This document provides an overview of a workshop on high impact writing and getting published. It discusses reasons why papers may be rejected, including faulty methods, inadequate references, poor quality figures, being out of the journal's scope, and inadequate contribution to the field. It also covers the structure of a research paper, including the title, abstract, introduction, body, discussion, and references. Additionally, it discusses choosing a good title, writing an abstract and introduction, and selecting appropriate keywords. The document provides examples and templates to help structure different parts of a research paper.

1. JOURNALSProfessor Dr Zulikha Jamaludin
Universiti Utara Malaysia
zulie@uum.edu.my
A workshop conducted for PERSATU members of UUM on 24 August, 2015
IN HIGH IMPACT
WRITING & GET PUBLISHED

2. ZULIKHA BINTI JAMALUDIN
PhD (Computer Science) USM Malaysia
MSc (Computer Science) University of Exeter, England
BSc (Computer Science) University of Lancaster, England
zulie@uum.edu.my
LIFETIME MEMBER OF EMERALD LITERATI
LISTED IN SCOPUS AUTHOR DIRECTORY SINCE 2003

3. http://meetingwords.com/persatu-zu
ALSO: http://padlet.com/zulie/persatu

4. Writing& me
Me: researcher, author, reviewer and editor.
For any author: important to review papers from
colleagues
I review an average of 30-40 papers per year-
(gives a broader view of the hot topics for
publication)

5. Simple rulesdedication and hard work.
How to increase our chances
of getting a paper accepted
Flowchart

6. Type your article’s
TITLE (to be) in the
meetingwords’ pad

7. THE WORKSHOP
OVERVIEWReasons for Paper being rejected
Why publish?
The structure of a journal-standard paper
The paper:
Title
Abstract
Outline of content
Introduction
Content  methods
Discussion
Conclusion
Formatting
Publishing – high impact journals
Reasons researchers do not write
Tools!

8. PAPERSBEING
REASONSFOR

9. (ASEAN)
Faulty methods
Inadequate reference
Poor quality
figures
Out of journals’
scope
Inadequate
contribution to
field
Authors do not
follow instructions
Titles not
representative
Subjects of little
interest
Others

10. WHY
PUBLISH?
Research is complete
only when the results
are shared with the
scientific community
(first sentence of Chapter
1, Publication Manual of
the APA)
Scientific journals
are the repository
of the accumulated
knowledge in a field
Sampaikanlah...

11. THE STRUCTURE OF A
PAPER
RESEARCH

12. THE STRUCTURE TITLE
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
BODY
DISCUSSION
REFERENCES
GENERAL
PARTICULAR
PARTICULAR
GENERAL

13. CHOOSING THE
TITLE PhD
Staf
Dana
CoE
SCOPUS

19. Utilising Natural Cyclomarin to kill
Mycobacterium Tuberculosis by
Targeting the ClpC1 Subunit
(online article in Angewandte Chemie International,
11 May 2011)
EXAMPLES
Anti-Tuberculosis agent
Cyclomarin.

20. Easy to understand
Precise
Attractive
Ethnographically
-informed
systems design
for air traffic
control
Bahasa Melayu
reading pattern
of dyslexic
children in
Kedah
QoSOnt: a QoS
ontology for
Cud-Int unit
In service-centric
systems

21. Which of these two titles make you read the paper?
Check your grammar especially in the TITLE!

22. DO NOT WASTE TIME ON
DEAD/DYINGTOPICS
If most recent reference is 10
years old – it is a DEAD issue
If 5 years old – it is a DYING issue
Inability to find enough
references indicates
• You have not read the literature
• Others are not interested in the topic,
so it is unlikely to get published
For outdated topics – very
difficult for editor to find suitable
referees

24. Where do they ?
TITLE(1000)
ABSTRACT(100)
INTRO(100)
CONCLUSION(100)
REFERENCE(50)
BODY1(10)
BODY2(10)
BODYn(3)
H TMAP

25. EDIT TITLE
Hands-on 1

26. Abstracts are published separately from
articles in on-line indices, SO MAKE IT
CLEAR.
?
WHAT IS AN
Accurate
Self-contained
Concise and specific
5% of article or 500 words at most
Be creative in
generating
curiosity

27. THE ‘MUST HAVE’ IN
THE MESSAGE TO DELIVER

28. KEYWORDS
SELECTION
NOTESON
long tail
keywords
Keywords
appear in the
article title &
abstract
Use sparingly
in the body –
not overstated

29. EDIT ABSTRACT &
Hands-on 2
KEYWORDS

31. INTRODUCTION
BODY
CONCLUSION
Provide problem &
hook (significant)
State claim
NOT in the form of
research report title
Tell what we have
already told
NO NEW input

32. INTRODUCTION
dyslexic children
and pesona
design
primary pesona
reading pattern
requirement
definition
document
Storyboard with
interaction design
analysis
the DC-READ
prototype
CONCLUSION
INTRODUCTION BODY CONCLUSION
SECTION 3

33. EDIT HEADINGS &
Hands-on 3
SUB-HEADINGS

34. SECTION 4
THISISANEXAMPLEOFAN
Introduction

35. THISISANEXAMPLEOFAN
Introduction

36. THISISNOTAGOOD
Introduction
A methodology for developing multimedia courseware
The changing roles and challenges for better quality of
education evolves the need for the development of diverse
and efficient teaching methods….
:
.
In Malaysian education scenario, to accept the challenges
for a better quality of education, the government has
introduce many projects…
:
Reaching back too
far!

37. THEINTRODUCTION
TEMPLATE
“In studying <1- the semantic meaning of the
topic>, these keywords is operationally defined as
<2- the operational definition of the keywords
appeared in the title>. As such <3-major problems>
will be examined. In order to do so, <4- the
variables related to major problems> must be
investigated. So that in the end <5- the claim or the
significance>can be shown/proven.“
Note:
Items 2, 3, 4 – can be more than one variable.

38. THEINTRODUCTION
TEMPLATE
“In studying <1- the semantic meaning of the
topic>, these keywords is operationally defined as
<2- the operational definition of the keywords
appeared in the title>. As such <3-major problems>
will be examined. In order to do so, <4- the
variables related to major problems> must be
investigated. So that in the end <5- the claim or the
significance>can be shown/proven.“
Note:
Items 2, 3, 4 – can be more than one variable.

39. THEINTRODUCTION
TEMPLATE
“In studying <1- the semantic meaning of the
topic>, these keywords is operationally defined as
<2- the operational definition of the keywords
appeared in the title>. As such <3-major
problem/gaps> will be examined. In order to do so,
<4- the variables related to major problems> must
be investigated. So that in the end <5- the claim or
the significance>can be shown/proven.“
Note:
Items 2, 3, 4 – can be more than one variable.

40. THEINTRODUCTION
TEMPLATE
“In studying <1- the semantic meaning of the
topic>, these keywords is operationally defined as
<2- the operational definition of the keywords
appeared in the title>. As such <3-major
problem/gaps> will be examined. In order to do so,
<4- the variables related to major problems> must
be investigated. So that in the end <5- the claim or
the significance>can be shown/proven.“
Note:
Items 2, 3, 4 – can be more than one variable.

41. THEINTRODUCTION
TEMPLATE
“In studying <1- the semantic meaning of the
topic>, these keywords is operationally defined as
<2- the operational definition of the keywords
appeared in the title>. As such <3-major
problems/gap> will be examined. In order to do so,
<4- the variables related to major problems> must
be investigated. So that in the end <5- the claim or
the significance>can be shown/proven.“
Note:
Items 2, 3, 4 – can be more than one variable.
Thescene‘bridge’
Claim

42. USINGTHETEMPLATE
EXAMPLE
In studying websites
trustworthiness…, types of e-frauds
and their characteristics will be
examined… In order to do so,
techniques of identifying e-fraud in
websites must be investigated... So
that in the end, a generalize method
for curbing e-frauds can be shown
The scene
The ‘bridge’
The claim

43. EXAMPLE
In studying how technology can enhance narrative for learning using digital graphic
novels, we define narratives for learning as a series of respondents’ real life
experience, given in order and with established connections between them. The
experiences must be filtered, abstracted, and enhanced to produce a solid learning
content. As such, this study examines methods in abstracting the narratives and
enhancing it with the help of technology to produce a DGN. The DGN is to be used as
a tool to overcome one of the many problems in teaching and learning difficult
courses at higher degree level. In order to do so, the contents of the narratives must
first be analysed, converted into DGN, and then be evaluated for its effectiveness. So
that in the end, we can prove that DGN is one of a legal and legitimate learning tool
to be utilized in the form of teaching materials, assignments, or any other tangible
learning objects such as the one adopted by The University of Colorado. In fact the
university provides its own massive open online courses (MOOCs) on comics and
graphic novels via Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/course/comics).
USINGTHETEMPLATE
Digital graphic novels: Technology enhanced narrative for learning

44. EDIT INTRO
Hands-on 4

45. JUSTIFICATIONS
SCOPE
ELEMENTS OF SCOPE
THE SCOPE
WITH
LITERATURE
BACK-UPS

46. This study aims at producing a
method for detecting lies in
religious websites using familiar
interaction design dimensions
Method Lies
Detection
IxD
dimension
Religious
sites
process
technique
procedure
Best
practice
pattern
entity
tools
text
video
animation
audio
graphic
combination
identify
highlight
capture
delete
update
dbase
activate
agent
Islam
Christian
Hindu
Budha
form
behaviour
content
combination
justification
justification
justification
justificationjustification
EXAMPLE

47. EDIT SCOPE
Hands-on 5

48. WHO
SIGNIFICANCE
BENEFIT
HOW

49. FILLINGUPTHE
CONTENT
METHODS
FINDINGS
Overall study
Collect data
Analyse data
Overall study
Collect data
Analyse data
Overall study
Collect data
Analyse data
STATISTICS
INFORMATION
FACTS
DESCRIPTION
EXAMPLE
ILLUSTRATION

50. LITERATURE REVIEW/
BACKGROUND
NOTEON
“To make my work
looks GOOD, I have to
make other people’s
work look BAD”

51. OFFENSIVE CITATION
EXAMPLEOF
“The deficiency of Asgar’s
approach is...”
“The problems with Asgar’s
paper are...”
“A serious weakness of
Asgar’s argument is that...”
“It seems that Asgar’s
understanding of X
framework is questionable...”

52. BETTER!
“Asgar’s model was
effective in solving X
problem, however in Y...”
“The X benefit of Asgar’s
approach are not
applicable to Y...”

53. LITERATURE REVIEW/
BACKGROUND
NOTEON
Warmly
acknowledge
Be generous
“In his inspiring paper, Ali
(2009) shows.... We
develop his foundation in
the following ways...”
Accurate

54. Be Highly SELECTIVE
Ensure that they support our
points (RQs)
Choose the most recent
Use correct formatting
Do not try to impress by
over-referencing
LITERATURE REVIEW/
BACKGROUND
NOTESON

55. 60
CITE?
THE WORK HAS
CREDIBILITY
CREDITS TO ORIGINAL
AUTHORS
AVOID PLAGIARISM
Ignoranceisnotanexcuse.

56. PARENTHETICAL CITATION/IN-TEXT CITATION
According to Jones & Alford (2005) and Westlow (2009), global warming is
caused by the emissions from cans of spray cheese.
Recent studies claim that global warming is caused by the emissions from
cans of spray cheese (Jones & Alford, 2005; Westlow, 2009).
Alarming indeed when Jones and Alford (2005) and Westlow
(2009) claimed that global warming is caused by the emissions
from cans of spray cheese.
OR
Recent studies claim that global warming is caused by the
emissions from cans of spray cheese (Jones & Alford, 2005;
Westlow, 2009).
REFERENCE
Jone, A. J. & Alford, K. (2005). Global warming and the current
climate. Climate Trends. 25(3). 56-64.
Westlow, S. R. (2009). The world is warmer. New York:
Thomson.
REFER HO10

57. WRITINGCONTENT
2 methods
REVERSE PYRAMID
PYRAMID

58. WRITING
PARAGRAPH

59. Great changes require a powerful hand to guide
them and push them forward. Governments have the
power and influence of the law to support them.
Moreover, they have access to means with which to
enforce the law and punish offenders. Individuals and
corporations that pollute our air and waters will not stop
doing so as long as they can profit from this action and
do not fear consequences. A steel producer, for instance,
will not cease dumping waste in a nearby river if it does
not affect its bottomline. Taxing this company, on the
other hand might make it change its way of doing
business. Yet it is this very question of costs that limits
anyone but the government to act against pollution.

60. Data without its applications
Data without scientific discussion
Insufficient reviews of the literature
AVOID

61. WRITINGCONTENT
Hands-on 5

62. DISCUSSIONSWRITINGTHE
SECTION
Hardest section to write- but the most
important.
Answer the questions posed in introduction
Correlation of your finding with the existing
knowledge
Discrepancies between new results and
previously reported results.
What is new without exaggerating
Implication, limitation and need for future works

63. CONCLUSIONWRITINGTHE
Midastouchit is about leaving a magical impact
Intro repeating
Nearest closing
Objective emphasis
Quotation
Anecdote closing
Natural closing
Summary
Direct statement
TYPES

64. STEP:FINAL
REVISION & PROOFREADING

65. FORFORM
EDIT

67. GRAMMAR
Disturbing
Critical
Average
Adapted from Funk, McMahan & Day (2000). The Craft of
Editing.Springer-Verlag
Run-on sentence
Its/it’s
Spelling mistakes:
effect/affect
Mechanics: list, bullets, comma
Non-parallel
Verb disagreement
Different from/than
Compare with/to
Split infinitive

68. MECHANICS OF WRITING
LIST?
Parallel?
Punctuation?
QUOTATION?
PARAGRAPHING?
CONTROLLINGSENTENCE?
COLON?
COMMA?

69. GRAPHICSINCLUDING
According to purpose
Have convention
Must have reference in text
Reference is close to the illustration/figure/table
Must have caption and numbering
Avoid “figure above” or “figure below”

70. Use ONE typeface (sans-serif)
Use ONE SIZE of typeface
Avoid shadows/glows/reflections

71. EDITFORFORM
Hands-on 6

72. TIPSON SELECTING
LIST 10 PEER REVIEWED
JOURNALS IN YOUR FIELD
NEVER SUBMIT TO A JOURNAL
YOU NEVER READ
TALK TO YOUR LIBRARIAN
JOURNALS
A proper choice can make a larger impact of
the research
Get to know the focus and readership of the
journal that you are considering.
Does your references
cite journals in the
appropriate area?

73. CRITERIA in choosing a
JOURNALScopeofjournal
Indexing
Impactfactor
Publicationfrequency
Durationtopublish
Durationofreview
Friendlinessofeditor
Rejectionrate
Reference

74. SECTION 9
INDEXED
JOURNAL?
IEEE(IEL /IEEE Xplore)
Ei
Scopus(ScieVerse)
ACM
COMPENDEX
ELSEVIER
ISI(Thompson)
WEBOFSCIENCE

75. SECTION 9

76. LEVELS of
PRESTIGE
CONFERENCE
NON-INDEXED JOURNAL
INDEXED JOURNAL

77. is a measure of
the scientific
prestige of
scholarly sources:
value of weighted
citations per
document.
Average number of
times articles from
the journal
published in the
past two years have
been cited in the
JCR year.
Why impact factors and
all?
2.5 million
publications/year...
Reading publications is
impossible!
IMPACT
FACTOR&SJR?

78. SECTION 9
IMPACT
FACTOR&SJR?
E.g., the 2009 Impact factor for the journal JIT =
Number of times articles published in JIT during
2007 & 2008 were cited in indexed journals* during 2009
Number of articles published in JIT in 2007 & 2008)
*Only references in articles within the journals
indexed in Web of Science are counted; does not
include citations that may cite the articles in JIT
from book chapters, proceedings, or other journals
that are not indexed in Web of Science

79. SECTION 9
IMPACT
FACTOR&SJR?
E.g., the 2009 SJR for the journal ABC =
year 2009 weighted citation* to 2008+2007+2006 articles
Total number of articles published in 2008+2007+2006
*Only references in articles within the journals
indexed in Scopus are counted

82. SECTION 9
NOTE!
Never compare impact factor to other metrics
across different discipline (e.g. Biophysics vs
Comp. Science) BECAUSE disfferent disciplines
have different citation patterns.
At present, none of the journal ranking tools
adequately categorise multi-disciplinary
journals.
!! KNOW YOUR FIELD.
All ACM journals need ACM classification.
-can obtain
related journals
related conferences

83. (whatever the reason,
in my heart, I believe
that There is no
replacement for
reading papers!! )
"Not everything that can
be counted counts, and not
everything that counts can
be counted."
-Albert Einstein

84. JOURNALARTICLES
ADHERING TO THE FORMAT
Sure way to annoy a
reviewer: do a poor job of
formatting your paper
Many journal editors are
going to do a format
check before the reviewer
even sees the manuscript

85. JOURNALARTICLES
ADHERING TO THE FORMAT
JICT-UUM –refer format
IJHCS-AP–refer format
http://jict.uum.edu.my
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622846/authorinstructions
ARPN Journal of Eng & Applied Science
http://www.arpnjournals.com/jeas/index.htm
Medterranian Journal of Social Science
http://www.mcser.org/

86. THEPROCESSofpublishingapaperinajournal

87. REMINDER EMAIL TO EDITOR
“I am just emailing to inquire about the status of my article
titled <ArticleTitle> Which I submitted to your journal
<JournalName> on <Date>”
Send once a month or more frequent
Sometimes editors appreciate the reminder
WHAT’s
NEXT?STEPS IN PUBLISHING YOUR WORK

88. REASONSRESEARCHERS
DO NOT WRITE
I am very busy
I just can’t get
started
I’m not in the
mood right now
Teaching
preparation takes
all my time
I write so slowly I get distracted-
web, emails, wa
I need big block
of time
I will write as
soon as…

89. 1. Pick a time for about 1++ hours DAILY – late night? Early in the
morning? Noon? –the time that you’re most comfortable with.
2. Be discipline, maintain continuity. Write daily or else the
momentum will decrease.
3. Make an outline, build the section with annotations and
references.
4. Pick anywhere to write, not necessarily be in sequence of
sections in the paper.
5. Set target: exampletoday must finish section 3.2.
6. Set a meeting every month with friends for
dicussion/presentation/progress
7. Immitate skillful writers
SECTION 11
FINAL REMARKS:
STRATEGY
Combined with advice from Prof Ahmad Kamal Ariffin Bin Mohd Ihsan, (2010). Catatan pengalaman dan
tatacara penulisan dalam ISI/Jurnal bidang kejuruteraan/sains dan teknologi. Bangi: UKM

90. Guide to grammar and writing http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
Building writing habit – daily journal writing: https://penzu.com/
Digital tool for researchers: http://connectedresearchers.com/online-tools-for-
researchers/
Search with concept linking http://www.instagrok.com/
Thesis builder http://www.tommarch.com/electraguide/thesis.php
Check your paper quality – be your own editor: http://www.hemingwayapp.com/
- highlight the common errors and long sentences that need corrections.
TOOLS
ALMOST USEFUL

91. The readability test tool http://read-able.com/
(PAID) Professional assistance to students who need advice with writing. The
company has hired PhD tutors from various areas of study, so its users can get
reliable help regarding the topic they need. http://www.essaymama.com/
Ada juga
http://paper-builder.com/
TOOLS
ALMOST USEFUL

92. Thank