Join Author Workshops for Early-stage Researchers!

Enago in collaboration with Binus University will be conducting author workshops for early-stage researchers to help increase their awareness of academic publishing.

Enago’s workshops will be focused on providing practical advice on the important aspects related to journal selection and understanding reasons for journal rejection. The workshops will provide useful tips to authors identify an ideal journal for their next publication as well as help them understand and deal with manuscript rejection.

These workshops will help the audience increase their awareness of the following:

• Understanding the differences between traditional and open access journals
• Improving accessibility and discoverability of research
• Awareness of different publication models and predatory publishing
• Understanding the reasons for rejection of manuscripts
• Addressing reviewer comments and comprehending rejection letters
• Tips on overcoming journal rejection

At the end of the workshops, all participants will also receive a Certificate of Participation issued by Enago.

Topic 1: Identifying the Target Journal for Publication

In today’s scientific landscape when researchers have to publish their research in order to sustain their academic careers, the process of selecting a good journal is a crucial step towards showcasing their research to the right target audience. Owing to an exponential increase in the number of journals over the last decade, selecting an appropriate journal has become increasingly difficult. This presentation is primarily targeted towards early-stage researchers who wish to publish their research, but find it difficult to select an appropriate journal for their manuscript.

After this session, you will have more information about the following:

• Understanding the scope, visibility and discoverability of a journal
• Assessing the quality of a journal and a basic understanding of some key journal metrics
• Introduction to important concepts such as copyrights, open access and peer review
• Expert tips and a list of tools for selecting an appropriate target journal
• Discussion about the manuscript submission process

Topic 2: Dealing with Journal Rejection

This presentation is primarily targeted toward helping researchers in handing rejections from journals, and will also help early-stage researchers improve first-time acceptance of their manuscripts. The advancement of research hinges on the dissemination of new discoveries by their publication in peer-reviewed international journals. At the heart of academic publishing, peer review leads to over 1.5 million published scholarly manuscripts every year. Although the number of published papers is increasing year-on-year, this iterative selection process also results in approximately 60% rejection rate, including 21% rejection after preliminary editorial screening.

After this session, you will have more information about the following:

• Awareness of the rejection process and why papers of ESL authors are rejected by journals (regardless of the impact factor)
• Understanding the peer review process and causes of rejection
• Comprehending rejection letters and what reviewers mean
• Importance of correctly responding to reviewer comments and revising their papers to make them publication ready
• Overcoming journal rejection and providing a positive outlook to deal with journal rejection

Please register at: https://www.enago.com/academy/Indonesia/workshop-agenda.htm