英语科技论文写作方法与教程(南开大学)-4

How to publish a paper?
• Choosing the right journal for your
paper:
• Audience • Format of your paper - regular paper,
brief communication, technical note, review article...
individual publication may be the number of journal citations that it receives.
• However, note that a weak paper could
be cited by many other publications that point out its flaws.
Where to publish?
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Acceptance rate and time to publication can be very different:
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How many publications/year or “on acceptance”? How many papers does the Editor have in hand? - Can priorities be assigned and using what criteria?
Where to publish?
• Essential to identify the “right” journal. • Some journals/editors seem to work on
a geographic basis.
• Journals have different scientific impact.
Impact factor
• Critical to a journal's success and still the
most common benchmark of quality
• How it works: • Firstly, a journal must be accepted for
scientists or individual articles.
• Citation impact: number of citations
received by a single article.
Copyright issues
• In most cases, the author of an article is
indexing by Thomson ISI (Web of Science).
• This depends on citation rate and it
takes new journals a while to get going.
Impact factor
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Publications in journals with high impact factors are thought to be more prestigious.
half of all citations from that journal in 2005
• other half of citations precede 2001.
Other measures of impact
• Aggregate impact factor: • Calculated for a subject category. • Takes into account the number of
citations;
Course outline
• How a scientific journal works; • The roles of the editor and referees; • Submitting your paper; • Peer review: how to respond to referees.
Scientific writing and presentation
Prof. Mark Bartlam
College of Life Sciences, Nankai University E-mail: bartlam@nankai.edu.cn Tel: 23502351
• Lecture 9+10: How to publish a paper: • Choosing the right journal for your paper; • Impact factors, immediacy factors and
Impact factors
Impact factors
Impact factors
Impact factors
Other measures of impact
• Immediacy index: • Number of citations of articles in a
journal per year divided by the number of articles published.
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Special issue with a particular focus? Is the journal double blind refereed? Relationships count.
Where to publish?
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Journals want to be known for quality (Tier 1 journal). Journal seeks a good number of submissions. Short time to first decision (also important to Authors!). Immediate rejection rate: - tends to increase as journal becomes known (and gets more choosy). Acceptance rate: - tends to reduce – 25% is typical.
• Cited half-life: • Median age of articles cited in Journal
Citation Reports each year.
Other measures of impact
• e.g. if a journal‟s half-life in 2005 is 5: • citations from 2001-2005 make up
Where to publish?
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What‟s important to you?
• Journal reputation / Journal impact. • Circulation and visibility. • Acceptance/rejection rates. • Speed of handling. • Speed of publication.
Where to publish?
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What‟s important to you?
• Quality of printing and graphics. • Publication costs: author pays, page
charges, colour work charges.
• Publication benefits: preprints, issue
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Impact factor
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For example, 2003 impact factor: A = # of times articles published in 2001 and 2002 were cited by indexed journals during 2003. B = total number of "citable items" (articles, reviews, proceedings) published in 2001 and 2002. 2003 impact factor = A/B
required to transfer the copyright to the journal publisher.
• To protect author's rights, and to
coordinate permissions for reprints or other use.
Copyright issues
Examples (2008):
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Nature: 31.4 Vision Research: 2.1
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Typically, impact factors > 1 indicate “good” journals
Impact factor
• A better measure of the impact of an
• Submit to one journal at a time – or be
blacklisted!
• Multiple publication of the same content
with different titles and/or in different journals is unethical.
distribute a number of reprints/postprints.
• Open access movement.
Digital first policy
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“The market is ... moving away from print-based offerings to rapidly disseminated and highly searchable web-based formats” What is the role of journals in the digital age?
• Some governments and research
institutes refuse but give the publisher an irrevocable license to publish, and retain the other rights themselves.
• In any case, author usually has right to
• Scientific journals explicitly ask authors
not to do this.
Impact factor
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The impact factor of a journal is the average number of citations to those papers that were published during the two preceding years.
of journal, ...
• Subscription or Open Access?
Where to publish?
• Talk to colleagues, seek advice. • For choosing journal and writing
paper.
How to publish a paper
citations to all journals in the subject category, and the number of articles from all journals in the subject category.
• Impact factors have a large but
The problem with impact factors
controversial influence on published scientific research.
• Impact factors only apply to journals. • Impact factors do not apply to individual