Common Reasons for Rejection
Important Notice for Authors
Common Reasons for Rejection
Your manuscript submitted to JHNR could be rejected for many reasons (technical or editorial). Please review these common pitfalls before submission.
⚙️ Technical Reasons
- ✘ Incomplete data Such as too small a sample size or missing or poor controls.
- ✘ Poor analysis Such as using inappropriate or lack statistical tests.
- ✘ Inappropriate methodology For answering your hypothesis or using old methodology.
- ✘ Weak research motive Where hypothesis is ambiguous, not scientifically valid, or your data does not answer the question posed.
- ✘ Inaccurate conclusions On assumptions that are not supported by your data.
???? Editorial Reasons
- ✘ Out of scope for our journal.
- ✘ Not enough impact for the journal.
- ✘ Plagiarism And violation of publication ethics.
- ✘ Research ethics not considered (Patients' consent, approval from an ethics committee for animal research, etc.).
- ✘ Formatting issues Lack of proper structure or not following formatting requirements.
- ✘ Lack of necessary detail to reproduce analysis.
- ✘ Lack of up-to-date references or too many self-citations.
- ✘ Poor language quality.
- ✘ Difficult to follow logic or poorly presented data.
Ensuring your manuscript passes these common pitfalls significantly increases the chance of it proceeding to the peer-review stage.
