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You do not need a degree to submit a paper. The greatest problem is finding the right journal to submit it to. There are many journals with different areas of i

You do not need a degree to submit a paper. The greatest problem is finding the right journal to submit it to. There are many journals with different areas of interest. And for journals with overlapping fields, it is often the case that one journal will reject an paper because they feel that the result is not significant enough while another journal (of lesser 'quality') will happily accept it. My advise would be to find someone that is an expert in the field of the paper and ask advice with respect to what would be a good journal. You could also try to contact any of the authors whoes papers you reference. If you paper has not any references, you would have to find relevant references. If a paper does not have any references, it is not very likely to be accepted by any journal.

eesmith 3y ago
There's also the problem that there are a lot of low-quality journals out there which exist to get paid to publish just about anything. To the OP, I agree with fjfaase - if you don't have references, your work won't meet the baseline scholarship 'real' journal expect. "Real" means read by others in the field you want to publish. If there's literally no previous work to build on, then that means you aren't in that field, or it's not a problem which interests the field. At the very least you can start "every previous publication has focused on X [cite several review articles]. In this work I consider Y." If you do have references, those give you an idea of where others in your field publish.