The desire of every academic is to publish in reputable national and international journals. Unfortunately, this desire more often than not turn out to be a nightmare particularly for academics in developing economies, whose research outputs are usually rejected at initial desk review. Such research outputs generally end up with predator journals that have no formal peer-review process, but are primarily set up for profit maximization. Consequently, the scholarly contributions of such academics remain very meagre, and almost unnoticeable. To halt this trend, this paper identifies nine (9) pitfalls common among economic researchers in developing economies and proffers possible solutions for overcoming them so that their future research efforts can add value to the body of knowledge.
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