The 5 Most Common Mistakes in Publishing in International Scientific Journals

Environmental Modelling & Software (EMS) is a highly ranked (IF: 4.177) Elsevier scientific journal that publishes contributions, in the form of research articles, reviews and short communications, on recent advances in environmental modelling and/or software. The aim is to improve our capacity to represent, understand, predict or manage the behavior of environmental systems at all practical scales. The topical scope of EMS is intentionally broad, which has the effect of attracting many hundreds of submissions per year. However, a large portion of these submissions do not fit within the journal scope in terms of the type and quality of contribution. Indeed, EMS has become noted as one of the top “methods” journals in the environmental science field. As such the editorial board is seeking submissions that provide strong methodological advances in both modelling and software. In this presentation, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Dan Ames will discuss the scope of the journal and will share the 5 most common reasons why research articles are rejected from EMS. Many of these concepts are applicable to other scientific journals and can be used to help authors improve their publication success rate in generally – as well as in EMS specifically. This presentation was delivered in Nanjing, China on September 20, 2018.《环境建模与软件》（Environmental Modelling & Software, EMS）是一本高排名的爱思唯尔（Elsevier）科学期刊，影响因子（Impact Factor, IF）为4.177。该期刊以研究论文、综述及短篇通讯的形式发表关于环境建模与/或软件领域最新进展的稿件，旨在提升我们在所有实际尺度下表征、理解、预测或管控环境系统行为的能力。EMS的主题覆盖范围刻意保持宽泛，这使得期刊每年可收到数百份投稿，但其中很大一部分稿件在稿件类型与质量层面均不符合期刊收稿范畴。事实上，EMS已被视为环境科学领域顶尖的"方法学"期刊之一，因此编委会期望投稿能够在建模与软件两方面均具备扎实的方法学进展。在本次报告中，主编丹·埃姆斯（Dan Ames）博士将介绍该期刊的收稿范围，并分享导致研究论文被EMS拒稿的5个最常见原因。其中多数概念适用于其他科学期刊，可帮助作者整体提升论文发表成功率，尤其是针对EMS期刊的投稿。本报告于2018年9月20日在中国南京举办。