This document summarizes key points about the publishing process for nursing research. It discusses the importance of quality assurance, understanding journal guidelines, seeking feedback on writing, and responding thoroughly and politely to reviewer comments. Revisions are expected, and authors should learn when to accept that their work is ready for publication. Overall it provides guidance on writing for publication to enhance the quality and transparency of health research.

1. Through the eyes of the editor:
Nursing reseach
Roger Watson PhD, FRCP Edin, FAAN
Editor-in-Chief, JAN
Editor, Nursing Open
Professionalism in nursing and
Nursing management
2nd
National Nursing
Management Conference
Istanbul, Turkey
8-10 December 2016

4. Quality assurance in the publication process:
authors, editors, reviewers, publishers
Submission
Peer review
Editorial decision and input
Revision
Production
Publication
• submission requirements
based on international
standards (e.g. ICMJE) re
content, ethics, authorship etc
• peer review (blind or open)
• reasons for rejection include
plagiarism, redundancy, sub-
standard research, faulty or
incomplete analysis, poor or
incomplete reporting
• revision (minor or major) aims
to improve quality
• further checks at production
• post-publication scrutiny
(internal and external)

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

7. The four rules of writing
Read the guidelines
Set realistic targets and count words
Seek criticism
Treat a rejection as the start of the next submission

8. Journal guidelines
Journal guidelines

9. Journal guidelines
Length
Layout
Organisation
Referencing system

10. Seeking criticism
Find a ‘critical friend’

11. Seek criticism of your writing
NOT THIS
OR THIS
THIS

12. Enhancing the QUAlity and
Transparency Of health Research

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

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

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

22. Authorship
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)
at http://www.icmje.org/ states authorship is based on:
1) substantial contributions to the conception and design of a
paper, or acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation
of data, and,
2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important
intellectual content and final approval of the version to be
published.

23. Preventing Plagiarism in Published Works

24. International relevance
Keep asking yourself whether a reader in a region or
country very different from your own will be able to make
sense of everything in your paper
Abstract
•refer in the aims and/or background to the global
relevance of the topic
•include name/s of country/ies in which the work was
undertaken
•emphasise the international relevance of the conclusions

25. Expect to have several revisions
…I’m one of the world’s greatest rewriters
James Mitchener

26. Learn when to let go

27. Dealing with reviewer’s comments
Apply the ‘golden rules’ (Williams 2004)
Rule 1. Answer completely
Rule 2. Answer politely
Rule 3. Answer with evidence

28. Answer completely
Deal with every point, even if you don’t agree or
can’t change it
Make a list of points – even if not presented with a
list

29. Answer politely
Don’t start with:
‘We completely disagree with the comments of the
reviewer’
‘Who on earth are your reviewers?’
…etc!

30. Answer with evidence
If you disagree with the reviewer then provide
evidence: facts and references

32. Do you feel like this?
I just don’t
get
Twitter

34. The power of

36. Based on Twitter and
Correlation with Traditional
Metrics of Scientific Impact
Gunther Eysenbach
JMIR (2011)
Highly tweeted articles were 11 times more
likely to be highly cited than less-tweeted
articles (9/12 or 75% of highly tweeted
article were highly cited, while only 3/43 or
7% of less-tweeted articles were highly
cited; rate ratio 0.75/0.07 = 10.75, 95%
Twitations
Twim
pact

37. The odds of an article being highly
cited were significantly increased by a
mention in social media; OR 2.58,
p<0.001

38. 09/12/16
Altmetrics
In scholarly and scientific
publishing, Altmetrics are new metrics
proposed as an alternative to the widely
used journal impact factor and personal
citation indices like the h-index.
(Wikipedia)

41. Beware of predatory journals

45. Edited by Karen Holland and Roger Watson
An invaluable guide on writing for publication,
enabling
the reader to develop skills in writing articles,
book reviews and other forms
of publications, written by experts in the field.
September 2012, 288 pages
ISBN:
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Writing for Publication in Nursing and
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Getting It Right

46. • High standard, rigorous peer review
• Quality and reputation
• Immediate open access
• Fully compliant with all open access mandates
• Authors retain copyright–articles publish under CC-BY license
Open access research in all aspects of nursing
and midwifery practice, research, education and policy.
Editor
Roger Watson, University of Hull
www.nursingopenjournal.com

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