Insufficient Addressing Responses is One of The Main Reasons Behind the Rejection of Manuscripts Publishing in a High Impact Journals

Abstract

Scientific research is an important reason that indicates the progress of countries and the general scientific level. This study aims to research and verify some of the causes and obstacles that the Iraqi authors face and prevent them or lead rejection of their manuscripts from publishing in high-impact journals. Information was collected by questionnaires surveyed and some phone interviews with chief- editors of Iraqi journals subjected to the Scopus classification. The results showed that there are many reasons behind the rejection of research in high-impact journals، these reasons include several causes such as poor quality of the English language، which is known as a language of publication in Iraq for the science field، as well as the lack of experience and the inefficiency of the authors' responses on the evaluators' comments.، these were the main three reason which obstructing the publishing process of Iraqi researchers.