Delivered by Elsevier. The presenters will be: Pablo Secades, Customer Success Manager- Spain and Dr Denis Reidy, Customer Success Manager. 

Publishing research in well-known scientific journals is one of the most prominent ways that researchers build their reputation within their community and allow the wide dissemination and access to their work.

During this presentation we will be going through the basic structure of a research article, introducing best practice tips and tricks when writing a paper, highlighting the editorial and peer-review process, and discussing about the main ethical issues that authors, reviewers, editors and publishers face on a day-to-day basis.

The aim of this Author workshop is to advise, provide tips to authors to improve the quality of their manuscripts and therefore increase the chances of their papers to accepted for publication in reputable, international, ISI listed journals. After attending this 1.5 hour workshop, participants will have a clear idea on:

(i)                  some general aspects on how to present and send a Scientific Article;

(ii)                the peer review process of a manuscript;

(iii)              why publishing and what to publish;

(iv)              the article types;

(v)                the structure of scientific articles; and

(vi)              the revision and forwarding of a scientific article:

Discussions will include information on sensitive areas such as the ethical aspects (plagiarism, duplicate publishing…),  as well as the future of open access and data sharing.