How to publish a research? Whether you are a management or non management professional?

1. Dr Ramesh R
MDS Pedodontics & preventive Dentistry
MBA student
PUBLISHING

2. CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. DEFINITION
3. TYPES OF
MANUSCRIPT
4. GUIDELINES FOR
MANUSCRIPT
5. MANUSCRIPT
PROCESS
6. CTRI/DEG
REGISTRN
7. IMPACT FACTOR
8. JOURNAL
CITATION INDEX
9. GOOGLE SCHOLAR
RATING
10.INDEXING/
ABSTRACTING
11.TIPS FOR JOURNAL
ACCEPTANCE
12.PRINT/ONLINE
PUBLISHING
13.CONCLUSION

3. REFERENCES
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organizational decisions in higher education publishing.
Stanford University Press; 2004.
• Thompson JB. Merchants of culture: the publishing
business in the twenty-first century. John Wiley & Sons;
2013 Apr 17.

4. INTRODUCTION
Shashikiran ND. Dental journals in India: A boon or bane ?. J Indian Soc Pedod Prev Dent 2013;31:1-2

5. HISTORY
• Indian Dental Journal
was the first dental
journal in India published
in 1925 by Dr. R.
Ahmed.
• He was the editor for the
same journal till 1946.

6. DEFINITION
• Scientific research is a systematic way of gathering
data and harnessing curiosity.
• Publication: To publish is to make content available
to the general public as text, images, or other audio-
visual content, including paper (newspapers,
magazines, catalogs).
• Manuscript: an author's handwritten or typed text
that has not yet been published.

7. TYPES OF MANUSCRIPT
• Case report
• Case series
• Research article
• Systematic review/ meta analyis
• Letter to author

8. CASE REPORT
• Case reports are professional narratives shared for
medical, scientific, or educational purposes; provide
feedback on clinical practice guidelines.
• Detailed report of the symptoms, signs, diagnosis,
treatment & follow-up of an individual patient.
• It contain a demographic profile of the patient,
• It describe an unusual or novel occurrence.
• It also contain a literature review of other reported
cases.

9. CARE (CAseREport) guidelines
• CARE reporting checklist promotes transparent and
accurate reporting of case research studies
• CARE reporting checklist enhance the value
reliability of medical research literature.
• 13-item checklist
Riley, David S.; Barber, Melissa S.; Kienle, Gunver S.; Aronson, Jeffrey K.; von Schoen-Angerer, Tido; Tugwell, Peter; Kiene, Helmut;
Helfand, Mark; Altman, Douglas G. (September 2017). "CARE guidelines for case reports: explanation and elaboration document".
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 89: 218–235

10. 13 ITEM CHECKLIST
1. Title,
2. Key words,
3. Abstract,
4. Introduction,
5. Patient information,
6. Clinical findings,
7. Timeline,
8. Diagnostic assessment,
9. Therapeutic interventions,
10. Follow-up and outcomes,
11. Discussion,
12. Patient perspective, and
13. Informed consent.

13. CASE SERIES
• A case series (also known as a clinical series) is a type of medical
research study that tracks subjects with a known exposure, such
as patients who have received a similar treatment or examines
their records for exposure and outcome.
• Case series may be consecutive or non-consecutive, depending
on whether all cases presenting to the reporting authors over a
period were included, or only a selection.
• When information on more than three patients is included, the
case series is considered to be a systematic investigation designed
to contribute to generalizable knowledge (i.e., research), and
therefore submission is required to the IRB.

14. • Case series usually contain demographic information
about the patient(s), for example, age, gender, ethnic
origin.
• Internal validity of case series studies is usually very
low, due to the lack of a comparator group exposed
to the same array of intervening variables.

16. RESEARCH ARTICLE
• A research article is a written paper that illustrates an
outcome of scientific research with supporting clinical
data.
• A research article is hand written by and for researchers
for the purpose of making specific findings known to
the scientific community at large.
• Research article is found exclusively in a peer-
reviewed scientific/medical/dental journal

17. CONSORT (Consolidated Standards Of
Reporting Trials)
• To decrease the problems arising from inadequate
reporting of randomized controlled trials.
• 25-item checklist and a participant flow diagram,
along with some brief descriptive text.
• The checklist items focus on reporting how the trial
was designed, analyzed, and interpreted; the flow
diagram displays the progress of all participants
through the trial.

21. TITLE Evaluating the effectiveness of oral health education
program among mothers with 6-18 months children in
prevention of early childhood caries.
METHODS: Cluster randomization
TRIAL DESIGN Active randomization Single/ Multiple arm
PARTICIPANTS Place of Conduct of study IEC Certificate
INTERVENTION Anticipatory guidance Traditional/ Motivational
Counselling
OUTCOME Primary
INCIDENCE OF CARIOUS
LESIONS
Secondary
PREVALENCE
SAMPLE SIZE Sample adjustment due to
follow up drop should be
mentioned.
5 TO 10% SAMPLE
ADJUSTMENT

22. RANDOMIZATION BLOCK, RANOM NUMBER TABLE,
LOTTERY, COIN TOSS
SEQUENCE GENERATION
ALLOCATION CONCEALMENT DATE OF BIRTH, OP NUMBER, SEALED
ENVELOPE,RANOM NUMER TABLE
BLINDING PARTICIPANT, INVESTIGATOR, OUTCOME
ASSESSOR, DATA ENTRY OPERATOR
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
RESULTS
PARTCIPANT FLOW GROUP LOSS/ EXCLUSION: RESON
RECRUITMENT

24. BASELINE DATA
NUMBER ANALYZED NO ?
OUTCOME ESTIMATION EACH GROUP LOSS/
REASON FOR
EXCLUSION
ANCILLARY ANALYSIS SUB GROUP ANALYSIS UNIVARATE ANLYSIS
MULTI VARATE
ANALYSIS
HARM SHOUBLD BE MENTIONED
DISCUSSION
LIMITATION GENERALISABILITY INTERPRETATION

27. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
• Systematic reviews are a type of literature review that uses
systematic methods to collect secondary data,
• critically assess research studies, and
• Obtain findings qualitatively or quantitatively.
• Systematic reviews formulate research questions that are
broad or narrow in scope, and identify and make studies
that directly relate to the systematic review question.
• They are designed to provide a complete, exhaustive
summary of current evidence, published and unpublished,
that is "methodical, comprehensive, transparent, and
replicable."

28. Meta Analysis
• A meta-analysis is a statistical analysis that combines the
results of multiple scientific studies.
• Meta-analysis can be performed when there are multiple
scientific studies addressing the same question, with each
individual study reporting measurements that are
expected to have some degree of error.
• The aim then is to use statistics to acheive a pooled
estimate closest to the unknown common truth based on
how this error is perceived.

29. PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for
Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses)
• It is an evidence-based set of items aimed to help
authors to report a wide array of systematic reviews
and meta-analyses that assess the benefits and
harms of a health care intervention.
• PRISMA focuses on transparent and complete
reporting of this type of research
• Improves the reporting of systematic reviews and
meta-analyses.

30. • PRISMA has mainly focused on systematic reviews and
meta-analysis of randomized trials, but it can also be used
as a basis for reporting reviews of other types of research
(e.g., diagnostic studies, observational studies.)
• The PRISMA statement consists of a 27-item checklist
and a four-phase flow diagram.
• The checklist includes items deemed essential for
transparent reporting of a systematic review

33. INFORM
ATION
SOURCE
STUDY
TYPE
DATA
COLLE
CTION
METHO
D OF
THE
STUDY
DATA
(PICO)
Populatio
n,
Intervent
ion,
Compari
son and
Outcome
s
RISK/
BIAS OF
THE
STUDY
ANALYS
IS OF
THE
STUDY
SUMMA
RY
RESULT
S OF
STUDY
PUBMED
SCOPUS

35. • Comparison between fissure sealant and
fluoride varnish on caries prevention for
first permanent molars: a systematic review
and meta-analysis
• Feifei et al
• Scientific Reports 2020

36. ABSTRACT
• Backrround: The high prevalence and heavy socio-
economic burden for caries of first permanent molars
(FPMs) make the prevention of this disease a major public
health goal.
• Current guidelines recommend a preference of fissure
sealant (FS) over fluoride varnish (FV) based on two recent
systematic reviews. However, evidences of these two
studies are weak because of scarce data and some
limitations. Besides, an upto-date large scale randomized
controlled trial (RCT) reported commensurate effectiveness
of these two techniques.
• Aim: in order to more accurately compare the clinical
efficacy between FS and FV on caries prevention for FPMs,
we carried out this systematic review and meta-analysis.
• Method: A total of 8 RCTs involving 3289 participants and
6878 FPMs fulfilled the inclusion criteria.

37. • RESULTS: Our meta-analysis showed that there was
no statistical difference on caries incidence or
occlusal DMFS increment between sealant group and
fluoride varnish group at 2 - 3 years’ follow-up.
• In that sense, biannual applications of FV or FS may be
equally effective on caries prevention for FPMs.
• CONCLUSION: These results do not support
routine recommendation of FS over FV, thus
shedding light on current conceptions.
• Our findings endow clinicians with a window to
reconsider the choice between these two techniques.

43. OUTCOME
• Caries incidence (the proportion of
children/fpms/occlusal surfaces of fpms
developing dentin caries )is the primary
outcome to measure caries prevention efficacy.
• Six of included rcts reported this outcome–
• Second outcome was increment of decayed
missing filled occlusal surface (DMFS) at the
end of follow-up

44. RESULTS
• Among these three RCTs, only Bravo 1997
reported higher DMFS increment in FV group
with statistical power (MD=0.64; 95% CIs:
0.21 to 1.07).
• However, the rest two RCTs did not achieve
statistical significance
• For this outcome, as the huge contribution of
Bravo 1997 to heterogeneity, conducted
subgroup analysis excluding this study

45. • meta-analysis did not reach statistical significance to
show any superiority between FV and FS in
reducing DMFS increment (MD=0.13; 95% CIs:
−0.09 to 0.34; p=0.25). The heterogeneity of this meta-
analysis was high (x2=19.54, I2=85%).
• For this outcome, as the huge contribution of Bravo
1997 to heterogeneity, we conducted subgroup
analysis excluding this study.
• Final results showed consistent conclusion as that of
analysis including this study, that is, no statistic
difference was detected between FV and FS on this
parameter (MD=0.04; 95% CIs: −0.15 to 0.23; p=0.70).
Removing Bravo 1997 slightly reduced heterogeneity

46. • Among included RCTs, only Raadal 1984
adopted split mouth design. It should be noted
that in split-mouth study designs, sealed teeth
may be impacted by elevated fluoride
concentration in saliva.
• Meanwhile, teeth in FV group may also benefit
from FS induced oral hygiene improvement.
• Thus, in order to rule out this carry-over effect,
we did supplemental meta-analysis that
excluded Raadal 1984.

47. CONCLUSION
• In conclusion, present meta-analysis proved that
biannual application of FV compared with FS results in
non-significant difference about caries prevention
efficacy of FPMs at 2to 3 years’ follow up.
• These findings do not support routine recommendation
of FS over FV, which is new to current conceptions.
Future, choices between these two skills may rely on
technique sensitivity, accessibility and cost of these two
treatments in local community

49. STROBE STATEMENT
• The STROBE Statement is a reporting guideline
including a checklist of 22 items that are essential
for good reporting of observational studies
• It comprises both the checklist and an
explanation and elaboration article which gives
examples of good reporting and provides authors
with more guidance on good reporting.
• STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational
studies in Epidemiology.

53. TITLE Scenario-Based Assessment of Children and Parents
Preferences towards a Paediatric Dental Setup – An
Observational Study
INTRODUC
TION
BACKGROUND/ OBJECTIVES
To assess the preference of parents and children towards
the design of a pediatric dental setup.
METHODS STUDY DESIGN: Questionnaire-based cross-sectional
observational study
SETTING: Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry of a private
dental college of a metro city
PARTCIPANTS: 60 children between the age group of 6
to 12 years and their parents were consented and agreed to
participate in
the study
VARIABLES: DENTAL ATTIRE, CLINIC COLOUR

57. PARTICIPANTS CHILDREN B/W 3 TO 6 YEARS AGE
DATA SOURCE/ MEASUREMENT DEPT OF PEDODONTICS
BIAS INVESTIGATOR BIAS
STUDY SIZE 60
QUANTITIVE VARIABLE COLOUR OF DENTAL ATTIRE, CLINIC
STATISTICAL METHOD CHI SQUARE, T TEST

58. RESULTS
• Using child friendly colours
in pediatric dentistry could
pose a positive impact on
their emotional status and
reduce dental anxiety
• Colours like blue and pink,
have been found to instil a
positive dental attitude in
children while colours like
black and red could develop
a negative outlook in their
mind

60. • Parents and children both chose a play area which would be
separate from the waiting room.
• A novel idea which is followed, is that of a “cave” for
children to play
• Based on children’s age, it has observed that children in
young age group prefer a regular outfit, middle aged
preferred white coat and older children prefer a surgical
coat.
• Based on the environment, children preferred white coat in
school environment
• Surgical scrubs in dental operatory & a plain head cap
and face-mask for the dentist was preferred by children.

62. • Faces displaying cues to happiness
consistently appear relatively trustworthy and
young children have been found to be sensitive
to facial trustworthiness.
• It is said that an individual’s facial
appearance can reliably influence
trustworthiness and that children selectively
place their trust on trust-worthy looking faces

63. DISCUSSION
• Generalisability: can be generalized to the
population
• Limitation: the past dental experience of the
children and parents could not be assessed. The
child’s personality or previous experiences, may
also have played a crucial role and could have
affected the child’s level of dental fear
• The caries score of the patients was not recorded
in the study

64. OUTCOME DATA Health information framed in a poster
presentation may be an effective method of
knowledge transfer
posters in the waiting room can increase
awareness of health promotion issues
MAIN RESULT -
OTHER ANALYSIS NIL
DISCUSSION LIMITATION
GENERALISABILITY
INTERPRETATION
FUNDING NIL

65. CONCLUSION
• Children and parents both prefer a child-friendly and dental
environment.
• Parents preferred to have additional facilities in the waiting area.
• Parents chose poster as the most preferred means for oral health
education.
• Children preferred a female pediatric dentist while parents preferred
a dentist of either gender.
• Oral health care givers dressed in coloured attire were preferred by
most participants, however, children chose a dental health team
dressed in white coat.

66. STARD GUIDELINES
• STARD stands for “Standards for Reporting Diagnostic accuracy
studies”.
• This 30 checklist of items was developed to contribute to the
completeness and transparency of reporting of diagnostic accuracy
studies
• The guiding principle in the development of STARD was to select
items that, when reported, would help readers to judge the potential
for bias in the study, to appraise the applicability of the study
findings and the validity of conclusions and recommendations.
• The list represents an update of the first version, which was
published in 2003.

69. TITLE Accuracy of an Electronic Apex
Locator: A Clinical Evaluation
in Primary Molars with and
without Resorption
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
METHODS
STUDY DESIGN 28 healthy children patients, ages
4 to10 years old (mean age: 6.2)
who were having primary molars
extracted for orthodontic reasons
or due to serious caries at Gazi
University Faculty of Dentistry,
participated in the study
PARTICIPANT healthy children
TEST METHODS

70. • Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of
electronic apex locator (Root ZX) in primary teeth with and without
apical root resorption in vivo.
• Study Design & Method: The electronic working length was
determined in 28 primary teeth (A total of 46 primary molar root
canals with 24 roots without resorption and 22 roots with resorption)
from twenty-eight healthy children using Root ZX. The teeth were
then extracted. The actual length of each root was measured placing
a K-File until the tip was visible at the apical foramen or the
apical resorption level and approved with digital microscopic
evaluation under 20× magnification and then withdrawn 1 mm.
The distances from the file tip to the base of the rubber stop were
measured and compared with the measurement obtained from
apex locator.

71. • Statistical: The data were evaluated with t test using
standard statistical software (SPSS 13.0). The critical value
of statistical significance was 5%.
• Results: For root canals without resorption, the accuracy of
Root ZX was 79.16% and 95.82% within ± 0.5 and ± 1 mm,
respectively. For root canals with resorption, the accuracy of
Root ZX was 63.63% and 86.35% within ± 0.5 and ± 1 mm,
respectively. No statistically significant differences were
detect between the electronically determined lengths and the
actual lengths regardless of whether or not resorption.
• Conclusion: Using a Root ZX Electronic Apex Locator in
primary teeth with or without resorption is recommended
for the determination of working length.

72. RESULTS
• For canals without resorption, the accuracy of
Root ZX was 79.16% and 95.82% within ±
0.5 and ± 1 mm, respectively.
• For roots with resorption, the accuracy of Root
ZX was 63.63% and 86.35% within ± 0.5
and ± 1 mm, respectively.

73. ANALYSIS All measurements were performed by two
operators with a caliper to the nearest 0.01
mm independently
Datas obtained from resorption and
nonresorption canals within ± 0.5 mm and
± 1 mm were statistically analyzed using
chi-square test.
The critical value of statistical significance
was 5%.
For in vitro measurements, the inter-
examiner reproducibility was calculated by
Cohen’s unweighted kappa statistic.
OTHER INFORMATION NIL

74. DISCUSSION
• The results of this study are generally in
agreement with previous reports on the accuracy
of the Root ZX in primary teeth
• The Root ZX can identify the narrowest canal
diameter regardless of anatomical or mechanical
constriction.
• limitations in estimating the exact length of
primary teeth because of root resorption.

75. • The electronic apex locator may be useful in
determining working length in primary teeth
with resorption
• The use of electronic apex locator during
endodontic therapy potentially decrease the
radiation exposure to children by reducing the
number of radiographs required for successful
endodontic therapy

76. CONCLUSION
• The study confirm that the Root ZX can
accurately determine the root canal length in
primary teeth with and without root resorption.

78. GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT
PREPARATION

79. Title Page
• Type of manuscript (e.g. Original article, Case
Report)
• The title should be not more than 50 characters
• The name by which each contributor is known
with his or her highest academic degree(s) and
institutional affiliation

80. • The name of the department(s) and institution(s) to
which the work should be attributed;
• The name, address, phone numbers and e-mail
address of the contributor responsible for
uploading and correspondence about the
manuscript;
• The total number of pages and word counts
separately for abstract and for the text (excluding
the references and abstract);

81. • Source(s) of support in the form of grants,
equipment, drugs, or all of these;
• Acknowledgement, if any; and
• If the manuscript was presented in
conference/convention/meeting, the
organization, place, and exact date on which
it was read.

82. ABSTRACT PAGE
 The second page should carry the full title of the
manuscript
 abstract of no more than 150 words for case reports or brief
reports and 250 words for original articles.
 The abstract should be structured and state the Context
Background, Aims, Settings and Design, Methods and
Material, Statistical analysis used, Results and
conclusions.
 Below the abstract, authors should provide 3 to 10
keywords.

83. INTRODUCTION
Introduction should:-
1. provide/give background of the subject,
2. discuss existing research on the topic,
3. identify the lacunae in the existing literature and
4. explain exactly what the present paper will address,
5. why,
6. how and
7. summarize the rationale for the study or observation.

84. METHODS
The methods section should include only
information that was available at the time:-
1. the plan or protocol for the study;
2. all information obtained during the conduct
of the study belongs in the Results section.

85. STUDY GUIDELINES TO BE
FOLLOWED
Observational studies STROBE STATEMENT
Diagnostic accuracy studies STARD STATEMENT
Systematic reviews and PRISMA STATEMENT
Meta-analyses MOOSE STATEMENT
Case Report CARE STATEMENT
RCT CONSORT STATEMENT

86. RESULTS
• Results presented in logical sequence in the text,
tables, and illustrations, giving the most
important findings first.
• Extra or supplementary materials and
technical detail can be placed in an appendix
where it will be accessible but will not interrupt
the flow of the text;
• alternatively, it can be published only in the
electronic version of the journal.

87. TABLES
Tables should be self-explanatory and should not duplicate textual
material.
Tables with more than 10 columns and 25 rows will not be
accepted.
Number tables, in Arabic numerals, consecutively in the order of
their first citation in the text and supply a brief title/legend for each.
Explain in footnotes all the non-standard abbreviations that are
used in each table.
For footnotes use the following symbols, in this sequence: *, ¶, †,
‡‡,

88. DISCUSSION
• Summary of key findings
• Primary outcome measures,
• Secondary outcome measures,
• Results as they relate to a prior hypothesis.
• Strengths and limitations of the study (study question, study
design, data collection, analysis and interpretation)
• Interpretation and implications in the context of the totality of
evidence (is there a systematic review to refer to, if not, could
one be reasonably done here and now?, What this study adds
to the available evidence, effects on patient care and health
policy, possible mechanisms)
• Controversies raised by this study.
• Future research directions (for this particular research
collaboration, underlying mechanisms, clinical research).

89. REFERENCES
• References should be numbered consecutively in the
order in which they are first mentioned in the text
(not in alphabetic order).
• References in text, with Arabic numerals in square
brackets and superscript, after the punctuation mark
(e.g. .[1]) ;
• Figures, tables, and graphs by Arabic numerals in
square bracket (e.g. [Figure/Table/Graph.10]).

90. 1.Standard journal article:
Nuvvula S, Gaddam KR, Kamatham R.
Efficacy of tranexamic acid mouthwash as an
alternative for factor replacement in gingival
bleeding during dental scaling in cases of
hemophilia: A randomized clinical trial.
Contemp Clin Dent 2014;5:49-53.
(If more than SIX authors, list the first six
contributors followed by et al.)

92. 2. Chapter in a book:
Mc Donald RE, Avery DR, Dean JA, Jones JE.
Local anesthesia and pain control for the child and
adolescent.
In: Mc Donald and Avery’s Dentistry for the Child
and Adolescent. Dean JA, Avery DR, Mc Donald
RE, editors. 9th edition (Restricted South Asia)
2011, Reed Elsevier India Pvt. Ltd: p. 242–3.

93. • Reference from URL:
American Association of Endodontics. AAE
Considerations for regenerative procedures.
Available at:
http://www.aae.org/uploadedfiles/publications_and_
research/research/currentregenerativeendodonticcon
siderations.pdf ”. Accessed January 23, 2015.

94. Experiments on human subjects
• When reporting indicate whether the procedures
followed were in accordance with the ethical standards
of the responsible committee on human
experimentation (institutional or regional) and with the
Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2013
• IEC APPROVAL NUMBER

95. COPYRIGHTS
• The entire contents of the Journal are protected
under Indian and international copyrights.
• The Journal, however, grants to all users a free,
irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of
access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute,
perform and display the work publicly and to
make and distribute derivative works in any
digital medium for any reasonable non-
commercial purpose, subject to proper
attribution of authorship and ownership of the
rights.

96. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST/
COMPETING INTERESTS
• All authors must disclose conflicts of interest they may
have with publication of the manuscript or an
institution or product that is mentioned in the
manuscript and/or is important to the outcome of the
study presented.
• Authors should also disclose conflict of interest with
products that compete with those mentioned in their
manuscript

97. MANUSCRIPT PROCESS

98. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
NOT TO INTEREST OF JOURNAL REJECTED
ONE AUTHOR TO CORREPOND
CORRESPONDANCE AUTHOR TECHNICAL/SCIENTIFIC FLAWS
EDITORS REVIEW THE MANUSCRIPT
FORMAL REVIEW
NOT UNDER REVIEW
ANYWHERE ELSE

99. PEER
REVIEW
2 OR MORE
EXPERT
CONTRIBUTING
AUTHOR – 2/3
REVIEWERS-
NOT
MANDATORY
REVIEWER
NOT
AFFILIATED
TO SAME
INSTITUTION
SELECTION-
SOLE
DISCRETION
OF EDITOR

100. DOUBLE BLIND PEER REVIEW
ADVANTAGE
Ensure Fairness
Author and reviewer blind to identity

101. • Copy editing for grammar, punctuation, print style &
format
• Page proofs are sent to the corresponding author
• Corresponding author should be the uploading author
should return the corrected proofs within three days.
• Corrections received after the stipulated period will not
be accepted
• The whole process, from submission of the manuscript
to final decision and sending and receiving proofs is
completed online.
• To achieve faster and greater dissemination of
knowledge and information, the journal publishes
articles online as ‘Ahead of Print’ immediately on
acceptance

102. EDITORIAL PROCESS
(SUBMISSION - PUBLICATION)

103. EDITORIAL PROCESS
• Manuscript arrives
Scholar One
• Editor’s Review
Editor’s Reject 40% (Handout – criteria)
• Find Reviewers
- look at bibliography
- Reviewer Data base
- Key words

104. Editorial Process (cont.)
•Send out for review
2-4 reviewers
•Reviews in
Send reminders
•Reviewers assessment
Accept, Reject, Revise and Resubmit

105. EDITORIAL PROCESS
FIRST ROUND DECISION
• Accept Very rare (1 in 50)
• Reject (1 in 2)
• Revise and Resubmit
(most common)
Editor’s Comment
• How to weigh reviewers’ comments
(Top scholar, graduate student)
• Find additional problems
Persistence

106. EDITORIAL PROCESS (CONT.)
• Revise and resubmit comments sent to author
• Revised Manuscript and letter with explanation
arrives - Re-review Re-review (could be 2 - 4
rounds)?
• Decision - Accept/Reject
• If Accept publisher takes over
Practice and more practice
achieves goal.

107. • Copyright instructions form
• Author queries – Clarification
• Submit online
• Publish

108. EDITOR
ACCEPT/ REJECT
REVIEWER
COMMENTS/
SUGGESTION/
AMENDMENT
FINAL
DECISION
RESPONSE TO
COMMENTS
EDITOR
ACCEPTS
CHANGES /
RESUBMIT

109. TO DO THE CHANGES
SCHOLARS
PERSPECTIVE
EDITORS
PERSPECTIVE

110. EDITOR AS COACH
Improve the manuscript
Make sure
unwanted material
is removed

111. CTRI

112. • The Clinical Trials Registry- India (CTRI), hosted at the
ICMR's National Institute of Medical Statistics (http://icmr-
nims.nic.in), is a free and online public record system for
registration of clinical trials being conducted in India that
was launched on 20th July 2007
(www.ctri.nic.in).
• Initiated as a voluntary measure, since 15th June 2009, trial
registration in the CTRI has been made mandatory by the
Drugs Controller General (India) (DCGI)
(www.cdsco.nic.in).
• Moreover, Editors of Biomedical Journals of 11 major
journals of India declared that only registered trials would
be considered for publication.

113. • Clinical Trials Registry-India (CTRI) encourage
all clinical trials conducted in India to be
prospectively registered, i.e. before the
enrolment of the first participant.
• Trials where patient recruitment has started or
even completed are also being registered.

114. • Conform to accepted ethical standards: The ICMR
through its Bio-ethics initiative has developed ethical
guidelines for the conduct of trials and for ethics
committees.
• Clearance by local ethics committees is mandatory for
all clinical trials
• Reporting of all relevant results of registered trials:
The CTRI is working with the WHO ICTRP to ensure
that results of all trials registered with the CTRI are
adequately reported and publicly available.

115. ADVANTAGES
Improve transparency and accountability
Improve the internal validity of trials:
Increase the chances of publication in a high impact journal
Increase the public confidence in trial

116. CITATION
• Quotation from or reference to a author in
scholarly work.

117. IMPACT FACTOR

118. Impact factor
• The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor
(JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric
index that reflects the yearly average number of
citations that articles published in the last two
years in a given journal received.
• It is often used to compare journals of the same
category.
• Higher the Impact factor, higher is the ranking of
the journal.

119. • The calculation of IF is based on a period of two years
and computes as dividing the number of times articles
published in that journal were cited by the total number
of articles which are citable.

121. • The impact factor of a journal is calculated by dividing the number
of current year citations to the source items published in that journal
during the previous two years. It is denoted as a ratio between
citations and recent citable items published
• You can either refer to the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) or the
Scopus® database to find the impact factor of the journal.
• The data from the Scopus® database can also be found at
resurchify.com.
• You can find the impact factor of thousands of journals on this
website.

122. Importance of Impact Factor
• Impact factor gives the approximate idea about
how prestigious a particular journal is in its field.
• The higher the IF of the journal, the better it is
ranked.
• By using this metric you can basically evaluate
and compare the journals in similar subject
categories to identify their importance.

123. Indexing/ Abstracting
• Indexing will help your journal achieve its main
purpose of being accessible to a wide audience.
• Being accessible in turn will improve journal’s
reputation as a reliable source of high-quality
information in the field.
• Database research is the first activity researchers
undertake as part of their study, and they naturally look
to established, well-known databases. Thus, being
indexed in a known database in your field will help
increase your journal’s readership.

124. Journal citation index
• A citation index is a kind of bibliographic index, an
index of citations between publications, allowing the
user to easily establish which later documents cite
which earlier documents.
• In 1960, Eugene Garfield's Institute for Scientific
Information (ISI) introduced the first citation index for
papers published in academic journals, first the Science
Citation Index (SCI).
• Example:- (PubMed, Google Scholar, Elsevier's
Scopus, EBSCO, Cross Ref)

125. • Scopus: Managed by the publishing company Elsevier, Scopus indexes
journals from the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and
arts and humanities. It also provides research analysis and tracking tools.
• EMBASE (Excerpta Medica database): Also maintained by Elsevier,
EMBASE is a biomedical database accessed by researchers, information
managers, regulatory specialists, clinicians, medical librarians, educators and
physicians. (Elsevier maintains other databases such as EMcare and
Engineering Village.)
• PubMed: Maintained by the United States National Library of Medicine,
PubMed covers biomedical literature from life science journals, and online
books. It also accesses the MEDLINE bibliographic database of reference and
abstracts.
• SCIE (Science Citation Index-Expanded): SCIE is a product by Thomson
Reuters. It covers journals from a range of scientific and technical fields. It also
provides some data analysis options.
• BIOSIS Citation Index: Also by Thomson Reuters, BIOSIS covers a range of
biological and biomedical sciences.

126. • DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals): DOAJ is an online
directory that indexes and provides access to open access, peer-
reviewed journals covering history, religion, geography, language
and literature, etc.
• Ovid: Ovid is a branch of Wolters Kluwer. Ovid databases cover a
wide range of topics including clinical medicine, pharmacology.
• EBSCO Information Services: The EBSCO database includes
titles compiled by the company as well as journals from other
databases/publishers such as Medline and EconLit. The company
also maintains Academic Search Complete, which covers the full-
text of journals.
• BioOne Abstracts and Indexes: These provide access to peer-
reviewed research in the biological, ecological, and environmental
sciences

127. Sl no Journal name Impact factor Indexing
1 Journal of pediatric dentistry 1.3 PubMed central
2 Journal of clinical pediatric
dentistry
0.94 PubMed central
3 Contemporary clinical
pediatric dentistry
0.3 PubMed central
4 International of current
research
6.3 Google scholar
5 International journal of dental
science & innovative research
6.0 PubMed library
6 International journal of
hematology, oncology and
stem cell research
1.20 PubMed Central

128. H-INDEX
• It is author-level metric that measure both
the productivity and citation impact of
the publications of a scientist or scholar
• The index is based on the set of most cited
papers and the number of citations that they
have received in other publications
• 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.

129. CONCLUSION
• With the knowledge of publishing and eagerness for
research among pediatric dental professionals; and
following the apt instructions given by the editor of
the concerned journal a manuscript can be
successfully published for embarking the light of
change among the scientific field.