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Publishing in High Impact Journals

Prof. Dr. Zainal Salam, Centre of Electrical Energy Systems, UTM Johor Bahru,

Malaysia

MKEU 0013 Introduc-on to Research Methodology in Electrical

Engineering

Oct 2018


Research Outputs

● Knowledge generation –  Publications: Journal articles, conference papers, standard

documents/guidelines. –  Books, Monographs, Reports, Thesis

● Income generation –  Patents, copyrights, trademarks, industrial designs –  Software, algorithm, datasets,

● Business –  Products (software, hardware) Start-ups, capital ventures

(investor), IP sharing.


PUBLISHING IN HIGH IMPACT JOURNAL


The greatest ideas are (literally) worthless if you keep them to

yourself


Why do We Publish Paper? ●  To extend human knowledge ●  Responsibility to society, funding ●  For career progression and personal development

–  An edge in competitive job market, scholarship, promotion

●  To share knowledge –  Sharing opinions and experiences with peers –  Attract interest from others –  To receive expert feedback

●  To legitimize the research, –  Independent verification of methods and results. –  PhD candidate –  Grant application


If your work is good, why keep it secret?

If is was not published, the work is not complete


“Publish or Perish”


Steps of obtaining research output

Knowledge Data Information

Analysis Interpretation

Research

Execution

To be disseminated by PUBLICATION

“Scientists are rated by what they finish, not by what they attempt”


Peer Review vs. Popular Press

v Peer Review v Difficult to understand (technical jargon,

equations etc) v Aimed at a specific audience v Primary data v Access via expensive databases

v Popular Press v More approachable (easier to understand) v General audience v Sold in stores


What is High Impact Journal?

ü Journals that are being referred frequently by means of citations

ü Information in it are accurate and reliable

ü Content reviewed by “expert peers”. ü Examples:

ü IEEE Transactions, ü Titles form Elsevier, Wiley, Pergamon

Press, Nature, Science.


Why publish in High Impact Journal?

● To get higher cita-on – The paper is very likely to be cited.

● Personal Sa-sfac-on/esteem – Recogni-on as “expert” – Promo-on/appraisal exercises – “Ticket” for mobility (especially if publish in Nature, Science, IEEE Transac1ons)

● Ins-tu-onal – Visibility, University Ranking, RU


Types of Manuscript ● Original Research Article

–  Content based on primary data from author’s experiments, own work

–  Very Specific; Audience can be limited

● Literature Review Article –  Compilation of others work on the same topic/

area –  Quite broad; Lots of reference

● Letter/Notes –  One to four pages, short communication –  Original idea, but yet to be developed fully –  Fast reviewing process


PublicaEon Benefits ² Review papers are Highly cited!

Data: Scopus

Review papers have long “life-time”


Indexing Databases: Google Scholar

● Allows users to search for digital or physical copies of articles, whether online or in libraries.

●  It indexes full-text journal articles, technical reports, preprints, thesis, books and other documents that “deemed to be scholarly”.

● Advantage: linked to Google, Free ●  Concerns: Lack of screening for quality,

predatory journal, vulnerability to spam



Scopus

v Owned by Elsevier v On-line subscription (not free) v Covers 21,000 titles from 5,000

publishers v Over 21,000 are peer review journals

and conference proceedings v Areas: scientific, medical, technical,

arts, humanities, social science


Web of Science (WoS) ● Previously known as Web of Knowledge ● Indexing maintained by Thomson Reuters ● Consist of seven online databases

– Conference Proc. Citation Index (160,000 titles) – Science Citation Index Expanded (8,500 journal) – Social Science Citation Index (3,000 journal) – Book Citation Index (60,000 editorial) – And others..


CitaEons

● Definition: A formal, explicit linkage between papers that have particular points in common.

● If your paper is cited, it shows the value of your research in the eyes of others.

● It also reflects the quality of your work ● Nowadays, an important indicator for

personal/institutional competitiveness


Journal Impact Factor (IF)

●  The annual IF is a ratio between citations and recent citable items published.

●  A measure to indicate the relative importance of a journal within a specific subject category (field of research).

●  Devised by the founder of Institute of Scientific Information (ISI)

●  Calculated yearly, since 1975. ●  Only for journals indexed in Journal Citation Report

(JCR) ●  Many critics? But IF is till widely used as a

“benchmark” of journal quality.


Impact Factor calculaEon ●  A= number of ar-cles published in 1990-‐91 (2 years) ●  B= Number of cites (in 1992) to ar-cles published in 1990-‐91 ●  Impact Factor for 1992= B/A ●  Example: In 1990 and 1991, Journal X published a total of 100 ar-cles (A). In 1992, these 100 ar-cles are cited 250 -mes (B) .

1992 impact factor of Journal X = B/A =250/100 =2.50


5-‐year Impact Factor

2016 Impact Factor: 7.182 5-Year Impact Factor: 7.500

Impact Factor: The Impact Factor measures the average number of citations received in a particular year by papers published in the journal during the two preceding years.

Five-Year Impact Factor: To calculate the five year Impact Factor: citations are counted in the previous five years and divided by the source items published in the previous five years.

Measure of journal consistency and stability


Journal QuarEle (Q)

● Within a subject category, there are 100 journals having their impact factor compute by the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) published by Thomson Reuters.

● The top 25 (25%) is considered as Q1, second 25 (next 25%) as Q2 and so on.

● Note: A journal can be in different Q for different subject category (because it can be classified into several categories)


Example SIMULATION MODELLING PRACTICE AND THEORY

Impact Factor 1.05 1.169 2013 5 year JCR® Category Rank in Category Quartile in Category COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS 70 of 102 Q3 COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 49 of 105 Q2 Data from the 2013 edition of Journal Citation Reports® Publisher ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 1569-190X Research Domain Computer Science


Examples of top 2016 Q1 journals

2016 IF 7.186

2016 IF 7.671

2016 IF 12.343


Specialized Review Journal

2016 Impact factor: 47.928


h-‐index

● A measure to assess the cumula-ve publica-on produc-vity and impact of a researcher

● h-‐index can also be applied to the produc-vity and impact of a scholarly journal, department, ins-tu-on or even a country!

● There are is h-‐index for Google Scholar, Scopus and WoS


h-‐index calculaEon Example: No of papers=10. Five of them are cited 5 times (or more), The rest are cited less than 5 times, H-index is 5

Self Citation? OK, BUT NOT TOO MANY!


Ways to Increase your h-‐index

●  In principle, no short-cut: you need to write good articles in good journals!

●  Write review articles (normally highly cited) ●  Link with people who are top in the field ●  Enroll of professional network, e.g. Linkedin,

ResearchGate ●  Get more people interested in your work

(promotional?) ●  Volunteer to review papers of others ●  Cite your own paper

WORK SMART!


KEY FOR SUCCESSFUL WRITING

● Obtain high quality research results

● A lot of reading –  Study how successful authors write their papers –  Try to emulate some of their methods and style

● Prac-ce ● Never give up. For Supervisor:

A sure way of getting a rejection is to let the student writing the paper by himself (BK Bose; IEEE Fellow)


BEFORE PUTTING PEN ON PAPER…


Before starEng, ask these quesEons:

1. Have I done something new and interesting? 2. Is there anything challenging in my work? 3. Is my work related to a current hot topic? 4. Have I provided solutions to difficult problems?

Is my work publishable?

If yes to one of those, then you can start writing. If not, do some rethinking Consider submitting manuscript to lower impact factor journal?


Decide on Type of Manuscript

● Original Research Paper ● Review Paper ● Lefer/Short Communica-on


Structure of ScienEfic Paper: IMRAD

●  IMRAD (IntroducEon, Methods, Results, and Discussion)

●  Introduc-on: What did you/others do? Why did you do it?

● Methods: How did you do it? ● Results: What did you find? ● And ● Discussion: What does it all mean? Of course, an ar-cle begins with the Title, Abstract and Keywords


Choosing the “Correct” Target Journal

● Easiest way: Study the ar-cles you have consulted (cited) in your manuscript. – Probably most of them are concentrated in one or two journals.

– Read very recent publica-ons in each targeted journal; determine hot topics and the types of ar-cles that are accepted.


Journal SelecEon

● “Ambi-on” versus “Reality” ●  If your research results are not very compe--ve, go for journals with lower Impact Factor.

● Mul-ple/concurrent submissions – Don’t gamble by (unethical) – Only submit once and wait for the response of the editor and the reviewers.


Review Speed ConsideraEon

● Very important, but quite subjec-ve. ● It depends on reviewers response and Editorial Team efficiency

● Elsevier provides a good tool to find various informa-on about the targeted journal, including Review Speed

hgp://journalfinder.elsevier.com/


Study the Guide for Authors.

● Aner selec-ng the journal, go to the web page and download the Guide for Authors. Print and read it!

●  It contain editorial guidelines, submission procedures, fees, copyright and ethical issues.

●  Try to apply : text layout, references cita-on, nomenclature, figures and tables, etc.

● All editors hate poorly prepared manuscripts that does not adhere to its Guide to Authors. It shows no respect.


Storyline

● The paper must have a clear storyline. –  It should have one or two central issues that you

want to address. –  Do not “cloud” the paper with too many issues

until readers become confused. –  The selected issues become the theme/direction

of the paper –  Build the storyline around the issue.

● The hypothesis, objective must be well articulated.

● There must be a take home message


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