{"id":5451,"date":"2015-07-08T05:52:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T05:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/comic_strip\/8-reasons-why-journals-reject-manuscripts\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T14:39:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:09:39","slug":"8-reasons-why-journals-reject-manuscripts","status":"publish","type":"comic_strip","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/8-reasons-why-journals-reject-manuscripts","title":{"rendered":"8 Reasons why journals reject manuscripts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Every author dreads one thing at the time of submitting a manuscript to a journal &#8211; rejection. Did you know that often authors&#8217; manuscripts are rejected because of fairly basic mistakes or oversights that could have been taken care of at the manuscript writing or submission stage? This infographic depicts some of the most obvious reasons for manuscript rejection and lists some quick tips on how you can avoid making \u00a0these mistakes and in turn increase your chances of acceptance for publication. (You can download a PDF copy of this infographic for your reference.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive\" title=\"8 Reasons why journals reject manuscripts \" src=\"http:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Reasons%20for%20manuscript%20rejection_July%208_0.png\" alt=\"8 Reasons why journals reject manuscripts \" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%226004%22,%22view_mode%22:%22default%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22default%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%228%20Reasons%20why%20journals%20reject%20manuscripts%20%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%228%20Reasons%20why%20journals%20reject%20manuscripts%20%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Btextfield%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Bvalue_field%5D%22:%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You may also be interested in reading our post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/most-common-reasons-for-journal-rejections\">the most common reasons for journal rejections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>This infographic was created by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/users\/jayashree-rajagopalan\">Jayashree Rajagopalan<\/a>.<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":33313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[2376],"new_categories":[],"new_tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-5451","comic_strip","type-comic_strip","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reasons-for-rejection"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>8 Reasons why journals reject manuscripts [Infographic]<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn the main reasons for manuscript rejection and get tips on 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