{"id":18796,"date":"2014-02-10T08:47:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T08:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/video\/tips-from-a-journal-editor-how-to-select-a-journal-for-your-paper\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T17:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:10:15","slug":"tips-from-a-journal-editor-how-to-select-a-journal-for-your-paper","status":"publish","type":"video","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/tips-from-a-journal-editor-how-to-select-a-journal-for-your-paper","title":{"rendered":"Tips from a journal editor: How to select a journal for your paper?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">In this video, Bruce Dancik reveals what journal editors actually look for in a manuscript. He provides useful tips on how an author can find out which journal would be interested to publish his\/her research and explains some of the important factors that an author should consider while choosing a suitable journal.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Donald Samulack, President, US Operations, Editage, Cactus Communications, speaks to Bruce P. Dancik, Editor-in-Chief, NRC Research Press\/Canadian Science Publishing, and Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, at the 54th Annual Meet of the Council of Science Editors, held in Maryland, Baltimore, from April 29 through May 3, 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/selecting-a-suitable-target-journal-for-your-manuscript\">see this video tutorial<\/a> on how you can select target journals for your manuscript.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":33313,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"new_categories":[],"new_tags":[],"series":[2837],"class_list":["post-18796","video","type-video","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","series-interview-with-dr-bruce-dancik"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tips from a journal editor: How to select a journal for your paper? | Editage Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In this video, Dr. Bruce Dancik reveals what journal editors actually look for in a manuscript. 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