#paperforpublishing

I was on a break for quite a while. During my break, I decided to work on publishing some of the papers I prepared while at school. I knew there were new ideas in some of my papers that would be accepted by academic journals. I started working feverishly. I completed quite a lot of papers.

It turns out that I had to make major adjustments to some papers. In some cases, I re-prepared a paper by meeting the guidelines/directions using different selections or topics. Below is an example of a paper that I adjusted. The paper is challenging to publish because of the need to draw interesting conclusions or report something substantial from three articles. The paper was on organizational structure.

Paper: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15Tncc3SQJcAmZdtP5_Djp6VId7T1iXZz/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=102188806763555458254&rtpof=true&sd=true

Improved version for publishing: https://fahmeenaodetta.blogspot.com/2025/09/past-paper-submitted-to-journal.html

I am dealing with a lot right now. I am not "busy" a whole lot but it helps to be. I got a new idea for my compensation paper so I got up and went to the computer. I prefer this new and different approach because it will lead to very interesting and useful results/answers. I think I will have a better paper - it will be somewhat similar to a paper I read on strategies employees employ to get ahead. I bring useful ideas/information to the research such as knowledge that sometimes employees are hired as a group with the exact same title and compensation. I am proposing research to determine what worked/clicked for those employees that were compensated higher or promoted faster. It may be that the supervisor rewarded some because of the work they completed (maybe were on high profile projects or completed special work). Or maybe they asked for higher pay. I remember that I asked for a transfer rather than for more compensation. I did not want to ask for a lot (and pretty much have an agreement with the manager) and then leave the department. I wanted to leave my situation. There are all sorts of complications.

Academia.edu provides information on funding opportunities! I received an email from Academia.edu notifying me that their AI software found a $20,000 funding opportunity that "aligns perfectly" with my paper/research on the online review industry. I am so happy that my papers for publishing are on that site. It would be great to obtain funding for my research!

I found another website that allows sharing of papers that are for publishing. I joined today to try it out - I have a new account at Research Square (https://www.researchsquare.com/). I uploaded my marketing paper (mentioned in my recent post https://fahmeenaodetta.blogspot.com/2026/02/update_10.html) for review. It is currently in prescreening status. I saw that the preprint will be posted and a DOI issued once prescreening completes. The paper already has a DOI issued by ResearchGate. It appears that I cannot opt out of a new DOI so there will be two DOIs assigned to my paper which may cause issues.

Today is not going well. I made a few calls to try to get transportation to go to appointments, but the result was not as expected. It seems that the only way to make upcoming appointments is to pay for a cab or Uber to take me there.

I am currently reading one of my papers available as a preprint. It is the paper on the use of marketing professionals in the new product development process. Like other papers, I was able to use my background/experience well (especially my experience as an Analyst in the Testing/QA Group with a special assignment to assist to improve the quality of requirements further up the process). I am certain some people would not believe the paper was developed from my school assignment to write a marketing plan for a product. My eye is still a problem but I am getting some stuff done.

Last time I worked on my compensation paper, I finished rewriting the research problem and got to the quantitative model. I do not want to change the model much (from my school paper). I need to work on it some more.

In 2025, I hoped major journals would select my papers for publishing. I discovered that the publishing process is a complex one and publishing my papers will take time. I made some of the papers public (can be viewed by anyone) using preprints. I was pleased that a lot of academics and students read the papers and thought it was good work. I recommend that academics put their work out there so others can review. The phrase 'open publishing' comes to mind.

Use the links in my ORCID profile for an easy way to review my papers. Link to my ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7559-8068.

It is a new day. Today I decided to continue sending my papers to journals for publishing. I did just that. I also need to continue working on the compensation paper. I like that I am active in some way (on a good day such as today).