Publishing with Tier 1 Scientific Journals — An Attitude Building Guide
To get published in Tier 1 Scientific Journal is not only a dream of a researcher but also a career breakthrough as far as academic research is concerned. Here I wanted to share my journey of learning and publishing with tier 1 scientific journals like IEEE Transactions.
1. Seek for the Practical and Possible Innovation
Just to effort for the minor increment to convince the reviewers may not be a good idea. Instead of that, prepare yourself to do a highly exhaustive literature review from similar journals. This will include the highly cited survey papers also. Some White papers for technical improvements and even related patents also. Do smart work of highlighting the common innovation ideas and their deliverables to get familiar with your path. Take a confirmation from yourself that “is it doable with time and money”? Exclude in case of enough funding.
2. Defend Yourself in front of Experts and Collect the Wonderful Arguments to Develop Possible Innovative Idea
Prepare a short presentation or document that includes your conclusion of learning about innovation or upliftment of the research problem. If possible try to show your understanding to experts, colleagues, and even those who are not related to your domain of work. This will clear you that how valid and acceptable your idea is?
3. Plan Your Milestones and Begin with Discipline
If you feel, you need to learn extra to get over your planned milestones, include the learning in your plan of goal. Set the routine for your technical contribution. This may include deriving expressions, lemmas, theorems, algorithms, models, plans, operations, and many others. Start with a baby step and plan consecutive actions.
4. Record or Narrate Your Work Everyday
Doing recording, or Narration of your work will help you in the preparation of the first draft of the manuscript. It includes the way you achieved the results, graphs with their explanation, the inferences you derive, and the conclusion you can make. You can note down the claim of your improvements even with the limitations.
5. Convert Recording or Narration into Manusctipt
Your rough recording may help you to write effectively without plagiarism. Justify that why your problem is important to notice? What are your contributions? How your contributions are practical? How you have achieved the improvements? What will be the direct or indirectly benefited users? Provide the proofs of your derivations, algorithms, lemmas. Share your datasets even elementary codes. Prepare the supplementary material to help the reviewer to understand your proof better. Never leave any information without proof, or untouched, or undiscussed. When everything merges into one file, it will become a standard manuscript on which any reviewer needs to have very strong points to reject.
