This book focuses on the topic of academic publishing. It discusses the mounting serious
problems that researchers particularly new researchers encounter when trying to publish their
research. The book addresses the issues of publishing as well as the salient factors militating
against academic publication and the mitigating factors encouraging academic publication. It
provides potential solutions suggestions and strategies for overcoming some of these
problems. Growing research output from Southeast Asia including Singapore Malaysia Taiwan
and China reveals the struggles that many authors have to confront when attempting to publish
their work in reputable journals. In both South Africa and other parts of Africa academic
researchers are beginning to show strong evidence of credible academic output. These
researchers all need valid outlets for their work and the security that authentic peer review
brings to the reviewing process. In the fields of education social sciences and professional
practices e.g. architecture and law recent years have seen the emergence of new outlets for
practitioners' research outputs in areas such as one's own practice self-reflection and
narrative inquiry. These outlets are discussed in this book. The book also discusses the malign
influence of predatory publications in detail. This book will be beneficial to university
academics postgraduate students Ph.D. supervisors and new researchers.
