Scientific papers: the publisher’s perspective

June 2015

Helen Liepman, Senior Publisher, Medicine, Oxford University Press

The ESC Journal Family

The importance of your name

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Publishing papers?

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Choosing the right journal

Metrics & Scope

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Compare like with like

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Scope, Readership and Reach

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Generalist vs Specialist?

European Excellence: International

Influence

All journals are global

Quality and Impact

More than just Impact Factor

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• A measure of average citation rate for a set of scholarly articles

Impact Factor

• A scaled citation metric indicating importance of the journal in the community

Eigenfactor

• Average influence of a journal’s articles over 5 years

Article influence

Impact factor calculation

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Impact factors of ESC Journal Family

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Speed

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Speed of review & speed of publication

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Service to authors (and reviewers)

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Publishing models

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Open Access? Do you need to deposit your article? How soon post

publication?

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ESC Journals

• Free after 12 months

• Compliant with NIH requirements

• NIH-funded articles automatically

deposited in PMC (PubMedCentral)

• Optional Open Access

Make your article stand out

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Instructions to Authors

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Author Resource centre http://www.oxfordjournals.org/en/authors/index.html

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Submission systems

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What happens next?

The Editorial office

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The Peer review process

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The peer review process

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Accept? Reject?

Revise? Cascade?

Stages of Production

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Copy editing

Proofs

Publication

Marketing and Social Media promotion

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Spreading the word https://www.thinglink.com/scene/657535884568035330

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OUP Global sales to institutes

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So what does the future hold?

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New ways to publish

• The rise of open access

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Growth in open Access

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New ways of spreading the word

A new horizon

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New ways of reading and storing data

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The Quest The scientist and publishing

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