Strategies for publishing scientific paper

Strategies for
Publishing Scientific
Paper
DR. Herlina Jayadianti, ST, MT
UPN “Veteran” Yogyakarta
11/08/2015herlinajayadiati

PROBLEM

Why write and publish research
papers?
Ideally –
to share research findings and discoveries
Practically –
 to get funding
 to get promoted
 to get a job
 to keep your job

..it was dark and stormy..

HOW TO START?
I HATE WRITING
I’m very busy doing things i don’t need to do
In order to avoid
Doing anything I’m actually supposed to be doing

Reasons for not writing
• I don’t have any time for writing
• I can’t write in my office
• I don’t have an idea to write
• My english is poor
• I am not ambitious
• My teaching comes first
• I review paper regularly, but i don’t write my self
• I don’t want to play the publications game
• I am too tired when I get home to do any writing
• I recent giving up so much of my personal time
• I do alot of writing, just not for publication
• .......etc

HOW to write

Points to ponder prior
writing to impact journal
Target readers?
What is my paper
trying to say
Points to
ponder
A new message?
Is the message of
value or potential
value or trivial
Why writing
this paper

The five STEPS
Identity the
suitable journal
Sending process
Waiting feedback
Article
preparation
Correction/rebuttal
if needed

Paper Structure
• Title , author
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Paper body
(background, aaproach, validation, discussion)
• Related work
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgement
• References
What is it important/ interesting?
What is the problem
Why is it hard
what;’s wrong with existing
solutions?
Why is your approach is ‘better’
Used for bidding
Firts impression
Be explicit on the relation with your
work (competing, complementary,
overlapping)

Note : Papers are a means to
an end not a goal
• Don’t think about publications
first
•Do exciting
research, and the
paper will come
• But do write early (e.g.
Progress report)

Great Journal

14
Kinds of Scientific Publications
• PhD Thesis
Aspects to be Assessed for a Thesis:
background knowledge
original contributions (amount of work)
methodology
presentation (writing)
Conference Publications
Focus on a piece of work with limited discussion
Journal Publications
More complete (extensive) discussion
• Monographs / Book chapters / Text books

15
Where to publish your work
• Journals
Ranking of journals
Review process of journals
Publication cycle
• Conferences
Ranking of conferences
Review process of conferences
a good journal / conference tends to have rigorous
review process and long review time
 Submit your papers
to good places
 Competition of some
conferences are
much more fierce
than journals.

What constitutes a good
journal?
• Impact factor –
average number of times published papers
are cited up to two years after publication.
(ISI, citation index, Thompson sicientific, JCR)
• Immediacy Index –
average number of times published papers
are cited during year of publication.
Source: dor.umc.edu/.../WritingandpublishingaresearcharticleAdair.ppt

Citation Index Services
Web of Science (ISI)
Elsevier (SCOPUS)
DOAj
Google Scholar
Low
wide
Low/high
highCoverage
Quality

SCOPUS
• How to check scopus journal
• http://www.scopus.com/
• Need to conect with university’s server
• Key in journal’s ISSN
• Select ISSN and search
• Minimum criteria :
o Peer-review (refereed or juried journal)
o English abstracts
o Regular publication
o References in Roman script
o Publication ethics statement

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How to check ISI journal
• http://isiknowledge.com
• Click at “additional resources”
• Click at “journal citation report”
• Select ‘search for a specific journal’ and click submit

Submission of manuscript
Assignment and review
Decision
Revision
Resubmission
Re-review
Acceptance
Publication
Rejection
Rejection
Source: dor.umc.edu/.../WritingandpublishingaresearcharticleAdair.ppt
Process of Publication

What do editors want from
papers?
• Importance
• Originality
• Relevance to readers
• Usefulness to readers and, ultimately, to
patients
• Truth
• Excitement/ “wow” factor
• Clear and engaging writing

...long road...?

Rejection
• All author get rejections
• Rejection is a path to acceptance
• Do not take it personaly or blame the
reviewer
• Do use the feedback to improve
Broader, more general result
Better motivation and applications
Stronger theory
More compelling evaluation
.......etc

Some Key Tips
• Ingredients of good science
• Novelty of idea (timing)
• Comprehensive review of literature
• Strong data; strong analysis/stats input
• Thought provoking discussion recognizing limitations of
one’s work
• Ingredients of good writing
• Good organization
• Appropriate use of tables & figures
• Right length
• Right audience
Modified from Bourne PE. Plos Comput Biol 2005

Networking is important
• Start early, make use of Social Networking tools
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Social networks for scientists
• SSRN, Academics.edu, Researchgate

If you hate writing – Get over it
If you want to become an academician
Today Not
Tomorrow
Self-Discipline
Passion
Feel the energy that
comes from focusing on
what excites you

Conclusions

Personal recommendations
• Find your way through the
publication jungle
• Favor established venues
with high reputation and
strong records over "easier"
targets
• Aim at top journals but get
there in a stepwise manner
via conferences
• Don't be frustrated by
rejections
• Don't be obsessed by
publication
• Read many papers, and
learn from good ones &
bad ones
• Write frequently: quality is
everything

Journal indexed
by SCOPUS

Publications publish by
SpringerLink

Publications indexed by SCOPUS
Jayadianti, H., Nugroho, L.E., Santosa, P.,Widayat,W., Pinto, C.S., 2014, Solving Problem of Ambiguity Terms
Using Ontology, Information An international interdisciplinary journal, Volume 17 number 8, August 2014
(Printed in japan), ISSN 1343 4500 (print), ISSN 1344 8994 (electronic), Indexed by scopus, Jdream,
Mathematical rewiews, Zentrablatt MATH, Proquest, Swets, EBSCO, Published by international information
institute www.information-iii.org
Jayadianti, H., Nugroho, L.E., Santosa, P., Widayat,W., Pinto, C.S., 2013, Leveraging Knowledge from Different
CommunitiesUsing Ontologies, The 2013 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies
(WORLDCIST13) Algarve Portugal 27-29 March 2013, Published on SPRINGER book -, ISBN: 978-3-642-36980-
3 (Print) 978-3-642-36981-0 (Online), Indexed by scopus, Jdream, Mathematical rewiews, Zentrablatt MATH,
Proquest, Swets, EBSCO, http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/ ,http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-
36981-0/page/1, http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-369810/page/1#page-1
Jayadianti, H., Nugroho, L.E., Santosa, P., Widayat,W., Pinto, C.S., 2013, Semantic Interrelation in Distributed
SystemThrough Green Computing Ontology, The International Conference on Information Technology and
Electrical Engineering (ICITEE), The IEEE Xplore digital library, IEEE Catalogue Number : CFP13TEF-ART; ISBN:
978-14799-0425-9, http://icitee2013.te.ugm.ac.id/
Jayadianti, H., Nugroho, L.E., Santosa, P., Widayat,W., Pinto, C.S., 2012, Integrating Large knowledge
repositories in Multi agent ontologies, 2nd International Workshop on Exploiting Large Knowledge Repositories
(E-LKR), Jaume I University of Castellon de la Plana, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain and supported by OXFORD
University UK, Indexed by scopus, Jdream, Mathematical rewiews, Zentrablatt MATH, Proquest, Swets,
EBSCO, http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/isg/conferences/ELKR2012/, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-882/
Jayadianti, H., Nugroho, L.E., Santosa, P., Widayat,W., Pinto, C.S., 2012, Ontology encourage problem solving of
data heterogeneity, semantic heterogeneity and data inequality using ontology, The 7th Mediterranean
conference of Information system (MCIS), Universidade do Minho Campus de Azurem Guimaraes Portugal,
Indexed by scopus, Jdream, Mathematical rewiews, Zentrablatt MATH, Proquest, Swets,
EBSCO,http://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/bitstream/1822/23089/1/mcis2012_submission_82.pdf

Reviewer for the paper indexed
by Scopus
• The 2014 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies
(WorldCIST'14), Madeira Island, Portugal
http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist14/index.php/committees Indexed by
scopus, Jdream, Mathematical rewiews, Zentrablatt MATH, Proquest,
Swets, EBSCO, Published by international information institute
(published in Springer book chapter)
• WorldCIST'15 - 3rd World Conference on Information Systems and
Technologies, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal, 1 - 3 April
2015.http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist15/index.php/committees - ISI
journal - Indexed by scopus, Jdream, Mathematical rewiews, Zentrablatt
MATH, Proquest, Swets, EBSCO, Published by international information
institute (published in Springer book chapter)
 The Seventh International Conference on Information November 25 -
28, 2015, GIS NTU Convention Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei,
Taiwan- support by International Information Institute
http://www.information-iii.org/committee.html Indexed by scopus,
Jdream, Mathematical rewiews, Zentrablatt MATH, Proquest, Swets,
EBSCO, Published by international information institute -

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