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.
11. What happens after I’ve
submitted my manuscript?
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Editorial review
Editor sends paper
out to reviewers
Reviewers communicate with editor who communicates
with you
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13. Single Blind Peer Review1
Double Blind Peer Review2
Post-Publication Peer Review4
Common types of peer review
3 Open Peer Review
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17. Publication Process
• Journal Selection
Pre-writing: Step 1
• Follow Guidelines
• Format The Manuscript
• Writings
Writings: Step 2
Publishing: Step 3
• Peer Review Process
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
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• Editors & authors from the same institute
• Plagiarism
• Poor figures
• Bad grammar
• Flawed science
• Uneven quality
• Poor homepage of their website
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30. Using the Impact Factor alone to judge a
journal is like
using weight alone to judge a person’s health
58. Should answer the question that stated in the introduction
Results & discussion
59.
60. If you as the reviewer can't interpret the author's
findings ……
Requests for clarification & explanation are entirely
appropriate during the review process
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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References
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