Reason for Manuscript Rejection

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Reasons for Rejection of a Manuscript
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Research Manuscript Writing

• You have written your research manuscript with
  diligence, and
• now, you are ready to submit it for publication.
  You are worried if it gets rejected.
• This is common with novice research scientists.
  However, if you know what makes the journal
  editors reject your manuscript, you
• can take care of such errors before submission.

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• Heres a glimpse of the
• common errors that can
• lead to the rejection of
• your manuscript

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1) Selection of a Wrong
Journal

• The foremost reason your manuscript gets rejected
  
• is that your research study doesnt fit the scope
  of your
• selected journal. So, you will waste your
  valuable
• time if you select a journal out of your papers
  scope.
• To avoid any mistake in selecting the right
  journal 
• for your paper

• Carefully read the scope of the journal on its
• Homepage and also the section on Instructions to
  Authors.
• Search for the similar articles in the journal.

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2) Plagiarism

• Self-plagiarism or reproducing your own work in
• another journal without citing the original can
  lead to
• the rejection of your manuscript.
• Therefore, you should

• Always acknowledge your sources of reference
• Not submit the results of a published literature
  even in a lower-ranked journal
• Change the text copied from another source to
  make it different and also acknowledge the
  source.

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3) False Findings in the Research Results

• The journals accept only those manuscripts that
  present an original research study, those which
• report high-quality and novel work and make
• significant contributions to their desired field.
• Thus, if your manuscript fails to meet this
• criterion, or it reports a routine or trivial or
  false
• finding which doesnt contribute significantly to
  
• the progress of Science, it will be outwardly
• rejected.

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• To avoid rejection

• Search the published literature related to your
• research topic and see their results.
• Publish only those findings which are new or
• significant to your field of research.
• Highlight the novel properties of your research
• Study
• Compare your article with the previous work in
• the field and justify your improvements with a
  clear statement

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4) Technical Errors

• Discrepancy between the Abstract and the
  remaining
• manuscript
• Study of the wrong groups
• Wrong statistics
• Clinically insignificant results
• Absence of a relation between the results and
  their
• discussion
• Contradictory/false data
• If the conclusion doesnt answer the research
  question
• Poor use of language with grammar, spelling, and
• punctuation errors

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5) Failure to Follow Instructions for Authors

• If you do not follow the Instructions for
  Authors
• prescribed by a specific journal, it will either
  delay the
• peer review process or lead to your manuscript
  rejection.
• So, you should always

• Carefully read the instructions a number of
  times. Best, take a print out of the journal
  guidelines and highlight the key
• instructions you have to follow.
• Before submission, check whether you have
  incorporated all the instructions in your
  writing.
• If you do not understand the instructions or are
  short of time, take help from a professional
  scientific editor.

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• Do not hurry to submit your paper to the journal
  publication. Take time
• and carefully check if you have fulfilled all the
  requirements as an author.

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