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Where Do I Publish My Research Paper?
Some Quality Considerations
I.R.N. Goudar
Head, ICAST
National Aerospace Laboratories
Bangalore-560 017
[email protected]
Publication Channels
 Journals
 Technical Reports
 Conference Proceedings
 House Magazines
Great Journals are born in the hands of the
editors; they die in the hands of businessmen.
-Bernard DeVoto
Criteria for Journal Selection for Publishing
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International VS National VS Local
Refereed VS Nonrefereed
Currency
Availability of E-version
Visibility and Market share of the Publisher
Circulation Statistics
Language
Subject
Periodicity
Professional Society Publication?
SCI Covered?
Coverage by I & A Services
Impact Factor
Citing other Authors
Citations are used to show respect to
Citations are used to recognise and
previous scholars.
acknowledge the intellectual property rights
of authors.
Citations operate as a kind of mutual reward
system.
Citations are a tool of persuasion.
Citations are used to supply evidence that the
author qualifies as a member of the chosen
scholarly community.
Citations are used to demonstrate familiarity
with the field.
Citations are used to create a research space for
the citing author.
Citation Quality
 Good citation data is a sign of good scholarship
 Good citation data
- has all relevant papers cited to show that the authors
are aware of related literature
- citation has to conform to journal style
 But citation styles vary a lot for disciplines
 Citations in the hard sciences are a lot more formal
Web of Science
 Coverage
- More than 8000 journals & conference proceedings
- Over 20,000 new items added each week to the
citation databases
- Letters, articles, editorials etc
 Web interface to :
- Science Citation Index – 5,300 Titles
- Social Sciences Citation Index – 1,700 Titles
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index – 1,700 Titles
- ISI Proceedings (included since January 2000)
Source Index
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Journal Citation Reports
 Unique Resource tool for journal evaluation &
comparison
- Based on the collection and analysis of citation data
 JCR can be used top examine citation data
- Relating to a particular journal or group of journals
- The service shows the relationship between cited and citing journals
in a clear, easy-to-use framework
 Each Journal-indexed for five full consecutive years
- Updated annually in August/September
 Separate product and searched separately
- Uses athens authentication service
- Print option but no emailing
JCR : Five Primary Data
 Total Cites
- Total number of times that each journal has been cited in a given
year
 Impact factor
- Measures the frequency with which the average article in a journal
has been cited within a given year
 Immediacy Index
- Measure of how quickly the average article in a specific journal is
cited
 Articles
- The number of articles published in a journal in a given year
 Cited Half-life
- The number of publication years from the current year which
account for 50% of current citations received
Uses of JCR
 Finding the most cited journals: journals that received
the highest number of citations in a given year
 Finding the largest journals: journals that published the
greatest number of articles in a given year
 High Impact journals: journals with the highest average
citations per recent article
 ‘Hottest’ journals: journals which received most cites per
current article
 Identify Review journals
JCR for Authors
Identify journals in which to publish, confirm status of
journals in which they are published, identify journals
relevant to their research
The Impact Factor: What is It?
 An index of scientific impact or significance
 Chief quantitative measure of the quality of a
journal, its research papers, the researchers who
wrote those papers, and even the institution they
work in
 one of three measures which index the way a
journal receives citations to its published articles
over time
Generalised Citation Curve
The Impact Factor: How it is calculated?
 Impact Factor is the measure of the relative size of the
citation curve in years 2 and 3
 Calculated by dividing the number of current citations
a journal receives to the articles published in the two
previous years by the number of articles published in
those same years
IF Calculation
Citations in 2001 to articles
published in 1999 and 2000
1500
------------------------------------------ = -------- = 1.5
Number of articles published
in 1999 and 2000
1000
The Impact Factor: The Top Ten (1999)
1. Annual Review of Immunology
47.6
2. Annual Review of Biochemistry
37.1
3. Cell
36.2
4. Nature Genetics
30.7
5. Nature
29.5
6. New England Journal of Medicine
28.9
7. Nature Medicine
26.6
8. Annual Review of Cell and
Developmental Biology
26.3
9. Current Opinion in Cell Biology
25.6
10. Science
24.6
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Year 2001 - Science
Edition Categories : Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Rank Journal Abbreviation
ISSN
2001 Total Impact
Immed.
2001
Cited
Cites
Factor
Index
Articles Half-Life
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0935-9648
10269
5.579
0.789
375
3.7
1 ADV MATER
1040-8436
391
1.455
0
4
99.9
2 CRIT REV SOLID STATE
1292-8941
264
1.609
0.534
146
1.3
3 EUR PHYS J E
0017-1557
229
1.241
0
9
99.9
4 GOLD BULL
0959-9428
7108
2.736
0.387
548
3.8
5 J MATER CHEM
1480-2422
186
1.478
0.125
40
2.2
6 J NEW MAT ELECTR SYS
1091-028X
85
1.2
0
29
7 J POROUS MEDIA
0927-796X
1030
6.143
0.333
15
6.1
8 MAT SCI ENG R
0079-6425
1009
14
1.2
15
99.9
9 PROG MATER SCI
0040-6090
15046
1.266
0.156
1069
5.7
10 THIN SOLID FILMS
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Year 2001 - Science
Edition Categories : Engineering, Environmental
Rank Journal Abbreviation
ISSN
2001
Impact Immed.
2001
Cited
Total Cites Factor
Index
Articles Half-Life
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1093-0191
84
0.647
0.333
51
1 ADV ENVIRON RES
0926-3373
2981
3.643
0.384
185
4
2 APPL CATAL B-ENVIRON
332
0.731
0.175
40
99.9
3 COLD REG SCI TECHNOL 0165-232X
0013-936X
23172
2.707
0.421
746
6.1
4 ENVIRON SCI TECHNOL
0905-6947
494
1.385
0.034
29
5.4
5 INDOOR AIR
1047-3289
2335
1.08
0.201
144
7
6 J AIR WASTE MANAGE
0304-3894
749
0.497
0.076
144
5.4
7 J HAZARD MATER
0022-4898
155
0.148
0
15
99.9
8 J TERRAMECHANICS
0043-1354
9229
1.376
0.199
534
7.4
9 WATER RES
0273-1223
6890
0.605
0.128
872
6.2
10 WATER SCI TECHNOL
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Year 2001 - Science
Edition Categories : Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Rank Journal Abbreviation
ISSN
2001
Impact Immed.
2001
Cited
Total Cites Factor
Index
Articles Half-Life
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0013-4902
109
0.05
0.08
113
99.9
1 ELECTRON ENG
0013-5194
12978
0.97
0.161
1041
5.7
2 ELECTRON LETT
8755-3996
154
1.147
0.105
19
7
3 IEEE CIRCUITS DEVICE
0741-3106
3495
2.093
0.383
180
5.2
4 IEEE ELECTR DEVICE L
0890-8044
657
2.583
0.303
33
3.9
5 IEEE NETWORK
1070-9908
491
0.679
0.084
83
4.4
6 IEEE SIGNAL PROC LET
0090-6778
6977
1.466
0.154
254
9
7 IEEE T COMMUN
0933-2790
351
1.486
0.133
15
9.1
8 J CRYPTOL
0018-9219
8613
2.321
0.423
104
99.9
9 P IEEE
1063-7818
2279
0.789
0.102
166
99.9
10 QUANTUM ELECTRON+
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Year 2001 - Science
Edition Categories : Polymer Science
Rank Journal Abbreviation
ISSN
2001
Impact Immed.
2001
Cited
Total Cites Factor
Index
Articles Half-Life
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0065-3195
2616
6.053
1
6
9.7
1 ADV POLYM SCI
1525-7797
236
1.913
0.921
38
1.4
2 BIOMACROMOLECULES
0021-8995
17128
0.992
0.152
1426
8
3 J APPL POLYM SCI
0021-955X
147
0.349
0
26
99.9
4 J CELL PLAST
0887-6266
7371
1.18
0.07
302
99.9
5 J POLYM SCI POL PHYS
1022-1360
2956
0.634
0.077
388
6.4
6 MACROMOL SYMP
0024-9297
51735
3.733
0.65
1170
6.4
7 MACROMOLECULES
0032-3888
5808
0.854
0.111
216
99.9
8 POLYM ENG SCI
173
0.368
0.073
55
4.5
9 POLYM POLYM COMPOS 0967-3911
0142-9418
278
0.59
0.138
116
4.4
10 POLYM TEST
Impact Factors and Journal Type
The Impact Factor: Considerations
 Variation based on article type (review, rapid
publication, etc.)
 Variation by subject field or area (general vs.
specialized)
 Variation based on number of authors
 Variation based on number of articles
Subject Variation in Impact Factors
What is Good IF Value?
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above 10
5-10
3-5
1-2
<1
< 0.1
Impressive
Very good
Good
Okay
Weak
Why publish at all
The Impact Factor: One Discipline
Annual Review of Neuroscience
22.7
Trends in Neuroscience
19.9
Neuron
16.8
Journal of Neuroscience
8.4
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
5.2
Journal of Neurophysiology
3.4
Visual Neuroscience
2.2
Brain Research
2.1
Experimental Brain Research
2.0
Neuroscience Letters
1.9
Neuroscience Research Communications
0.7
The IF: Consideration for Publication?
 You should have a sense of the impact of the
journals in your area and/or discipline
 This should be taken into account when deciding
on a journal, but should be only one of a number
factors
The Impact Factor: Applications
 Used increasingly as a tool for assessing
publication quality
 Consequently, it can be used in decisions :
- hiring
- raises
- promotion and tenure
- departmental or institutional
research profile