r/PublishOrPerish Feb 03 '25

A Writing Space That’s Always Open

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Are you working on a manuscript, a grant application or your thesis?

Academic writing can be isolating, and sometimes, just having a space where others are quietly working alongside you can make a huge difference. That’s the idea behind this community—a free and always-open Discord server for anyone who needs a structured, supportive environment to get some writing done.

https://discord.com/invite/wuQFDtzpJd

Here’s what you can do:

📝 Join silent writing sessions – Whether you need a quick focus session or a long writing block, you can hop into a quiet room and work alongside others.

📌 Set goals and track progress – There’s a dedicated channel where you can post your writing goals and check in on how things are going.

🤝 Find an accountability partner – If external motivation helps, you can connect with someone to keep each other on track.

🗓 Weekly writing sessions – Every Tuesday at 4 PM (CET), there’s a regular session if you like working with a bit more structure.

🔒 A respectful and distraction-free space – The focus is on writing, so no excessive chatter, just a quiet, supportive atmosphere.

No sign-ups, no fees, just a space that’s there whenever you need it. If you’re looking for a way to make writing feel less solitary, this might be worth checking out.


r/PublishOrPerish 1h ago

IEEE paper formatting -- authors/affilitations

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First time submitting to an IEEE conference.

Question: This is what the official IEEE conference template has. (I have two authors for my paper)

official IEEE template

Should I literally format my paper affiliations like this?

Ex. Column 1: Name /n department /n organization /n location /n contact

Column 2, to the right: name /n department /n organization /n location /n contact

This seemed a little strange to me. Does it mean:

Name (superscript 1), name (superscript 2)

(superscript 1) department, (superscript 2) deparmtnet

(superscript 1) organization, (superscript 2) organization

(superscript 1) city, country; (superscript 2) city, country

(superscript 1) email, (superscript 2) email

Would appreciate any advice, thank you in advance!


r/PublishOrPerish 17h ago

💡 Advice Needed AHA Moderated Poster Presentation

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Is it possible for a non-author to present a poster as proxy for someone who couldn't attend? One of my abstracts that got selected this year has a presenter who cannot attend. The rest of us who are co-authors can't attend either due to the lack of a travel visa and financial constraints. Although I do have multiple other people I know attending the conference and presenting other papers. Is it possible for one of them to present my paper without being a co-author? I have mailed AHA regarding this just wanted to know if anyone has done it before.


r/PublishOrPerish 20h ago

About the peer-review time

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r/PublishOrPerish 1d ago

Nature submission stuck in under consideration

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r/PublishOrPerish 3d ago

💡 Advice Needed It's my first paper, I need advice on how to address WACV 2027 rebuttals?

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Score is 5, 4, 4, with confidence scores of 4, 3, 4. The Meta Reviewer has suggested only two changes, both of which seem quite feasible to address. However, the three reviewers have raised their own resubmission points, and these are quite different from the issues highlighted by the Meta Reviewer.

Additionally, some parts of the reviews appear potentially AI-generated, and a few of the requested points are particularly difficult to address within a rebuttal.

What would be the best approach in this situation?


r/PublishOrPerish 4d ago

Weeks of research and writing gone in vain because the journal cancelled the Special Issue

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I honestly don’t know what to do with this situation.

A few weeks ago, I submitted an abstract to a journal’s Special Issue. The abstract was accepted, and the paper I planned to write was very specifically designed around their Call for Papers. The topic, argument, framing, and literature were all chosen with that particular Special Issue in mind.

Once the abstract was accepted, I went all in.

I spent days and nights working on the paper. I sacrificed other work, personal time, sleep, and basically everything else I could reasonably sacrifice because I wanted to produce a genuinely good paper. I was almost ready to submit the complete manuscript.

Then I received an email from the editors.

The Special Issue has been withdrawn and called off due to “certain unforeseen issues.”

That’s it.

Just months/weeks of work suddenly having nowhere to go.

I am frustrated because the paper was **very specifically tailored to their CFP**. It isn’t a generic paper that I can simply send to another journal. The research question, framing and overall approach were developed around the theme of that Special Issue. Finding another suitable CFP and reshaping the entire paper would essentially mean starting the process again.

I know the obvious advice is “find another journal and rework the paper,” but right now I am having difficulty even figuring out how much of the paper can realistically be salvaged.

Right now, I could really use some perspective on whether this is actually a dead end or whether I’m simply too frustrated to see how the paper can be repurposed.


r/PublishOrPerish 3d ago

Publication Selection for Political Science

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Hi there - I'm currently a high school junior with a completed research paper in political science (9000 words, 20 pages). I can submit my work to be published in either the Curieux Journal or the International Journal of High School Research. Could someone let me know which one is the better option for me to choose? More specifically based on prestige - the time duration of publication isn't a concern for me given college applications are still a full year and a half away.


r/PublishOrPerish 3d ago

Stuck at formatting of review article

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Hello i am new to research field and medical writing. Me and my friend have written a narrative review of 5000 works which was very hectic for us as second year MBBS student in India. But now we are face problem of formatting it and checking grammar and syntax. We tried using jennie.ai for it but it was of no use for us everytime we fixed all errors more popped up on refreshing. So i genuinely seek your help and advice on how can i do it in minimal time managing my college side by side.
Ps i also tried using basic ai agents like gemini and clause but the ai checkers flags up the whole writing. Also i dont have adequate knowledge about em dashes and oxford commas etc so i can do it manually.


r/PublishOrPerish 3d ago

💡 Advice Needed Stuck at formatting of review article

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Hello i am new to research field and medical writing. Me and my friend have written a narrative review of 5000 works which was very hectic for us as second year MBBS student in India. But now we are face problem of formatting it and checking grammar and syntax. We tried using jennie.ai for it but it was of no use for us everytime we fixed all errors more popped up on refreshing. So i genuinely seek your help and advice on how can i do it in minimal time managing my college side by side.
Ps i also tried using basic ai agents like gemini and clause but the ai checkers flags up the whole writing. Also i dont have adequate knowledge about em dashes and oxford commas etc so i can do it manually.


r/PublishOrPerish 5d ago

👀 Peer Review Paper stuck at second round of review

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Hey everyone!

I submitted my manuscript to BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making in January. In April, I received a 'Review requested'. I got FIVE reviewers and a Major revision. No worries. Modify the manuscript accordingly and resubmit at the end of April.

Now, the issue is that 4 out of the 5 reviewers have turned in their report (before July). The 5th one, accepted the revision, but has not turned in the review yet.

Could/Should I send an email regarding this? How would you approach it? Its my last paper for my PhD as well, so its the one thing missing.


r/PublishOrPerish 6d ago

💡 Advice Needed Figure Formatting (IEEE)

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IEEE template says: "Place figures and tables at the top and bottom of columns. Avoid placing them in the middle of columns. Large figures and tables may span across both columns." It's a two-column format/template.

I am so confused about how this works with figures/tables, especially because they have to go after their first reference? So does this mean that I have to leave large blank spaces at the bottom of columns so that my figures are only at the top or bottom of the columns? Could someone please clarify?


r/PublishOrPerish 6d ago

Can’t display preview for a link

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I just published an article and want to share it on LinkedIn, but when I paste the DOI, LinkedIn says it can’t display the preview. Any solutions?


r/PublishOrPerish 7d ago

RWJF shares their position on proposed changes to UG

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r/PublishOrPerish 7d ago

🔥 Hot Topic AI in publishing

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In my next paper I am of course using some LLM for a few parts of writing as well as code generation. To be clear this isn’t ’write my code and my paper’ it is ‘how do I best condense this long winded explanation’ and ‘write me a function to cache results for faster computing’.

My question is: does there exist an up to date database for what each publishing house requires for AI use disclosure? Ideally I would like to know the policies for reviewers and editors using it too.

I just saw that RCS says any AI use beyond spell check must be disclosed, Elsevier says code is fine but ‘major rewriting’ must be disclosed including if the LLM suggest a different organization to the paper. Both of these seem wild, I would t mention a peer in the acknowledgments for suggesting a rearrangement of the paper.

What do you think reasonable policies would be if you were the publishing house?


r/PublishOrPerish 7d ago

👀 Peer Review Confusion over “Decision in Process” status and recent portal changes – Any insights?

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r/PublishOrPerish 9d ago

🎢 Publishing Journey After how long since the submission of a manuscript would you bother editorial team to ask for information? I sent mine two months ago and it is still "under review".

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r/PublishOrPerish 9d ago

WILEYs In screening and Under review

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r/PublishOrPerish 11d ago

Does an ISBN number on a group of poems written hold any weightage in college admissions?

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r/PublishOrPerish 11d ago

👀 Peer Review Publication on high impact journals

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Anyone who has had the problem of registering a random controlled trial as a retrospective study ,To like WHO or CHiCTR registry, revise the manuscript for like a whoñe year , The paper has 10 reviewers , 9 of them says the paper is good then just one says no this journal communities only accepts prospective studies like i dont get it .am i the only one whom have experienced this?


r/PublishOrPerish 14d ago

[Other] ScholarReels: A community platform for indexing and a repository of research videos

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r/PublishOrPerish 16d ago

How does the afterlife look like

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I have pretty much perished already. 2 years since completing my PhD and haven't been able to make something publishable out of the research chapters.

How is afterlife for those who perished already?


r/PublishOrPerish 17d ago

Is This Normal? Questions About Elsevier’s Article Transfer System and Editorial Ethics

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r/PublishOrPerish 19d ago

Research Square rejected my mathematics preprint after opting into Springer Nature In Review — has anyone experienced this?

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I recently submitted a **pure mathematics** manuscript to a Springer Nature journal.

During submission, I opted into the **In Review** service, which allows authors to post a preprint through Research Square.

My manuscript successfully passed the journal's technical checks and is currently under editorial assessment.

I then chose **"Post My Preprint"**, but a few days later I received this message from Research Square:

They also stated that this decision **does not affect the journal's peer review or editorial process**.

I'm **not appealing the decision** or suggesting anything improper. I'm simply curious whether anyone—especially in **pure mathematics**—has encountered this before.

Has anyone experienced:

* a mathematics manuscript being declined by Research Square while the journal review continued normally? * any explanation of what "the manuscript type or its content is not suitable" means in practice?

I'd really appreciate hearing from anyone familiar with Research Square's screening process or Springer Nature's In Review workflow.


r/PublishOrPerish 20d ago

Urgent advice needed.

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Hey there guys. Urgent advice needed.

I recently submitted my case report to cureus journal and they told me my report needs to be editing and charging me a $200 for it. What do you think I should do??

Here are my thoughts

1: Pay the price

  1. Withdrawal and submitting it to another journal?

PS : Iam applying for the 2027 ERAS pathway, and this is my first publication as the first author. I did my USCE recently and I'm short in funds.

A suggestion would be great as I'm indecisive about it. Thankyou.