Apr 18, 2018 - From Research to Manuscript-. A concise guide to Scientific. Writing (Part 2). By. Prof. Dr. Saeed El-Ashram. College of Life Science and ...
From Research to ManuscriptA concise guide to Scientific Writing (Part 2) By Prof. Dr. Saeed El-Ashram College of Life Science and Engineering April 18, 2018 09:40 am-11:05 am C5 building-Room 408
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Antoine de Saint
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Strategical planning H-index is important but….. Solid work is more important Golden rule
Develop an area of science, where you make progressive discovery and you earn more reputation for solid work
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Research quality What count is really the data: If you do good, solid work consistently, you will be recognized H-index is not always the way you judge researcher Institutions have to judge the quality of a person based upon the quality of the research
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Research quality What count is really the data: You shouldn't be relying on journals and two or three reviewers to judge Do research with passion Be persistent and deliberate Seek the highest quality
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Research digital profiles To find people, get found , connect and give value
ResearchGate Google Scopus ORIC LinkedIn
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Why? Important tool for thousands of academics to share their publications and increase their visibility Important for networking and seeking future academic partners and reviewers You can seek other academics with similar research interests You can get information about new developments in your field in real time
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ResearchGate ResearchGate is a social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators
According to a study by Nature and an article in Times Higher Education, it is the largest academic social network in terms of active users, although other services have more registered users and more recent data suggests that almost as many academics have Google Scholar profiles
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Google scholar profile Google scholar How Create a Gmail email account Clean up your Google Scholar profile data Add your publications to your profile Increase your googleability Use your Google Scholar profile data to get ahead. Use your profile data to enhance your CV. Use your profile data in annual reports, grant application, and other instances where you want to document the impact of your publications Stay up-to-date when you have been cited
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Google Scholar
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Scopus/ORCID profile What is Scopus? Scopus is a bibliographic database owned by Elsevier of peer-reviewed literature containing abstracts and citations for academic journal articles Scopus offers author profile Cover affiliations, number of publications and bibliographic data, references and details on the number of citations each published document has received It has altering features and a facility to calculate authors’ h-index
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What is ORCID? Open, non-profit, community-based effort to provide a registry of unique researcher identifiers Transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers Scopus IDs for individual authors can be integrated with the open source digital identifier ORCID
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Why ORCID?
ORCID protects your unique scholarly identity ORICD lasts longer than your email address ORCID is open source, open data, and community driven
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LinkedIn profile LinkedIn Established in 2003 Two people who wanted to share their professional address book with each other You can link with people you know (first degree connection), in that way you can also connect to the people they know (second degree connection)
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Why LinkedIn? To find, connect and engage with your ideal client, employer, employee An online CV-that makes you visible for possible employers A marketing tool There are two distinct parts of LinkedIn: Profile: tell people who you are and what you do professionally Communication strategy: share your updates and connect to peers
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Your photograph Head and shoulder shot Business meeting outfit Keep it professional Update every 5 years
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Selecting a Journal for Publication Types of Journals Bibliometric indicators Peer reviewing SCI index Impact factor Eigenfactor H-index How to select a journal?
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Research quality What count is your solid work? Publishing is important and all that matters is the content Journals have an important role in selecting/curating the most relevant/important/impactful papers
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Types of Journals Peer Reviewing Scholarly peer review is the process of subjecting an author’s research to the scrutiny of others who are experts in the same field, before a paper describing this work is published in a journal. Blind, double blind or triple blind Review process takes a few months Cost free in most cases Review process is rigorous Your credit for your publication in the form of citation
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Publishing Houses 45 million documents indexed in the web of Science, are published in Reed-Elsevier Springer Wiley –Blackwell Taylor &Francis Sage
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Types of Journals Limited Access Journals (Subscription or pay per view)-Publish for free
Open Access Journals (View and download for free)-Open Access-Pay for Publication Predatory Journals (Look like Scientific Journals)
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Bibliometric indicators plus Impact factor
Scimago=SJR
SCI=IF
Eigenfactor =EF
Source Normalized Impact per Paper = SNIP
Journal Ranking indices H-Index
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SCimago Journal Rank
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SCimago Journal Rank It is based on Scopus data
Freely available at scimagojr.com and on Scopus Considers 3 years of journal statistics Measures contextual citation impact Self-citation limitation Citation weighed by the SJR of the citing journal
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All regions and counties
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China
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No impact factor but it has SJR. Therefore, it isn't a predatory journal
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SCImago Journal Rank A measure of scientific influence of scholarly journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from
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Science Citation Index Journal rank SCI Journal Rank is citation index for papers produced by Institute of Scientific Information (ISI), which is owned by Thomson Reuters ISI adheres to a strict evaluation process to assure the credibility of journals ISI database provides some measure of the academic impact of the papers indexed in it SCI covers more than 8,500 notable and significant journals, across 150 disciplines The index is made available online through different platforms, such as the Web of Science 32
Make sure your journal is listed in the SCI
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Impact factor Reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in science and social science journals
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Eigenfactor Freely available at eigenfactor.org Self-citation excluded Citations weighted by the EF of the citing journal The Eigenfactor project is an academic research project, University of Washington
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Eigenfactor
A rating of the total importance of a scientific journal according to the number of incoming citations, with citations from highly ranked journals weighted to make a larger contribution to the eigenfactor than those from poorly ranked journals
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SNIP indicator SNIP indicator, where SNIP stands for source normalized impact per paper This indicator measures the average citation impact of the publications of a journal Unlike the well-known journal impact factor, SNIP corrects for differences in citation practices between scientific fields, thereby allowing for more accurate between-field comparisons of citation impact
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H-Index (Hirsch Index) The h-index is an author-level metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and citation impact of the publications of a scientific or scholar The index is based on the set of the scientist’s most cited papers and the number of citations that they received in other publications
The index was suggested in 2005 by Gorge Hirsch, a physicist, as a tool for determining theoretical physicists’ relative quality and is sometimes called the Hirsch index or Hirsch number
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Make sure you have an H-index
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Bibliometric indicators plus Impact factor Journal Ranking indices
Scimago=SJ R
SCI=IF
Eigenfactor =EF
Source Normalized Impact per Paper = SNIP
Author level metric
H-Index
Scopus Thomson Reuters
Google Scholar
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How to Select a Journal
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Create a checklist Find a journal Journal scope match
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Create a checklist Is this journal the right fit for my work? Does the topic match the journal’s scope? Does the journal publish this type of articles? E.g. Review article Is there a reasonable chance of acceptance? Is it read within the communities I want to reach? Is it indexed by the relevant data bases, such as PubMed and Scopus? Is the journal of good quality? Can it be trusted?
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https://thinkchecksubmit.org/
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Find a journal
You can make use of journal directories, for example:
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Journal Guide: www.journalguide.com
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): https://doaj.org/
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There are also tools that match your paper’s title/abstract to potential journals:
Edanz journal selector tool: www.edanzediting.com/journal-selector Journal/Author name Estimator: http://jane.biosemantics.org/ Publisher tools: e.g. Elsevier Journal Finder
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Edanz journal selector tool: www.edanzediting.com/journal-selector
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http://jane.biosemantics.org/
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Elsevier Journal Finder
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Don’t get trapped
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Make sure the journal is SCI listed and has an Impact Factor
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Journal scope match Once you have selected a journal, it’s important to carefully study its aims and scope, and some recent issues of the journal to understand whether is it right match for your paper
Does the subject match? Is the journal priority novelty? Does it look for broad interest or niche papers? Does it welcome interdisciplinary papers? Does it seek theoretical papers or more applied papers?
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Poor match is a common reason for editors to reject papers before peer review
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Your personal Journal list
Sustainable Building Design Lab Journals List 2018
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Seek advice before submission
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Before submission After submission After acceptance Reviewers checklist 63
Before submission How to select a research topic It’s recommended to publish with your supervisor or senior researchers in your field
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Build your digital ID and profile
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http://libguides.lb.polyu.edu.hk/research_visibility/scopusid#sthash.Ki4Zft3y.dpbs
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Make sure your journal publications are included in the indexing services of Scopus and Google Scholar
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Select a journal with impact factor Make sure that you are familiar with the journal scope and topics Seek advice from your supervisor about the most suitable journal that suits your topics
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Read the journal authors instructions
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Read about the maximum word limitation by manuscripts for the selected journal Request the reference citation protocol of the journal Investigate the average acceptance rate for the selected journal. There are journals with short reviews period 3 to 6 months, and there are journals with long reviewer period from 1 to 2 years. The review depends also on the reviewers. 72
Select a journal with impact factor Make sure that you are familiar with the journal scope and topics Seek advice from your supervisor about the most suitable journal that suits your topics
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Get feedback from your peers and colleagues Leave your paper for a week and read a printed copy and revise Avoid plagiarism and run your paper in a plagiarism software to avoid troubles Proof read the final version
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Prepare a short list of potential reviewers Make your taxonomy selection Check submission checklist
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Cover letter Figure captions Highlights Manuscript Table captions
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Figures Save Figures as TIF or JPG files 300 dpi Save each figure independently in a separate file Cite each Figure in the text Figure captions should be placed on the top of Figure
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Publication form Insert Page Number
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Insert Line Numbers
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Write the editor letter
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Submission folder
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Submission platform
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After submission
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Check compiled PDF file
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Be patient the review process takes from 2 to 3 months to get the first round of review You can follow the status of your paper from the journal management system: Submission With editor Reviewer invited On the review Ready for decision 105
Review process Reviewers can be harsh but they should provide constructed feedback Appreciate the voluntary work of reviewers and avoid arguing Reply to reviewer’s comment: -Provide a new Editor letter -Provide a reviewed document with tracked changes - Provide a reviewed document with tracked changes (clean) 106
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After submission Reviewers can be harsh but they should provide constructed feedback Appreciate the voluntary work of reviewers and avoid arguing Reply to reviewer’s comment: -Provide a new Editor letter -Provide a reviewed document with tracked changes - Provide a reviewed document with tracked changes (clean) 109
Response to the reviewers Write a constructive letter to the editor explaining the reactions to the comments and the revision made in the manuscript See the attached files
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Provide a reviewed document with tracked changes Provide a reviewed document without tracked changes (Clean)
See the attached files
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In general: Reviewers’ comments Unfortunately, many carefully-researched and written papers fall into one of the following categories: Paper would be improved after further research was undertaken Paper relies on simulation and needs closer links to laboratory or field measurements An updated and complete literature review should be conducted The relevance to the journal should be enhanced with the considerations of scope and readership of the journal 112
The originality of the paper needs to be further clarified. The present form doesn't have sufficient results to justify the novelty of a high quality journal paper The results should be further elaborated to show how they could be used for the real applications Revolt only when reviewer is extremely subjective or overwhelmingly demanding
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Pollution in the scientific records
Hundreds of research papers are being pulled or retracted from scientific records
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Reviewer’s checklist The objective of the paper is presented clearly (definition and justification) The paper is relevant to the journal (scientific relevance) The paper contributes significantly to the field of research (originality) You should present something new (review, tool, statistical analysis, optimization of process or model, methodology, novel method, decision making framework etc.) 116
The title is informative and concise The abstract is informative and to the point The structure of the submission is clear The structure of the submission is logical (doubtful or controversial arguments) The distinction between main and secondary issues is clear The literature is up to date and pertinent (adequacy of acknowledgement of the past related work by others, in the reference list) 117
The methodology is appropriate to the research question The data are appropriate and relevant The interpretation of the findings is justified The tables and/or figures are used effectively (clarity and good expression of tables and illustrations) References are complete and correct (spelling, etc.) Article respect the journal length requirement (appropriate length) Clarity and good expression in English 118
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Production
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Author forms (Rights and access forms)
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(Publishing agreements)
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(Offprints order form)
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(Reproduction of Color Artwork form)
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Proofing
Proofs of [VETPAR_8626]
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