3. Editing process
The following part summarizes the editing process of journals and describes how editors handle manuscripts in the process of submission and publication. You can know every step of this process and the status of your manuscript by entering the online submission system.
4. Ask before submission
Before submitting the full paper, researchers may get informal feedback from editors. The purpose of this service is to save you time ―― if the editor thinks the paper is not suitable for publication, you can submit it to other journals in time without delay. If you want to use the pre-submission query service, please use the online system of the journal you choose to send a paragraph explaining the importance of your paper, as well as the abstract or summary paragraph of your paper and related citation list, so that the editor can compare with other related work and judge the submission. The editor may invite you to submit a complete paper soon (this does not mean any commitment to publication), or tell you that this paper is not suitable for publication in this journal. If you receive a negative reply, please do not reply. If you are sure of the importance of your paper, don't worry about the editor's suspicion. You can submit the full text of the paper through the online submission system of the journal. The editor will make a more detailed evaluation of your work.
5. First submission
When you are ready to contribute, please use the online submission system according to the requirements of the journal. When the journal receives your contribution, it will provide you with a number and arrange an editor, who is responsible for reading the paper, seeking informal advice from scientific consultants and editorial colleagues, and comparing your contribution with other recently published papers in this field. If the paper looks novel and eye-catching and the work described is both direct and far-reaching, then the editor will send it out for peer review, usually to two or three independent experts. However, because journals can only publish a few papers in a certain field or sub-field, many papers are rejected without peer review, even though they may describe reliable scientific results.
6. Transfer of manuscripts between natural periodicals.
In some cases, the editor can't publish your paper, but he or she may suggest that this paper is more suitable for publication in other natural journals. If you are willing to resubmit your paper to the suggested journal, you only need to simply link to the website provided by the editor and forward your paper and comments to the new journal. This process is completely under your control: you can choose not to use this service. On the contrary, you can use the online submission service commonly used in journals to submit your papers to other journals of Nature or journals of Nature Publishing Group. If you like, you can choose whether to include reviewers' opinions in your submission.
7. Peer review
When the editor decides to send the paper out for review, he will send an email to the correspondent to inform this information. Editors choose reviewers on the basis of: independence; The ability to make a comprehensive and fair technical evaluation of the paper; Whether relevant contributions have been reviewed at present or recently; And whether the submitted materials can be reviewed in a short time. You can also recommend reviewers (including detailed address information) for your paper, as long as they are independent scientists. Although editors may not necessarily adopt this information, they are usually useful. The editor will consider your request and exclude a certain number of named scientists as reviewers.
8. Decisions and amendments
How good it will be after booking. After receiving the opinions of all reviewers, the editor will discuss the manuscript in the editor and then write to the author. In this letter, the editor either refuses to publish your paper, or suggests that you revise it and resubmit it, or you can publish your paper without further revision. If the editor suggests that you revise your paper, he or she will provide special suggestions and explain in the letter whether the revision is big or small, and whether you will further discuss the revised manuscript with the reviewers.
9. After acceptance
After your paper is accepted, the document editor (or assistant editor) will do the preparatory work before the paper is published. They will scrutinize and polish the article to make the words and pictures readable and clear to readers outside the direct field, and make the paper conform to the style of the journal. Document editors will give advice to authors whose English is not their mother tongue, so be especially careful when editing these papers.
10, after release
All papers will be published in printed form, and the full text will be published on the journal website in PDF and HTML format. If editors and reviewers think that supplementary information is crucial to the conclusion of the paper (such as large data tables or detailed information about methods), and many experts are more interested in it than other parts of the paper, the supplementary information will be published with the paper in the electronic online version. Many links and navigation services will be provided to all papers published in Nature in online format (HTML).
Our news release service will include the contact information of all authors of papers and newsletters, which means that your work will attract the attention of all major media organizations in the world, and they may choose to make special reports on your work in newspapers or other media. Some papers will be highlighted or summarized in Nature magazine, publications of Nature Publishing Group and special websites.
Journals published by Nature Publishing Group do not need the author's copyright, but you will be required to sign an exclusive publishing license document. This allows you to publish your papers in PDF format on your own or research institute's website.
1 1. Different opinions on the decision
If the editor of a journal can't publish a paper and doesn't recommend submitting it again, then we strongly recommend that you publish your paper in other journals. However, if you think that the editor or reviewer has seriously misinterpreted your paper, you can write to the editor and explain the scientific reasons why you think the decision is incorrect. Remember, editors will give priority to the latest contributions and those invited to resubmit, so it will take several weeks to get a reply about different opinions. At the same time, you can't throw your paper away. In order to make your research paper published in time, we suggest that if your paper is rejected, you can submit it elsewhere instead of taking the time to further communicate with the editor.
(Information source: www.nature.com/nature, collected and sorted by Mr. Ye from the library, and the telephone number of relevant information is 869 14532).
Nature magazine
It is divided into China's Nature magazine and Britain's Nature.
The breakdown is as follows:
Nature is an academic, knowledgeable and dynamic comprehensive publication, covering all fields of natural science. It is the national core Chinese periodical of general natural science approved by Peking University Library and other institutions, and it is also the source periodical of various retrieval and CD-ROM full-text collection in China.
The purpose of Nature magazine is to introduce the latest achievements and development of various disciplines and engineering technologies in the natural science field, disseminate natural science knowledge, support innovative new ideas and theories, carry out academic exchanges and debates, and help readers broaden their knowledge and improve their scientific literacy.
According to the advice of Academician Qian Weichang, the consultant of this journal, it is necessary to make this journal a "bridge between different disciplines and different majors", and the manuscripts should be of high academic level, readable and easy to understand, avoid unnecessary technical terms as much as possible, and use less mathematical and chemical structures to make readers of other majors understand and arouse their interest.
This magazine has special articles, scientific reviews, special comments, scientific progress, scientific figures, history of science and technology, exploration and hypothesis.
The readers of Nature magazine are: scientific and technological workers, teachers and students in colleges and universities, middle school teachers and natural science lovers.
Nature, a famous British magazine, is the earliest international sci-tech periodical in the world. Since 1869 was founded, it has consistently reported and commented on the most important breakthroughs in the global science and technology field. Impact factor 26 (data in 2004). Its purpose is to "introduce the important achievements of scientific discovery to the public … and let the public know all the progress made by every branch of nature as soon as possible". The website of Nature covers a lot of contents, not only providing all the contents of the latest issue of Nature from June 65438 to June 0997, but also providing 8 research monthly magazines, 6 review magazines and 2 reference books published by its sister publication Nature Publishing Group.
List of periodicals:
Research monthly:
"Nature Biotechnology" (Nature Biotechnology)
Natural cell biology (natural cell biology)
Natural genetics (natural genetics)
Natural immunology (natural immunology)
"Nature Materials" (é é é)
Natural medicine (natural medicine)
Nature Neuroscience (nature neuroscience)
Natural structural biology.
Weekly review:
Nature Review Cancer (200 1)
Nature Review Drug Discovery (2002)
Nature reviews genetics.
Nature Review Immunology (200 1)
Nature Review Molecular and Cell Biology
Nature review neuroscience
& lt Science magazine was founded by Thomas Edison, a famous scientist, in 1880. It is a comprehensive science weekly with the largest circulation in the world. In the past, it was managed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and later it became independent to ensure the independent development of the magazine. AAAS carries out macro-control on magazines, mainly reporting scientific news, research achievements and development trends of scientific research. Its purpose is to let scientists grasp the development trends of the frontier of science and keep up with the development trend of science and technology.
Science Magazine
English name: Science magazine
Science is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes the best original research papers and summarizes and analyzes current research and science policies.
The magazine was founded in 1880 by Edison Investment 10000 USD, and became the official publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest scientific group in the United States, in 1894. The annual issue of ***5 1 is weekly, with a global circulation of over 1.5 million copies.
Most sci-tech journals charge readers for reviewing manuscripts, commenting and publishing. However, articles published in scientific journals are free. There are three sources of funds for its magazine: membership fee of AAAS; Subscription fees for printed and online editions; Advertising fee.
Science magazine belongs to a comprehensive science magazine, and its scientific news reports, summaries, analysis, book reviews and other parts are authoritative popular science materials, which are also suitable for general readers to read. "Developing science and serving society" is the aim of American Association for the Advancement of Science and Science magazine.
Internationally, the main rival of science magazine is Nature magazine in London, England, which was founded in 1869 and published a large number of articles by Darwin, Huxley and other masters. In the first four years of 2 1 century, they competed fiercely to become the first person to publish the human gene arrangement map.
Donald Conidi, editor-in-chief of Science magazine, graduated from Harvard University with a doctorate. He is the eighth president of Stanford University and a famous professor of environmental science.