The top 8 reasons your article gets published

SSCI/SCI Journal editors reveal the top 8 reasons a manuscript gets published.

1. It provides insight into an important issue – for example, by explaining a widevariance when numbers are spread out from the mean or expected value, or byshedding light on an unsolved problem that affects a lot of people.

2. The insight is useful to people who make decisions, particularly long-termorganizational decisions or, in our particular field, family decisions.

3. The insight is used to develop a framework or theory, either a new theory oradvancing an existing one.

4. The insight stimulates new, important questions.

5. The methods used to explore the issue are appropriate (for example, datacollection and analysis of data).

6. The methods used are applied rigorously and explain why and how the datasupport the conclusions.

7. Connections to prior work in the field or from other fields are made and serveto make the article's arguments clear.

8. The article tells a good story, meaning it is well written and easy tounderstand, the arguments are logical and not internally contradictory.

Ideally,we would like to see articles perform well on all eight points, and that theauthor strives for a good balance amongst these criteria.

For the subject, it is what I have seen over the years in the journal and what Ifeel is current, novel and not derivative.

Acceptanceis contingent upon whether an article advances our understanding of a topic,what is beyond already known, and opens up a new arena. What we are seeing in our journal, as well as other journals, is the explosive growth of new technology which has broad implications on these studies.

(Edited by Prof. Mao)