A presentation about ideas and topics regarding how to increase your publication impact presented at the UPM, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Polytechnic University of Madrid, indexes, IEEE and open access

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¿Cómo Aumentar el
Impacto de tus
Publicaciones?
Manuel Castro, Ph.D., IEEE Fellow
IEEE Board of Directors
Division VI Director Elect
IEEE Education Society
Past President Sr – President Emeritus
UNED, Madrid, SPAIN
Professor – Electronics Technology
http://www.slideshare.net/mmmcastro/

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 Publications in Indexed Journals
 Societies, Publishers and IEEE
 Social and collaborative environments
 New publications market, preprints, …
 New paradigms in publications
 Other impact factors
 Open Access
 Free open publications
 Other issues
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 Researcher’s aspirations do not change too much in
the last decades: get published, get cited, get tenure
 Activity in all peer-reviewed publications is growing
(slowly), but the growth in open access journals is
significantly higher (coming from a lower base)
 From engineering research community
 IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, IET, Wiley, …
 New tools for researchers
 Altmetrics, Kudos, pre-submission, badging – not so use
 New social activities to look and interact
 Research Gate, Academics, Mendeley, IEEE Collabratec, …
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 The world’s largest professional organization
 More than 400,000 – over 50% U.S.A. – 50% Industry
 A respected standards organization
 1,500 standards
 A major global conference business
 1,000 conferences – 76 countries (400,000 attendees) / year
 A significant publisher of technical literature
 170 Transactions, Journals & Magazines
 1/3 of world literature in fields of interest
 4 million documents IEEE Xplore (10 million dwnlds/month)
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IEEE publishes:
Based on the 2016 study released June 2017
More info: www.ieee.org/citations
The Journal Citation Reports presents quantifiable statistical data that provides a
systematic, objective way to evaluate the world’s leading journals.
22 of the top 25 journals in Electrical and Electronic
Engineering
14 of the top 15 journals in Telecommunications
4 of the top 5 journals in Artificial Intelligence
3 of the top 5 journals in Computer Science, Hardware
& Architecture
3 of the top 5 journals in Automation & Control Systems
2 of the top 5 journals in Computer Science,
Cybernetics
2 of the top 5 journals in Imaging Science &
Photographic Technology
# 1 in Automation and Control
# 1 in Artificial Intelligence
# 1 in Computer Hardware
# 1 in Cybernetics
# 1 in Information Systems
# 1 in Manufacturing Engineering
# 1 in Theory and Methods
# 1 in Telecommunications
# 2 in Electrical Engineering
# 3 in Aerospace Engineering
IEEE journals are:

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https://biblioguias.biblioteca.deusto.es/c.php?g=155487&p=1116340
Popularity indicators: count
citations directly
independently of their
source(IF, 5YIF, SNIP)
Prestige indicators: weight
the influence of citations
depending on their
source (EF, AI, SJR)

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 All major publishers combine open and
traditional models
 Some only open access models
 Prices, costs, grants, all together in the same
market
 Rapid publishing
 New models based on real OPEN access and
free publishing (starting)
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 Fake Journals
 Fake Reviews
 Citation Stacking
 Coerced Self-citation
 Retraction Publications
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¿Cómo Aumentar el
Impacto de tus
Publicaciones?
Manuel Castro, Ph.D., IEEE Fellow
IEEE Board of Directors
Division VI Director Elect
IEEE Education Society
Past President Sr – President Emeritus
UNED, Madrid, SPAIN
Professor – Electronics Technology
http://www.slideshare.net/mmmcastro/