A brief overview of some crucial ideas associated with research publication

Research is vital to higher education. Higher education is being promoted, and consequently, there certainly is an increase in student enrolments and an elevation in the number of teachers required by universities and other higher educational institutions. Even though the ‘system’ of higher education is expanding, awareness about some important concepts related to academic research and research publication is still low. It is very important that a modern-day researcher should have awareness of concepts like indexing of journals, journal metrics, open access, peer-review process, peer review scams, predatory publishing, reference management, etc. This article presents a brief overview of some crucial concepts and issues associated with research publication and is aimed at being an introductory guide that can be of some assistance to early career researchers when they begin exploring the landscape of scholarly publication.