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Your go-to hub for navigating the academic publishing landscape. Join discussions about journal selection, manuscript preparation, dealing with reviewers, and staying current with publishing trends. For researchers, editors, publishers, and anyone involved in scholarly communication.
8.7k subscribers189 posts / mo in Sep 2026157 authors / mosince 2011
r/academicpublishing has 8.7k members (+41% over the last 12 months). It gets about 189 posts a month from 157 people. Top topics: ScientificJournalsAndResearch, Rejected Papers & Reviews and Research Reading Strategies.
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- ScientificJournalsAndResearch19%
- Rejected Papers & Reviews7.5%
- Research Reading Strategies3.9%
- Plagiarism Issues2.1%
- Querying and Agents1.6%
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