The document discusses selecting scholarly journals for research publication. It begins by providing context on India's research output and reasons for lagging behind in publications. It then defines key aspects of scholarly journals like peer review processes and impact factors. It emphasizes the importance of choosing scholarly journals to increase research visibility, establish expertise, and get more citations. The document provides tips for finding suitable journals like searching by impact factor, indexing in databases, and assessing journal structure and rigor through elements like abstracts, literature reviews, and peer review processes. Overall, the document offers guidance on selecting journals and understanding the qualities of scholarly publications.

1. Dr B T Sampath Kumar
Professor
Department of Library and Information Science
Tumkur University, Tumakuru, INDIA
www.sampathkumar.info
Selection of Scholarly Journal:
Why and How?

2. Research Productivity:
Indian Scenario
• During last recent five-year period, India
produced roughly 1,26,000 research papers,
constituting 2.75% of the world’s papers
published in journals indexed by Thomson
Reuters .
• (Source: Nature Magazine)

5. Why we are lagging behind?
• Lack of Scientific Training.
• Lack of resources and facilities.
• Quality of research work may not be up
to the mark.
• Failed to figure out the scholarly journal
to publish articles.

6. What is a Scholarly journal?
• A scholarly journal is a periodical that contains
articles written by experts in a particular field
of study.
• Scholarly articles reflect the systematic and
thorough study on a specific topic.
• These articles present original research data
and findings within the field of study.

7. Cont..
• Please keep in mind that not all scholarly
journals go through the peer-review process.
• However, it is safe to assume that a peer-
reviewed journal is also scholarly.
• In short, “scholarly” means the article is
written by an expert for an audience of other
experts, researchers or students.

8. Peer-reviewed / Refereed journals
• These journals have an editorial board of
subject experts who review and evaluate
submitted articles before accepting them for
publication.
• Scholarly journals are oftentimes peer
reviewed or refereed.

9. Single-blind peer review
• The identity of the reviewer is anonymous, but
the author's name and affiliation are on the
paper.
Double blind review:
• The reviewers of the paper won't get to know the
identity of the author(s), and the author(s) won't
get to know the identity of the reviewer

10. Cont..
Triple blind review
• Here, not only are authors and
reviewers blind to each other's identities but
where editors are also blind to the identity of
both.

11. Cont..
• Articles are reviewed by several experts
before the article is published in the journal.
IF:43.070

16. What is a Predatory Journal?
• Predatory Journals take advantage of authors
by asking them to publish for a fee without
providing peer-review or editing services.
• The publishers do not follow the proper
academic standards for publishing.
• In contrast, high quality academic journals
take longer to publish articles because they go
through a proper peer review.

19. Scholarly journal:
Why should you choose?
• Increase the research visibility (Increases your
visibility of publications)
• Process of making the research findings visible
to the scholarly community

20. Cont..
To create Academic identity
• The distinguishing character or personality of
an individual with respect to his/her academic
achievements.

21. Personal Identity vs Academic Identity
• Personal identity
– Position
– Status
– Personality
– Background
– Identity card
– Criminal activities
• Academic identity
– Articles
– Books
– Book chapters
– Citations
– Academic
relationships

22. Scholarly journal:
Why should you choose?
• Can help you to establish your expertise.
• Find potential collaborators and co-authors.
• You will be a familiar personality in the
scholarly world.
• Better opportunities to help budding scholars.
• Get more citations.

23. Scholarly journal: How do I find?
• Peer reviewed journals.
• Journals with high impact factor.
• Journals indexed in citation databases:
– Scopus
– Web of Science
– Google Scholar etc.,
– UGC care list

28. Impact factor (IF)
• The impact factor (IF) is a measure of the
frequency with which the average article in
a journal has been cited in a particular year.
• It is calculated by dividing the number of
current year citations to the number of
articles published in that journal during the
previous two years.

29. Impact factor (IF)
Number of citations to the
articles published in 2019=100
Number of citations to the
articles published in 2018= 200
Total citations = 300
Number of articles
published in 2019 =10
Number of articles
published in 2018= 20
Total articles =30
IF= Total No. of citations = 300 = 10
Total No. of articles 30

30. H index (Hirsch, J. E. 2005)
• H-index is an author-level metric.
• It attempts to measure both the productivity
and citation impact of the publications of a
scientist or scholar.
• An h-index of 9 means that the scientist has
published at least 9 papers that
have each been cited at least 9 times

31. How to Calculate h Index?
Article No. of citations Year of publication
1 21 1998
2 38 2001
3 46 2005
4 11 2007
5 23 2009
6 110 2011
7 17 2013
8 9 2013
9 8 2015
10 87 2017

32. How to Calculate h Index?
Article No. of citations Year
1 110 2011
2 87 2017
3 46 2005
4 38 2001
5 23 2009
6 21 1998
7 17 2013
8 11 2007
9 09 2013
10 8 2015

34. Scholarly journal: How do I find?
• The author(s) will have advanced degrees
and/or credentials (Doctoral / Post doctoral
degrees).
• Articles will have a clear structure that
indicates a scientific research study.
• For example, an abstract followed by
headings/sections indicating the study's
purpose, design, results and discussion of
findings?

35. Cont..
• It will have a formal appearance with tables,
graphs, and diagrams
• Articles are written by an authority or expert
in the field
• Contains original research, experimentation,
or in-depth studies in the field
• Reviewed by the author's peers before
publication (peer-reviewed or refereed)

36. Scholarly journal will also be
identified by its..
• Creative Title
• Abstract
• Keywords
• Introduction and Need for the study
• Review of Literature
• Objectives
• Hypotheses

37. Cont..
• Scope and methodology
• Analysis and Interpretation of data
• Testing of Hypotheses
• Discussion and Conclusion
• Future research
• Acknowledgement
• References
• Further reading

38. Creative title
• Indicate accurately the subject and scope of
the study.
• Use words that create a positive impression
and stimulate reader interest.
• Use current nomenclature from the field of
study.
• Titles are usually in the form of a phrase, but
can also be in the form of a question.
• Avoid using abbreviations.

47. What we do…
• Use of information sources and services by the
students and faculty members in colleges: A
Survey
• Information seeking behaviour of college
students: A study
• A study on the Information use pattern by the
male and female students.

48. Scholarly journal will also be
identified by its..
Abstract and Keywords
• An abstract is a brief summary of a
–Research article
–Thesis/Dissertation
–Review
–Conference proceeding which
is often used to help the reader quickly
ascertain the paper's purpose

50. Scholarly journal will also be
identified by its..
Review of Literature
• A researcher needs to examine all available
literature to get himself acquainted with the
selected problem.
–To know the research trend in the subject
area
–To identify the research gap
–To understand the methodology, data
analysis, organization of the content

51. Review of literature in scholarly
journals..
• Literature includes:
–Who?
–When?
–Why?
–How?
–What?

52. Who, When, Why, How, What?
• Thomson et al. (2005) explored the perceptions of
college students regarding the use of search
engines.
• The main objective was to determine how
frequently students use various search engines and
their search features. Various factors that might
influence student responses were examined.
• A well designed questionnaire was used to collect
the data from the students.
• Results showed that 94 percent of the students
used search engines for class-related activities.

57. Discussion and Conclusion

58. Future research

59. Acknowledgement
• Thanks to the people who have helped in
conducting research

60. References and Further reading

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