This document provides information on how to publish an article in a reputable international journal. It discusses the importance of publishing research papers and the different types of papers, including journal papers, conference papers, and working papers. It also describes the general IMRAD format used for most scientific papers and discusses where to submit journal articles. The document outlines the journal publication process and provides examples from Emerald Publishing. It discusses journal indices like Web of Science, Scopus, and ASEAN Citation Index. It also describes the differences between predatory, open access, and closed access journals.

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HOW TO WRITE AND PUBLISH AN ARTICLE IN A
REPUTABLE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL

2. GLOBAL RESEARCH & PUBLICATION TREND

3. WHY PUBLISH RESEARCH PAPERS?
• Writing is the most important means for communicating scientific work. Research
and publication complement teaching and training, clinical care, and public health
works. ... Publication in peer-reviewed journals also gives international recognition
for an individual, department, university, and institutions.
• Conducting scientific and clinical research is only the beginning of the scholarship of
discovery. In order for the results of research to be accessible to other professionals
and have a potential effect on the greater scientific community, it must be written
and published.
• Publication is the last stage of the research process, allowing other scientists to
critique, review, and replicate your study to advance science.

4. 3 TYPES OF PAPER: CONFERENCE, WORKING,
JOURNAL
• Journal Paper is one that is submitted to a jorunal or periodical publication that
focuses on a certain discipline. It contains a number of peer-reviewed papers that
are generally considered credible and are very good sources to cite from.
• Conference Paper is one that is presented in an academic conference here scholars,
researchers, professors, and academics gather to discuss research and
developments in a certain field. In most academic conferences, people gather to
present their newest research while others attend to observe these milestones.
Research is often presented orally with visualization. This usually published in
Conference proceedings or submitted to journals endorsed by conference
organizers.
is one that is usually posted or published online in an academic
websites or repositories as a work in progress or draft. Examples of sites where
working papers are posted or published online: SSRN, Academia, Researchgate, ARI-
NUS Working Papers,Preprints.org, etc.

5. GENERAL STRUCTURE OF A PAPER: IMRAD FORMAT
(Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, and
Discussion )
• Most scientific papers are prepared according to a format called IMRAD. The term represents the first letters of
the words Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, And, Discussion.
• It indicates a pattern or format rather than a complete list of headings or components of research papers; the
missing parts of a paper are: Title, Authors, Keywords, Abstract, Conclusions, and References. Additionally, some
papers include Acknowledgments and Appendices.
• 1.The Introduction explains the scope and objective of the study in the light of current knowledge on the subject
• 2.The Materials and Methods describes how the study was conducted;
• 3. The Results section reports what was found in the study; and
• 4. The Discussion section explains meaning and significance of the results and provides suggestions for future
directions of research.
Note: The manuscript must be prepared according to the Journal’s instructions to authors.Please Elsevier's article
entitled “How to get your paper published... and then noticed” at https://www.elsevier.com/?a=91173
Source:
Nair P.K.R., Nair V.D. (2014) Organization of a Research Paper: The IMRAD Format. In: Scientific Writing and Communication in Agriculture and Natural Resources. Springer, Cham

7. WHERE TO SUBMIT YOUR JOURNAL ARTICLE?:
Editorial Manager [EM]

8. WHERE TO SUBMIT YOUR JOURNAL ARTICLE?
(https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gcul) Web of
Science

9. WHERE TO SUBMIT YOUR JOURNAL ARTICLE?
• Submit manuscript directly to the editor or journal's email
• Submit to the journal's online submission system by creating an
account first and then upload the manuscript.

10. THE JOURNAL PUBLICATION PROCESS

11. SAMPLE: EMERALD PUBLISHING PROCESS

12. Preferred Journal Indices

13. CLAVIRATE ANALYTICS: WEB OF SCIENCE
(https://mjl.clarivate.com/home)
• The acquisition of the Intellectual Property & Science division of the Thomson
Reuters group by the investment funds Onex Corporation and Baring Private Equity
Asia has been effective since 3 October. This group dedicated to scientific
information and industrial property information (patents and trademarks) will now
operate under the Clarivate Analytics banner, which will include brands such as Web
of Science, Cortellis, Thomson Innovation, Derwent World Patents Index, Thomson
CompuMark, MarkMonitor, Thomson IP Manager and Techstreet.
• Thomson Reuters owns the famous Reuters news agency and provides information in
several areas including the field of scientific publications through "Journals citations
reports" ... It is the division "Intellectual Property and Science" of TR that has been
sold to become "Clarivate Analytics". "The Journal Citation Reports" is now published
by "Clarivate Analytics" after the acquisition of its "Intellectual Property and
Science" division at Thomson Reuters in 2016 (El Houssine Bouiamrine, answer in
Researchgate query March 22, 2019).

14. WEB OF SCIENCE (WoS): Clarivate Analytics

15. CLAVIRATE ANALYTICS: WEB OF SCIENCE
(https://mjl.clarivate.com/home)
• The Master Journal List is an invaluable tool to help you to find the right journal for your needs across multiple indices
hosted on the Web of Science platform
• Spanning all disciplines and regions, Web of Science Core Collection is at the heart of the Web of Science platform:
• The Science Citation Index (SCI) is a citation index originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and created by
Eugene Garfield. It was officially launched in 1964. It is now owned by Clarivate Analytics (previously the Intellectual Property and
Science business of Thomson Reuters).
• The larger version Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) covers more than 8,500 notable and significant journals,
across 150 disciplines, from 1900 to the present. These are alternatively described as the world's leading journals of
science and technology, because of a rigorous selection process.
• (Science Citation Index® (SCI) and Science Citation Index ExpandedTM (SCIE) have the SAME QUALITY as the journal
selection process for journals of SCI and SCIE is essentially identical.The small difference between Science Citation
Index® (SCI) and Science Citation Index ExpandedTM (SCIE) is the storage format. As known, both SCI and SCIE are
available online. However, SCI is available on CD/DVD format but SCIE is not) (Samir Pandya, Researchgate query
answer, March 4, 2019).

16. CLAVIRATE ANALYTICS:
(https://mjl.clarivate.com/home)
AHCI & ESCI
Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index and fully indexes over 1,700 arts and humanities
journals, as well as selected items from over 250 scientific and social sciences journals – 1988 to present.
• The Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) was launched in late 2015 by Thomson Reuters as a new
database in Web of Science. Around 3,000 journals were selected for coverage at launch, spanning
the full range of subject areas. Since 2017 the index has been produced by Clarivate Analytics.
• The Emerging Sources Citation Index aims to extend the scope of publications in the Web of Science
to include high-quality, peer reviewed publications. It ensures important research is visible in the
Web of Science Core Collection even if it is not yet internationally recognized.

17. Web of Science (WoS)/ Claverate Analytics
• Web of Science is the world’s most trusted publisher-independent
global citation database. Guided by the legacy of Dr Eugene
Garfield, inventor of the world’s first citation index, Web of
Science is the most powerful research engine, delivering your
library with best-in-class publication and citation data for
confident discovery, access and assessment.
• Its comprehensive platform allows you to track ideas across
disciplines and time from over 1.7 billion cited references from
over 159 million records.

18. CLARIVATE ANALYTICS
(https://mjl.clarivate.com/home)

19. REQUIREMENTS FOR JOURNALS TO BE INDEXED IN
WEB OF SCIENCE
• 1.Peer reviewed
• 2.Follows ethical publishing practices
• 3.Meets technical requirements
• 4.Has English language bibliographic information
• 5.Recommended or requested by a scholarly audience of Web of Science users
• All journals submitted to the core Web of Science databases will be evaluated. If they’re
successful they will be indexed in the ESCI while undergoing more in-depth editorial
review.
• If a journal is accepted from the ESCI to another database it will no longer be covered in
the ESCI. Journals which are indexed can opt out of consideration for further evaluation if
they need to improve their citation profile.

20. SCIMAGO
• This platform takes its name from
the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
indicator, developed by SCImago
from the widely known
algorithmGoogle PageRank. This
indicator shows the visibility of the
journals contained in the Scopus
database from 1996. This index is
based on SCOPUS database which has
much wider indexed journals
compared to ISI.

21. SCIMAGO (https://www.scimagojr.com/)
• SCImago Journal Rank (SJR indicator) is a measure of scientific
influence of scholarly journals that accounts for both the number
of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige
of the journals where such citations come from.
• The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a publicly available portal
that includes the journals and country scientific indicators
developed from the information contained in the Scopus®
database (Elsevier B.V.).
• All journals included in SJR are indexed in Scopus.
• Every single year SJR is updated on June. Each year Scopus
provides us an update database, and according to that new
information, indicators are calculated.

22. SCOPUS (Scopus.com)
• Scopus is the largest citation and abstract or bibliographic
database of research literature for academic journal articles. It
covers nearly 22,000 titles from over 5,000 publishers, of which
20,000 are peer-reviewed journals in the scientific, technical,
medical, and social sciences.
• Scopus is Elsevier’s abstract and citation database launched in
2004. Elsevier is a Dutch publishing and analytics company
specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content

23. SCOPUS (https://www.scopus.com/)

24. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IMPACT FACTOR (IF) and
CITE SCORE?
is journal metric of Clarivate Analytics (formerly
part of Thomson Reuters) (Web of Science).
• It is obtained from Journal Citation Reports (JCR) of Clarivate
Analytics. As the Impact Factor is derived from journals indexed in
the Web of Science-- another product of Clarivate Analytics
• It is a measure of citation frequency of a journal article on yearly
bases, the ratio of number of citations to the number of papers
published by a journal for a given period
• CiteScore is a new journal metric launched by Elsevier in 2016
(SCOPUS).Launched to compete with the Impact Factor.
• CiteScore is calculated from the list of Scopus journals, which is
much larger than the Web of Science list

25. HOW IMPACT FACTOR & CITESCORE WORK?
• The Impact Factor (IF) is a measure of the frequency with which
the average article in a journal has been cited in a particular year.
It is used to measure the importance or rank of a journal by
calculating the times it's articles are cited.
• How Impact Factor is Calculated?
• The calculation is based on a two-year period and involves dividing
the number of times articles were cited by the number of articles
that are citable.

26. ASEAN CITATION INDEX (http://www.asean-
cites.org/)
• ASEAN Citation Index (ACI) is a central
regional database which was designed
and set up to index all the
bibliographic records and the citations
of all quality ASEAN research outputs
appeared in the ASEAN scholarly
journals. The member countries of the
ACI are Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia,
Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar,
the Phillippines, Singapore, Thailand,
and Vietnam.

27. ASEAN CITATION INDEX (ACI)
(http://www.asean-cites.org/)

28. 3 TYPES OF JOURNAL: OPEN-ACCESS, CLOSED-
ACCESS, AND PREDATORY
: A type of journal where authors pay a fee to publish, but maintain high
standards for peer review and editing. The goal is to disseminate research to a larger
audience by removing paywalls. It is usually listed in the Directory of Open-Acess Journals
(DOAJ).
A mainstram journal that does not ask payment for authors who publish and maintain
high standards for peer review and editing . Papers are usually available to paid subscribers or
sold to outsider through pay walls.
A journal that takes advantage of authors by asking them to publish for a fee
without providing peer-review or editing services. Its publisher does not follow the proper
academic standards for publishing and usually offer a quick turnaround on publishing a
manuscript.
• It is usually not listed in DOAJ and MEDLINE, but listed in Beall's list or Cabell's Blacklist.

29. SOME STATS ON PREDATORY JOURNALS,
PUBLISHERS, & ARTICLES
• As of 2015, there were an estimated 996 predatory publishers
(including 447 publishers of standalone journals) that published
over 11,800 journals. Of those, roughly 8,000 journal titles were
active and published a total of approximately 420,000 articles.
• Biomedicine is a major area for predatory publishers, and the
prevalence of predatory journals varies between specific fields.
(Shen and Bjork).
• India is the hub of predatory journals and publishers.

30. WHY INDIA IS THE HUB OF PREDATORY JOURNALS &
PUBLISHERS?
• Indian universities consistently fare poorly in world university rankings. No Indian
institution ranks among the top 200 worldwide and only a few figure among the top 500.
This is in large part due to the relatively low quantity and lack of high quality research and
publications in journals by faculty members.
• India’s world leadership in predatory publishing is not entirely surprising. The country has a
large higher education sector with 903 universities, 39,050 colleges and 10,011 stand-alone
institutions. In 2010, the University Grants Commission, India’s higher education regulator,
introduced the Academic Performance Indicators in which it made research compulsory for
teachers across all kinds of higher education institutions, including teaching-focused
colleges, for career advancement...With research and publishing made compulsory, a large
number of teachers took the easiest option, of publishing in fake journals (Pushkar Sinha
2019).

31. WHY INDIA IS THE HUB OF PREDATORY JOURNALS &
PUBLISHERS?
• The Indian Express reported that there are now more than 300
companies in India publishing predatory journals, which charge
publishing fees ranging from $30 to $1800. It says that Hyderabad,
the capital of the state of Telangana, is the Indian hub of
predatory journals with companies based in the city publishing
1500 journals.
• The publishers ranged from a one-person operation publishing 13
journals to OMICS Group, which publishes more than 700 journals.
OMICS is currently being sued by the Federal Trade Commission
(FTC) in America, which claims it misrepresents its journals and
hides publication fees.
• A 2015 study by Cenyu Shen and Bo-Christer Björk found Indian
academics to have contributed 35% of all articles published in
various kinds of fake journals between 2010 and 2014.

32. Jeffrey Beall's List of Predatory Journals
(https://beallslist.net/)
• Jeffrey Beall, an American library science professor. For many
years, Beall maintained and regularly updated a website of shady
publications until his lists – consisting of publishers who published
scores or more of fake journals and hundreds of other stand-alone
fake journals – had to be taken off due to “intense pressure” from
his employer, the University of Colorado Denver.
• Beall’s list is still commonly used by researchers for their work on
fake journals.

33. VANITY PRESS VS. PREDATORY PUBLISHERS
• Vanity press is a type of publishing, where authors pay to have their work published;
either in money or – more often – in the author’s publication rights. During the
publication process, no peer-review is promised by the publisher and no quality
control is done. Vanity press usually does no editing, and the authors are left to do
all the formatting and spell-checking by themselves.
• Their works are then published in self-publishing outlets, such as on Amazon, and
physical copies of their books have outrageously high prices. The authors, of course,
get no income from the sales.
• Vanity press usually targets young academics with no experience, that have just
finished their degree and produced a thesis.
• Authors are usually not permitted to publish theri research in papers because of the
legal contract with the vanity publisher.

34. LIST OF VANITY PRESS
(https://beallslist.net/vanity-press/)
• Here we list the known vanity press outlets. Please be cautious about sending them any of your articles or theses.
• Apple Academic Press
• Cognella (not precisely a vanity press, but with a similar impact)
• Editorial Académica Española (see OMNIScriptum)
• Edwin Mellen Press
• EU Researcher
• Harding House Publishing
• IGI Global (Idea Group Publishing)
• Lambert Academic Publishing (LAP, see OMNIScriptum)
• Nova Science Publishers
• OMNIScriptum Publishing Group (includes all of their “academic brands”)
• Research Outreach (vanity PR magazine for academics)
• Scholars’ Press (see OMNIScriptum)
• VDM Verlag Dr. Müller (see OMNIScriptum)
• Vestal Creative Services
• (Updated on December 23, 2019, beall'slist.net)

35. CABELL'S BLACKLIST OF PREDATORY JOURNALS
(https://www2.cabells.com/)
• Following the closure of Beall’s list of predatory journals, the scholarly analytics company Cabell’s International
launched their own in 2017 called The Journal Blacklist.
• After hitting the 10,000 mark late last year, the blacklist has now surpassed this and reached over 12,000 journals,
having tripled in size since it was originally launched.
• Red Flags for Predatory Journals:
• 1 The publisher is responsible for a high number of journals
• 2. The journal falsely claims it is indexed in well-known databases
• 3. It uses misleading metrics that do not exist
• 4. Journal has no peer review policy
• 5. There is no affiliation given for the editor.
• (Source: https://thepublicationplan.com/2019/11/26/cabells-blacklist-of-predatory-journals-passes-12000/)

36. OMICS INTERNATIONAL: A TOP PREDATORY
PUBLISHER?

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38. My Peer-Reviewed International Books Published
by Springer Nature

39. MY LATEST ISI/SCOPUS OPEN-ACCESS ARTICLES IN
RELIGIONS JOURNAL
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