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，简称EMS）是一本享有盛誉（影响因子：4.177）的艾尔塞弗科学期刊，该期刊以发表研究论文、综述和简报的形式，致力于刊载在环境建模与/或软件领域的最新进展。其宗旨在于提升我们表征、理解、预测或管理环境系统行为的能力，涵盖所有实用尺度。EMS的选题范围有意设定得十分广泛，从而吸引了每年数百篇投稿。然而，其中很大一部分投稿在贡献的类型和质量上并不符合期刊的范畴。事实上，EMS已成为环境科学领域内首屈一指的‘方法’类期刊之一。因此，编委会正寻求那些在建模和软件方面提供显著方法论进展的投稿。在本场演讲中，主编丹·艾姆斯博士将讨论期刊的选题范围，并分享导致研究论文在EMS被拒的五大常见原因。许多这些观点对其他科学期刊同样适用，并可用于帮助作者提高其出版物成功发表率，无论是在一般层面还是在EMS期刊的具体层面。本次演讲于2018年9月20日在南京，中国举行。