A Study and Analysis of Manuscript Publications in the Open Access Journals

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the process of manuscript publication in open access journals, focusing on peer review, manuscript preparation, and author perspectives, based on a study of 375 authors across 50 journals from 2019 to 2021.

Contribution

It provides an empirical analysis of author experiences and the peer review process in open access journal publishing within library and information science.

Findings

Authors face significant effort in manuscript preparation.

Peer review acts as a quality filter for publications.

Authors' views highlight challenges in the publishing process.

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the research article publishing with special reference to preparing to publish and peer reviewing. Peer reviewing is the process required for standardizing any publications. Manuscript writing is an art. Though it appears to be simple there is a lot of effort required. Peer reviewing is the process that eliminates articles that do not meet the standard of the journals and the scope of the journals. The study investigated authors views on manuscript submissions to the publishing process. There are 375 samples selected for this study who have experienced publishing journals listed in refereed journals. For the selection of the sample 50 ScimagoJR Library and Information Science open access journals between 2019 to 2021 are verified by the authors.