Online FDP on Publishing in Hi-Indexed Journals

1. WRITING RESEARCH PAPER
FOR HI-INDEXED JOURNALS
Dr. S. Gokula Krishnan, PhD.,
Associate Professor – HR, Analytics & Entrepreneurship
Dept. of MBA, Acharya Institute of Technology, Bengaluru.
E-mail : prof.gokulakrishnan@gmail.com
April 29 & 30, 2020

2. ▪ Expected outcomes from your Article
▪ Effective Reading
▪ Conceiving or drafting the Outline
▪ Writing literature survey & Developing Hypothesis
▪ Drafting Framework & Methodology
▪ Data Collection, Analysis & Interpretation
▪ Drafting Discussions & implications of the study
▪ Conclusion
▪ Limitations and Scope for future study
▪ Write Introduction & Title
▪ Write Abstract and Finalize the References
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3. ▪ To an Author(s)
▪ Enhanced level of Teaching from Research
▪ Gaining Visibility among Teaching and Research Community
▪ Citations
▪ Attracts Project Funds from Funding Agencies & Govt
▪ Other Personal and Professional Gains
▪ To Institution(s)
▪ Accreditations (National & International level)
▪ Attracts talented pool of students
▪ More funds will flow
▪ To Reader(s)
▪ Get influenced by your article and stimulates them to work on your research area
▪ To the Society
▪ May create micro or macro level impact on the society in terms of Education and Research
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4. ▪ Authorship
▪ Targeting research area
▪ Journal you want publish
▪ Synergy
▪ Number of man days
▪ Consider your audience
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5. ▪Phase 1 Survey the Article
▪ Title and Keywords
▪ Abstract
▪ Conclusion
▪Phase 2 Reading the Article
▪ Tables and Figures (including Captions)
▪ Introduction
▪ Results and Discussions
▪ Methodology & Implications
▪ Understanding the article completely
▪Phase 3 Research Gap
▪ Limitations of the study
▪ Scope for future Research
▪ Identify research gap of the article
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6. ▪Consolidate research gaps of the articles (which you intended
to include in your article)
▪Check the possibility and feasibility of the research gaps
▪Conceive tentative variables of your study
▪Draft the research questions
▪Draft the statement of the problems
▪Draft outline for each topic
▪ Introduction
▪ Review of literature & Developing Hypothesis
▪ Methodology & Framework and etc
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7. ▪ Phase 1
▪ Write overview of your research focus
▪ Introduce the theoretical framework
▪ Explain what research has already been done on your topic
▪ Phase 2
▪ Write literature on the variables of the study
▪ Develop the Hypothesis
▪ Supporting literatures along with its research gap for each hypothesis
▪ Provide insight into the relation between your chosen topic and wider subject area
▪ Phase 3
▪ Summarize the important aspects of existing literature
▪ Evaluate the current state of literature reviewed
▪ Identify the significant research gaps
▪ Outline your research to existing knowledge
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8. ▪Framework
▪Draft conceptual
framework
▪Include
▪ Dependent variable
▪ Independent variable
▪ Other variables (if
applicable)
▪ Logical relationship between
and among the variables
▪Methodology
▪Research type
▪Objectives of the Study
▪Hypothesis (if applicable)
▪Research Design
▪ Sampling Design
▪ Statistical Design
▪ Observational Design
▪ Operation Design
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9. ▪ Developing Instrument for Data Collection
▪ Validating the Instrument
▪ Data Collection
▪ Preparation of the data for analysis
▪ Data Analysis
▪ Interpretation
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10. ▪ Support your results / findings with the existing literatures
▪ Justify that why your accepting or rejecting the hypothesis relevant literatures
▪ Do not repeat what you have mentioned in the tables
▪ Correlation your findings with appropriate implications
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11. ▪A well-written conclusion provides you with several
important opportunities to demonstrate your overall
understanding of the research problem to the reader:
▪Presenting the last word on the issues you raised in your
paper
▪Summarizing your thoughts and conveying the larger
implications of your study
▪Demonstrating the importance of your ideas
▪Introducing possible new or expanded ways of thinking
about the research problem
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12. ▪Limitations of the study:
▪ All studies have limitations
▪ Methodological limitations
▪ Limitations of the researcher
▪ Other Limitations
▪Scope for future study:
▪ Limitations of your study is vital
▪ Present possible and feasible study which have not addressed so
far
▪ Stimulate readers and future researcher to work on it
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13. ▪ AWELLWRITTEN INTRODUCTION IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE, QUITE SIMPLY,YOU NEVER
GET A SECOND CHANCE TO MAKE A GOOD FIRST IMPRESSION
▪ Phases associated with writing an introduction:
▪ Establish an area to research by:
▪ Highlighting the importance of the topic, and/or
▪ Making general statements about the topic, and/or
▪ Presenting an overview on current research on the subject.
▪ Identify a research niche by:
▪ Opposing an existing assumption, and/or
▪ Revealing a gap in existing research,and/or
▪ Formulating a research question or problem, and/or
▪ Continuing a disciplinary tradition.
▪ Place your research within the research niche by:
▪ Stating the intent of your study,
▪ Outlining the key characteristics of your study,
▪ Describing important results, and
▪ Giving a brief overview of the structure of the paper.
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14. ▪ An abstract summarizes, usually in one paragraph of 300 words or less, the major
aspects of the entire paper in a prescribed sequence that includes:
▪ 1) the overall purpose of the study and the research problem(s) you investigated;
▪ 2) the basic design of the study;
▪ 3) major findings or trends found as a result of your analysis; and,
▪ 4) a brief summary of your interpretations and conclusions.
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