This Powerpoint includes identifying some research tools for writing quality publications.

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Identifying the Research
Tools for Quality
Publications
Dr. T. RAJA
Librarian
St.Xavier's College of Education (Autonomous)
Palayamkottai,Tirunelveli - 627002
Mobile: 9788231603
web: http://rajalibrarian.wordpress.com
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Academia ID: Raja Thangiah Research Gate
ID: Raja Thangiah
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Highlights of this Webinar
 Introduction
 To identify the good journals for publication
 To identify the predatory / Fake journals
 How to calculate the Impact Factor
 To identify the Fake Impact Factors List
 To know about Citation, Citation Analysis, How to
calculate the H-Index, How to calculate the i10-Index
 To know about the Publication Ethics
 Plagiarism Rules and Checking Tools
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Introduction
 Every researcher should concentrate to selecting the
right journal to publish scholarly research papers is vital as
the research work for authors.
 It is because only the right journal serves the ultimate
purpose of it reaching the target audience.
 Only then the hard work of research will get its due
credit and used by other researchers. With technology
development, the selection of journals is made easy with
different tools.
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IDENTIFYING GOOD JOURNALS FOR
PUBLICATION
 Number of journal research tools require the author to
provide keyword or abstract.
It will enable it to identify potential journal titles.
 Publishers and organizations create many of these
tools.
The journal metrics of these tools enable the authors
to identify the highly ranked reputed journals to submit
their research papers.
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5. https://ugccare.unipune.ac.in
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7. https://www.scimagojr.com
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9. http://www.indiancitationindex.com/
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10. https://doaj.org/
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11. https://publicationethics.org/
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12. https://oaspa.org/
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13. https://www2.cabells.com/about-journalytics
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14. https://journalfinder.elsevier.com/
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15. https://jane.biosemantics.org/
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16. https://www.mla.org/
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17. https://harzing.com/
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http://cofactorscience.com
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IDENTIFYING THE PREDATORY / FAKE
JOURNALS
 Website contains grammar mistakes and errors
 Homepage language target authors
 Rapid publications is promised
 Journal content is digitally preserved is absent
 The article processing charge is very low
 Copyright rules not mentioned
 Proper official mail IDs like @gmail.com,
@yahoo.com
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21. http://bealslist.weebly.com
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22. https://doaj.org/
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https://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
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CITATION
Authors frequently use a footnote or an endnote that
lists the references or citations in published scientific papers
or books. Such lists form the relationship between citation and
cited of scientific literature.
CITATION ANALYSIS
Citation analysis is a way of measuring the relative
importance or impact of an author, an article or a publication
by counting the number of times that author, article, or
publication has been cited by other works.
Ex: data on references cited in footnotes or bibliographies of
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ELEMENTS OF CITATION ANALYSIS
According to the frequency distribution of citation
quantity:
Distribution of citations according to age
Distribution of citation by subject or topic
Distribution of citation by literature type
Distribution of citation by language
Distribution of citation by country
Distribution of citation by author
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Impact Factor (IF)
The impact factor (IF) is a journal citation measure devised in the
early 1960s by Eugene Garfield and Irving Sher. It is a measure reflecting
the average number of citations to articles published in journals. It is meant
for journals only.
yearslast twoin theappearedarticlesofNo.
yearslast twoin thereceivedcitationsofNo.
fI
Mathematical representation of IF
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Where,
If (Jy) = Impact factor of the journal for the year Y
X1 = No. of citations received by y1 source items in the year Y
X2 = No. of citations received by y2 source items in the year Y
Y1 = No. of source items published in Journal J in the year (Y-1)
Y2 = No. of source items published in journal J in Journal J in (Y-12/17/2020 SSCFW Webinar 12082020

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Calculation of Two Years Impact Factor
For Example: Calculation of IF in 2017, Number of citations in the year 2016 and
2015 (Cited 100 and 150 times) in the specific journal, Sum of 2015 and 2016 cited
items and divided by total number of published articles in 2016 and 2015 (70) in the
specific journal.
100 + 150
IF = ---------- = 3.57
70
Calculation of 5 Years Journal Impact Factor
Cites in (2019) to items published in 2018 – 26458, 2017 – 24459, 2016 – 18342,
2015 – 23854, 2014 – 19756 Total - 112869
Number of Items published in 2018 – 858, 2017 – 852, 2016 – 866, 2015 – 840,
2014 – 864 Total - 4280
Calculation – Cites to recent items 1,12,869
-------------------------- ------------- = 26.37
Number of published items 4280
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28. https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php
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FAKE IMPACT FACTOR PROVIDERS
 ISI (International Scientific Indexing)
 ISRA(International Society for Research Activity)
 SJIF (Scientific Journal Impact Factor)
 QIF(Quality Impact Factor)
 OAJI(Open Academic Journal Index)
 IIFS(International Impact Factor Services)
 CIF(Cosmos Impact Factor)
 UIF(Universal Impact Factor)
 SISIF(Scientific Indexing Services Impact Factor)
 SIF ( Science Impact Factor)
 GIF(Global Impact Factor)
 JIF(Journal Impact Factor)
 TIF(Technical Impact Factor)
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H - INDEX
 The Hirsch index, more commonly known as the h-index, was
proposed by Hirsch (2005) to quantify an individual’s scientific output.
 H – Index attempts both the productivity and impact of published
work of the author.
 The h-index is defined as the maximum value of h such that the
given author/journal has published h papers that have each been cited
at least h times.
 The index is designed to improve upon simpler measures such as
the total number of citations or publications.
 The index can also be applied to the productivity and impact of a
group of scientists , such as a department, country, university as well
as for a journal.

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H – INDEX Graph

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Example for identifying H – INDEX
Paper rank Number of citations
1 173
2 64
3 56
4 47
5 46
6 43
7 36
8 33
9 27
10 26
11 22
12 21
13 17
14 16
15 15
Paper rank Number of citations
16 14
17 13
18 13
19 11
20 10
21 8

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35. https://www.researchgate.net/
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i10 Index
i10-Index = the number of publications with at least
10 citations. This very simple measure is only used by
Google Scholar, and is another way to help gauge the
productivity of a scholar. Advantages of i10-Index. Very
simple and straightforward to calculate.
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PUBLICATION ETHICS
Ethical standards for publication exist to ensure high-quality scientific
publications, public trust in scientific findings, and that people receive
credit for their ideas. It is important to avoid:
Data fabrication and falsification:
Data fabrication means the researcher did not actually do the study, but
faked the data. Data falsification means the researcher did the
experiment, but then changed some of the data.
Plagiarism:
Taking the ideas and work of other scientists without giving them credit is
unfair and dishonest.
Multiple submissions:
It is unethical to submit the same manuscript to more than one journal at
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PUBLICATION ETHICS (Continued……….)
Redundant publications (or ‘salami’ publications)
This means publishing many very similar manuscripts based on the same
experiment.
Improper author contribution or attribution:
All listed authors must have made a significant scientific contribution to the
research in the manuscript and approved all its claims..
Many journals have tools and processes in place to identify researchers
that engage in unethical behavior. If you are caught your manuscript may
be rejected without review and your institution informed.
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PLAGIARISM
 The word Plagiarism comes from Latin “plagiare” - to ‘kidnap’ (Oxford
English Dictionary)
 Plagiarism means using another’s work or ideas without giving them
credit and saying that it is your own.
Types of Plagiarism
 Literal Copying – Reproducing a work word for word, in whole or in part,
without permission and acknowledgment of the original source.
 Substantial Copying – This can include research materials, processes,
tables, or equipment.
 Paraphrasing – Reproducing someone else's ideas while not copying
word for word, without permission and acknowledgment of the original
source.
 Text-recycling – Reproducing portions of an author's own work in a

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Plagiarism Checking Tools (Free)
Viper Plagiarism Scanner -
http://www.scanmyessay.com
Dupli Checker -
http://www.duplichecker.com/article-rewriter.php
Plagiarism Checker - http://www.plagiarism-
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Plagiarism Checking Tools (Commercial)
ithenticate - http://www.ithenticate.com/
Turnitin - https://www.turnitin.com/
Urkund - https://www.urkund.com/

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UGC (Promotion of Academic Integrity and Prevention of Plagiarism in
Higher Educational Institutions) Regulations 2018 dated 23.07.2018
 All the higher educational institutions compulsory to appoint the
committees namely Institutional Academic Integrity Panel (IAIP) and
Departmental Academic Integrity Panel (DAIP) for Detection /
Reporting / Handling of Plagiarism.
 Penalties in case of Plagiarism in Academic and Research
Publications:
 Level 0 : Similarities up to 10%
Minor Similarities, No Penalty
 Level 1 : Similarities above 10% to 40%
Shall be asked to withdraw the manuscript

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UGC (Promotion of Academic Integrity and Prevention of Plagiarism in
Higher Educational Institutions) Regulations 2018 dated 23.07.2018
 Level 2 : Similarities above 40% to 60% -
 Shall be asked to withdraw the manuscript
 Shall be denied a right to one annual increment
 Shall not be allowed to be a Supervisor in Research
for a
period of two years
 Level 3 : Similarities above 60%
 Shall be asked to withdraw the manuscript
 Shall be denied a right to two successive annual
increments
 Shall not be allowed to be a Supervisor in Research

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UGC Self Plagiarism Notice dated 20th April 2020
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In continuation of Previous Regulations 2018, and in line with global standards of
ethical publishing established by leading institutions and committee on publication
ethics (COPE), UGC draws the following:
 Reproduction, in part or whole of one’s own previous publication (Text-Recycling
is also known as self – plagiarism) is not acceptable
 types of text-recycling
 Self citations do not add any number / to the individual’s citation index or H-
Index or global academia
 Higher Education authorities involved in academic performance
/evaluation/assessment/are hereby strongly advised that their decisions in the case
of promotions/selections/credit allotment/award of research degrees must be based
on evaluation of the applicant’s published work to ensure that the work being
submitted for promotion/selection is not self-plagiarized

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Thanks……
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