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If you are an early career scholar who is thinking of writing a book to advance your career, this article will help you navigate book publishing with more confidence and less stress.

Academic authors aim to reach wider international audiences in order to share findings and satisfy requirements of research grants and other funding programmes. Research diffusion is also beneficial for their career advancement, as we previously covered in our data sharing  and research impact  news articles.

In the traditional publishing model, a paper is submitted to the journal’s editors. If the paper is of good quality and fits the journal’s scope, it is put through peer review, which will help the editors decide if to accept or reject it – perhaps subject to revisions.