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Generally speaking, it is not easy to publish scientific papers in reputational journals with high impact factors due to low acceptance rates. Therefore, good science as well as good writing cannot be overemphasized. Nuclear medicine and molecular imaging is naturally research-oriented specialty of medicine. Its new techniques, methods, or radiopharmaceutical agents should be timely published in the major imaging and/or clinical journals to disseminate valuable and useful information. Rejection of scientific papers by the editors of good journals is related to poor science and writing as well as irrelevant topic, insufficient original work, methodology without rigor, poor analysis of results, and perhaps low acceptance rate. With my vast personal experiences as editor of the Current Medical Imaging as well as associate editor of the Journals of Nuclear Medicine and Radiology for many years, I would like to express my way to think about the nuclear medicine and molecular imaging scientific papers and help my trainees as well as junior faculties for their successful publication. The authorship credit is obtained by substantial contribution to conception, design, acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data, or drafting of the article, or critical revision for important intellectual content. Agreement should be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the article are appropriately investigated and resolved. The first author should be a main executor of the described work or main writer, and the last author is typically the senior researcher or supervisor. Multiple authorships may indicate a good responsible team work. Repetitive publication of the same methods, experiments, or data is considered plagiarismwhich makes unethical and bad consequences to your reputation. A scientific paper is a written report describing original research results with the format defined by the traditional and editorial practices as well as ethics, and also interplaying printing and publishing services. It usually includes research, review, and educational and case description papers as well as papers on developed systems or applications. The typical research paper deals with new concepts, problems, approaches to known problems, algorithms, devices, and experiments. The results need to be compared with the state of the art. Quality should be preferred over quantity. The review paper is organized and structured with descriptions of a cutting-edge research theme. The important information may be scattered across different sources and hard to find elsewhere. Therefore, it should summarize, evaluate, or synthesize already published information and provide sources of new ideas. The paper on developed system or application needs to describe problems to solve, developmental difficulties, and implementation choices. It is also necessary to compare the performance, usability, and features of the system with others. Why do we want to publish scientific papers? It may be helpful for your academic or scientific career with the creation of knowledge which is more than on the transmission. Others can benefit from your contribution to understanding the world. It is also useful to make records of your valuable works and challenges. What can you publish?A new idea such as the first solution to an impacting problem is the best to publish. You also may publish results of experiments, general or specific problems, proof of the impossibility of solving a problem, better solution to a known problem, knowledge gaps, multidisciplinary ideas, and integration of knowledge, trends in recent, cutting-edge areas. At present time, topics related to theranostics and molecular imaging as well as imaging immunotherapy or immune metabolic imaging seem to have relatively high acceptance rates in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Imaging fibrosis, * E. Edmund Kim [email protected]