About writing for publication from submission to publication.

1. Presented by:
Date:
Nurse Education in
Practice
Roger Watson, Editor-in-Chief
26 February 2021
The publishing process
@NepEdinPrac

2. International editorial board
8 volumes per year
Impact factor: 1.614 (45/123)
2351 cites (2019)

8. Understand the publishing
process
Write first for:
•Editors
•Reviewers
•Your audience

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12. Which papers contribute most
to impact factor?
•Review papers
•Methodological papers
•Original research

16. What gets published
•Editorials
•Review papers
•Original papers
•Discussion papers

17. Aims and scope
Tells you:
• The mission of the journal
• What it publishes
• The nature of the articles
published
• Who is the intended readership

19. Double-blind peer review

20. Open peer review

21. Peer review
… is a means of sieving out evident error, currently unacceptable
practices, repetition of previously published work without
acknowledgement, and trivial contributions that add little to
knowledge.
Russell report on ‘Climategate’

23. Enhancing the QUAlity and
Transparency Of health Research

24. Enhancing the QUAlity and
Transparency Of health Research
CONSORT http://www.consort-statement.org/

30. Enhancing the QUAlity and
Transparency Of health Research
CONSORT http://www.consort-statement.org/
PRISMA http://www.prisma-statement.org/

33. Promoting integrity in research
publication
COPE http://publicationethics.org/

37. Authorship
The list of authors should accurately illustrate who
contributed to the work and how.

38. Preventing Plagiarism in Published Works

39. Retraction on the basis of plagiarism
“The retraction has been agreed
due to overlap with other previously
published material written by third
parties”

40. Retraction on the basis of
duplication
“The retraction has been
agreed due to duplicate
publication of the same
article in two journals”

42. r.watson@hull.ac.uk
0000-0001-8040-7625
@rwatson1955