Getting Published in the Journal of Your Choice

Drafting your manuscript, exciting the editor, navigating peer review, and the impact of AI

Some results are so obviously exciting that you barely need to wrap words around them before journal editors beg for your submission. But those results are extremely rare. In most cases, you will need to effectively convey what’s new about your discoveries and why they matter in a way that turns editors into advocates for your papers and persuades reviewers to ask for the revisions you want to provide. In this session, we will peel back the curtain on the editorial process so that you can maximize your chances for publishing your papers in the journals you choose.  We will also discuss the effect of AI on both writing your papers and on evaluating them, and together decide on some best practices for the use of AI in publishing.

Bio:
Vivian Siegel, PhD, is a cell biologist, geneticist, an expert in scientific communications, Lecturer and Communications Lead in the Biology Department at MIT, and Research Professor of Medicine in the Division of Genetic Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology within the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). She earned her PhD in Genetics from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and completed postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology and at UCSF before joining the staff of Cell as a senior editor. She rose through the ranks at Cell, becoming chief editor in 1999, and left in 2003 to help found Public Library of Science. In 2006, she joined Vanderbilt as a Research Professor of Medicine and Cell and Developmental Biology and founded the Center for Science Communication. In 2011, Dr. Siegel joined the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she was Director of Scientific Education and Public Communications and then Director of Education and Outreach, while retaining an adjunct research professor position at Vanderbilt. In 2015, she moved to MIT, where she has been a lecturer and communications lead for the Department of Biology. In 2019, she returned part-time to VUMC, where she works primarily with faculty on scientific writing and publishing with a variety of programs including faculty writing groups and 1:1 coaching.

Aimed at PhD students and postdocs but open to all scientists at Vienna BioCenter. Please register here. IMP 1-014/16 is above the IMP Reception desk (Campus-Vienna-Biocenter 1).