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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. Scientific Publication. By Dr. Emad Abbas Al-Mulla College of Science, University of Kufa. Scientific Knowledge. “ The object of research is to extend human knowledge beyond what is already known ”
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Scientific Publication By Dr. Emad Abbas Al-Mulla College of Science, University of Kufa
Scientific Knowledge “The object of research is to extend human knowledge beyond what is already known” “Science is a shared knowledge based on a common understanding of some aspect of the physical or social world” G. Whitesides, 2004 “If it wasn’t published, It wasn’t done” “E.H. Miller 1993”
Author ResponsibilitiesBefore Submission of Manuscript (ms): • Ensure work is new and original research • All Authors listed on ms are aware of submission • Include proper affiliation • Ms is well organized and well written
Scientific Misconduct • Gift Authorship • Redundant Publication • Plagiarism • Fabrication • Falsification • Conflict of Interest • Duplicate publication/submission of research
What is not acceptable… Papers that are • Routine extensions of previous reports • Fragmentary reports of research results • Verbose or poorly organized • Violations of ethical guidelines
Some Aspects … * Cover Letter * Highlights * Graphical Abstract
Journal Reviewers Authors Scientific Publication is a Team Effort
Impact Factor • The Impact Factor (IF) is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in science and social science journals • IF is calculated by dividing the number of citations in the JCR year by the total number of articles published in the two previous years Cites in 2010 to items published in 2009 & 2008 Calculation: ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Number of items published in 2009 & 2008
Some Global Publishers … *Elsevier (SinenceDirect) * SpringerLink * InterScience (Wiley) * IEEE
Impact Factor 1.094 Impact Factor 1.507
Impact Factor 0.659 Impact Factor 0.748 Impact Factor 0.558