Top 10 Tips for Avoiding Journal Rejection

About the Speaker

Despina Sanoudou, Ph.D. (Cambridge), FACMG, Professor at the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

An established researcher, public speaker, and published author, Dr. Sanoudou is an award-winning medical researcher with over 130 publications in renowned scientific journals and books, an H-index of 43, and over 6,200 citations. She is the Head of the Clinical Genomics and Pharmacogenomics Unit at the 4^thDepartment of Internal Medicine and collaborating Faculty at the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens. Dr. Sanoudou received her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge and served as Faculty at the Harvard Medical School. She has also worked as a coordinator for an international genomics/ pharmacogenomics program and as a fellow with Genzyme and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She has received more than 20 competitive research grants from international or national organizations. As a Publication and Training Consultant with Enago Academy, she conducts webinars and workshops to help researchers understand the nuances of academic writing and publishing. To date, Dr. Sanoudou has presented at >400 national and international meetings, served as a peer reviewer for 50 international journals, and chaired several seminars. She is also on the editorial board of multiple international scientific journals.

Session Agenda

Every researcher aims to publish their work in established peer-reviewed scientific journals. However, publishing is no easy task, and manuscript rejection is a common occurrence in scholarly publishing. For a smooth publication journey, researchers must ensure that their manuscripts are well-structured and meet the high standards of academic writing before submission to an impactful journal. The Royal Society of Medicine in collaboration with Karger Publishers and Enago will conduct an interactive webinar that will help researchers improve their awareness about the peer review process, manuscript decisions, and common errors made by early-career researchers leading to rejection. Further, we will also help authors understand reviewers’ comments and share practical tips to revise and timely resubmit their manuscripts.

Researchers will learn:

How to conduct a robust literature review
How to write each section of the manuscript
How to present research data effectively
Acknowledging sources properly
How to ensure research reproducibility
How to ensure fluency, clarity, and readability
Importance of editing and proofreading
Peer review process
How to address reviewer comments and make an effective appeal upon rejection

What people have said about previous webinars

I attended their see the future conference which was 2 day event. They had reputed speakers from the academic sector and a nobel laureate as their speakers who had a lot of valuable information to share. I thank Enago for the opportunity to attend.

Dr. Paul Lavender

Working with Enago is a pleasure from start to finish. The webinar was prepared with plenty of notice, well publicized, ran perfectly, and clear participant feedback was provided shortly afterwards. What more can you ask for?

Dr. Tomas berdych

Firstly, I regularly attend Enago’s webinars as they are very engaging. I find a lot of things in presented in their webinars to be very practical and useful in my research journey. They could also customize a webinar series for the university I teach. The webinars are helpful to the students in publishing better.

Prof. Abdul Haaris

The webinar that I attended on plagiarism and ethics was in depth and at the same time to the point. I got to learn a lot from these webinar and got my question answered. Thanks for this!