Scientific communication, publishing and the challenges for researchers.

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Scientific communication and article
publication: new challenges in Brazil
Edilson Damasio
Librarian UEM-Math. Department
PhD. student
Brazilian Institute for Scientific and Technology Information-IBICT
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro-UFRJ

2. Follow standards set in the research
area.

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Scientific journals today

4. The journals do not change your objectives since the XVII century (350 years)-
since 1665.
Le Journal des Sçavans (Paris) –
Philosophycal Transactions of the Royal Society – (London)
The current valuation models ( scientometric ) , was adopted in the 50s by the
ISI - Institute for Scientific Information (USA) - Eugene Garfield
Today is Web of Science – 2 databases
SCIE- Science / SSCI-Social Sciences
JCR-Journal Citation Reports (how many times an article is cited by others, is
characterized by JOURNALS the most important and prestigious)
The journals with high Impact Factor. (e.g.: Science, Nature, PNAS, Annual
Review...)
Numerical model for evaluation ( N ) – at the time, and in to future.
Exist other models for measurement for Impact Factor in Human and Social
Sciences: e.g. SCImago – SciELO Citation Index - Latindex

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Regionalism ISI
135% 35% 8%

6. SCImago (Brazil) –
Elsevier / Scopus

7. Reviews (Qualis / Capes/Brazil) , areas Associations and / or other
international
Identify where the journals are being indexed (bibliographic databases)
Planning to respond to the minimum criteria of content quality (area)
Set to the mentor in which journal publishers
Aims and scope to the journal
Publish original and unpublished texts/results/methodologies
Answer suggestions from editors and their reviewers
Ethical issues (Fund agency/ethical commitee/misconduct)
Standards and instructions

8. • Regularly to journal
• Time to publish (to acepted until the publication)
• Impact factor (IF)
• Funding agencies resourses to “article and research”
• Request information to the Editor´s
• Evaluation policies
• Not published in regional journals (State/country region)
Format reviews

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Index databases

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 Publish " content " original and
impact in the scientific field
 Publish in English
 Analyse to the surveys on the
Brazilian scientific production ,
seen by authors
 Co-publishing the search with
internationally renowned
institutions and publishers
 Agreements with institutions and
publishers (national and
international )
 Planning and implementation of
science communication policy ,
state, national , international
 Search to publish relevant content ,
innovativeness , with impact
potential Implementation
CHALLENGES

11. Paul Otlet
(Le Monde, 1934)
-knowledge
network linking

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Thank you!
DAMASIO, E., out./2015
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