Academic Twitter: Do’s of getting your academic paper published: Summary. A thread. #AcademicTwitter

1. Make sure your paper is compatible with the journal you’re targeting & check if it is an accredited journal. Go through author guidelines; these are often available at most journal’s websites. Make sure your paper complies with these guidelines.

2. Thoroughly check your paper before submitting it. There are certain things which are unacceptable and unforgivable, for example, spelling errors. That is enough to give you a desk rejection (immediate rejection by editor before a paper is even sent out to reviewers)

3. Your introduction has to clearly describe what your study is about; what has been done in the past and how; and how your study will CONTRIBUTE towards literature. Most editors utilize this section to decide if your paper is worthy of review or not.

4. Literature: Has sufficient literature been covered? You must be able to clearly articulate deficiencies in prior research & link this to your study. Also demonstrate how your study fills in the gap.

5. Methodology: Clearly describe your data collection process (sample); the model used to test your hypothesis (quantitative) / instruments (qualitative). Demonstrate validity of your methodology.

7. Reading decision letter from the journal: Take a deep breath and go through comments. Tell yourself it’s nothing personal and address comments the way your reviewer wants you to, or explain why you’ve done things in a different way. Be polite & humble while at it

8. Re-submit your paper after addressing issues identified by the reviewers and hope your paper will be accepted this time around. If not, go back to step 1 Let’s get those papers ready for publication/ conferences during this lockdown. Happy writing