The document provides information on publishing a review paper in a scientific journal. It discusses what a scientific paper is, the purpose of publishing one, and different types of papers. It also covers choosing an appropriate journal, the publication and peer review process, metrics to evaluate journals, and best practices for preparing and submitting a manuscript for review. The key steps include conducting thorough research, writing the manuscript sections such as introduction, body, and conclusion, and addressing reviewer feedback to improve the paper for re-submission or submission to another journal.

1. Review Paper Publication for Research
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By: Dr.Shweta Saraswat

2. What is a Scientific Papers?
A research paper which is aimed at sharing the novel observations with scientific
community to increase the knowledge and reduce the gap in any given field
Scientific papers also known as a "journal articles" are a special type of written
work that have particular characteristics. They are usually published in a periodical
called a journal whose purpose is to publish this kind of work.
Scientific papers are for sharing your own original research
work with other scientists or for reviewing the research
conducted by others.
Scientific papers are original pieces of observations reported by
researchers

3. A scientific paper is a written report describing original
research results whose format has been defined by
centuries of developing tradition, editorial practice, scientific
ethics and the interplay with printing and publishing
services.
A scientific paper is a manuscript that represents an
original work of scientific research or study. It can
be an addition to the ongoing study in a field,
What is a Scientific Papers?

4. Why to Publish a Scientific Paper?
● To increase the knowledge and narrow the gap of understanding
existing in the field.
● Practically
● To get funding
● To get promoted
● To get recognition
● If student to get a job

5. Types of Scientific Paper
There are different types of research publications which include
● Research papers
● Short communications
● Conference proceedings
● Letter to editors
● Clinical trials and case studies
● Perspective, opinion and commentary
● Book reviews
● Review articles

6. Comparison Amongst Different Published Articles

7. Journal Indexing
Indexation of a journal is considered a reflection of its quality. Indexed journals are
considered to be of higher scientific quality as compared to non-indexed journals. Indexation
of medical journals has become a debatable issue.
● It is a reflection of journals quality
● Researchers publish only in indexed journals
● There are large number of international, national and local indexing
methods for journals
● Utilising the journal indexing helps in picking the right journal for
publication

8. Example of Indexed Journal

9. Comparison Between Indexed Journals
Web of Science has a greater depth of scientific citations, while Scopus focuses on
more modern sources

10. Scopus
• Scopus is Elsevier’s abstract and citationdatabase launched in 2004
• Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles (22,794 active titles and 13,583 inactive titles) from
approximately 11,678 publishers, of which 34,346 are peer-reviewed journals in top-level
subject fields: life sciences, social sciences, physical sciences and health sciences. It covers
three types of sources: book series, journals, and trade journals
• All journals covered in the Scopus database are reviewed for sufficiently high quality each
year according to four types of numerical quality measure for each title; those are h-
Index, Cite Score, SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) and SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per
Paper).Searches in Scopus also incorporate searches of patent databases

11. Web of science
• Web of Science (previously known as Web of Knowledge) is
a website that provides subscription-based access to
multiple databases that provide comprehensive citation
data for many different academic disciplines.
• It was originally produced by the Institute for Scientific
Information (ISI) and is currently maintained by Clarivate
Analytics
• Contains six online data bases which includes science,
social science, arts and humanities, emerging source
citations, book citations and conference proceeding
citations

12. Induction into web of science
• All journals submitted to the core Web of Science databases will be
evaluated by the following criteria.
• Whether the journal follows a proper peer review process?
• Whether the journal follows ethical publishing practices?
• Whether the journal meets technical requirements?
• The journal has good English language bibliographic information or not?
• Whether the journal recommended or requested by a scholarly audience of
Web of Science users.

13. Journal finder
• Check for the types of articles published by the journals
• Check all the other aspects of the journal such as peer-review process, instructions to authors,
open access options, audience/readership of the journal, information about the publisher, time
for peer review,acceptance/rejection rates etc
• Then, make a final list of the journals that meet all your criteria, prepare your manuscript
according to the author guidelines and submit the manuscript.
• You can also use journal selection tools such as Elsevier Journal Finder or Springer Journal
Suggester

14. Journal finder
● Important tips before choosing a journal (From Elsevier):
● Read the aims and scope of the journal
● Read or download Guide for Authors
● Check if the journal is invitation-only as some journals will only accept articles after
inviting the author
● If you need to publish open access know that most Elsevier journals have open access
options explained on the journal homepage
● Submit your paper to only one journal at the time
● Check the journal performance for the review and publication timelines

15. Journal metrics
●Impact factor measures of the number of times an average paper in this
journal is cited.
● SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) is a prestige metric based on the idea that 'all
citations are not created equal'.
●Impact factor measures of the number of times an average paper in this
journal is cited and is found on journal insights section

16. Journal metrics
● Journal metrics help one to find the best journal for publishing research
●Factors such as journal scope, editorial board and international reach help
in finding the best place for research publication
● Various journal metrics include
● Speed
● Reach
● Impact

17. Article Influence and Eigen Factor
●The Eigenfactor score is a rating of the total importance of a specific journal.
Journals are rated 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.
●Article Influence is calculated by dividing the Eigenfactor score by the
percentage of all articles recorded in the Journal Citation Reports that were
published in a specific journal.

18. Article Influence and Eigen Factor
European journal of pharmaceutics and biopharmaceutics(Elsevier)
YEAR EIGENFACTOR AI
2019 0.014 0.816
2018 0.016 0.926
2017 0.015 0.849
2016 0.017 0.919
2015 0.016 0.934

19. Impact factor
• The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is
a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly average
number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal.
• It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its
field; journals with higher impact factor values are often deemed to be more
important

20. Impact factor

21. Additional Rating Factors
●h index corresponds to a scientist's h of his/her N papers that have been cited
at least h times each, while the rest of the N papers have less than h citations
each.
● i10 index refers to the number of paper with 10 or more citations.
●G-index is the biggest number such that the top G articles received
(altogether) at least G2 (G square) citations. This index assists the h-index
and gives more weight to the highly-cited papers.

22. Publication process
• The author submits a manuscript and it receives a tracking number
• An editor is assigned to the manuscript
• The editorial team decides whether to send the manuscript out to review. If the decision is not to send
the manuscript for review,the editor contacts the author with the decision
• The editor assigns potential reviewers to the manuscript and the author is notified
• Reviewers agree to review the manuscript
• Reviewers submit theirreports to the editor
• The editorial team discusses the reports and the editor makes the final decision. This process may
involve further consultation with the reviewers and editor-mediated communications between the
reviewers
• If the decision is negative, the author is given the opportunity to transfer their manuscript to another
journal.

23. Open access
• Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs
are distributed online, free of cost or other access barriers
• With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition),barriers to copying or reuse
are also reduced or removed by applying an open license for copyright
• Conventional (non-open access) journals cover publishing costs through access tolls such as
subscriptions, site licenses or pay-per-view charges
• open-access journals are characterised by funding models which do not require the reader to
pay to read the journal's contents or theyrely on public funding

24. ISSN Number
● ISSN: International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is a unique number used to identify a print or
electronic periodical publication.
● DOI: A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is used to uniquely identify objects in the digital environment, for
example a journal article or data set.

25. Predatory journal

26. How to Identify Predatory Journals?
● Entry in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) – journals must meet strict
criteria to qualify
● -Publisher’s membership of Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)
– members are bound by a code of conduct based on standard publishing practices
and transparency
●-Publisher’s membership of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) –
membership demonstrates commitment to widely accepted publishing practices

27. Choosing the Right Journal

28. Basic steps of publication

29. Perform the Research Work
● In case of research papers high quality data needs to be generated
● For reviews it is essential to have a perfect literature review which
forms the core of the research
●The work should be drafted in very precise manner such that there is
perfect understanding of applicability and the challenges associated with
the field

30. Preparing and Submitting the Manuscript
● Identify the journal
● Obtain all the relevant consent forms for submitting to the journal
● Prepare the manuscript based on the journal requirements
●Try to make the review paper as unique as possible for being considered for
publication
● Submit the manuscript and wait for the comments

31. Correction Submission and Feedback
● Once submitted wait for the peer reviewing process
● Post submission an official correspondence regarding the status of
manuscript will be provided by journal
● Based on which wait for comments from reviewers
● Work on the comments and resubmit the revised edition
● Wait for publication of the manuscript

32. Peer Review and Editorial Process
● Peer review is the process by which journals scrutinize and regulate the quality of content they
publish, by inviting experts in the field to review and comment on manuscripts received.
● Manuscripts submitted to a journal first go through an initial screening by the editorial team.
● Those that clear the screening are sent to at least two experts for peer review.
● Peer reviewers independently make a recommendation to the journal editor as to whether the
manuscript should be rejected or accepted (with or without revisions).
●The journal editor considers all the feedback from peer reviewers and makes an informed
decision to accept or reject the manuscript.

33. Peer Review and Editorial Process

35. Peer review

36. Preparation of Manuscript
● General outline of review paper has
● Title
● Author
● Abstract
● Keywords
● Main text which has introduction, body of work, discussion, conclusion
● Acknowledgement
● References
● Supplementary
● Cover letter

37. Title Development
● The title should attract readers attention. It should be liked by the reviewers
● It should be informative and concise
●Editors will not accept titles that are irrelevant to the subject or that do not
make sense
●While reviewing the aptness of title will be checked and if not matching then
title needs to be changed
● Do not have any technical aspects or abbreviations in title
● Discuss with your supervisors before finalizing the title
● Max. length of 20 words

38. Abstract
● Should reflect your view point very clearly
● It is a means of advertising your review article. Highlight the work already
done and mention the novel idea very clearly
● It should be accurate and specific
● Abstract in most of cases decides whether
considered or not for peer reviewing
● Typical abstract is around 250-300 words
your work needs to be

39. Keywords
● There are the main labels associated with manuscript
● They are important for searching and indexing the manuscript
● While using abbreviations take only those which are well accepted in field.
● Do not use self made abbreviations
●Ensure to check the guide for authors in journal home for further tips to write
keywords
● Limited number only are accepted(<10)

40. Preparation for publication
Introduction
● Ideally is used to set up your topic and approach for the reader
● Key goals of introduction:
● Present the topic and get reader interested
● Provide background about research
● Position your own approach
● Details regarding ones research
● An overview of paper structure
● Cite the most relevant review articles and papers preferably the most recent ones
to convince the reader

41. Body of Text
● Any figures and tables that can justify the idea being proposed
needs to be presented appropriately
● The various literature being presented should not be presented
as mere review
●It should be written from researchers point of view and all of them
need to be interconnected such that there is logical conclusion
which points out towards researchers idea of writing the review
●The various paragraphs should be interconnected with
appropriate flow
● Body of work is usually between 1500-1800 words

42. Discussion
● This is an important part of review article
● Here we present our opinion based on the body of work and try to
reemphasize our idea
● It needs to be crisp and clear
● Present the researchers idea and reconfirms it
● It is written usually in 300-500 words

43. Conclusion
● It includes the final statements pertaining to review study
● The author concludes the idea with justification statements in their
favour
● Conclusion usually is written briefly
● It is around 100-150 words
● It emphasizes the researchers idea

44. Cover Letter

45. Scientific Language and Tenses
● Present tense for known facts and hypothesis
● Past tense for any of the experiments being cited that have been
published by authors
● Past tense when results of experiment are being described in
review paper

46. Features of a Good Manuscript
● Contains clear and useful scientific message
● Has a logical flow which is easy for reader to follow
● Is formatted in the best possible way to highlight the work
● Is written in a simple way to convey the message clearly

47. Important Take Away for Publishing
●Preparation of manuscript is important however do not waste too
much time on it
● Submit to one journal
● Submit to the right one
● Check English
● Pay attention to the structure
● Pay attention to journal requirements

48. Publishing Ethics
● Copy right issues
● Scientific misconduct
● Falsification of results
● Publication misconduct
● Plagiarism
● Duplicate submission/publication
● Lack of acknowledgement of previous researchers and prior
research
● Inappropriate identification of co-authors
● Conflict of interest

52. What Next
● If conditional rejection makes the changes and resubmit to the same
journal
● If outright submit it to another journal without changes
● If outright submit by making changes to another journal
●Appeal the decision- one can challenge the editors decision however it
needs to be done with logic and not by emotions
●If the paper submitted to 4 journals and is rejected then discard the paper
as there are serious flaws in it