Hey yall
I’m a senior grad student working on a paper from my thesis. I have something pretty cool and novel, but not sure how high I could shoot for. My PI tends to err on the safe side, which was good for getting my first paper out faster, but it would be better for my career to try to get papers into better journals.
What separates papers that get published in Nature from Nature Cell Bio? or Nature Cell Bio from the top field-specific society journals?
Will impressing a Nature subjournal editor at a conference help with getting a paper into the journal?
Also, how does anyone pay the $12k OA fee? My PI’s NSERC Discovery here in Canada is like CAD$60k lol.
Comments
APC’s really are a bitch. Look into institutional funding, often universities have grants to cover them.
And honestly your best bet is to just submit it. If you have time to waste, it can’t hurt.
You write the paper and you submit it. What separates the papers in one journal from the papers in another journal is the editors’ decisions. If you’re really set on getting into a particular journal, you should read that journal for a while, figure out what they do, and write something specifically designed for them. If kissing up to the editor helps, you should probably go somewhere else. Good luck.