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Anders Wändahl anders@golonka.se

Selecting a journal where to publish... do it right and avoid the pitfalls!. Anders Wändahl anders@golonka.se. Think, discuss, hands-on. http://udsm.golonka.org. University rankings. Your institution/country is measured, ranked and benchmarked

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Anders Wändahl anders@golonka.se

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  1. Selecting a journal where to publish... do it right and avoid the pitfalls! Anders Wändahlanders@golonka.se

  2. Think, discuss, hands-on

  3. http://udsm.golonka.org

  4. University rankings • Your institution/country is measured, ranked and benchmarked • Academic Ranking of World Universitites (Shanghai Ranking) • Times Higher Education (THE) • Nature Index • Scimago Journal & Country Rank

  5. Think of… • Think of 1…5 journals in your field of research • These should be candidates for your next manuscript (for real or just an example in this exercise)

  6. Why publish at all? • Appointments • Promotion • Tenure • Career • Funding • Postdoc • Fame and glory • Good for science

  7. Why publish at all? • Appointments • Promotion • Tenure • Career • Funding • Postdoc • Fame and glory • Good for science

  8. What is the message from your university?

  9. (Rwanda)

  10. (Eldoret)

  11. (Makerere)

  12. (Eldoret)

  13. (Eastern Africa Universities Mathematics Programme – EAUMP)

  14. What is an international journal? One definition:

  15. What is a good journal? What determines the quality of a journal?

  16. Qualitative factors • Reputation • Editors, editorial boards • Peer-review • Database indexing

  17. Hands-on! • Go to the web pages of some of the journals youpickedinitially. Canyourecognizepeoplethathavepublished in the journal? Colleagues? Big shots in the research area? • Find the information abouteditorial board and editors. Impressive or not? Comments? • Find information about the peer-review process. Is it clearlystated? Does it seem robust and trustworthy? • Try to get an overall impression of the journal. Good or bad? Strenghts and weaknesses?

  18. Indexing in databases For a comprehensive list of databases, look in Wikipedia

  19. Hands-on! • Find a database in your area of research (regardless of ifyouhave access to the database or not) • Try tofind the list of journals indexed in thatdatabase • Canyoufindany of the journals youpickedinitially?

  20. Indexing in databases The databases are picky about quality! A journal indexed in a major bibliographic database is most likely a good candidate for your coming manuscript.

  21. Qualitative factors (cont’d) Expert panels

  22. Hands-on! • Have a look in the Norwegian list of journals • Search for yoursubject • Canyoufindany of the journals youpickedinitially?

  23. Qualitative factors – wrap up Comments? Suggestions?Strengths?Weaknesses?

  24. Quantitative factors • Can quality be measured in numbers? • Citations • Impact factors • h-index

  25. Citations are collected by special citation databases

  26. The Journal Impact Factor

  27. Journal Impact Factors Comments? Suggestions?Strengths?Weaknesses?

  28. Journal Impact Factor • 80/20 relationship (roughly 80% of the articles get 20% of the citations) • Different citation patterns in different research areas • Different citation patterns for different article types (original research, review, editorials, conference abstracts etc.) • The impact factor of a journal doesn’t necessarily say anything on the article level

  29. Source normalized impact per paper (SNIP) corrects for differences in publication rated among disciplines. It weighs citations to a journal based on the number of citations in that field. So disciplines with smaller publication rates can be compared to ones with higher rates. It's defined as the ratio of a journals citation count per paper and the citation potential (average length of lists of reference lists in a field) for the journals subject field. Citation potential is shown to vary not only between journal subject categories – groupings of journals sharing a research field – or disciplines (e.g., journals in mathematics, engineering and social sciences tend to have lower values than titles in life sciences), but also between journals within the same subject category. For instance, basic journals tend to show higher citation potentials than applied or clinical journals, and journals covering emerging topics higher than periodicals in classical subjects or more general journals. SNIP corrects for such differences. (Source: http://www.lib.vt.edu/research/metrics/journal/snip.html)

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