KU School of Medicine - Wichita
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Asked 19 April 2016
How would I know whether my paper is valuable enough to be published in esteemed research journals?
Suggest me ideas for the strengthen of my upcoming papers for ISI and SCOPUS listed journals
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One other way or the best way is to ensure the study has scientific merits!
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Bucharest University of Economic Studies
Dear Habibullah,
ISI Journals means a high level competition and it requires some experience in writing papers for them. To have a good research program and original ideas its not enough. I would suggest the followings:
1.If you do not have enough experience in writing papers for main stream international journals, then you should start by writing papers to these journals even if they are not ISI, but appear in important data bases. Learn from suggestions made by reviewers, although these suggestions are not always the best.
2.After you choose a Journal you intend to publish, you should read carefully a series of papers published there and the author instructions to understand the evaluation system there. Although evaluation systems look alike, there are many differences between them especially from one field of research to another. Be sure you understand not only the formal requirements but also the non-written ones.
3.I would suggest to choose journals which have more than 4 issues per year since the absorption capacity for new papers is much larger and chances to publish are higher.
4.I would suggest also to look for some special issues which have topics close to your research since chances to publish in such special issues may be higher.
5.Try to learn always from the suggestions made by reviewers.
6.For the beginning it is also recommended to work for the paper with somebody who have more experience than you have, and to write the paper as co-authors.
Best luck,
Constantin
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Botanical Survey of India
Dear Habibullah,
If you think that there is significant research contribution in your MS, then you can expect its publication in relevant esteemed research journals.
Best of luck.
Subir.
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Chalmers University of Technology
Hi,
If you have rather little experience in writing scientific papers, I would start by "testing" your paper in one of several ways before you submit it:
1. Give a *detailed* seminar on it for your colleagues, and listen to their advise. Make sure to advertise it as precisely a means for you to receive feedback in order to optimally adjust the paper. I am sure that you can get good advice in this way.
2. Ask an experienced researcher in the field to read it and to give you comments. (The more personal version of item 1.)
3. Read a book (or web blogs, if there are any good ones) on the practice of article writing. In the mathematical sciences a book by Nicholas Higham on scientific writing is quite good. (This is really something that might be best to do before items 1 and 2, so that you write the manuscript into the right shape, before you present it.)
Good luck!
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Bucharest University of Economic Studies
Dear Habibullah,
ISI Journals means a high level competition and it requires some experience in writing papers for them. To have a good research program and original ideas its not enough. I would suggest the followings:
1.If you do not have enough experience in writing papers for main stream international journals, then you should start by writing papers to these journals even if they are not ISI, but appear in important data bases. Learn from suggestions made by reviewers, although these suggestions are not always the best.
2.After you choose a Journal you intend to publish, you should read carefully a series of papers published there and the author instructions to understand the evaluation system there. Although evaluation systems look alike, there are many differences between them especially from one field of research to another. Be sure you understand not only the formal requirements but also the non-written ones.
3.I would suggest to choose journals which have more than 4 issues per year since the absorption capacity for new papers is much larger and chances to publish are higher.
4.I would suggest also to look for some special issues which have topics close to your research since chances to publish in such special issues may be higher.
5.Try to learn always from the suggestions made by reviewers.
6.For the beginning it is also recommended to work for the paper with somebody who have more experience than you have, and to write the paper as co-authors.
Best luck,
Constantin
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Khadim Ali Shah Bukhari Institute of Technology
Thank you very much for the feedback.
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KU School of Medicine - Wichita
If you are a student and have an academic adviser who is experienced in writing scientific papers, work with him/her. Mine was extremely helpful at the beginning of my career training.
University of Ferrara
I believe that your question needs to be reformatted to something like "what are the metrics for measuring the impact of a scientific paper ". Submitting to journals indexed by Scopus or ISI .. is not the whole story ... since the word "esteemed" today has many interpretations.
For example, both ISI & Scopus databases index journals with an Impact Factor (IF) . While this is OK .... looking at the annual Impact Factor does not tell you a lot about the journal you want to submit. .. The five year span is a much better choice of what "esteemed" might be ....
Recently the h-index metric was introduced which considers how many times your published work is cited. Now, Is there a good relationship between the IF and the h-index ? Unfortunately no ..
So the best way to approach this is to understand what your research group (or your advisor) wants : For example .. an easy publication with a low IF ? Difficult publications with a better IF factor ? Publications resulting in a better h-index ? And this can go on and on ..
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Chalmers University of Technology
Test your research at seminars and at conferences - if people find the topic and your results interesting then you can probably publish it.
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