Publishing in the Academic World
Now that you have completed your dissertation, you may be contemplating the publication of your research in an academic journal. Most graduates publish their research in a scholarly journal to share their research and get additional validation of their work from the academic community. Scholarly journal publication should be done as soon as possible while your work is still fresh and before your data gets old- if possible, within a few months after graduating. Nevertheless, publishing in academia can be a daunting task for recent graduates. This is because one is required to pay rigorous attention to the target journal’s style guidelines and formatting requirements in creating a publishable journal article from the dissertation research.
The length of dissertations varies widely between institutions and even between different departments within the same school but is usually 25,000 to 100,000 words. On the other hand, it is common for journals to have word count limits of 3,500 to 12,000. Hence, you are required to trim the dissertation extensively and shape the manuscript to comply with all the target journal requirements, including the structure, word count, style, and formatting. While trimming and editing the dissertation, you are also required to incorporate key sections of your dissertation research, such as the methodology and results that tend to run very long in dissertations, and present them much more concisely to fit the journal’s requirements.
Lastly, you are required to emphasize current and relevant scholarship in your work by selecting the most recent and pertinent sources for inclusion, which then requires extensive reworking of the references list to match the sources cited in the manuscript. Also, it is a good idea to browse through articles published in the target journal to identify and incorporate relevant literature from the journal into your manuscript. This helps to show that you have built a collection between your research and the literature in that specific journal. Sounds like a process? That’s right but it is worthwhile!
Our Journal Publication Support
Elite Dissertation Help assists recent graduates of doctoral programs who are seeking to take the next logical step in their academic careers and publish their approved dissertation research. Our experts make everything easy by creating a journal article manuscript from your dissertation research on your behalf. We help to turn your dissertation into a publishable manuscript for submission, using the target journal guidelines (and samples & template if available) as a guide in creating the manuscript and your dissertation as the source for developing each required section of the manuscript. The end result of this assistance is a fully drafted journal manuscript that matches the submission criteria of the target journal.
Our experts help to improve the chances of your manuscript getting accepted by the journal and making it through to actual peer review by addressing all common reasons for desk rejection. Often, manuscripts created from dissertation research are rejected without even peer review because they are too lengthy, look like a dissertation rather than a journal manuscript, or fail to meet the journal’s aims, scope, and guidelines. We also help to revise the manuscript based on the feedback from the reviewers, respond to reviewer comments, resubmit to the journal on your behalf, and provide necessary support till your manuscript is published. In case the manuscript is rejected, we resubmit it to a different journal at no additional costs.
How We Work
Step 1: Journal Selection
We find the right journal for your research. We conduct an in-depth analysis of the dissertation to determine the most appropriate journals where your work can get published. We provide 3-5 peer-reviewed journals that are a promising fit for your study.
Step 2: Manuscript Preparation
We prepare a manuscript for submission from your dissertation research in accordance with the specifications set out in the Author Guidelines of the chosen journal. This includes the manuscript structure, word limit, style, formatting, and artwork.
Step 3: Editing & Proofreading
We perform editing to improve word choice, clarity, flow, and presentation, as well as ensure consistency in language, formatting, and style. We also proofread the manuscript and address all grammar, spelling, vocabulary, and punctuation mistakes.
Step 4: Plagiarism Check
We check the plagiarism level of your manuscript to ensure the similarity index is less than 10%. If it exceeds this percentage, we assist with correcting plagiarism to reduce the similarity index by rewriting and paraphrasing the plagiarized texts and sentences.
Step 5: Journal Submission
We create your account an account for you on the journal’s webpage for online submission. We then submit the manuscript along with supplementary documents to the journal on your behalf. We hand over the journal login credentials to you when the process is complete.
Step 6: Resubmission Support*
We help with revising the manuscript per the reviewers’ comments and resubmission to the same journal (or a different journal in cases of manuscript rejection). We also help to respond to reviewer comments by closely coordinating with the researcher till acceptance.
Pricing
Standard Package- USD 900
This pack includes journal selection, creating the manuscript from the dissertation (substantive editing & target journal formatting), copy editing & proofreading, journal submission, and support until the manuscript is accepted for peer review. Our support ends when the manuscript goes through to the actual peer review.
*If you need help with revising the manuscript after peer review, you will have to hire resubmission support.
Premium Package- USD 1600 (most popular)
This pack includes all the features in the standard package and resubmission support. Additional services offered are; keeping track of the submission (manuscript status), communicating with the journal after submission on your behalf, manuscript revision based on peer-review feedback, response to reviewers, resubmission of the revised manuscript to the same/different journal, and support until the manuscript is accepted for publication.
Or choose the kind of assistance you want and pay only for what you need.
- Journal Selection- USD 200
- Pre-Submission Peer Review – USD 350
- Statistical Review- Priced on a case-by-case basis
- Manuscript Preparation from Dissertation Research (Substantive Editing)- USD 400
- Target Journal Formatting- USD 250
- Plagiarism Check- USD 100
- Plagiarism Correction- Priced on a case-by-case basis
- Journal Submission- USD 150
- Resubmission Support- Priced on a case-by-case basis