Publish a scientific article: understanding the editorial environment and the keys to success

This short course is designed to assist scientists, junior and senior in writing successful scientific papers for dedicated journals to build their professional career. The courses will show to the participants how to prepare good papers and how they can be written. It will present advices and comments for overcoming usual and common obstacles such as targeting journals, finding an attractive entry for the manuscript, presenting tables and data, writing a fruitful discussion.
The presentation will also overview the global state of the scientific publishing environment. A large part of the presentation will be devoted to «PostPublicationReview» (PPR) and their influence on the assessment of scientific journals. Examples of PPRs will also be presented, as well as paper mills, citation cartels and how to detect them.