Why publish articles in journals?

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Why publish articles in journals?

Publishing articles in journals may help:

• Receiving comments and earning approval from prestigious and professional editorial board
• Reaching a wider audience and enhancing your research visibility
• Gaining a concrete academic job qualification

How to choose a journal for publication?

Journals vary widely, so think about the following factors when choosing a journal for publishing:

• Impact and ranking (may refer to Bibliometrics & Research Impact databases)

• Audience

• Peer Reviewed

• Journal Indexing

• Circulation Count

• Acceptance Rate

• Editor and Editorial Board

 

Predatory publishers are publishers whose primary goal is financial gain, based on unethical business practices, demonstrate unusually high acceptance rates, and oftentimes list high-profile editorial board members who have not agreed to serve as reviewers for the publication.

Some journals appear to have been hijacked, meaning that their websites or branding have been co-opted by a predatory journal or publisher.

Check the List of Predatory Journals and List of Hijacked Journals by Stop Predatory Journals and think before you submit your works.

 

Source:

• Turkiewicz, K. (2017). Pay to review and/or publish. In M. Allen (Ed.), The sage encyclopedia of communication research methods (Vol. 3, pp. 1202-1203). SAGE Publications, Inc, http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483381411.n416
• List of Hijacked Journals by Stop Predatory Journals
• Research Impact Metrics: Citation Analysis by University of Michigan Library

 

How to prepare and submit articles to a journal?

Journal's editorial policy, instructions to authors and other pertinent information are very useful for you to prepare and submit an article to a journal. Make sure you read and understand such kinds of information clearly before preparing a final version of your article. Please refer to websites of individual publisher or journal for more details.

Bibliometrics & Research Impact

Compare journals and look for high-impact articles using citation bibliometrics:

• Chinese science citation database
• InCites (Benchmarking & analytics)
• InCites essential science indicators
• InCites Journal citation reports
• Science citation index
• SciVal
• Scopus

Author Identifiers & Profiles

• ORCID

  ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from every other researcher. You can connect your iD with your professional information — affiliations, grants, publications, peer review, and more. You can use your iD to share your information with other systems, ensuring you get recognition for all your contributions, saving you time and hassle, and reducing the risk of errors.

What is ORCID?

• Publons (Web of Science ResearcherID)

  You can join Publons to track your publications, citation metrics, peer reviews, and journal editing work in a single, easy-to-maintain profile.

Publons: Track more of your research impact

• Scopus Author ID and Profile

  You can register for your unique ORCID and use Scopus to import your records. If you need to make corrections to your Scopus profile, use Author Feedback Wizard to do so.

Scopus Tutorial: Understand how author profiles work

• Google Scholar Profile

  Having a public Google Scholar profile helps you to increase the visibility of you and your scholarly work by making your published work discoverable and visible on one page.

   

   

If you need more information on setting-up the different author profiles, please take a look at the Libraries' guide on Researcher Profiles.

HKU Scholars Hub: Institutional Repository

 

 

HKU Scholars Hub is to enhance the visibility of HKU authors and their research:

• ResearcherPages (RPs) for
  • Research or teaching Staff with a UGC Grade A - I
  • RPG Students
• Research Output such as
  • Patents
  • Publications
  • Theses

Data Hub: HKU data repository

 

 

The University of Hong Kong Libraries is providing a comprehensive repository for research data and other forms of scholarly outputs. DataHub is the cloud platform for storing, citing, sharing, and discovering research data and all scholarly outputs. It collects, preserves, and provides stable, long-term global open access to a wide range of research data and scholarly outputs created by HKU researchers and RPG students in the course of their research and teaching.

To know more, check out the LibGuide on DataHub.

Open Access

 

 

Open Access brings you the following benefits:

• More exposure for your work
• Practitioners can apply your findings
• Higher citation rates
• Your research can influence policy
• The public can access your findings
• Compliant with grant rules
• Taxpayers get value for money
• Researchers in developing countries can see your work

To know more, check out the Open Access@HKUL guide.

 

Source: Jisc.

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