ABSTRACT

Since the first edition of How to Get Research Published in Journals was published more than a decade ago, much and little has changed. Academics are reading and publishing research in academic journals for much the same reason as they have since 1665, when the first scientific journal in the English-speaking world, The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, was launched. We will look in more detail in the following two chapters at why academics do (and do not) want to publish.