How to Get Published?

Springer Nature

Universitas Malang
May, 2025
Be an effective communicator

Your goal is not only to be published, but

also to be widely read in your field

Logical manuscript Efficient publication

structure strategy

Successful journal
submission
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Introduction to
Springer Nature
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Our journal brands

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Nature journal, which in 2022

was named as the first journal to achieve one
million citations in a year, the

SpringerNatureLink
platform and Scientific

Reports.
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Your Research
Journey
Why publish?

Discoverability Contributing to Scientific Record Improve Presentation &

• Existing readership • Reserves your work in the Communication of Research
• Large distribution networks permanent records • Peer review will help to
(libraries and consortia) • Expands your professional improve the presentation of
network → collaboration your results and findings
• Abstracting & indexing
• Helps others learn • Identify overlooked errors

Dissemination and Impact Career Advancement Prevent Duplication of Effort

• Funder requirements • Can be an essential • Reduce the need for
• News outlets → public component in advancing redundant studies; allow
health your career: meeting others to build upon your
assessment criteria / study and findings
• Promotional opportunities:
performance targets
blog posts, webinars, press
releases
6 Excerpts from: Guide to Getting Published in Journals. https://ifis.libguides.com/journal-publishing-guide. Accessed: 11 Sep 2023
Research and Publishing Process

Peer
Research Manuscript Submission Production Published
Review
Project Preparation to Journal Process Article
Process

• Study concept, • Most suitable • For which journal’s • Editor’s initial • Manuscript set to • Article publishes
design, approval article type audience is the assessment journal style online
and execution study most
• Appropriate • Sent to relevant • Copyediting • Issue-assignment
relevant?
• Data analysis and structure and experts within the performed, figure likely to follow a
interpretation format: Intro, field for critique and table checks few months later
• Results and Methods, Results, and comment • Authors sent proof • Metadata sent to
Conclusions Discussion, etc. • Authors asked to for approval / indexing services
• Concise and clear make corrections correction
and improvements
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Logical Manuscript
Structure
Your readers have 4 key questions
Methods Results

What did you do? What did you find?

Introduction Discussion
Why did you do How does the study
the study? advance the field?

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Introduction: Why does your research need to be done?
Introduce the topic
• Worldwide/regional relevance
• Broad/specialized audience

What is known about topic

• Up-to-date studies
• Cite broadly worldwide

What is not known

• Clear description of problem
• Use keywords like ‘however’

Aims Specific aims

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Methods: What did you do?

Researchers in your field

• Reproduce your findings

• Build on your research

Peer reviewers

• Evaluate your study design

• Validate your results

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Methods: What do your

readers need to know?
Who/what was used in the study
• Samples or participants
• Materials (where purchased)

How you conducted the study

• Methodology and techniques
• Discuss specific conditions and controls

How you analyzed your data

• Quantification methods/software
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• Statistical tests (consult a statistician)
Results: What did you find?
1. Initial observation
Logical presentation 2. Characterization
3. Application

Example:
1. Fabricate new membrane for water treatment
2. Evaluate physical and chemical properties (e.g., under
different temperatures/pressures)
3. Efficacy in removing particulate contamination
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Discussion: How does your study contribute to the field?
Summarize what you did
• Begin with research problem
• Briefly describe study design
• Summarize key findings

Interpret your findings

• Similarities & differences
• Unexpected/negative results
• Limitations

Why important to the field

• Main conclusion
Implications • Implications

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Titles: Get your reader’s attention

Should include… Should avoid…

✓ What’s important Questions

✓ Keywords for indexing Being too vague
✓ Conciseness (<15 words) Abbreviations

State what was investigated, what was measured,

and the sample the measurements were taken from
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A good title
Poor Too
Late Quaternary evolution of a loess landscape over long
glacial and interglacial cycles in a region of high
tectonic vertical uplift and lateral strike-slip
movement in the Charwell Basin located in the
South Island of New Zealand

Better Shorter and

easy to understand
Late Quaternary loess landscape evolution on an
active tectonic margin, Charwell Basin, South
Island, New Zealand

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Abstracts: The first
impression of your paper

Importance of your topic

Significance of your study

Relevance of your research

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Abstracts: The first impression of your paper

Why did the study Introduce relevancy of the topic and

need to be done? your novel research problem

What did you do? Describe your aims and methodology

What did you find? Summarize your key results

How will the study State the main conclusion and

advance the field? implications for the field

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Efficient publishing
strategy
Publication goals

Publish quickly
& have impact

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The most important question…

Who is your target audience?

• Researchers in your region or worldwide
• Researchers in your subject area or related areas
• Industry, policymakers, educators, general public

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Choosing an appropriate journal: Where are the findings relevant?

Choose an international journal

Worldwide to reach a worldwide audience

Choose a regional journal to

Locally reach a local audience

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Choosing an appropriate journal: For whom are they relevant?

Only your Choose a specialized journal to

field reach readers in your field

Your and Choose a broad-focused journal to

other fields reach readers across fields

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Choosing an appropriate journal: How much accessibility?

Limited to only those that have

Subscription access to the journal ($$$)

Freely available to everyone

Open access worldwide to maximize impact

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Publishing Models

Open Access journals Transformative journals

• No subscription or access fee for readers • “…a subscription/hybrid journal that is actively
• Funded by charging Article Processing Charges; either committed to transitioning to a fully Open Access
paid for by authors, or covered by institutional journal.”
agreements or society sponsorship. • Authors are provided with the option of publishing
• Authors retain the copyright for the article. subscription or Open Access
• Subscription option: usually no cost to authors
• Copyright might be held by authors, but
historically transferred to Publisher/Journal
• Open Access: APC applicable (but may be covered
by institutional agreement)
• Authors retain the copyright for the article

Publication model (subscription or OA)

chosen by authors after acceptance at
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Open Access: How to identify trustworthy OA journals

Published by reputable publisher

1 (e.g., Springer Nature, Elsevier, Wiley, PLOS, etc.)

Indexed in reputable databases

2 (e.g., Web of Science, Scopus, MEDLINE, Ei Compendex)

Processing fee is paid after acceptance

3 (not when submitting to the journal)

Recognizable editorial board members

4 (i.e., you have heard of them before)

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27 www.thinkchecksubmit.org
Useful checklist for identifying trustworthy journals

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Springer Journal Finder

Manuscript title or abstract

Key words

Subjects

https://link.springer.com/journals/journal-finder

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Springer Journal Finder

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❑ Appropriate journal
❑ Logically organized manuscript

Ready to submit!

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Successful journal
submission
Journal editors are busy!

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Most editors are
full-time professors

Journal editors when

they have time

You are competing with many other researchers

for the journal editor’s limited time
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Cover letters: Make the best first impression for journal editors

Significance and Suitable to be published

relevance of your study by their journal
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Cover letters: What to include
• Manuscript title
Introduce your manuscript • Article type (if necessary)

Scope of your study • Brief background

(relevant to journal’s scope) • Research problem & aims

Achievements • Study design

(appropriate for the journal) • 2 or 3 key findings

Study relevance • Conclusion

(consider the journal’s readership) • Implications for the field

• Publication ethics
Additional information • Include/exclude reviewers
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Publication ethics

Original and Not submitted Authors agree on

unpublished to other journals paper/journal

In your
cover letter

Source of Authorship
Conflicts of interest
funding contributions
Editorial policies: Be familiar with the editor’s expectations

http://www.nature.com/authors/policies/publication.html

https://www.springer.com/gp/editorial-policies

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If you convince the editor of the
suitability of your manuscript

Peer review

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Peer review is a positive process
Cartoon by Nick D Kim, scienceandink.com. Used by permission.
Experts give advice on how
to improve your study and
your manuscript

Ensures only relevant

studies are published

Peer review helps to

advance the field

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Writing response letters

Clearly discuss all your revisions

✓ Briefly state what was revised

✓ Always refer to page and line numbers
✓ In manuscript, highlight revised text

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Controversial reviewer comments
What would you do if 1. Discuss with colleagues
you have a comment
2. Check journal articles
that you think is unfair?

• Need additional support for conclusions

• Not appropriate for journal’s scope
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But if colleagues agree comment is

not appropriate & journal articles do
not support the reviewer’s requests…

• Reviewer may not have

understood the study
• Reviewer is unfair or
unprofessional

Contact the editor

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Your manuscript’s journey

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What should you
do if rejected?

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Let us help!
https://www.springernature.com/gp/authors/transferdesk

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Journal transfer at Nature

If you are accepted…

Celebrate!

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Don’t passively wait for people to
find your article…

Promote it!
International conferences

Social media

Press releases / media

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SharedIt: Allow anyone to read your article!

https://www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/sharedIt

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SharedIt: Allow anyone to read your article!

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Be an effective communicator

✓ Logical manuscript structure

✓ Effective publication strategy
✓ Successful journal submission

You will increase your chance of

publication and your research impact

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Thank you
Nelly Arifyani
Senior Licensing Manager, Indonesia
Springer Nature
E: [email protected]