Dr. Max Haring gave a seminar about optimizing publishing experiences and impact. He discussed choosing the right journal by considering its focus, publication type, potential audience, and open access options. He also encouraged authors to improve discoverability through search engine optimization of titles and adding metadata. Finally, he advocated being open by publishing open access, engaging in collaborative writing, sharing research data and code, and using altmetrics and open peer review to increase impact.

1. Are you ready to
get read?
Dr. Max Haring - March 2016
TU Delft Library seminar

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Are you ready to get read?
Optimize your own publishing experience
and improve your impact!
• About Springer Nature
• Choosing the right journal
• What can you do? Be Open!

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Springer Nature is one of the world’s leading global research,
educational and professional publishers, the world’s largest
academic book publisher, publisher of the world’s most influential
journals and a pioneer in the field of open research.

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Dr. ir. Max Haring
Executive Editor
max.haring@springer.com
MSc in cell biology (Wageningen UR)
PhD in biochemistry (University of Amsterdam)
9 years of publishing experience
2012: launched SpringerPlus
Springer’s first OA journal for research in all disciplines
2015: launched Transfer Desk
A new service for authors!
About me

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Choosing the right journal

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Journal selection
What is the main focus of your work?
What is the type of publication?
research, review, method, data
Who will be interested?
How significant are your results?
Where have similar articles been published?
who would be appropriate peer reviewers
Open Access options?
OA mandates, public outreach,
audience beyond academia
Anything else?
ESM/Figshare, altmetrics, DOI, Post-pub comments
thinkchecksubmit.org

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Common reasons for rejection (by editors and reviewers)
From: Ali J. Manuscript rejection: Causes and remedies. J Young Pharmacists. Wolters Kluwer Health DOI 10.4103/0975-1483.62205
Lack of novelty, originality, or necessity of the study
Unimportant and irrelevant subject matter
Lack of interpretation or focus
Flaws in methodology, interpretation of data, or statistics
Presentation or formatting
Reviewers' field of knowledge
Inappropriateness for the journal
Journals' popularity and priority given to the manuscript by the editor
http://www.maxbingham.com/blog/2012/03/how-to-deal-
with-rejection-without-review/

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Transfer Desk - Helps authors get published
A new manuscript submission service at Springer Nature:
• Access to all 2500+ journals at Springer, BMC and NPG
• Never worry about journal requirements again!
• Select by scope, impact or Open Access options
• Re-use available reviews: lower reviewer burden & faster decisions
• Guarantee: we will always find a suitable journal!
How to get this service?
1. Transfers are offered Springer journal EiCs, when rejected for:
─ Out of scope
─ Good quality but not enough interest or novelty
2. Manuscript can be submitted directly to the Transfer Desk
3. Through our Partnership with Peerage-Of-Science
www.springer.com/authors
transferdesk@springer.com

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Megajournals

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Mega journals: the new kids
Choosing a journal is difficult:
Open access & data mandates
Peer-review models, Article types
Aims & Scope are often ambiguous
There are many journals available:
WOS: 12.000 journals
Scopus: 22.000 journals
DOAJ: 10.000 journals
Springer Nature: 3.100 journals
Mega journals:
Open Access :easy compliance with OA
mandates
Broad scope
Rejection only for quality of science
Portable peer-review
Fast decisions
Convenient & predictable
Bjork (2015), PeerJ, DOI 10.7717/peerj.981

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Mega journals at Springer Nature
Scope: Natural sciences
Impact Factor: 11.470
Highly selective
Scope: Natural sciences
Impact Factor: 5.578
Scope: Human and
Social Sciences
Launched in 2015
Scope: Physics
Impact factor: 1.377
Subscription journal
Scope: Chemistry and material
science
Impact Factor: 2.190
Scope: Biology and
medicine
Launched in 2008
Scope: All disciplines
Launched in 2012
First Impact Factor in 2016!

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Peer-reviewed journal, Open Access, Online Only
Independent international editorial board
High quality: acceptance rate 50%
First Impact Factor in 2016!
For all Disciplines in STEM and HSS
Never out of scope!
No focus on impact
Accepts low-cited work
Publish regional studies internationally
Share all your data and findings!
Flexible, efficient and predictable
APC discounts and waivers available:
http://www.springeropen.com/inst/
http://www.springeropen.com/authors/oawaiverfund
SpringerPlus: one journal for all research
www.springerplus.com

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What can you do?

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Make your title Google-proof!

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Add metadata: make your research findable!
Research metadata
Keywords
Species, DNA/proteins, methods
Researcher metadata
Name, institute, country
Funding sources
Registrations: clinical trials, chemicals,
sequences, computer code etc.
Publication metadata
Library catalogue
Content retrieval

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What you can do: be open!

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Open Access Publishing
Free to read
Free to re-use
- Easier to find & use relevant literature
- Increases the visibility, readership and
impact of author’s works
- Creates new ways of use
- Enhances interdisciplinary research
- Accelerates the pace of research,
discovery and innovation
http://www.sparc.arl.org/openaccess/why-oa.shtml http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/jul/17/open-access-scientific-research

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Peer-review
Reviewers name and comments are available
Post-publication Open Peer-review / comments
Manuscripts
Collaborative writing
Pre-publication history
Revisions and comments
Data
Research output, images, algorithms, software code, statistics, …
Metrics
Usage, citations (IF, H-index), interaction (tweets, likes, mentions, news)
What else can be open?

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Open writing
Use collaborative writing tools
• Articles
• Posters
• Thesis
Use pre-print servers
• to discuss experiments
• to share manuscripts and revisions
Get pre-submission peer-review

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Publish your data!
Linked to journal article
Data with its own DOI
• Citable
• Impact calculation
Data mandates
US: NHF, NIH, NASA, CDC
EU: Horizon 2020, Wellcome Trust
Publish with DOI !
Open Data!

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Collecting data
• Mind the meta-data!
• Use open formats, find appropriate reporting standard
Make your data available
• Data repository or data journal?
• Make it open access -> encourage reuse
• DOI and digital preservation
Link data to your publications
• Upload, manage, submit, cite, share!
How to make your data open?

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Why open data?
Why cite the article?…
…when you can cite the fact!
DOI for facts/quotes/data points
Make articles machine readable
Science Ontologies
Shows relationships
Leblanc et al. SpringerPlus (2015) 4:557 DOI 10.1186/s40064-015-1357-0

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‘Traditional’ metrics are closed
Altmetrics* are open!
*Lin, J. & Fenner, M. (2013). Altmetrics in evolution: Defining and redefining the ontology of article-level metrics. Information Standards Quarterly,
25(2), 20-26.
What else? Open metrics!

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Post-publication discussion & metrics
Scientific research can be found in:
• Scholarly Publications:
Journal articles, book chapters
Databases (Figshare, SwissProt)
Repository archives (Arxiv)
• Non-scholarly publications:
Blogs, Social Media
News items, Company pages
Wikipedia
• Post-publication discussion platforms:
Faculty of 1000
Mendeley, ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Papers
• Other: Conference abstracts, posters
Which made
the most
IMPACT?

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Summary

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Optimize your own publishing experience and improve your impact!
Chose the best place to publish
• Journal Aims & Scope
• Rejection is not the end
Google-proof your paper!
• SEO your title
• Add keywords & metadata
Be Open!
• Publish OA
• Find collaborations
• Share your data
• Use open metrics

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max.haring@springer.com
Thank you!