This document provides information about publishing research articles in journals. It discusses why researchers want to publish their work, such as to disseminate findings and gain recognition. Key steps in the publication process are outlined, including choosing an appropriate journal based on fit and standards. Other topics covered include ISSN numbers, peer review, science citation indexes, and impact factors - which are used to evaluate journal importance. The document emphasizes that publishing original research helps communicate new concepts and advances to relevant audiences and fields.

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Publishing of Articles
M.Sc. Zoology
Mr. Akash Bagade
M.Sc. Zoology, CSIR-UGC NET, MH-SET and GATE
Junior Research Fellow
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Research and Training Institute
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

2. Publishing of Articles in Journals
Why do you want to publish?
To disseminate our work
to our community
To gain prestige and
recognition from our peers
To show our research
performance to our
funding bodies.
To validate our findings.
Journal- are the scholarly publication of
articles, written by various researchers and
experts. It is also known as periodicals.
Why should published in journals
 Journals are currently the main vehicle for
scholarly communication.
 Journals ensure peer review and quality control.
 Journals are one of the main evaluation
measures for funding bodies.
 Journals represents a fast way to communicate
our findings

3. Publishing of Articles
The best way to share an knowledge is to publishing of research work.
Research work can be published in journals/newspapers etc.
Publishing original research helps to
1.Disseminatetheresultsofexperiments.
2.Informaudienceaboutnewconcepts.
3.Informadvancesinatechnologyandscientificfield.
Good publication is must to get related jobs.

4. Following are important in publication
 When, what and where to publish
 Write a good research paper (seek comments from established senior
academics within your department prior to submission).
 Choosing the best journal for your work (make sure that your paper
fits the theme of the journal, quality, time etc.)
 Follow the style of selected journal.
 Publishing ethically Authorship dispute, plagiarism, simultaneous
submission.
Publishing of Articles

6. SELECTION OF JOURNAL
Selection of journal is one of the major steps in research publication.
Publishing your research in the right journal can help you reach a global
audience, make an impact and move forward in your career.
Important things to be followed in journal selection.
1. Identify a correct journal that’s fit your research area of research
If the articles is not fit the editors will reject the paper.
2. Check the standard of papers published in a journal and compare
with your paper.
If your paper is in same grade or higher, journal will accept your paper.

7. SELECTION OF JOURNAL
Important things to be followed in journal selection.
3. Look at journal impact factor
This will give you an idea of the quality of journal and how difficult it will be to
get your paper accepted.
4. Acceptance and rejection rates of Journal
Number of articles accepted and rejected.
Each Journal mention Acceptance rate.
5. Manuscript Processing charges
 Some journals charge processing fee or fee for color figure reproduction.

8. ISSN Number
International Standard serial number is an 8- digit code used to
identify the journals, magazines, newspapers and periodicals of all
kinds and all media; print and electronic.
ISSN is mandatory in several countries for publication and printed on
upper right corner of the cover page.
 In Publication website, ISSN Should shown in homepage.
The ISSN is associated with the title of the publication and it does not
include information about origin and content of publication.
If the publication is modified significantly, a new ISSN must be
assigned.

9. ISSN Number
 Format of ISSN; acronym ISSN followed by two groups of digits,
separated by a hyphen.
 Eg. ISSN: 1365-2656
 ISBN(International Standard Book Number)
is used for to identify a book

10. Peer reviewed Journals
 Peer review is defined as a process of subjecting an authors scholarly
work, research or ideas to scrutiny of others who are expert in the same
field.
 The journals perform the peer review is peer reviewed journals also known
as refereed journal or scholarly journal.
 This journals have an editorial board of subject expert who review the
articles written by researcher before accepting and publishing.
 It act as filter to ensure that only high quality research work for published.
 Peer reviewers provide suggestions to authors on how to improve the
quality of their manuscripts and also identify any errors that need to correct
before publication.

11. Peer reviewed Journals
 Journals might have an open review process where the author knows the
editors and the comments are public.
 Blind or double blind methodologies are when the author does not know
the editors/reviewers and vice versa.
https://areste.org/index.php/oai/reviewProcess

12. Science citation index
 Science Citation Index (SCI) is a citation index originally produced by the
Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and founded by Eugene Garfield
in 1964.
 It is owned by producer Clarivate Analytics (Canada and Hong Kong).
 SCI Covers all of science and technology areas.
 SCI does not attempt to cover all publications in the sciences.
 SCI covers 3600 Journals, plus some books and conference proceedings.
 The SCIE is the larger version of SCI, covers more than 8500 notable and
significant journals across 150 disciplines of science, medicine and
technology from 1900 to the present.
 SCI is prepared by computer and cited source authors as entries.
 Journals are selected based on citation statistics-
‘IMPACT FACTOR’

13. Impact Factor and its Importance
 The impact factor is a metric used to evaluate the importance of a journal.
 IF is determined by calculating an average number of citations received by
the selected articles in that journal within last few years.
 It is also named as Journal Impact Factor (JIF).
 It is proposed by Eugene Eli Garfield the founder of Institute for Scientific
Information (ISI).
 IF is being regularly calculated beginning from 1975 for all the journals
registered in the Journal Citation Reports ((JCR).
 It helps to measure the relative importance of journals within particular
areas and to compare the journals within the same areas.

14. Impact Factor and its Importance
 The higher the JIF, the better it is ranked.
 Typically, journals with more review articles or papers are able to achieve
higher JIF.
 Impact factor is a average number of times articles from the journal
published in past two years have been cited.

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