Insight to Targeted Journal Selection’, the Journal of Cardiovascular Endocrinology kindly asked us to convert the document into a manuscript that could be shared with their readership.

It was great to see that the open access manuscript has been published online and can be downloaded [1]. I should also add that you can still download the original article (along with other articles) from our Insider’s Insight page [2].

We know that a high proportion of manuscripts are rejected by their author's first-choice journal. The aim of our work was to summarise published advice on getting published in the right journal. We only found one article that described a comprehensive model for submission decision-making. Identification of appropriate candidate journals by various web-based applications was erratic, with the Jane database providing the most robust suggestions. Our work confirms that little attention has been focused in the scientific literature on the mechanisms that authors use to select a journal for their work. We conclude that scientists for the most part seem to have a good sense of where their papers are most likely to be accepted. Beyond ensuring that a manuscript fulfils all the target journal's requirements, the literature suggests that it is important to have an objective view of the scientific contribution or 'value' of your work.

References

  1. Hardman TC, Serginson JM. Ready! Aim! Fire! targeting the right medical science journal. Cardiovasc Endocrinol. 2017 Sep;6(3):95-100.
  2. Insiders: Ready! Aim! Fire! An Insider’s Insight to Targeted Journal Selection

About the author

Tim Hardman
Managing Director
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Dr Tim Hardman is Managing Director of Niche Science & Technology Ltd., a bespoke services CRO based in the UK. He also serves as Managing Director at Thromboserin Ltd., an early-stage biotechnology company. Dr Hardman is a keen scientist and an occasional commentator on all aspects of medicine, business and the process of drug development.

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