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HOW TO GET PUBLISHED WHILE DOING A PHD?

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We All Have Times Feeling Like This…

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Four Questions To Ask Yourself:

1. What is my publishing agenda?

2. Where should I publish?

3. How do I get published?

4. What are the key things that I need to know?

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What Is My Publishing Agenda?

Be Strategic:

Consider…

• Your audience

• Your long & short term publishing goals

• Your timeline vs. the Journal’s timeline

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What Is My Publishing Agenda? cont’d

• Your audience

Where do your supervisors publish?

Where do other experts in your area publish?

Relevance of the journal to your paper/study (who reads this journal?)

Large audience vs. niche audience?

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What Is My Publishing Agenda? cont’d

E.g.

Publish during your thesis Publish after submitting your

thesis

Quantity vs. Quality

Or Secure a future in academia …

• Your long & short term publishing goals

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What Is My Publishing Agenda? cont’d

What is the journal’s acceptance/rejection rate?

How long will it take the journal to review your research?

What is your publishing timeline? E.g., How many papers/how quickly do you want/need to publish?

• Your timeline vs. the journal’s timeline

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Identify audience or readership

Determine publication priorities and time frame

Check quality of journal/publisher/editorial board

Consider publishing options e.g. open access

Potential target journal(s) selected

Where Should I Publish?

Select the ‘right’ journal(s):

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Tools can help you to make informed publishing decisions:

Journal quality/impact Journal Rankings

• ABDC (Australian Business Deans Council)

• ERA 2012 – inclusion on the list indicates recognition by ERA

Journal Citation Rates

• SCImago Journal Rankings – main metric is SJR indicator

• Journal Citation Reports – main metric is Journal Impact Factor

• Google Scholar Metrics – main metric is h-index h5 index & h5 median

Where Should I Publish? cont’d

General information about Journals• Ulrich’s – journal scope, publishing frequency, indexing status etc. • Cabell’s – acceptance rate, time to review, number of internal and

external reviewers etc.

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Is the journal peer-reviewed & Does it fit your agenda?

Is the journal well recognised in Australia?

Is the journal of ‘high’ impact/quality?

Ulrich’s Cabell’s

Journal Website

SCImagoJournal Citation Reports

ERA journal listABDC list

DOAJ

Google Scholar

Example Decision Making Process …

Forget it!Yes

Yes

No

Reconsider carefully!

No

Check

Check

(Consider open access)

impact/ quality

Acceptance rate

In General: The higher the impact/quality of the journal, the lower its acceptance rate.

Check

Check

Check

Submit your manuscript to the journal that seems most appropriate

Reconsider carefully!

No

Yes

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How Do I Get Published?

Carefully select the right journal • Quality/impact vs. Acceptance rate/timeline• Beware of scams!!

Get to know the journal – skim through back issues

Write a good literature review

Cite papers on your topic published in the journal

Pay attention to details, e.g.,• Tables & figures• Editors/reviewers hate badly written manuscripts

MUST follow the authors guidelines

Answer all comments from reviewers

Never take rejections personally – It happens to the best of us!

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Things I Need To Know?

If you have been publishing from your thesis during your candidature……

Issues to consider

Reuse of your material > manage your rights > permission

• Confirm with your publisher what rights you’ve retained as the author, and under what conditions you can use your own work.

• Ensure that your publisher gives you permission to use your published work within your thesis and to self-archive.

• You can check and compare the policies of different publishers, using the SHERPA/RoMEO and OAKList databases or go to individual publishers’ websites.

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Things I Need To Know? Cont’d

If you plan to publish either your completed thesis or parts of it post completion……

An extra factor to consider is the choice you now have as a result of recent amendments to Deakin’s Higher Degrees by Research (HDR) Assessment Procedure about open access to your thesis

23 Candidates may elect to allow access to their entire thesis via Deakin Research Online, or limit access to the thesis citation, abstract and metadata only. Where access via Deakin Research Online is limited to the citation, abstract and metadata, the Library will make individual digital copies available for consultation, loan and limited copying in accordance with the Copyright Act 1968

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Deakin Research Online

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OPAL: Open Access and Licensing

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Summary

• Consider the match b/w your research and the journal

• Develop a shortlist of potential journals which seem appropriate

• Evaluate the quality/impact of these journals

… then submit! Good Luck!

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More Information…

For information on making publishing decisions and

using tools to evaluate journal quality, contact:

• Your Liaison librarian or Research Librarian

• Check out our website

• Publishing/writing tips from publishers:– Elsevier’s Journal Finder tool

– Emerald’s Networked Scholar