Title: Getting Started: Publication Issues for Graduate Students, Postdoctoral Fellows, and other Novice Ad
1Getting Started Publication Issues for Graduate
Students,Postdoctoral Fellows, and other Novice
Addiction Scientists
Presented by Dominique Morisano, PhD
2Early 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
3General Issues
- Authorship Decisions
- Ethical Dilemmas
- Timetables
- Career Opportunities
4Authorship Issues
5First things first...
- Be aware of power imbalances
6What 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
7Some 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
8Example Scenarios What to do?
- Scenario 1
- Scenario 2
- Scenario 3
9Publishing Your Thesis or Dissertation Making
the ProcessLess Painful (or An Ideal Way to
Begin?)
10Publishing 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
11Writing with Publication in Mind...
- Consider
- Potential audience
- Potential style and formatting
- Keep a record and backups of datasets and analyses
12Publication 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
13Publishing 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
14Finishing up that paper...timelines
- Post-docs
- Getting help...
- Contracts with supervisors...some examples
15Submitting...and handling rejection
- Write a letter to the editor
- Check author guidelines
- Rejection is part of the process...
- Incorporate feedback and try, try again
16Special 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
17General 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
18Choosing 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
19Language
- Find a native English speaker to edit or
co-author the paper - International Conferences
- www.isaje.net
20Resource and Internet Access Issues
- Interlibrary loan systems
- Healht InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative
(HINARI) - Connecting with international researchers
21Maintaining Optimism...
- Relative lack of published literature Plenty of
things to write about - Obstacles are surmountable
22CONCLUSIONS...Take the long view
- Publish your dissertation
- Learn from established researchers
- Hone your writing skills
- Practice, practice, practice