Where Do I Publish My Research Paper?

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Where Do I Publish My Research Paper? Some
Quality Considerations
I.R.N. Goudar Head, ICAST National Aerospace
Laboratories Bangalore-560 017 goudar_at_css.nal.res.
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Publication Channels

• Journals
• Technical Reports
• Conference Proceedings
• House Magazines

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Great Journals are born in the hands of the
editors they die in the hands of
businessmen. -Bernard DeVoto
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Criteria for Journal Selection for Publishing

• International VS National VS Local
• Refereed VS Nonrefereed
• Currency
• Availability of E-version
• Visibility and Market share of the Publisher
• Circulation Statistics
• Language
• Subject
• Periodicity
• Professional Society Publication?
• SCI Covered?
• Coverage by I A Services
• Impact Factor

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Citing other Authors
Citations are used to show respect to previous
scholars.
Citations are used to recognise and acknowledge
the intellectual property rights of authors.
Citations operate as a kind of mutual reward
system.
Citations are a tool of persuasion.
Citations are used to supply evidence that the
author qualifies as a member of the chosen
scholarly community.
Citations are used to demonstrate familiarity
with the field.
Citations are used to create a research space for
the citing author.
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Citation Quality

• Good citation data is a sign of good scholarship
• Good citation data
• - has all relevant papers cited to show that the
  authors are aware of related literature
• - citation has to conform to journal style
• But citation styles vary a lot for disciplines
• Citations in the hard sciences are a lot more
  formal

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Web of Science

• Coverage
• - More than 8000 journals conference
  proceedings
• - Over 20,000 new items added each week to
  the
• citation databases
• - Letters, articles, editorials etc
• Web interface to
• - Science Citation Index 5,300 Titles
• - Social Sciences Citation Index 1,700 Titles
• - Arts Humanities Citation Index 1,700 Titles
• - ISI Proceedings (included since January 2000)

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Source Index

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• RETTENMA.G (DE) ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSIS OF RENAL
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• DEUT MED WO 98 361 73 17R N8

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Citation Index

• NAIR KG
• 66 BIOCHEMESTRY 5 150
• DESOUSA RC J PHYSL PAR R 71 5 75
• MASLINSK. C AGENT ACTION 5 183 75
• 68 CIRCULATION RESEARCH 23
• ANVERSA P LAB INV 33 125 75

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Journal Citation Reports

• Unique Resource tool for journal evaluation
  comparison
• - Based on the collection and analysis of
  citation data
• JCR can be used top examine citation data
• - Relating to a particular journal or group of
  journals
• - The service shows the relationship between
  cited and citing journals in a clear, easy-to-use
  framework
• Each Journal-indexed for five full consecutive
  years
• - Updated annually in August/September
• Separate product and searched separately
• - Uses athens authentication service
• - Print option but no emailing

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JCR Five Primary Data

• Total Cites
• - Total number of times that each journal has
  been cited in a given year
• Impact factor
• - Measures the frequency with which the average
  article in a journal has been cited within a
  given year
• Immediacy Index
• - Measure of how quickly the average article in a
  specific journal is cited
• Articles
• - The number of articles published in a journal
  in a given year
• Cited Half-life
• - The number of publication years from the
  current year which account for 50 of current
  citations received

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Uses of JCR

• Finding the most cited journals journals that
  received the highest number of citations in a
  given year
• Finding the largest journals journals that
  published the greatest number of articles in a
  given year
• High Impact journals journals with the highest
  average citations per recent article
• Hottest journals journals which received most
  cites per current article
• Identify Review journals

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JCR for Authors
Identify journals in which to publish, confirm
status of journals in which they are published,
identify journals relevant to their research
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The Impact Factor What is It?

• An index of scientific impact or significance
• Chief quantitative measure of the quality of a
  journal, its research papers, the researchers who
  wrote those papers, and even the institution they
  work in
• one of three measures which index the way a
  journal receives citations to its published
  articles over time

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Generalised Citation Curve
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The Impact Factor How it is calculated?

• Impact Factor is the measure of the relative size
  of the citation curve in years 2 and 3
• Calculated by dividing the number of current
  citations a journal receives to the articles
  published in the two previous years by the number
  of articles published in those same years

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IF Calculation
Citations in 2001 to articles published
in 1999 and 2000 1500 -------------------
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1.5 Number of articles published 1000 in
1999 and 2000
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The Impact Factor The Top Ten (1999)
1. Annual Review of Immunology 47.6 2. Annual
Review of Biochemistry 37.1 3.
Cell 36.2 4. Nature Genetics 30.7 5.
Nature 29.5 6. New England Journal of
Medicine 28.9 7. Nature Medicine 26.6 8.
Annual Review of Cell and Developmental
Biology 26.3 9. Current Opinion in Cell
Biology 25.6 10. Science 24.6
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Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Year 2001 -
Science Edition Categories Materials Science,
Multidisciplinary
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Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Year 2001 -
Science Edition Categories Engineering,
Environmental
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Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Year 2001 -
Science Edition Categories Engineering,
Electrical Electronic
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Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Year 2001 -
Science Edition Categories Polymer Science
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Impact Factors and Journal Type
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The Impact Factor Considerations

• Variation based on article type (review, rapid
  publication, etc.)
• Variation by subject field or area (general vs.
  specialized)
• Variation based on number of authors
• Variation based on number of articles

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Subject Variation in Impact Factors
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What is Good IF Value?

• above 10 Impressive
• 5-10 Very good
• 3-5 Good
• 1-2 Okay
• lt 1 Weak
• lt 0.1 Why publish at all

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The Impact Factor One Discipline
Annual Review of Neuroscience 22.7 Trends in
Neuroscience 19.9 Neuron 16.8 Journal of
Neuroscience 8.4 Journal of Cognitive
Neuroscience 5.2 Journal of
Neurophysiology 3.4 Visual Neuroscience
2.2 Brain Research 2.1 Experimental Brain
Research 2.0 Neuroscience Letters
1.9 Neuroscience Research Communications 0.7
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The IF Consideration for Publication?

• You should have a sense of the impact of the
  journals in your area and/or discipline
• This should be taken into account when deciding
  on a journal, but should be only one of a number
  factors

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The Impact Factor Applications

• Used increasingly as a tool for assessing
  publication quality
• Consequently, it can be used in decisions
• - hiring
• - raises
• - promotion and tenure
• - departmental or institutional
• research profile

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