title: Publication of research article: an art or science?
abstract: The publication process is a shared responsibility. Besides the writing, reviewing, publishing, and editorial teams, readers are one of the most important pillars of this process. Readers and authors cannot be dealt with separately, because most of the readers are authors. The varieties of articles and improvement in presentations reflect the rising interest and enthusiasm of writers and readers. Increasing number in critical comments and author's reply can be considered as a post-publication peer review process. Impact Factor, which was used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal, is now being considered a misleading tool in assessing the quality of a paper or the researcher. Here, we are trying to discuss in brief the points which should be kept in mind before manuscript preparation and submission, so that our research should reach to maximum readers in an unbiased form.
authors: Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, ITS-CDSR, Muradnagar, Ghaziabad, UP, India.
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Kapoor
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Sikka
authors: Kk
authors: K
authors: Saxena
keywords: Impact factor; Publication; Research work
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