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Title: Getting Started: Publication Issues for Graduate Students, Postdoctoral Fellows, and other Novice Ad


1
Getting Started Publication Issues for Graduate
Students,Postdoctoral Fellows, and other Novice
Addiction Scientists
Presented by Dominique Morisano, PhD
2
Early Career Publishing Whats the Rush?
  • Pressure to publish
  • Key criterion for...
  • Acceptance to graduate school, internships, and
    postdoctoral placements
  • Receipt of scholarships, fellowships, grants
  • Employment

3
General Issues
  • Authorship Decisions
  • Ethical Dilemmas
  • Timetables
  • Career Opportunities

4
Authorship Issues
5
First things first...
  • Be aware of power imbalances

6
What contributions deserve authorship?
  • Different requirements for students?
  • The basics (for authors vs. footnotes)
  • Write something
  • Make a major (i.e., creative, intellectual, and
    integral) contribution to the work reported.
  • Be prepared to take public responsibility for its
    contents
  • Examples (usually required in combination)
  • Develop the research design
  • Write sections of the manuscript
  • Integrate diverse theoretical perspectives
  • Develop new conceptual models
  • Contribute to data-analysis decisions
  • Interpret results

7
Some words of advice...
  • Find a mentor
  • Discuss, discuss, discuss (early on!)
  • Read about authorship ethics (see Chapter 8), and
    check for guidelines at your own institution and
    professional societies
  • "Except under exceptional circumstances, a
    student is listed as principal author on any
    multiple-authored article that is substantially
    based on the student's doctoral dissertation"
    (American Psychological Association, 8.12)
  • Whatever you decide, write it down

8
Example Scenarios What to do?
  • Scenario 1
  • Scenario 2
  • Scenario 3

9
Publishing Your Thesis or Dissertation Making
the ProcessLess Painful (or An Ideal Way to
Begin?)
10
Publishing your dissertation as a scientific
article...
  • An ideal place to begin
  • It represents years of quality work
  • Its already written
  • You have readily available co-authors to help
  • A variety of formats
  • Monograph style
  • Manuscript style

11
Writing with Publication in Mind...
  • Consider
  • Potential audience
  • Potential style and formatting
  • Keep a record and backups of datasets and analyses

12
Publication of the dissertation itself...online
  • Online Dissertation Indexing and Publishing
    Resources
  • UMI Dissertation Publishing
  • Dissertation Abstracts International
    (DAI)/Comprehensive Dissertation Index
  • Networked Library of Digital Dissertations and
    Theses
  • Theses Canada Portal
  • DissOnline
  • Die Deutsche Bibliothek
  • Database of African Theses and Dissertations
  • Networked European Deposit Library
  • Google Scholar

13
Publishing your thesis... and Authorship
  • Discuss as early as possible with advisors and
    committee members
  • In most circumstances, the student should be
    first author
  • If committee members are to be invited...
  • Recruitment of co-authors

14
Finishing up that paper...timelines
  • Post-docs
  • Getting help...
  • Contracts with supervisors...some examples

15
Submitting...and handling rejection
  • Write a letter to the editor
  • Check author guidelines
  • Rejection is part of the process...
  • Incorporate feedback and try, try again

16
Special Issues for Students and Postdocs in LAMI
countries
  • Students in Low and Middle Income (LAMI)
    countries (by definition) are challenged by
  • Inadequate resources
  • Competing priorities
  • Few mentors

17
General Issues of Capacity
  • Setting priorities to allow the data to reach a
    broader audience and impact policy development
  • Using external resources
  • ISAJE mentorship program (www.parint.org)
  • Countering anxiety
  • Find a mentor who is familiar with the process of
    publication

18
Choosing a Topic and a Journal
  • Review Chapter 2 of Publishing Addiction Science
    for a list of journals
  • Consider case studies, letters, policy and
    opinion pieces, dissertation or thesis data
  • Scan journal contents, check journals
    peer-reviewed status

19
Language
  • Find a native English speaker to edit or
    co-author the paper
  • International Conferences
  • www.isaje.net

20
Resource and Internet Access Issues
  • Interlibrary loan systems
  • Healht InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative
    (HINARI)
  • Connecting with international researchers

21
Maintaining Optimism...
  • Relative lack of published literature Plenty of
    things to write about
  • Obstacles are surmountable

22
CONCLUSIONS...Take the long view
  • Publish your dissertation
  • Learn from established researchers
  • Hone your writing skills
  • Practice, practice, practice
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