Publishing in ISI journals for Social...

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Publishing in ISI journals

for Social Sciences

T. RamayahSchool of Management, Universiti Sains Malaysia

ramayah@usm.my, http://www.ramayah.com

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Publish or Perish

Publishing a Paper

Against all odds

What issues do you face in your efforts

to publish your research work in ISI

Impact Factor journals?

Question

Publishing

• Publishing research results is an integral part of a researcher’s professional life.

• Without Publication, Science is

Dead.Gerald PielCo-founder of the modern incarnation of Scientific American magazine

Publishing

• Dissemination of research result is just as important as the research activity itself.

• This will ensure the use of research results is maximized.

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Publications

The number and quality of the publications is an important, possibly the most important factor deciding the career of a scientist, practically a matter of life and death.

Why Do We Publish?

• The fun of discovery• Advancing theory and practice in our field• Creating worldwide professional (and

personal) networks• Enhancing personal reputation• Enhancing institutional reputation and

funding• Enhancing the field’s reputation

• Knowledge sharing• Building personal relationships and

professional teams in co-authorships• Obligation of professionals in higher

education• Promotion, tenure, and pay increments

(where merit pay or bonuses are offered)• Pride in accomplishments

Why Do We Publish?

• Opportunity to travel• Opportunity to fund conference

attendance• Enhance personal development• Enhance opportunity to author a book• Enhance opportunities to edit or become

an editorial board member of a journal and impact the field

Why Do We Publish?

• Enhance personal development

• Enhance opportunity to author a book

• Enhance opportunities to edit or

become an editorial board member of a

journal and impact the field

Why Do We Publish?

How to measure Impact?

Academic Research Impact

• Total number of papers• Total number of citations• Average number of citations per paper• Average number of papers per author• Average number of citations per year• h-index• g-Index• Number of authors per paper

Number of Authors vs Citations

• New developments focus on alternative value measurements- h-Index

- g-Index

- Matthew Value

Measures Journals

Authors

Research groups

Subjects

Institutions, etc

Assessing Impact / Research Performance Measurement

h-index

Developed in 2005 by Jorge Hirsch, a condensed-matter physicist (University of California in San Diego) and peace activist.

Definition of h-Index

A scientist has index h if h of his papers have at least hcitations each and the other papers have no more than hcitations each.

“The h-index is the highest number of papers a scientist has that have at least that number of citations.”

Nature (2005)

Eg.: Prof. Ahmad has index 15 if 15 of his papers have at least 15 citations each and the other papers have nomore than 15 citations each.

Google Scholar

SCOPUS

PUBLONS

Types of Research Measures

• Existing metrics focus on short term citation value

▪ Impact factor = 2 years

▪ Immediacy Index = 1 year

▪ Cited Half Life = stops at 10 years

Measures Journals

Journals

• Indexed• EconLit, Cabell, Academic Research, Business

Index, Business Source, ABI Inform

• Applied Mechanics Reviews, Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology, El Compendex Plus, Engineering Index, Environmental Abstracts, FLUIDEX

• Non-Indexed• Trade Journals example: MMR

Citation Indexed• SCOPUS

• ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)• Impact Factors • ESCI

• Clarivate Analytics• Islamic World Citation• Indian Citation Index• Taiwan Citation Index• MyCite (Malaysia)

Impact Factor Journals

• How do we Identify them?

• Clarivate Analytics

• What is the Impact Factor?• Journal website• Clarivate Analytics

Web of Science

SSCI, SCI, AHCI and ESCI

InCites Journal Citations Reports

Impact Factor

Journal Impact Factor

Journal Quartile

Journal Website

Elsevier

Springer

Emerald

Taylor & Francis

Problematic Impact Factors

ISI also but ……….

Criteria of Evaluation

Global Impact Factor (GIF)

Universal Impact Factor (GIF)

Fake Journals

https://beallslist.net/hijacked-journals/

Hijacked Journal

JCR – Clarivate Analytics

Hijacked Journal

Original Journal

Writing the Paper

Habit of Writing• Talking about writing isn’t writing. Thinking

about writing isn’t writing. Dreaming or fantasizing isn’t writing. Neither are outlining, researching, or making notes. All these may be a part of the whole milieu of the writing life and necessary to getting a project completed, but only writing is writing.

• “You can’t sit around thinking,” said fiction writer David Long. “You must sit around writing.”

WORK ETHICS

“Never mistake motion for action”

Ernest Hemingway

My Old Work Station

My New Work Station

Writing the Paper

Idea for Writing

• Literature

• Google Scholar Alerts• Big names in your area of research

• Colleagues• Intra

• Inter

• Competitors

• Reviewing Papers

How to get research done?

• Individually

• Postgraduate or

Undergraduate students

• Colleagues

• Collaborate

▪ Local

▪ International

Reputation

Availability&

MotivationPersonality

Co-author A

Co-author B

BUILDING STRATEGIC NETWORKSCOMPLEMENTARY COMPETENCES ARE IMPORTANT, BUT…

No hard feelings when buying into a coop! Everything is normally distributed (almost) ... ha ha ha

Targeting the Journal

1. What is the journal`s general scope? Conceptual, methodological, theory-driven, data-driven,...

2. What is the journal‘s current scope (editorial policies) in terms of topics, data, and methods?

3. Does my paper tie in with previous papers from that journal?

4. Can I cite prior research from that journal?

5. Who is on the journal‘s editorial board (AEs and reviewers)?

6. When is a good time to submit?

Targeting: Questions

Do your homework• Pick journals like you pick stocks

• Should have a pool of journals

• Submit paper to a journal with a rising impact factor and higher acceptance rates. avoid declining journals with low acceptance and diminishing impact factor.

• Could cause the journal to be removed from the SSCI and SCI ranking.

• Betting your research where you have the highest probability for publication

• Target your submission, not all to top journals

Dream List

Rank Full Journal Title Impact Factor

1 International Journal of Information Management 5.063

2 Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 4.896

3 Journal Of Knowledge Management 4.604

4 MIS Quarterly 4.373

5 Government Information Quarterly 4.311

6 Journal of The American Medical Informatics Association 4.292

7 Information & Management 4.120

8 Journal of Strategic Information Systems 4.000

9 Information Processing & Management 3.892

10 Telematics and Informatics 3.714

11 Information Systems Journal 3.286

12 Journal of Information Technology 3.225

13 Journal of The Association for Information Systems 3.103

14 Journal of Management Information Systems 3.013

15 Social Science Computer Review 2.922

NO ALL-IN

GAIN EXPERIENCE IN LOWER-TIER JOURNALS & CONFERENCES

BALANCE TIME AND JOURNAL QUALITY

Submission Strategy

Journal Finders

Elsevier

Key in the details

List will be shown

Interesting …………

Web of Science

Key in Paper Details

Results

SPRINGER

Google Scholar

Related Researchers

Submitting the Paper

• Before submission preparation1. Cover Letter2. Authors Page3. Main Manuscript4. Tables5. Figures

Submission LogNo. Paper Title Authors Journal Date Submitted Indexed

1 The Impact of Technological Learning on NPD Outcomes: The Moderating Effect of Project Complexity

Joshua Ignatius, Jasmine Yeapand T. Ramayah

Technovation 1st RevisionSeptember 9, 2019

ELSEVIERSSCI ISI = 5.250

2 An Assessment Of E-Training Effectiveness In Multinational Companies In Malaysia

T. Ramayah, Noor Hazlina Ahmad and Tan Say Hong

Journal of Educational Technology & Society

1st RevisionOctober 11, 2019

SSCI ISI = 2.133

3 Does The Notion Of "Doing Well By Doing Good" Prevail Among Entrepreneurial Ventures In A Developing Nation?

Noor Hazlina Ahmad and T. Ramayah

Journal of Business Ethics

SSCI ISI = 3.769

4 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Benefits Survey Of Indian Manufacturing Firms: An Empirical Analysis Of SAP Versus Oracle Package

Annamalai and T. Ramayah

Benchmarking: An International Journal

EMERLADSCOPUS

5 Understanding Consumer Intention with Respect to Purchase and Use of Pirated Software

T. Ramayah, Norazah Suki and Lee Sze Ern

Information Management and Computer Security

1st RevisionAugust 31, 2019

EMERALD SCOPUS

Handling Revisions

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“Oh, how lucky I am to receive your (no doubt great) paper for review. It really made my day!”

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THE TYPICAL REVIEWER

E-mail from the Editor

THE TWO GOLDEN RULES OF REPLYING TO REVIEWERS

RULE #1: THE REVIEWER IS ALWAYS RIGHT

RULE #2: IF THE REVIEWER IS NOT RIGHT, SEE RULE #1

Reply to Reviewers

Revisions• Don’t be discouraged. A paper

often requires 3-4 revisions before it is finally accepted. Especially in SSCI, SCI and other quality journals, you will probably be rejected the first time around.

• Pay attention to all the feedback you get and modify accordingly, and revise, resubmit, revise, resubmit, revise, resubmit.

Post Publication Dissemination

Detail Description of Paper

PUBLONS

Review Endorsements

Research Gate

Facebook

Altmetrics

Altmetric it!

Website

BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT

THING...

Some Journal Targets

Proverb – Za’ba

Kekayaan saudagar adalah pada pundipundi emasnya, Kekayaan pendeta adalah

pada keping keping kertasnya.

The wealth of a merchant is in their purses of gold, the wealth of a scholar is in the knowledge they unfold

GRATITUDE

You’ll learn more

from sharing

than from

holding.

Share Your Resources with Others

Thank you for listening

•Passion

•Perseverance

•A little bit of Luck

THANK YOU

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