PPTX Research Seminar

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RESEARCH

SEMINAR

JULY 2021

ONLINE COURSE

-BABLU K. GHOSH

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING

UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA SABAH

Presentation on “Good quality manuscripts framework for impact journal publication” –Organized by

PUST

AS AN ACADEMICIAN WHAT IS THE KEY GOAL?

 To explore scientific knowledge

 Then………….

 How to disseminates knowledge among the scientific community?

 Must have to publish in quality journals

 Scientific knowledge significance in

economy

SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE GENERATION

VS. ECONOMIC

DEVELOPMENT : KEY RELATION ACADEMIC INNOVATION AND

PROGRESS

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Country Documents Citable

documents Citation Self Citation Citation

1. US 12839607 11339587 339229687 151101326 26.42

2. China 6589695 6469704 61658138 35288321 9.36

3. UK 3715590 3145039 89357199 20051057 24.05

4. Germany 3222549 2964814 70371678 16909011 21.84

5. Japan 2893614 2762245 48232916 12366873 16.67

6. France 2249498 2084654 48364784 9918365 21.50

7. Italy 1881818 1708800 37430348 8584150 19.89

8. Canada 1877183 1684334 45766661 7875702 24.38

9. India 1873277 1741868 18243852 6215206 9.74

10. Australia 1489730 1315978 32118547 6519905 21.56

IMPACTFUL JOURNALS (WOS)

• Top scientific journal ranking as I found in the google and Scopus

database, there is some variations. The impact of the journal, h index and interdisciplinary approaches a few journals are there; though most of the journals are very specific fields.

• https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php 

• 1. Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians 2. MMWR Recommendations and Reports �  3. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

• 4. Quarterly Journal of Economics 5. Nature Reviews

IMPACTFUL JOURNALS (H-INDEX )

• https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en 

• 1.Nature 2.The New England Journal of Medicine 3.Science 4.The Lancet .IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 6.Advanced Materials

7.Nature Communications 9.Chemical Reviews 10.Chemical Society reviews

• Both groups have their excellence for the benefit of society and nature as a whole.

• Quality evaluation purpose I think most specific journals are most significant because of their review and editorial process and selection of paper for

publications but citation aspect interdisciplinary journal are very significant.

GLOBAL RANKING

PIONEER IN R&D

DIVERSITY AND INTERDISCIPLINARY

 Diversity is the co-occurrence of several distinct topics or disciplines

-three key properties: variety, disparity and balance

 Interdisciplinary is when those strands are brought together in innovative research that makes a new thread

-Nano sciences

INDEXING A GLOBAL DIVERSITY

 In 1981 there were 614,608 articles and reviews (academic research papers) in the Web of Science.

 This annual count of papers rose to exceed one million for 1994, two million for 2011 and reached 2,622,355 for 2020

 Database expanded in Engineering and technology, from 8.4% in 1981 to 17.1%

 The biggest relative growth is in Nano sciences

 Environmental (5.1 to 8.6%) and Mathematical sciences (3.2 to

4.1%).

PUBLICATIONS BENEFIT AS GOOD QUALITY JOURNAL

 Reputation of authors

 Reputation of faculty /institute

 Country reputation

 Your research recognition to the international community

 Your degree confirmation

 Your advance education or research

confirmation

RESEARCH TOPIC SELECTION IS THE KEY

The key selection

for

success

START WITH A GOOD SCIENTIFIC ARGUMENT

 Choice a topic --- your research area

 Find the research gap --- how ?

 Through proper literature review

 In this stage

- very critical thinking

WRITING AND ITS STEPS?

 Publication is an art

 Both institute

and supervisor

are intending to

publish student

quality work

REVIEW PAPER WRITING



Why want to write—decide first

 Review critically other researchers work

 It’s a story talking; focus the key development

 Potential industrial application and deliver its further unsolved issues

 Better to limit to 10,000 words and plain text about 35 pages

 5-10 Tables & Figures

 References <100, references in most relevant work.

 Context based literature search from search engine

OUT LINE OF WRITING - REVIEW PAPER

• Reviews are usually published by experts in the field, however a typical review paper writing pathway:

 Define a topic and audience

 Search and re-search the literature

 Take notes while reading

 Choose the type of review you would like to write

 Keep the review focused, but make it of broad interest

 Be critical and consistent

 Find a logical structure

 Be up-to-date, but do not forget older studies and your own

OUT LINE OF WRITING - RESEARCH PAPER

• a typical research paper structure that commonly includes:

 a title page

 an abstract

 an introduction

 a methodology section

 findings/results

 discussion

 conclusion

HOW TO ATTRACT READER?

 Graphical abstract that shows concise overall picture of your work

 Highlights are marking significance of your work

 Keywords are important for searching

HOW TO ATTRACT READERS CONTD…

 Use catchy words in title as informative and concise

 It must focus the main issue

 Abstract should contain sufficient information for the readers

 Make abstract interesting and understandable

 Make it accurate and specific in between 100 -200 words

 It must contain background, scope and approach as well as

key findings

HOW TO ATTRACT READERS CONTD…

 In introduction--why the topic is important in present context ?

 Address the problem

 Identify the solutions and limitations

 State your objectives to solve the problem

 It must be covered in depth

 Compare published results and cite them

 Conclusion isn’t a summary rather summarization of discussed items

 Describe future directions, including your

opinions

WHAT EDITORS WANT: A GUIDE TO WRITING IMP ACTFUL SCIENCE

PAPERS

 WHAT IS THE KEY ELEMENT THAT WILL MAKE MY PAPER IMPACTFUL?

- TO BE IMPACTFUL, PAPERS MUST COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY.

 HOW CAN I STRUCTURE MY PAPER FOR IMPACT?

- PUT WHAT INTERESTS THE READERS UP FRONT

- STRUCTURE YOUR ABSTRACT TO ‘NON-SPECIALIST’ READERS.

WHAT DO EDITORS WANT AND WHERE DO THEY LOOK FOR IT IN PAPER?



MIND THE GAP IS THE KEY !

 MAKE THE NEW ELEMENT OF YOUR PAPER

 EASY TO FIND THE ELEMENT

 PROVIDE CONTEXT PROPERLY

 STRESS THE IMPORTANCE OF THE RESULT

DIFFERENT AREA - DIVERSE KNOWLEDGE: WHAT ARE THE COMMON?

 What you are going to present?

 How logical and scientific are ?

 How much impressive?

 How skillfully you are presenting it?

 How much it is focused?

 How critically you are analyzing it?

WHAT ARE THE MAIN FAILURE

POINTS OF JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS?

 Research gap identified is unclear and weak originality

 The hypothesis and methodologies are not adequately addressed

  Connection between given state of the art and the structure itself

 Abstract and conclusion aren’t fit in contents

 Explanations aren’t bringing into a logical context

 No guide of readers through your tasks and interest

 No definite conclusion from the conducted study

 Amount of information putted in one sentence isn’t

meaningful

WRITING SKILLS –FOCUSED ON A FEW HIGH IMPACT JOURNALS (SHOWN AND

DISCUSSED)

 My own paper –RSER ( IF-12.5; WOS)

 research presentation

 How impressive ! --- Nature energy (34.5)

 research presentation

 How analytical ! --- RCS, Energy & Environmental Science ( 30.2)

 research presentation

 How systematic ! ---Science (20.5)

 research presentation

 How simple approach! ---ACS, Applied Materials and interface

( 9.2)

FOCUSED ON A FEW HIGH IMPACT JOURNALS CONTD…..

 How focused !---- Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells (6.2)

 research presentation

 How complex !---- Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells (6.2)

 research presentation

 How depth !---- IEEE J. of Photovoltaic (3.9)

 research presentation

 How logical !--- RCS, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics(3.4)

 research presentation

 How thoughtful !---AIP, J. of Applied Physics ( 2.4)

 research presentation

TYR YOUR BEST

Q & A

THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE

Any related matter please contact :

ghoshbab@ums.edu.my