Getting published

This branch covers a manuscript’s route to publication and care of its published record, divided by stage: journal selection, submission and peer review, and work after acceptance. It leaves manuscript content and drafting, publication planning, publishing access models, wider research-integrity questions and language barriers for authors to neighbouring branches.

• Choosing a journal — matching a venue to the manuscript, interpreting citation measures and checking journal legitimacy
• Submission and peer review — preparing and submitting the manuscript, publisher policies, editorial decisions, review models, reviewer duties and responses to decisions
• After acceptance — production, proofs, discoverability, post-publication care and notices correcting or qualifying the published record