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Scientific Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction Why? Where? Impact factors and quartile rankings Review process Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details Questions? Scientific Papers Publishing in International Journals and Conferences Dr. Natalia Konstantinova 1 1 Research Institute in Information and Language Processing University of Wolverhampton www.nkonst.com 26 April, 2014
Nlp Seminar - Writing and publishing scientific papers
This presentation covers various options you have when choosing a place to publish your research. It provides details about impact factors and also describes typical structure of experimental papers. It was presented at NlpSeminar (http://nlpseminar.ru/)
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Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
Why? Where? Impact factors and quartile rankings Review process
Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? Scientic Papers Publishing in International Journals and
Conferences Dr. Natalia Konstantinova1 1Research Institute in
Information and Language Processing University of Wolverhampton
www.nkonst.com 26 April, 2014
Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
Why? Where? Impact factors and quartile rankings Review process
Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? About me Graduated from Mathematical linguistics,
Saint-Petersburg State University; Got PhD from Research Institute
in Information and Language Processing, University of
Wolverhampton, UK; I am an editorial assistant for the Journal of
Natural Language Engineering for 5 years, I was participating in
the organisation of various conferences and workshops;
Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
Why? Where? Impact factors and quartile rankings Review process
Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? Outline 1 Introduction Why? Where? Impact factors and
quartile rankings Review process 2 Research Papers Typical
structure Structure: More Details 3 Questions?
Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
Why? Where? Impact factors and quartile rankings Review process
Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? Why to publish? Get recognition for your work; Share
your knowledge with others; acquire new contacts; Get feedback from
the reviewers; Add to your CV;
Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
Why? Where? Impact factors and quartile rankings Review process
Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? Where to publish? Dierent quality standards,
selectiveness and impact: Journals more space (usually about 20
pages); more thorough reviews; more impact (especially long-term
impact); more highly rated by selection/promotion committees;
Conference proceedings faster process; quality of reviews depends
on your luck; you have to pay conference fees; direct contacts can
be made at the conference;
Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
Why? Where? Impact factors and quartile rankings Review process
Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? What to check before submitting? Avoid poor quality
journals and conferences;
Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
Why? Where? Impact factors and quartile rankings Review process
Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? What to check before submitting? (2) Before sending
check: Where the proceedings are published/reputation of the
journal; Programme committee; Submission topics; Submission
guidelines;
Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
Why? Where? Impact factors and quartile rankings Review process
Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? Other options Special issues at the journal; Special
issues connected to workshop; Open-access digital archives of
preprints, e.g. http:/arxiv.org/
Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
Why? Where? Impact factors and quartile rankings Review process
Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? Publications as a performance indicator Some
universities use the amount and quality of publications as a
performance indicator for the researchers; Dierent types of
publications get more value; monographs; book chapters; journal
papers; conference proceedings; handbooks;
Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
Why? Where? Impact factors and quartile rankings Review process
Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? Quality of journal publications Quartile rankings -
journals are ranked based on various bibliometric indices;
impact-factor Journal Citation Reports by Thompson Reuters
(database Web of Science) - 12,500 journals; SJR (SCIMago Journal
Rank), calculated by a research group SCImago in a partnership and
based on data of Elsevier (database Scopus) - 21,000 journals;
Identify level of citations for a journal; NB! Many journals from
humanities do not have an ocial impact factor, therefore it is
recommended to use SJR.
Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
Why? Where? Impact factors and quartile rankings Review process
Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? Rankings impact-factor Journal Citation Reports by
Thompson Reuters (database Web of Science) the impact factor of a
journal is calculated by dividing the number of current year
citations to the source items published in that journal during the
previous two years; SJR (SCIMago Journal Rank) based on data from
Elsevier (database Scopus); is calculated in a more dicult way (it
takes into account the inuence of the journals that refer to this
journal, proximity of the area of a journal etc.);
Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
Why? Where? Impact factors and quartile rankings Review process
Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? Journal quartiles Journals are classied into quartiles;
four levels - quartiles (quarters), ranging from Q1 (the highest)
to Q4 (the lowest); there are thematic categories (Web of Science
about 250, Scopus about 350);
Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
Why? Where? Impact factors and quartile rankings Review process
Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? Rankings - ocial websites are calculated every year and
are published on ocial websites: Journal Citation Reports
(available at www.isiknowledge.com); SCImago JR (available at
www.scimagojr.com);
Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
Why? Where? Impact factors and quartile rankings Review process
Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? Your impact factor
Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
Why? Where? Impact factors and quartile rankings Review process
Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? Review lifecycle Submit a paper; It gets assigned 3-4
reviewers; Review process (conference: about 2 weeks - 1 month,
journal: 2-3 months); Get decision (binary for conferences, n-ary
for a journal): Decline/reject; Revise and resubmit (cannot be
accepted in the current form and needs revision); Major (can be
accepted but needs major changes); Minor (can be accepted but needs
minor adjustments); Accept as it is; Address comments of the
reviewers and send paper again;
Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
Why? Where? Impact factors and quartile rankings Review process
Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? Review Address reviewers comments:
Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
Why? Where? Impact factors and quartile rankings Review process
Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? Typical structure Title Abstract Introduction Related
work Resources/data collection Methodology Evaluation Error
analysis Conclusions and future research Bibliography
Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
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Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? Title and Abstract Should reect the content of the
paper; Abstract should present the main idea of the paper and its
main contribution;
Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
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Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? Related work We show awareness of the research in the
area; We describe existing methods; We describe why our research is
dierent from everything that was done before;
Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
Why? Where? Impact factors and quartile rankings Review process
Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? Related work(2) Mistakes: Not up-to-date research; Too
narrow; Too broad; Fail to show the dierence with your
research;
Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
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Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? Data Description of your data; The way the data was
collected (for example, the description of the corpus or dataset);
If special annotation of the data was done (for example, guidelines
for annotators, inter-annotator agreement ,etc.)
Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
Why? Where? Impact factors and quartile rankings Review process
Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? Methodology How your experiment was done? All the steps
to re-produce it; What rules/techniques you used? Ideally other
researchers should be able to reproduce your experiment;
Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
Why? Where? Impact factors and quartile rankings Review process
Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? Evaluation A very important part of your research! Why
do we need evaluation? Allows to assess the results of a method or
a system; Allows to compare results of dierent methods and systems;
Allows to understand why method fails or which parts create
problems; How the evaluation was done? What metrics were used? What
are the baselines? What gold standard?
Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
Why? Where? Impact factors and quartile rankings Review process
Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? Error analysis Most probably your method gives errors;
Analyse them; Try to group; Try to explain why they occur; Suggest
ways to tackle them in the future research; Or describe why you
cannot make it better;
Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
Why? Where? Impact factors and quartile rankings Review process
Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? Conclusions and future work Make nal conclusions about
your experiment; Was your hypothesis proved? Did you get a better
performance than someone else? Why your performance is valuable?
Describe what you plan to do in the future; Are you planning to
address some shortcomings of the current research? Do you want to
use some other data set?
Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
Why? Where? Impact factors and quartile rankings Review process
Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? Bibliography Should be consistent; Should contain all
needed information (pages, publisher etc.); Better use some
reference style;
Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
Why? Where? Impact factors and quartile rankings Review process
Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? Tips Make sure it is clear; Readers should be able to
re-produce your experiment; English and formatting are important!
Negative results are still results! But! You need to have solid
methodology!
Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
Why? Where? Impact factors and quartile rankings Review process
Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? Further Links http:
//research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/pbailey/
sigir-paper-writing-tips.aspx?1702280376
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/paper.html
http://www.journalprep.com/FILES/How_to_Write_
and_Publish_an_Academic_Research_Paper.pdf
http://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2008/08/
30/how-to-write-a-paper-and-get-it-published/
Scientic Papers Dr. Natalia Konstantinova About me Introduction
Why? Where? Impact factors and quartile rankings Review process
Research Papers Typical structure Structure: More Details
Questions? Questions