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Lidia Morawska Queensland University of Technology

How to write a good paper ?. ILAQH, QUT World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Air Pollution and Health. Lidia Morawska Queensland University of Technology. Good paper. For a good peer reviewed journal (in your field) To communicate information.

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Lidia Morawska Queensland University of Technology

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  1. How to write a good paper? ILAQH, QUT World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Air Pollution and Health Lidia Morawska Queensland University of Technology

  2. Good paper • For a good peer reviewed journal (in your field) • To communicate information

  3. What is a good journal? • The Lancet,IF 53.254 • Science,IF 41.058 • Environmental Health Perspectives, IF 8.440 • Environment International,IF 7.297 • Environmental Science & Technology, IF 6.653 • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics,IF 5.509 • Environmental Research, IF 4.732 • Science of the Total Environment, IF 4.610 • Indoor Air, IF 4.396 • Environmental Pollution, IF 4.358 • Atmospheric Environment, IF 3.708 • Journal of Aerosol Science, IF 2.042 Where we publish

  4. Important information communication e-prints

  5. Ask big/good questions • Well defined aim • So what factor A graduate student Martha McClintock, suggested pheromones as the cause of menstrual synchrony. (McClintock 1971, Nature ).

  6. The Abstract and its role This is what the Editor sees first! What should your Abstract include: • What is the research problem and why it is important • Aim of the study • How it was addressed (experiment, analyses, etc) • Results • So what factor

  7. Introduction • Short and to the point (leave the rest for the Discussion) • Should end with a very clearly explained aim of the study

  8. Methods Be exhaustive: • all what you have done • how you have done it • why you have done it this way …need to be included

  9. Results Results and Discussion: or separate sections? What to include in the body of the paper and what in the supplementary?

  10. Relation between the Aim and Conclusions Very clear explanation how the outcomes of the study addressed the aim

  11. References • Relevant to the paper • Your papers: only a few relevant • As recent as possible

  12. Be your own reviewer (…in other words: be critical)

  13. Be honest Explain in detail all the problems and limitations: highlight them, don’t hide! “Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom”. Thomas Jefferson US President Plagiarism can kill your career! (and is very easy to detect)

  14. By inclusive • Think who to invite to join and help with the paper • Give credit to all who helped (co-authorship or acknowledgement)

  15. STOTEN

  16. STOTEN By definition total environment studies must be multidisciplinary Studies that focus on at least two or three of the ‘spheres’ are given primary consideration Papers reporting results from only one sphere are not considered Field studies are given priority over laboratory studies

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