For beginners who have just entered the school, the first thing to do is to fully understand the research context, existing research status, research frontier and research authority in this field according to their own professional fields and the research direction of their tutors.

The easiest way is to find an authoritative review article, which can be in Chinese, preferably in English. According to the authors and cited documents mentioned in the review, I kept reeling, searched and downloaded the original text for learning, and formed my own literature review in this field.

Mastering a set of empirical research methods and tools skillfully

The empirical research methods and tools of humanities and social sciences are often integrated and closely related to statistics. Statistics is a compulsory course for graduate students, but most students will not use statistical tools for empirical research and analysis after class. I remember that most students in our class have graduated and are going to write their graduation thesis, but they haven't understood the application of statistical software yet.

This is because statistics teachers often teach the basic theory of statistics in class, and few teachers pay attention to the teaching of empirical research and application. As a liberal arts student, the foundation of data statistics is poor, so it is more important to apply statistical analysis software for empirical research. The data analysis software that management graduate students must master skillfully includes SPSS, AMos, Lisrel, etc. If it is economics, STATA or EViews is essential. Tools involved in programming, such as R and matlab, just have extra energy to learn.

Constantly imitate excellent papers.

As a layman who has just stepped into research, the fastest way to write excellent papers must be to imitate excellent papers.

If you want to publish papers in the core Chinese periodicals of Class A, you must download the excellent papers of Class A periodicals such as Management World and Management Review, and imitate their wording, hypothesis derivation, hypothesis testing, research methods and result discussion.

If you want to publish papers in foreign high-level SCI journals, you must download excellent papers in journals with high impact factors, such as SMJ and MIS, and imitate their wording, research methods, research models, theoretical derivation and so on.

Ask with an open mind and keep revising.

Always remember: all the first drafts are shit, and it takes more effort to revise an article than to write a new one.

After writing the article, don't rush to publish it. It is very important to modify it. First print it out, read it carefully word by word, and correct all inconsistent sentences, typos and punctuation marks to ensure that there are no low-level mistakes.

Be patient enough.

Each periodical has its own format requirements and style characteristics. When you finish writing a paper all night, after several rounds of revision, don't think that you have accomplished anything important.

For you who want to publish your paper in A-type journals, the Long March has just begun.

At this time, what you need to do is to patiently study the submission requirements of various journals. After deciding which periodical to invest in, you need to modify the layout in full accordance with the requirements of words, layout, title, Chinese and English abstracts, etc.

Remember not to think that if you write a good article, the editor of the journal will not care about the format. In fact, if an author doesn't even have a good layout, the editors of the journal will basically reject the manuscript at the first time. At this time, we should believe that attitude is more important than ability.

The process of submission is also a waiting process. It usually takes several months for a good journal to hear the news after receiving the manuscript. If you refuse directly, it will be faster and you will get the result in a month. However, if we enter the expert review stage, it will be a long waiting period, ranging from three months to six months. The better and more complicated the peer review process is, the longer it takes.

I submitted a paper to Management Review in my third year of study. Experienced the first trial, the second trial and the third trial, and suspended for three times. I was officially hired two years after graduation.

Therefore, we should be patient in the process of submission, especially when experts put forward amendments, we must make them one by one in strict accordance with the experts' opinions, and make a detailed explanation of the amendments.