A growing body of knowledge has confirmed that the journal peer-review process is an integral part of the scientific publication process and provides demonstrable benefits to journal editors and authors. This study aims to develop doctoral students' understanding of the journal peer-review process and highlight the most common errors and pitfalls reviewers identify in novice authors’ manuscripts, which could lead to rejection. A qualitative content analysis research method was used to analyse the primary data as experience collected from senior researchers, editors and associate editors. Among the major contributions of this study is an interactive diagram that provides an overview of the journal peer-review process and identifies the common pitfalls in manuscripts, as well as a comprehensive manuscript submission checklist.

越来越多的知识已经证实，期刊同行评审过程是科学出版过程的组成部分，并为期刊编辑和作者带来明显的好处。这项研究旨在增进博士生对期刊同行评审过程的理解，并强调审稿人在新手作者的手稿中发现的最常见的错误和陷阱，这可能导致被拒绝。使用定性内容分析研究方法来分析从高级研究人员，编辑和副编辑那里收集来的原始数据作为经验。这项研究的主要贡献之一是一个交互式图表，该图表提供了期刊同行评审过程的概述，并确定了稿件中常见的陷阱以及完整的稿件提交清单。