Scientific Publication Guide for Non-Native English-Speaking Researchers

Scientific Publication Guide for Non-Native English-Speaking Researchers

Ltifi Moez (College of Science and Humanities, Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia & Higher Business School, Sfax University, Tunisia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-6859-3.ch017
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Abstract

Scientific publication is an essential aspect of technical, medical, social, economic, and other progress. New advances in human knowledge in any field are communicated to the rest of the world through publications. Scientific research is universal, so it is essential that this communicated knowledge is accurate, valid, reproducible, and practically useful. Researchers and scientists dream of publishing their work in high impact journals. To make these dreams come true, it is essential to learn, follow, and know the basic principles of research methodology and scientific publication. In this chapter book on the basis of the author's experiences and knowledge, the author presents a personal opinion on how to publish a chapter book in a high impact journal. The author talks about how to carry out good research, the design of the manuscript preparation, the respect of the editorial policy of the journal, the likely results, and the reasons for failure or success. The author provides the competitive weapons of publication in the form of advice, recommendations, and explanations, in order to achieve scientific success.
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Design Of The Manuscript Preparation

The research method generally follows an orderly path from observation through a research problem, a research question, a hypothesis, a research objective and a method of resolution to the discussion of the scientific findings.

Importance of the Choice of Title

The research title is the first window through which readers (including the publisher of the targeted journal) can view your work. Therefore, choose a title that catches their attention, accurately describes the content of your manuscript, and catches people's attention to read more.

At the outset, it is important to stress that the title of a research paper need not be boring, long and tedious. It can even be interesting, fun and challenging. However, it doesn't have to be esoteric or silly either. It should inform and interest the potential reader. When reading it, the person should at least be able to recognize the subject matter or problem being discussed. This should be sufficiently precise to determine whether your work is of interest to him or her. The title may also refer to the main findings and indicate the angle of approach used. Technically, a title is usually less than 200 characters long (Martinsuo & Huemann, 2021).

Abstract

Usually, all research work is accompanied by a summary. This summary should help the reader to quickly get an accurate idea of the content. The structure of this summary is relatively standard. It generally begins with a sentence or two that situates the problem being studied.

This is followed by the main elements that led to the formulation of the objectives, questions or hypotheses formulated. These are announced very briefly. The research approach and the angle of approach to the research are then outlined. Finally, the summary concludes with the main findings and conclusions of the work, including proposed new avenues of research. The challenge is to manage to say all this in less than five hundred words and ideally even in less than two hundred words (Patriotta, 2017).

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