Authorship is the highest form of acknowledgement you can give to someone who contributed to your manuscript. Submissions should be hypothesis-driven research in life sciences, physics, chemistry, health, psychology, physiology, engineering, mathematics, or other subjects.
Location(s)
- Remote
Schedule
- Year-Round
Cost/Compensation
- Free
Eligibility Requirements
- All middle- and high-school students are encouraged to submit their work.
- Initial submission of manuscript must occur prior to the student author’s enrollment in university.
- Students should have a passion for answering scientific questions by carrying out independent research projects.
- A senior mentor must be included as the last author on all JEI manuscripts (a teacher, college/university professor, postdoctoral fellow, or senior graduate student may serve as a senior mentor if research was performed in a school or university. A parent can serve as a senior mentor if research was conducted at home).
- If you are listing someone as an author on a manuscript you need to seek and gain their permission prior to submitting your manuscript. This allows them to verify that they agree with the information contained in the manuscript and are okay with it being published.
- All research must include a well-constructed hypothesis that seeks to address a specific, measurable, and answerable question.
- All research published in JEI must adhere to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) guidelines for ethical research involving vertebrate animals and human subjects. In most cases, this involves obtaining approval for your project from either a Scientific Review Committee (SRC), Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), or Institutional Review Board (IRB) before beginning your research.
- Work should be original and not published or submitted to any other journal.
Deadline
- Rolling
Application or Entry Requirements
- Submit manuscript that has been formatted according to the guidelines outlined in JEI’s manuscript template.
- All sources must be cited according to JEI’s guidelines, found here.
Notifications of Decisions
Authors typically hear from the editorial team within two weeks of submission. From there, the manuscript will undergo revisions and further review before decisions are finalized and the publication process begins.
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The Journal of Emerging Investigators is a science journal and mentorship program publishing research by middle and high school scientists. Through the scientific review process, JEI connects middle-school and high-school students with PhD candidates and advanced investigators who work in university research laboratories. By publishing with JEI, student-authors will learn the scientific method, practice communicating their science, and be recognized as young emerging scientists. All manuscripts at JEI must have at least two authors, one or more student authors and a senior author.
