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Researcher KnowHow: Getting published with Clare Hooper
- 1. Getting Published September 2016 Clare Hooper, Head of Journals
- 2. • Founded in 1899 • UK’s third oldest UP • 70 books, 28 journals • 13 members of staff
- 6. Finding the right journal • Check your article is within the scope of the journal you are submitting to! • Familiarise yourself with the journal – speak with colleagues/mentors – read it online? • Follow the author guidelines/submission procedures • Send a speculative email to the editor if you are unsure • Don’t submit to more than one journal at once!
- 7. Open Access? • Is journal fully OA/Hybrid? • Funder requirements? • CC – BY licence You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially
- 8. Indications of quality • Editorial Board – distinguished? International? • Brand – aware of the journal? • Altmetrics? • Abstracting & Indexing • Impact Factor?
- 9. What is an Impact Factor? the average number of times articles from the journal published in the last two years have been cited in the JCR year Thomson - “a measure of the frequency with which the "average article" in a journal has been cited in a particular year or period. The annual JCR impact factor is a ratio between citations and recent citable items published. Thus, the impact factor of a journal is calculated by dividing the number of current year citations to the source items published in that journal during the previous two years”
- 10. • A = the number of times that all items published in that journal in 2013 and 2014 were cited by ISI journals during 2015. • B = the total number of "citable items" published by that journal in 2013 and 2014. ("Citable items" - articles, reviews, proceedings, or notes). • A/B = 2015 Impact Factor • 2015 Impact Factor published in 2016
- 11. Submitting your paper • Abstract – needs to be clear and concise, outline your argument • Prepare your paper – title, authors, keyword list, abstract, acknowledgments, references, illustrations • Ask a colleague to check your work • Write a review or a response – this is a good way to get published (esp. for people at the beginning of their career) • Cover letter – don’t repeat abstract
- 12. Copyright As the author, you need to ensure that you get permission to use content you have not created (to avoid delays, this should be done before you submit your work) Supply written confirmation from the copyright holder when submitting your manuscript If permission cannot be cleared, cannot publish that specific content
- 14. How long? • Editor does initial read – determine subject matter/research appropriate • Contacting of reviewers • Reviewers – around 6-8 weeks to complete • Editor assesses reviews and makes decision • Usually takes around 3 months – can vary!
- 15. What happens if the paper is rejected? • Ask for feedback • Take feedback into account, improve the paper, resubmit somewhere else? • Don’t give up
- 17. Your article has been accepted and published! Promoting your work • Share your work • Be visible online • Conferences – present your work • Social Media
- 18. • Increase visiblity & impact • Create ‘profiles’ for published articles • Claim article, enrich with content, share to social channels • Measure impact of activity • www.growkudos.com
- 19. • collect article level metrics and the online conversations around research papers by tracking a selection of online indicators to give a measurement of digital impact and reach • ‘Altmetric Attention Score’ to reflect the idea that the aim is to measure the attention around a given article, not just citations
- 20. • You can also measure your impact through usage statistics (your publisher can supply) and citations (what are the most valuable in your subject area/country?)
- 22. Thank you Clare Hooper, Head of Journals Liverpool University Press Clare.Hooper@liverpool.ac.uk @ClareHooperLUP
Notes de l'éditeur
- So – a little bit about LUP? Founded in 1899 UK's third oldest university press and one of its fastest growing publishers in recent years Publishes approximately 70 books a year and 28 journals 13 members of staff
- We are primarily a Humanities and Social Sciences publisher Our 70 books and 28 journals specialise in literature, modern languages, history and visual culture
- If you will allow a little brag….in 2015 LUP was awarded The Bookseller Independent, Academic, Educational and Professional Publisher of the Year 2015 AND The IPG Academic and Professional Publisher of the Year 2015 First university press to win the award, recent recipients SAGE Publications and Bloomsbury Academic These awards reflect the journey that the Press has been through from our relaunch in 2004 (had 3 journals and 7 books) to where we are now in 2016. Huge achievement Open-ness to new ideas and new thinking, which made us agile as Publishers
- Here to talk a little bit about publication process – focus on journals, not books
- Your first task – to find the right journal to submit your work to…. Seems obvious, but make sure your article is within the scope of the journal you are submitting to Look at the journals in your discipline? What are the top ones? Be realistic – you might not get published in a top journal straight away Is it a journal you read yourself? If it’s a top journal, it’s most likely available in your institution’s library – have a look! Is it suitable? Is it publishing similar work to yours? Important tip - make sure you follow the author guidelines, which vary between journals – has it an online submission system? Don’t submit to more than one journal at once.
- Some questions to ask yourself about open access? Do you have funder requirements? Some funders require any publications coming from the research they are funding to be OA. Check! They might also specify the license that the article needs to be published under – CC-BY being the most common. You need to understand what this means for your work… Is there an APC? An article publishing charge - fee which is sometimes charged to authors to make a work available open access. This fee is usually paid by an author's institution or research funder rather than by the author themselves. Are you an early career researcher – does your publisher have any policies regarding that? LUP Authors Fund - The aim of the fund is to support gold open access publication by early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences. Established LUP authors may donate all or part of their royalties to the Fund, and all contributions are then match-funded by the press
- How to find out the quality of a journal? Take a look at the editorial board – are they international, are they distinguished/well known? What’s the brand of the journal? Are you aware of it? Do you read it? Do you cite it? Are there any altmetrics available for the journal – we can talk about altmetrics a little later… Is the journal included in any of the well know indices – Thomson Web of Science? Elsevier’s Scopus? Most people have heard of Thomson Reuters ISI? (institute for scientific information) a journal ranking system devised to measure the quality of journals based on citations. If you are publishing in the Social Sciences/Sciences – does the journal has an impact factor? (Factors taken into account when evaluating journals for coverage in Web of Science: The journal's basic publishing standards its editorial content the international diversity of its authorship, the citation data associated with it are all considered)
- Use the Impact Factor. What is an impact factor….? Thomson release a JCR Journal Citation Report every year The Impact Factor is the average number of times articles from the journal published in the last two years have been cited in that year
- Dead easy right? :D If A is the number of times all items published in the journal were cited by other ISI ranked journals And B is the total number of citable items published in the journal… Then Thomson divide A/B to create impact factor. Always published in the following year
- In 2015 The Guardian asked some journal editors for advice on submitting a paper… some responses included Abstract – needs to be clear and concise, outline your argument – don’t bury it, make sure it runs through the paper and ties together the theory and empirical material Prepare your paper – title, authors, keyword list, abstract, acknowledgments, references, illustrations Ask a colleague to check your work Write a review or a response – this is a good way to get published (esp. for people at the beginning of their career) Cover letter – don’t repeat abstract – needs to be an indication of what you think is most interesting and significant about the paper
- As the author, you need to ensure that you get permission to use content you have not created before submitting your manuscript e.g. tables, figures, illustrations, photographs and more Supply written confirmation from the copyright holder when submitting your manuscript Failing to do so exposes you to potential legal risks Usually people will only be too happy to grant permission and will appreciate being asked If permission cannot be cleared, we cannot republish that specific content
- Once you have chosen the journal, and submitted it…. A little bit of info on the process from the submission of paper to the editorial decision Three decision results – accept, reject, revise and resubmit Revise and Resubmit decision Remember that revise and resubmit may be a good thing, although seems not at time – editor invested/interested in paper Remember human beings involved in all stages, be patient! Be polite! Remember to respond directly and calmly to reviewer comments when you resubmit.
- Ask why paper has been rejected - most editors will respond in detail Try to improve the paper, resubmit elsewhere, makes sure target your paper to that journal’s aims and scope Don’t give up – it may be you have just not submitted to the right journal!
- So - your article has been accepted!
- Share your paper – send the online link to colleagues, students etc Personal page on your institution website? Keep your author profiles up to date (ORCID, SCOPUS) Conferences – present your work to your peers Social Media - approximately 313 million monthly active users on Twitter - seems to be the favourable social networking site for scholarly communication pressure on academics to demonstrate the impact of their work - quick and easy way to reach wider audiences and have an impact on a broader community Not about showing off, or trying to tick certain boxes for an employer, it is about communicating with other scholars, keeping up-to-date with your field & ensuring that your work reaches as wide an audience as possible
- Lots of ways your publisher can help to promote your work…. Liverpool University Press is partnered with Kudos - main aim is helping authors increase the visibility and impact of their work a new way for authors to use social media to engage the digital community with their research – free to researchers! By creating 'profiles' for their published articles and adding short titles, lay summaries, impact statements and supplementary content, authors can make their articles more engaging The steps to using Kudos are simple, all you have to do is claim your published articles, enrich them with content, and share them out to various social channels. You will also be able to measure the impact of your activity through personalised metrics. On average, authors who make use of Kudos' tools receive 19% higher downloads of their work.
- There is a huge amount of published work coming out every year - it’s hard to stand out. Having your work out there on social media increases the likelihood of it reaching different outlets - such as newspapers, blogs, and magazines - this is the kind of data that Altmetric look at. Altmetric collect article level metrics and the online conversations around research papers. They track a selection of online indicators to give a measurement of digital impact and reach ‘Mentions’ that contain links to any version of the same paper are picked up, and collated. The result is the ‘Altmetric Attention Score’ - reflect the idea that their aim is to measure the attention around a given article, not just citations. Having an Altmetric Attention Score is another way to measure the broader impact of your work, and using social media is one way in which you can increase your score. University of Liverpool is an institutional member of Altmetric, so easy for you to get access to your attention score
- I recommend that you use a number of tools to get the most accurate measure of the impact of your research. Consider which citation indices are considered the most valuable in your country and subject area, find out from your publisher how many times your article has been downloaded, use software such as Altmetric or Kudos which measures the visibility of your work on social media. With that, I will finish.
- Any questions?