After years of hard work, publishing your manuscript is a critical part of the scientific process to tell others about your findings, to allow scrutiny of your results and in addition, to show your capabilities as a scientist, helping forward your career. Often, however, the process is fraught with rejection, frustration and upset. Within this short editorial, we highlight a few suggestions and initiatives that we hope will make the process of publishing easier and more efficient.
Lemberger et al. (Sun,) studied this question.