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Sharing Your Work Using Social Media
Five tips for sharing your article on social media.
The hard work you've put in on your research has paid off and your article has been accepted for publication. Celebrate, but don't relax yet! There are a number of things you can do to promote your paper.
Social Media
Using social media to get your work out there is still one of the most popular options to authors. Consider LinkedIn and Instagram as well as Facebook and Twitter/X since the latter two are seeing declines in usage. Use graphics where possible (studies show people are more likely to read and engage with posts with graphics than with those that are just text), but be careful to follow copyright rules.
Reach out to the press
Send a summary press release of your paper (or the full text if it was published open access) to science journalists and reporters in your field. Especially if your research is of interest to the broader public, they may highlight it in a news story.
Conferences and webinars
If you're speaking at a conference or webinar, include a reference to your work. Creating a PowerPoint slide of your findings and allowing others to use it in their own talks can be a great resource. Be sure to include the details of your work and a link!
Visual/Graphical Abstracts (GA)
Create a visually appealing abstract to easily inform people what your research was about. These have a wide range of uses from social media and blogs to posters and other online promotions. Wolters Kluwer partners with Editage to provide authors with graphical abstract creation. Or, if you're creative yourself, we recommend Mind the Graph to create your own GA.
Dawn Angel is a Publisher with Wolters Kluwer, one of the world’s foremost publishers of medical, nursing and allied health journals. She manages a portfolio of several journals on the topics of surgery, neurology, and oncology. She has worked in the medical scholarly publishing field since 2005.
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Writing a review to any newspaper is a good idea. Some people don't have social networks.
After a paper is accepted by an academic journal, the author usually needs to complete the following steps:
1. Accept editing suggestions: The editor may provide some suggestions for improving the paper, and the author needs to carefully consider these suggestions and make corresponding modifications.
2. Proofreading of Manuscripts: The journal editor will send the proofs of the paper to the author for proofreading. The author needs to carefully check the proof to ensure that there are no typesetting or spelling errors.
3. Provide necessary files and information: The author may need to provide additional files such as high-resolution images, charts, copyright transfer statements, or conflict of interest statements.
4. Payment of layout fees: If the journal charges layout fees, the author needs to pay these fees within the specified time. If the author is unable to pay, they may need to apply for a waiver or exemption.
5. Confirm the final version: During the proofreading process, the author should ensure that all modifications and suggestions have been properly addressed. Once proofreading is completed, the author needs to confirm the final version.
6. Follow up on the progress of paper publication: Authors should keep in touch with journal editors to understand the specific progress and status of paper publication.
7. Sharing and promoting papers: Once a paper is published, authors can share and promote their research results through academic social networks, research institution websites, academic conferences, and other channels.
Summary: After the paper is accepted, the author needs to actively participate in the proofreading and revision process, provide necessary documents and information, pay the layout fee (if necessary), confirm the final version, follow up on the publication progress, and share and promote the research results after publication.
After the article is accepted by SCI journals, everyone will be happy and excited for a while, and then wait for the copyright agreement, proof, and other things. It's really uncertain when to say a specific time from receiving to sending the proof, as the efficiency of different journal publishers varies, including the amount of manuscript processing for the same journal in different years, which can also affect the length of this time. But for most journals, it takes about a month. As short as one week after acceptance, the proof arrives, and as long as 1-3 months, with some requiring even longer time. The online version is usually very fast afterwards, of course, the paper version will be released later, and the issues of layout fees will not be discussed here. The main purpose of posting here is to introduce the issues related to proof proofs and to sort out the relevant old posts in the park in recent years. It is hoped that this will be helpful for everyone's post submission work, avoiding low-level errors and mistakes as much as possible, and ensuring that the articles you have worked hard on can be smoothly uploaded online at the last minute.
We can use DeepSeek or ChatGPT to help us screen target journals, polish our papers, and create future paper frameworks. At the same time, we should read more literature to optimize the structure of our papers.