Academics’ top tips for publishing success

"The name and reputation of the publisher means very little if the commissioning editor has the energy and momentum of a Venus flytrap on a vegetarian diet." It seems you could do with an editor/proof-reader yourselves. Try "The name and reputation...mean very little..." GBK

"But, equally, don’t be afraid to leave a paper unpublished if it doesn’t work." Erm. Have you really just gone on the record advocating burying negative results? This attitude does nothing but waste other researchers time and effort repeating the same fruitless experiments, notwithstanding wasting funders money. These are data that are hugely important to publish. And not just for researchers – journal editors should also take pains to publish these data, if they have been generated robustly, even if it means their standing might drop a bit.

"Remember that being published is usually more important than being right." That quote tells you all you need to know about the current state of academia.