The publishing process

Roger Watson

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Advanced Nursing

Editor, Nursing Open

International editorial board

12 issues per year

Impact factor: 1.741 (10/110)

12024 cites (2014)

Understand the publishing

process

Quality assurance in the publication process:

authors, editors, reviewers, publishers

Submission

Peer review

Editorial decision and input

Revision

Production

Publication

• submission requirements based on international standards (e.g. ICMJE) re content, ethics, authorship etc

• peer review (blind or open)

• reasons for rejection/revision include plagiarism, redundancy, sub-standard research, faulty or incomplete analysis, poor or incomplete reporting

• revision aims to improve quality

• further checks at production

• post-publication scrutiny

Understand the publishing

process

Write first for:

•Editors

•Reviewers

•Your audience

2014:

55 countries

1110 submissions

Journal guidelines

Impact factor

In a given year, the impact factor of a journal is the average number

of citations to those papers that were published during the two

preceding years.

For example, the 2014 impact factor of a journal would be calculated

as follows:

2014 impact factor = A/B

where:

A = the number of times articles published in 2012 and 2013

were cited by indexed journals during 2014

B = the total number of "citable items" published in 2012 and

2014. ("Citable items" are usually articles, reviews,

proceedings, or notes; not editorials or Letters-to-the-Editor.)

Which papers get cited most

(long term)?

•Methodological papers

•Discussion papers (including concept analysis)

•Review papers

•Original research

Which papers get cited most

(short term)?

•Review papers

•Methodological papers

•Discussion papers (including concept analysis)

•Original research

What gets published

•Editorials

•Review papers

•Research papers

• Original papers

• Research Methodology

• Instrument Development

• Research protocols

• Pilot studies

•Discussion papers

•Concept analysis

•Consensus guidelines

•Correspondence

Aims and scope

Tells you:

• The mission of the journal

• What it publishes

• Who is expected to write for the journal

• The nature of the articles published

• Who is the intended readership

Double-blind peer review

Open peer review

Peer review

… is a means of sieving out evident error, currently unacceptable

practices, repetition of previously published work without

acknowledgement, and trivial contributions that add little to

knowledge.

Russell report on ‘Climategate’

Enhancing the QUAlity and

Transparency Of health Research

Enhancing the QUAlity and

Transparency Of health Research

CONSORT http://www.consort-statement.org/

Enhancing the QUAlity and

Transparency Of health Research

CONSORT http://www.consort-statement.org/

PRISMA http://www.prisma-statement.org/

Promoting integrity in research

publication

COPE http://publicationethics.org/

Authorship

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)

at http://www.icmje.org/ states authorship is based on:

1) substantial contributions to the conception and design of a

paper, or acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation

of data, and,

2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important

intellectual content and final approval of the version to be

published.

Preventing Plagiarism in Published Works

Retraction on the basis of plagiarism

“The retraction has been agreed due to overlap with other previously published material written by third parties”

Retraction on the basis of duplication

“The retraction has been agreed due to duplicate publication of the same article in two journals”

What to expect after acceptance of a manuscript

Edited manuscript returned for final points to be

addressed

Returned to Editor-in-Chief for final

check

Manuscript

to

production Proof issued for

correction

Published

online early

with doi

Published in a journal volume

Digital object identifier (doi)

The Digital Object Identifier (DOI®) System is for

identifying content objects in the digital environment.

DOI® names are assigned to any entity for use on digital

networks.

They are used to provide current information, including

where they (or information about them) can be found on

the Internet. Information about a digital object may change

over time, including where to find it, but its DOI name will

not change.

http://www.doi.org/

Edited by Karen Holland and Roger Watson

An invaluable guide on writing for publication, enabling

the reader to develop skills in writing articles,

book reviews and other forms

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September 2012, 288 pages

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Thank you

Email: r.watson@hull.ac.uk

@rwatson1955