How to Write and Publish A Scientific Paper: A Closer Look to Eastern European Economics, Business and Management Journals

Mirjana Pejić Bach

doi:10.1515/bsrj-2015-0006

Abstract

Abstract Background: Scientific research publishing carries significant role in the development of the society. Apart from the dissemination of knowledge, there are also motives for publication of scientific research results at the level of individual researchers. Objectives: The goal of the paper is to propose simple, yet highly applicable advice when pursuing the publication of a paper in a scientific journal providing a closer look to economics, business and management journals that focus on Eastern European countries. Methods/Approach: The 4 Cs model of scientific writing and publication is presented, based on four questions: (1) How to pick a topic relevant for publication?; (2) How to select a journal for possible publication?; (3) How to structure the paper in accordance with the IMRAD format?, and (4) How to efficiently write the paper? Results: Step-by-step application of the 4C’s model is presented in the paper with an outlook to economics, business and management journals that focus on Eastern European countries. Conclusions: Publication in a scientific journal is an important venue for scientific researchers. In preparing the presentation of the scientific research results for the publication, number of issues relating content, style, composition and presentation should be taken into account.

Highlights

Science is one of the most important human activities since it results in collective, consistent, structured and reputable knowledge
Only trough the painstaking process of trials and errors researchers learn about the following four important issues: (1) the choice of the topic relevant for publication, (2) the choice of the journal for possible publication, (3) the organization of the paper according to the IMRAD format, and (4) writing a highly proficient paper
In order to summarize the most important recommendations for tentative authors of papers to be published in scientific refereed journals, we propose the framework that could facilitate the process of writing and the publication of papers entitled “The 4 Cs of scientific writing and publication” (Figure 1)

Summary

Introduction

Science is one of the most important human activities since it results in collective, consistent, structured and reputable knowledge. Scientists from Eastern European (EE) countries that research economics, business and management issues face a number of barriers towards publication. Up to the early 1990s when the perestroika caused the breakup of the former Soviet Union, uprisings in EE countries, and the termination of the Cold War (Brown, 2007), due to the ideological reasons economics, business and management research in communist/socialist societies used to be different from research in capitalist societies. Results: Step-by-step application of the 4C’s model is presented in the paper with an outlook to economics, business and management journals that focus on Eastern European countries. In preparing the presentation of the scientific research results for the publication, number of issues relating content, style, composition and presentation should be taken into account

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