Top tips to publish your article in a scientific journal
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1. This document provides tips for publishing an article in a scientific journal, including the importance of publication, the peer review process, journal selection criteria, and writing guidelines. 2. Key factors for journals are having an impact factor, being indexed in databases like Web of Science, following publication standards, and adhering to peer review and editorial policies. 3. The peer review process involves editorial review, sending the manuscript to reviewers, and communicating the results back to the author for revisions or acceptance. Authors should select journals based on specialty, guidelines, and indexing.
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Top tips to publish your article in a scientific journal
- 2. Top Tips to publish your article in a scientific journal Dr.Tamer Hamdy 2018
- 3. Importance of Scientific Paper Publication 1. Academic career progression 2. Listing in the CV 3. Increase the job prospects 4. Spread the results of the research 5. More readers
- 10. Impact Factor
- 11. What happens after I’ve submitted my manuscript? 1 2 3 Editorial review Editor sends paper out to reviewers Reviewers communicate with editor who communicates with you
- 13. Single Blind Peer Review1 Double Blind Peer Review2 Post-Publication Peer Review4 Common types of peer review 3 Open Peer Review
- 17. Publication Process • Journal Selection Pre-writing: Step 1 • Follow Guidelines • Format The Manuscript • Writings Writings: Step 2 Publishing: Step 3 • Peer Review Process
- 20. Journal Charges
- 22. Journal Indexing
- 23. Journal Indexing International Society of Indexing Web of Science
- 25. 1. Basic Publishing Standards • Timeliness • International Editorial Conventions • Full Text English • Peer Review 2. Editorial Content 3. International diversity 4. Citation analysis Web of Science (WoS) Indexing Criteria
- 26. • Peer-review • English abstracts • Regular publication • References in Roman script (Robert, 2018) • Publication ethics statement Indexing Criteria
- 27. • Editors & authors from the same institute • Plagiarism • Poor figures • Bad grammar • Flawed science • Uneven quality • Poor homepage of their website
- 30. Using the Impact Factor alone to judge a journal is like using weight alone to judge a person’s health
- 33. SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
- 35. SJR Scientific Journal Ranking (Prestige metric)
- 36. International Scientific Indexing (ISI) Server provides indexing of major international journals
- 37. International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 38. Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 39. Writing
- 45. Publishing step
- 51. The manuscript fits into the mission of the journal
- 52. Title Should be clear, attractive & indicative
- 53. Is the title clear, accurate & unambiguous ? From10 to 15 words long Clearly identify the purpose of the study
- 54. Running Title
- 55. The abstract accurately reflects the content Should describe your entire study at a glance Abstract
- 56. • Provide sufficient background about your work • Mention the research question or problem Introduction
- 57. Should include details of all experiments conducted Methods
- 58. Should answer the question that stated in the introduction Results & discussion
- 60. If you as the reviewer can't interpret the author's findings …… Requests for clarification & explanation are entirely appropriate during the review process
- 61. Should include your own findings Conclusion
- 62. Should list every source References
- 63. References Styles ….
- 64. Reference Management Tool
- 65. No Conflict interests were disclosed Conflict of Interest
- 66. The language, grammar & syntax acceptable
- 69. Rejected The journal will publish the paper in its original form The journal will publish the paper & asks the author to make small corrections The journal will publish the paper provided the authors make the changes Accept after major revisions Accepted The journal is willing to reconsider the paper in another round of decision making after the authors make major changes The journal will not publish the paper Revise & resubmit Accept with minor revisions Final Decision
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Editor's Notes
- إستشهاد علمي
- H-index مقياس جودة الإنتاج takes into account two things: 1. The researcher’s PRODUCTIVITY (number of publications a researcher has produced) 2. The IMPACT of that researcher’s publications (how many citations the researcher’s publications have received)
- معامل التأثير
- معامل التأثير
- Reviewer محكم Editor محرر
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- SNIP: Impact/citation potential Citation potential: Average number of references to any 3 years old papers
- SNIP: Impact/citation potential Citation potential: Average number of references to any 3 years old papers
- SJR: Scopus citation data divided by number of articles published by journal over 3 years
- - The ISI server provides indexing of major international journals and proceedings
- - The ISSN is the international standardized code which identifies all serials of journals رقم دولى معيارى
- معرّف الوثيقة الرقمي doi is a combination of letters and numbers assigned to a journal article found online A permanent identifier given to a Web file
- (It is very important to say) Writing should be done in your own word = Paraphrasing ideas Don not repeat, but paraphrasing
- Be original , do not copy, do not plagiarize
- Every reviewer have a checklist
- Manuscript should fits into the mission of the journal It is essential to check the “Information for Authors” section of your target journal to determine the journal’s restrictions
- Title should be clear, attractive & indicative
- clear, attractive & indicative
- The abstract should be accurately reflects the entire content
- The introduction should Provide sufficient background about your work & Mention the research question or problem
- Methods should include details of all experiments conducted
- In results & discussion section It should answer the question that stated in the introduction
- Conclusion: Should include your own findings
- You should list every source of data cited in your manuscript in the references section
- No Conflict interests were disclosed
- The language, grammar & syntax should be correct (acceptable)
- Finally the peer reviewer will evaluate the manuscript and scoring it; ranging from poor to excellent
- The peer reviewer write the general comments about the manuscript, which may be; rejected or accepted without any changes or with minor or major changes
- 1. accept without any changes (acceptance): the journal will publish the paper in its original form 2. accept with minor revisions (acceptance): the journal will publish the paper and asks the author to make small corrections 3. accept after major revisions (conditional acceptance ): the journal will publish the paper provided the authors make the changes suggested by the reviewers and/or editors 4. revise and resubmit (conditional rejection): the journal is willing to reconsider the paper in another round of decision making after the authors make major changes 5. reject the paper (outright rejection): the journal will not publish the paper or reconsider it even if the authors make major revisions