How to publish in an isi journal حنان القرشي

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Page 1: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

1

يسر

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

2

تقديم محاضرة بعنوانlaquoHow To Publish a Scientific Paper in ISI

Journalraquo

تلقيهاحنان عبدهللا القرشي دبقسم إدارة وتعليم التمريض أستاذ م

كلية التمريض جامعة الملك سعود

3

ضمن سلسلة محاضرات البحث العلمي

1437عام

PREPARINGYOURPAPERCAREFULLYMAKESA

GOODPAPER

4

TYPES OF PAPERS

5

bull Original research

ndash Interventionalhypotheses testingexperimental paper

ndash Descriptive paper

ndash Method paper

ndash Epidemiological paper

bull Review article

bull Case report

bull Letter to the editor

bull Short communication

bull New perspectives

bull Editorials from the editor

WHAT IS CONSIDERED AS A PAPERARTICLE

6

bull A research which contributes to

ndash Pushing the frontiers of science a bit further

ndash Strengthening and confirming what is not well established

ndash looking at an issue from a new angle

ndash Proposing a newprevious technique for a particular purpose

ndash Wideningnarrowing the application of something

WHAT EDITORS AND REVIEWERS LOOK FOR

IN A PAPER

7

bull Originalityndashwhatrsquos new about subject treatment or results

bull Relevance to and extension of existing knowledge

bull Research methodology ndashare conclusions valid and objective

bull Clarity structure and quality of writing ndashdoes it communicate well

bull Sound logical progression of argument

bull Theoretical and practical implications (the lsquoso whatrsquo factors)

bull Recency and relevance of references

bull Adherence to the editorial scope and objectives of the journal

Preparing your paper-Structure

8

bull Follow a standard pattern

ndash Abstract

ndash Introduction

ndash Methods

ndash Results

ndash Discussion

ndash Conclusions

bull Use formal scientific style

bull Use a short pithy title that reflects the main conclusion

bull Abstracts should summarize the article briefly

ndash Include motivation what was done how what was found and major conclusions

ndash Avoid abbreviations and references unless absolutely necessary

ndash Keep it short lt250 words in one paragraph

bull The article should tell a story set out to lead from one section to the next

Preparing your paper-Format

9

Preparing your paper-Grammar

10

bull Grammar and punctuation are important because they are fundamental to transmission of meaning

ndash Poor grammar spelling and punctuation

ndash Lead to misinterpretations and ambiguities

ndash Give the impression of lack of care in preparation

ndash Suggest perhaps other aspects of the paper are careless

ndash Can upset some referees and make them more critical than otherwise

ndash Can be difficult to overcome but it is essential to do so

Preparing your paper-Grammar

11

bull Be sure to

ndash Write complete sentences not too long not too short

ndash Use commas properly

ndash Be consistent in the use of tenses

ndash Avoid slang colloquialisms and jargon

ndash Use no contractions ndashldquodonrsquot couldnrsquotrdquo

ndash Write in reasonably sized paragraphs

Preparing your paper-Clarity

12

bull To convey unambiguous meaning

bull write as simply as possible

bull use the correct words and terminology

bull avoid padding ldquoIt is noteworthy that in

this examplehelliprdquo

bull delete meaningless or weak words ndash

very quite shows possibly

bull ensure that pronouns ldquoit this those etcrdquo

are unambiguous

bull be consistent in the use of tenses

bull use ldquosignificantrdquo only in its statistical

sense

bull write in reasonably sized paragraphs

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

13

Copying (or modifying) ideas text tables or

figures from any source without explicitly

acknowledging that source deliberate or

not is plagiarism

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

14

bull Repeating ideas text tables or figures from your own published work without citing the source is self-plagiarism

bull To avoid plagiarism always cite your sources for paraphrased passages and place exact quotes inside quotation marks

bull Copied figures should cite the source in the legend (and may need copyright permissions)

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

15

Common pitfalls

16

Wrong journal

Dual publication

Bad preparation of MS

Weakly presented science

Localism

Lack of discussion

Insignificant conclusions

Poor response to reviews

Do you know

17

1 AHCI Arts and Humanities Citation Index

2 IF Impact Factor

3 ISI Institute for scientific Information

4 JCR Journal Citation Reports

5 SCI Science Citation Index

6 SSCI Social Sciences Citation Index

7 SJR SCImago Journal Rank

WHAT EDITORS AND REVIEWERS LOOK FOR IN A PAPER (CONT)

18

bull Checking the integrity

bull The title the purpose the answer and the recommendations

bull The listing sequence of information

bull The words and their relation to the type of the study

ndash Hypothesis paper (unknownproblematic) examine find out to test

ndash Descriptive paper define describe clarify

ndash Method paper develop design provide make manufacture offer

ndash Epidemiological paper report the incidenceprevalence find out

BEING PUBLISHED MEANS

19

bull Your paper is permanentndashpublished material enters a permanent and accessible knowledge archive ndashthe lsquobody of knowledgersquo

bull Your paper is improvedndashthrough the interventions of editors reviewers sub-editors and proof-readers

bull Your paper is actively promotedndashit becomes available to a far greater audience

bull Your writing is trustworthyndashmaterial which has been published carries a QA stamp

TYPES OF JOURNALS

20

bull Research journals

bull Scientific journals

bull Research scientific journals

bull News journals

bull News letters

bull Pamphlets

21

Selection Of A Journal

المكتبة األكاديمية جامعة ndashاإللكترونية

الملك سعود

22

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ScienceDirect)

الرقمية

23

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ProQuest Medline)

الرقمية

24

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (Web of Science)

الرقمية

25

26

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE SENDING THE PAPER

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE

SENDING THE PAPER

bull ldquoMany papers are rejected simply because they donrsquot fulfil journal requirements They donrsquot even go into the review processrdquo

bull Identify a few possible target journalsseries but be realistic

bull Follow the Author Guidelines mdash scope type of paper word lengthreferences style etc

bull Find where to send your paper (editor regional editor subject area editor) Check a copy of the journalseries or the publisherrsquos web site

bull Send an outline or abstract and ask if this looks suitable and interesting (or how it could be made so)

bull Confirm how an editor would like a submission eg e-mail hard copy

bull Read at least one issue of the publication mdash visit your library for access

27

ISI

bull HTTPTHOMDONTRUTERSCOMPRODUCTS_SERVICESSCIENCEFREEESSAYSJOURNAL_SELECTION_PROCESS

bull Thomson Scientific is a subsidiary of theThomson Group and is based inPhiladelphia USA

bull Thomson Scientificrsquos lsquolSl Web of Sciencersquodatabase scores 180000 selected journalswith lsquoImpactFactorsrsquo based on journal citations

bull The latest Thomson Scientific statisticswere published in June 2015 for the year2014

28

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 2: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

2

تقديم محاضرة بعنوانlaquoHow To Publish a Scientific Paper in ISI

Journalraquo

تلقيهاحنان عبدهللا القرشي دبقسم إدارة وتعليم التمريض أستاذ م

كلية التمريض جامعة الملك سعود

3

ضمن سلسلة محاضرات البحث العلمي

1437عام

PREPARINGYOURPAPERCAREFULLYMAKESA

GOODPAPER

4

TYPES OF PAPERS

5

bull Original research

ndash Interventionalhypotheses testingexperimental paper

ndash Descriptive paper

ndash Method paper

ndash Epidemiological paper

bull Review article

bull Case report

bull Letter to the editor

bull Short communication

bull New perspectives

bull Editorials from the editor

WHAT IS CONSIDERED AS A PAPERARTICLE

6

bull A research which contributes to

ndash Pushing the frontiers of science a bit further

ndash Strengthening and confirming what is not well established

ndash looking at an issue from a new angle

ndash Proposing a newprevious technique for a particular purpose

ndash Wideningnarrowing the application of something

WHAT EDITORS AND REVIEWERS LOOK FOR

IN A PAPER

7

bull Originalityndashwhatrsquos new about subject treatment or results

bull Relevance to and extension of existing knowledge

bull Research methodology ndashare conclusions valid and objective

bull Clarity structure and quality of writing ndashdoes it communicate well

bull Sound logical progression of argument

bull Theoretical and practical implications (the lsquoso whatrsquo factors)

bull Recency and relevance of references

bull Adherence to the editorial scope and objectives of the journal

Preparing your paper-Structure

8

bull Follow a standard pattern

ndash Abstract

ndash Introduction

ndash Methods

ndash Results

ndash Discussion

ndash Conclusions

bull Use formal scientific style

bull Use a short pithy title that reflects the main conclusion

bull Abstracts should summarize the article briefly

ndash Include motivation what was done how what was found and major conclusions

ndash Avoid abbreviations and references unless absolutely necessary

ndash Keep it short lt250 words in one paragraph

bull The article should tell a story set out to lead from one section to the next

Preparing your paper-Format

9

Preparing your paper-Grammar

10

bull Grammar and punctuation are important because they are fundamental to transmission of meaning

ndash Poor grammar spelling and punctuation

ndash Lead to misinterpretations and ambiguities

ndash Give the impression of lack of care in preparation

ndash Suggest perhaps other aspects of the paper are careless

ndash Can upset some referees and make them more critical than otherwise

ndash Can be difficult to overcome but it is essential to do so

Preparing your paper-Grammar

11

bull Be sure to

ndash Write complete sentences not too long not too short

ndash Use commas properly

ndash Be consistent in the use of tenses

ndash Avoid slang colloquialisms and jargon

ndash Use no contractions ndashldquodonrsquot couldnrsquotrdquo

ndash Write in reasonably sized paragraphs

Preparing your paper-Clarity

12

bull To convey unambiguous meaning

bull write as simply as possible

bull use the correct words and terminology

bull avoid padding ldquoIt is noteworthy that in

this examplehelliprdquo

bull delete meaningless or weak words ndash

very quite shows possibly

bull ensure that pronouns ldquoit this those etcrdquo

are unambiguous

bull be consistent in the use of tenses

bull use ldquosignificantrdquo only in its statistical

sense

bull write in reasonably sized paragraphs

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

13

Copying (or modifying) ideas text tables or

figures from any source without explicitly

acknowledging that source deliberate or

not is plagiarism

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

14

bull Repeating ideas text tables or figures from your own published work without citing the source is self-plagiarism

bull To avoid plagiarism always cite your sources for paraphrased passages and place exact quotes inside quotation marks

bull Copied figures should cite the source in the legend (and may need copyright permissions)

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

15

Common pitfalls

16

Wrong journal

Dual publication

Bad preparation of MS

Weakly presented science

Localism

Lack of discussion

Insignificant conclusions

Poor response to reviews

Do you know

17

1 AHCI Arts and Humanities Citation Index

2 IF Impact Factor

3 ISI Institute for scientific Information

4 JCR Journal Citation Reports

5 SCI Science Citation Index

6 SSCI Social Sciences Citation Index

7 SJR SCImago Journal Rank

WHAT EDITORS AND REVIEWERS LOOK FOR IN A PAPER (CONT)

18

bull Checking the integrity

bull The title the purpose the answer and the recommendations

bull The listing sequence of information

bull The words and their relation to the type of the study

ndash Hypothesis paper (unknownproblematic) examine find out to test

ndash Descriptive paper define describe clarify

ndash Method paper develop design provide make manufacture offer

ndash Epidemiological paper report the incidenceprevalence find out

BEING PUBLISHED MEANS

19

bull Your paper is permanentndashpublished material enters a permanent and accessible knowledge archive ndashthe lsquobody of knowledgersquo

bull Your paper is improvedndashthrough the interventions of editors reviewers sub-editors and proof-readers

bull Your paper is actively promotedndashit becomes available to a far greater audience

bull Your writing is trustworthyndashmaterial which has been published carries a QA stamp

TYPES OF JOURNALS

20

bull Research journals

bull Scientific journals

bull Research scientific journals

bull News journals

bull News letters

bull Pamphlets

21

Selection Of A Journal

المكتبة األكاديمية جامعة ndashاإللكترونية

الملك سعود

22

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ScienceDirect)

الرقمية

23

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ProQuest Medline)

الرقمية

24

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (Web of Science)

الرقمية

25

26

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE SENDING THE PAPER

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE

SENDING THE PAPER

bull ldquoMany papers are rejected simply because they donrsquot fulfil journal requirements They donrsquot even go into the review processrdquo

bull Identify a few possible target journalsseries but be realistic

bull Follow the Author Guidelines mdash scope type of paper word lengthreferences style etc

bull Find where to send your paper (editor regional editor subject area editor) Check a copy of the journalseries or the publisherrsquos web site

bull Send an outline or abstract and ask if this looks suitable and interesting (or how it could be made so)

bull Confirm how an editor would like a submission eg e-mail hard copy

bull Read at least one issue of the publication mdash visit your library for access

27

ISI

bull HTTPTHOMDONTRUTERSCOMPRODUCTS_SERVICESSCIENCEFREEESSAYSJOURNAL_SELECTION_PROCESS

bull Thomson Scientific is a subsidiary of theThomson Group and is based inPhiladelphia USA

bull Thomson Scientificrsquos lsquolSl Web of Sciencersquodatabase scores 180000 selected journalswith lsquoImpactFactorsrsquo based on journal citations

bull The latest Thomson Scientific statisticswere published in June 2015 for the year2014

28

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 3: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

3

ضمن سلسلة محاضرات البحث العلمي

1437عام

PREPARINGYOURPAPERCAREFULLYMAKESA

GOODPAPER

4

TYPES OF PAPERS

5

bull Original research

ndash Interventionalhypotheses testingexperimental paper

ndash Descriptive paper

ndash Method paper

ndash Epidemiological paper

bull Review article

bull Case report

bull Letter to the editor

bull Short communication

bull New perspectives

bull Editorials from the editor

WHAT IS CONSIDERED AS A PAPERARTICLE

6

bull A research which contributes to

ndash Pushing the frontiers of science a bit further

ndash Strengthening and confirming what is not well established

ndash looking at an issue from a new angle

ndash Proposing a newprevious technique for a particular purpose

ndash Wideningnarrowing the application of something

WHAT EDITORS AND REVIEWERS LOOK FOR

IN A PAPER

7

bull Originalityndashwhatrsquos new about subject treatment or results

bull Relevance to and extension of existing knowledge

bull Research methodology ndashare conclusions valid and objective

bull Clarity structure and quality of writing ndashdoes it communicate well

bull Sound logical progression of argument

bull Theoretical and practical implications (the lsquoso whatrsquo factors)

bull Recency and relevance of references

bull Adherence to the editorial scope and objectives of the journal

Preparing your paper-Structure

8

bull Follow a standard pattern

ndash Abstract

ndash Introduction

ndash Methods

ndash Results

ndash Discussion

ndash Conclusions

bull Use formal scientific style

bull Use a short pithy title that reflects the main conclusion

bull Abstracts should summarize the article briefly

ndash Include motivation what was done how what was found and major conclusions

ndash Avoid abbreviations and references unless absolutely necessary

ndash Keep it short lt250 words in one paragraph

bull The article should tell a story set out to lead from one section to the next

Preparing your paper-Format

9

Preparing your paper-Grammar

10

bull Grammar and punctuation are important because they are fundamental to transmission of meaning

ndash Poor grammar spelling and punctuation

ndash Lead to misinterpretations and ambiguities

ndash Give the impression of lack of care in preparation

ndash Suggest perhaps other aspects of the paper are careless

ndash Can upset some referees and make them more critical than otherwise

ndash Can be difficult to overcome but it is essential to do so

Preparing your paper-Grammar

11

bull Be sure to

ndash Write complete sentences not too long not too short

ndash Use commas properly

ndash Be consistent in the use of tenses

ndash Avoid slang colloquialisms and jargon

ndash Use no contractions ndashldquodonrsquot couldnrsquotrdquo

ndash Write in reasonably sized paragraphs

Preparing your paper-Clarity

12

bull To convey unambiguous meaning

bull write as simply as possible

bull use the correct words and terminology

bull avoid padding ldquoIt is noteworthy that in

this examplehelliprdquo

bull delete meaningless or weak words ndash

very quite shows possibly

bull ensure that pronouns ldquoit this those etcrdquo

are unambiguous

bull be consistent in the use of tenses

bull use ldquosignificantrdquo only in its statistical

sense

bull write in reasonably sized paragraphs

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

13

Copying (or modifying) ideas text tables or

figures from any source without explicitly

acknowledging that source deliberate or

not is plagiarism

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

14

bull Repeating ideas text tables or figures from your own published work without citing the source is self-plagiarism

bull To avoid plagiarism always cite your sources for paraphrased passages and place exact quotes inside quotation marks

bull Copied figures should cite the source in the legend (and may need copyright permissions)

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

15

Common pitfalls

16

Wrong journal

Dual publication

Bad preparation of MS

Weakly presented science

Localism

Lack of discussion

Insignificant conclusions

Poor response to reviews

Do you know

17

1 AHCI Arts and Humanities Citation Index

2 IF Impact Factor

3 ISI Institute for scientific Information

4 JCR Journal Citation Reports

5 SCI Science Citation Index

6 SSCI Social Sciences Citation Index

7 SJR SCImago Journal Rank

WHAT EDITORS AND REVIEWERS LOOK FOR IN A PAPER (CONT)

18

bull Checking the integrity

bull The title the purpose the answer and the recommendations

bull The listing sequence of information

bull The words and their relation to the type of the study

ndash Hypothesis paper (unknownproblematic) examine find out to test

ndash Descriptive paper define describe clarify

ndash Method paper develop design provide make manufacture offer

ndash Epidemiological paper report the incidenceprevalence find out

BEING PUBLISHED MEANS

19

bull Your paper is permanentndashpublished material enters a permanent and accessible knowledge archive ndashthe lsquobody of knowledgersquo

bull Your paper is improvedndashthrough the interventions of editors reviewers sub-editors and proof-readers

bull Your paper is actively promotedndashit becomes available to a far greater audience

bull Your writing is trustworthyndashmaterial which has been published carries a QA stamp

TYPES OF JOURNALS

20

bull Research journals

bull Scientific journals

bull Research scientific journals

bull News journals

bull News letters

bull Pamphlets

21

Selection Of A Journal

المكتبة األكاديمية جامعة ndashاإللكترونية

الملك سعود

22

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ScienceDirect)

الرقمية

23

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ProQuest Medline)

الرقمية

24

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (Web of Science)

الرقمية

25

26

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE SENDING THE PAPER

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE

SENDING THE PAPER

bull ldquoMany papers are rejected simply because they donrsquot fulfil journal requirements They donrsquot even go into the review processrdquo

bull Identify a few possible target journalsseries but be realistic

bull Follow the Author Guidelines mdash scope type of paper word lengthreferences style etc

bull Find where to send your paper (editor regional editor subject area editor) Check a copy of the journalseries or the publisherrsquos web site

bull Send an outline or abstract and ask if this looks suitable and interesting (or how it could be made so)

bull Confirm how an editor would like a submission eg e-mail hard copy

bull Read at least one issue of the publication mdash visit your library for access

27

ISI

bull HTTPTHOMDONTRUTERSCOMPRODUCTS_SERVICESSCIENCEFREEESSAYSJOURNAL_SELECTION_PROCESS

bull Thomson Scientific is a subsidiary of theThomson Group and is based inPhiladelphia USA

bull Thomson Scientificrsquos lsquolSl Web of Sciencersquodatabase scores 180000 selected journalswith lsquoImpactFactorsrsquo based on journal citations

bull The latest Thomson Scientific statisticswere published in June 2015 for the year2014

28

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 4: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

PREPARINGYOURPAPERCAREFULLYMAKESA

GOODPAPER

4

TYPES OF PAPERS

5

bull Original research

ndash Interventionalhypotheses testingexperimental paper

ndash Descriptive paper

ndash Method paper

ndash Epidemiological paper

bull Review article

bull Case report

bull Letter to the editor

bull Short communication

bull New perspectives

bull Editorials from the editor

WHAT IS CONSIDERED AS A PAPERARTICLE

6

bull A research which contributes to

ndash Pushing the frontiers of science a bit further

ndash Strengthening and confirming what is not well established

ndash looking at an issue from a new angle

ndash Proposing a newprevious technique for a particular purpose

ndash Wideningnarrowing the application of something

WHAT EDITORS AND REVIEWERS LOOK FOR

IN A PAPER

7

bull Originalityndashwhatrsquos new about subject treatment or results

bull Relevance to and extension of existing knowledge

bull Research methodology ndashare conclusions valid and objective

bull Clarity structure and quality of writing ndashdoes it communicate well

bull Sound logical progression of argument

bull Theoretical and practical implications (the lsquoso whatrsquo factors)

bull Recency and relevance of references

bull Adherence to the editorial scope and objectives of the journal

Preparing your paper-Structure

8

bull Follow a standard pattern

ndash Abstract

ndash Introduction

ndash Methods

ndash Results

ndash Discussion

ndash Conclusions

bull Use formal scientific style

bull Use a short pithy title that reflects the main conclusion

bull Abstracts should summarize the article briefly

ndash Include motivation what was done how what was found and major conclusions

ndash Avoid abbreviations and references unless absolutely necessary

ndash Keep it short lt250 words in one paragraph

bull The article should tell a story set out to lead from one section to the next

Preparing your paper-Format

9

Preparing your paper-Grammar

10

bull Grammar and punctuation are important because they are fundamental to transmission of meaning

ndash Poor grammar spelling and punctuation

ndash Lead to misinterpretations and ambiguities

ndash Give the impression of lack of care in preparation

ndash Suggest perhaps other aspects of the paper are careless

ndash Can upset some referees and make them more critical than otherwise

ndash Can be difficult to overcome but it is essential to do so

Preparing your paper-Grammar

11

bull Be sure to

ndash Write complete sentences not too long not too short

ndash Use commas properly

ndash Be consistent in the use of tenses

ndash Avoid slang colloquialisms and jargon

ndash Use no contractions ndashldquodonrsquot couldnrsquotrdquo

ndash Write in reasonably sized paragraphs

Preparing your paper-Clarity

12

bull To convey unambiguous meaning

bull write as simply as possible

bull use the correct words and terminology

bull avoid padding ldquoIt is noteworthy that in

this examplehelliprdquo

bull delete meaningless or weak words ndash

very quite shows possibly

bull ensure that pronouns ldquoit this those etcrdquo

are unambiguous

bull be consistent in the use of tenses

bull use ldquosignificantrdquo only in its statistical

sense

bull write in reasonably sized paragraphs

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

13

Copying (or modifying) ideas text tables or

figures from any source without explicitly

acknowledging that source deliberate or

not is plagiarism

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

14

bull Repeating ideas text tables or figures from your own published work without citing the source is self-plagiarism

bull To avoid plagiarism always cite your sources for paraphrased passages and place exact quotes inside quotation marks

bull Copied figures should cite the source in the legend (and may need copyright permissions)

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

15

Common pitfalls

16

Wrong journal

Dual publication

Bad preparation of MS

Weakly presented science

Localism

Lack of discussion

Insignificant conclusions

Poor response to reviews

Do you know

17

1 AHCI Arts and Humanities Citation Index

2 IF Impact Factor

3 ISI Institute for scientific Information

4 JCR Journal Citation Reports

5 SCI Science Citation Index

6 SSCI Social Sciences Citation Index

7 SJR SCImago Journal Rank

WHAT EDITORS AND REVIEWERS LOOK FOR IN A PAPER (CONT)

18

bull Checking the integrity

bull The title the purpose the answer and the recommendations

bull The listing sequence of information

bull The words and their relation to the type of the study

ndash Hypothesis paper (unknownproblematic) examine find out to test

ndash Descriptive paper define describe clarify

ndash Method paper develop design provide make manufacture offer

ndash Epidemiological paper report the incidenceprevalence find out

BEING PUBLISHED MEANS

19

bull Your paper is permanentndashpublished material enters a permanent and accessible knowledge archive ndashthe lsquobody of knowledgersquo

bull Your paper is improvedndashthrough the interventions of editors reviewers sub-editors and proof-readers

bull Your paper is actively promotedndashit becomes available to a far greater audience

bull Your writing is trustworthyndashmaterial which has been published carries a QA stamp

TYPES OF JOURNALS

20

bull Research journals

bull Scientific journals

bull Research scientific journals

bull News journals

bull News letters

bull Pamphlets

21

Selection Of A Journal

المكتبة األكاديمية جامعة ndashاإللكترونية

الملك سعود

22

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ScienceDirect)

الرقمية

23

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ProQuest Medline)

الرقمية

24

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (Web of Science)

الرقمية

25

26

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE SENDING THE PAPER

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE

SENDING THE PAPER

bull ldquoMany papers are rejected simply because they donrsquot fulfil journal requirements They donrsquot even go into the review processrdquo

bull Identify a few possible target journalsseries but be realistic

bull Follow the Author Guidelines mdash scope type of paper word lengthreferences style etc

bull Find where to send your paper (editor regional editor subject area editor) Check a copy of the journalseries or the publisherrsquos web site

bull Send an outline or abstract and ask if this looks suitable and interesting (or how it could be made so)

bull Confirm how an editor would like a submission eg e-mail hard copy

bull Read at least one issue of the publication mdash visit your library for access

27

ISI

bull HTTPTHOMDONTRUTERSCOMPRODUCTS_SERVICESSCIENCEFREEESSAYSJOURNAL_SELECTION_PROCESS

bull Thomson Scientific is a subsidiary of theThomson Group and is based inPhiladelphia USA

bull Thomson Scientificrsquos lsquolSl Web of Sciencersquodatabase scores 180000 selected journalswith lsquoImpactFactorsrsquo based on journal citations

bull The latest Thomson Scientific statisticswere published in June 2015 for the year2014

28

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 5: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

TYPES OF PAPERS

5

bull Original research

ndash Interventionalhypotheses testingexperimental paper

ndash Descriptive paper

ndash Method paper

ndash Epidemiological paper

bull Review article

bull Case report

bull Letter to the editor

bull Short communication

bull New perspectives

bull Editorials from the editor

WHAT IS CONSIDERED AS A PAPERARTICLE

6

bull A research which contributes to

ndash Pushing the frontiers of science a bit further

ndash Strengthening and confirming what is not well established

ndash looking at an issue from a new angle

ndash Proposing a newprevious technique for a particular purpose

ndash Wideningnarrowing the application of something

WHAT EDITORS AND REVIEWERS LOOK FOR

IN A PAPER

7

bull Originalityndashwhatrsquos new about subject treatment or results

bull Relevance to and extension of existing knowledge

bull Research methodology ndashare conclusions valid and objective

bull Clarity structure and quality of writing ndashdoes it communicate well

bull Sound logical progression of argument

bull Theoretical and practical implications (the lsquoso whatrsquo factors)

bull Recency and relevance of references

bull Adherence to the editorial scope and objectives of the journal

Preparing your paper-Structure

8

bull Follow a standard pattern

ndash Abstract

ndash Introduction

ndash Methods

ndash Results

ndash Discussion

ndash Conclusions

bull Use formal scientific style

bull Use a short pithy title that reflects the main conclusion

bull Abstracts should summarize the article briefly

ndash Include motivation what was done how what was found and major conclusions

ndash Avoid abbreviations and references unless absolutely necessary

ndash Keep it short lt250 words in one paragraph

bull The article should tell a story set out to lead from one section to the next

Preparing your paper-Format

9

Preparing your paper-Grammar

10

bull Grammar and punctuation are important because they are fundamental to transmission of meaning

ndash Poor grammar spelling and punctuation

ndash Lead to misinterpretations and ambiguities

ndash Give the impression of lack of care in preparation

ndash Suggest perhaps other aspects of the paper are careless

ndash Can upset some referees and make them more critical than otherwise

ndash Can be difficult to overcome but it is essential to do so

Preparing your paper-Grammar

11

bull Be sure to

ndash Write complete sentences not too long not too short

ndash Use commas properly

ndash Be consistent in the use of tenses

ndash Avoid slang colloquialisms and jargon

ndash Use no contractions ndashldquodonrsquot couldnrsquotrdquo

ndash Write in reasonably sized paragraphs

Preparing your paper-Clarity

12

bull To convey unambiguous meaning

bull write as simply as possible

bull use the correct words and terminology

bull avoid padding ldquoIt is noteworthy that in

this examplehelliprdquo

bull delete meaningless or weak words ndash

very quite shows possibly

bull ensure that pronouns ldquoit this those etcrdquo

are unambiguous

bull be consistent in the use of tenses

bull use ldquosignificantrdquo only in its statistical

sense

bull write in reasonably sized paragraphs

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

13

Copying (or modifying) ideas text tables or

figures from any source without explicitly

acknowledging that source deliberate or

not is plagiarism

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

14

bull Repeating ideas text tables or figures from your own published work without citing the source is self-plagiarism

bull To avoid plagiarism always cite your sources for paraphrased passages and place exact quotes inside quotation marks

bull Copied figures should cite the source in the legend (and may need copyright permissions)

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

15

Common pitfalls

16

Wrong journal

Dual publication

Bad preparation of MS

Weakly presented science

Localism

Lack of discussion

Insignificant conclusions

Poor response to reviews

Do you know

17

1 AHCI Arts and Humanities Citation Index

2 IF Impact Factor

3 ISI Institute for scientific Information

4 JCR Journal Citation Reports

5 SCI Science Citation Index

6 SSCI Social Sciences Citation Index

7 SJR SCImago Journal Rank

WHAT EDITORS AND REVIEWERS LOOK FOR IN A PAPER (CONT)

18

bull Checking the integrity

bull The title the purpose the answer and the recommendations

bull The listing sequence of information

bull The words and their relation to the type of the study

ndash Hypothesis paper (unknownproblematic) examine find out to test

ndash Descriptive paper define describe clarify

ndash Method paper develop design provide make manufacture offer

ndash Epidemiological paper report the incidenceprevalence find out

BEING PUBLISHED MEANS

19

bull Your paper is permanentndashpublished material enters a permanent and accessible knowledge archive ndashthe lsquobody of knowledgersquo

bull Your paper is improvedndashthrough the interventions of editors reviewers sub-editors and proof-readers

bull Your paper is actively promotedndashit becomes available to a far greater audience

bull Your writing is trustworthyndashmaterial which has been published carries a QA stamp

TYPES OF JOURNALS

20

bull Research journals

bull Scientific journals

bull Research scientific journals

bull News journals

bull News letters

bull Pamphlets

21

Selection Of A Journal

المكتبة األكاديمية جامعة ndashاإللكترونية

الملك سعود

22

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ScienceDirect)

الرقمية

23

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ProQuest Medline)

الرقمية

24

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (Web of Science)

الرقمية

25

26

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE SENDING THE PAPER

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE

SENDING THE PAPER

bull ldquoMany papers are rejected simply because they donrsquot fulfil journal requirements They donrsquot even go into the review processrdquo

bull Identify a few possible target journalsseries but be realistic

bull Follow the Author Guidelines mdash scope type of paper word lengthreferences style etc

bull Find where to send your paper (editor regional editor subject area editor) Check a copy of the journalseries or the publisherrsquos web site

bull Send an outline or abstract and ask if this looks suitable and interesting (or how it could be made so)

bull Confirm how an editor would like a submission eg e-mail hard copy

bull Read at least one issue of the publication mdash visit your library for access

27

ISI

bull HTTPTHOMDONTRUTERSCOMPRODUCTS_SERVICESSCIENCEFREEESSAYSJOURNAL_SELECTION_PROCESS

bull Thomson Scientific is a subsidiary of theThomson Group and is based inPhiladelphia USA

bull Thomson Scientificrsquos lsquolSl Web of Sciencersquodatabase scores 180000 selected journalswith lsquoImpactFactorsrsquo based on journal citations

bull The latest Thomson Scientific statisticswere published in June 2015 for the year2014

28

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 6: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

WHAT IS CONSIDERED AS A PAPERARTICLE

6

bull A research which contributes to

ndash Pushing the frontiers of science a bit further

ndash Strengthening and confirming what is not well established

ndash looking at an issue from a new angle

ndash Proposing a newprevious technique for a particular purpose

ndash Wideningnarrowing the application of something

WHAT EDITORS AND REVIEWERS LOOK FOR

IN A PAPER

7

bull Originalityndashwhatrsquos new about subject treatment or results

bull Relevance to and extension of existing knowledge

bull Research methodology ndashare conclusions valid and objective

bull Clarity structure and quality of writing ndashdoes it communicate well

bull Sound logical progression of argument

bull Theoretical and practical implications (the lsquoso whatrsquo factors)

bull Recency and relevance of references

bull Adherence to the editorial scope and objectives of the journal

Preparing your paper-Structure

8

bull Follow a standard pattern

ndash Abstract

ndash Introduction

ndash Methods

ndash Results

ndash Discussion

ndash Conclusions

bull Use formal scientific style

bull Use a short pithy title that reflects the main conclusion

bull Abstracts should summarize the article briefly

ndash Include motivation what was done how what was found and major conclusions

ndash Avoid abbreviations and references unless absolutely necessary

ndash Keep it short lt250 words in one paragraph

bull The article should tell a story set out to lead from one section to the next

Preparing your paper-Format

9

Preparing your paper-Grammar

10

bull Grammar and punctuation are important because they are fundamental to transmission of meaning

ndash Poor grammar spelling and punctuation

ndash Lead to misinterpretations and ambiguities

ndash Give the impression of lack of care in preparation

ndash Suggest perhaps other aspects of the paper are careless

ndash Can upset some referees and make them more critical than otherwise

ndash Can be difficult to overcome but it is essential to do so

Preparing your paper-Grammar

11

bull Be sure to

ndash Write complete sentences not too long not too short

ndash Use commas properly

ndash Be consistent in the use of tenses

ndash Avoid slang colloquialisms and jargon

ndash Use no contractions ndashldquodonrsquot couldnrsquotrdquo

ndash Write in reasonably sized paragraphs

Preparing your paper-Clarity

12

bull To convey unambiguous meaning

bull write as simply as possible

bull use the correct words and terminology

bull avoid padding ldquoIt is noteworthy that in

this examplehelliprdquo

bull delete meaningless or weak words ndash

very quite shows possibly

bull ensure that pronouns ldquoit this those etcrdquo

are unambiguous

bull be consistent in the use of tenses

bull use ldquosignificantrdquo only in its statistical

sense

bull write in reasonably sized paragraphs

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

13

Copying (or modifying) ideas text tables or

figures from any source without explicitly

acknowledging that source deliberate or

not is plagiarism

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

14

bull Repeating ideas text tables or figures from your own published work without citing the source is self-plagiarism

bull To avoid plagiarism always cite your sources for paraphrased passages and place exact quotes inside quotation marks

bull Copied figures should cite the source in the legend (and may need copyright permissions)

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

15

Common pitfalls

16

Wrong journal

Dual publication

Bad preparation of MS

Weakly presented science

Localism

Lack of discussion

Insignificant conclusions

Poor response to reviews

Do you know

17

1 AHCI Arts and Humanities Citation Index

2 IF Impact Factor

3 ISI Institute for scientific Information

4 JCR Journal Citation Reports

5 SCI Science Citation Index

6 SSCI Social Sciences Citation Index

7 SJR SCImago Journal Rank

WHAT EDITORS AND REVIEWERS LOOK FOR IN A PAPER (CONT)

18

bull Checking the integrity

bull The title the purpose the answer and the recommendations

bull The listing sequence of information

bull The words and their relation to the type of the study

ndash Hypothesis paper (unknownproblematic) examine find out to test

ndash Descriptive paper define describe clarify

ndash Method paper develop design provide make manufacture offer

ndash Epidemiological paper report the incidenceprevalence find out

BEING PUBLISHED MEANS

19

bull Your paper is permanentndashpublished material enters a permanent and accessible knowledge archive ndashthe lsquobody of knowledgersquo

bull Your paper is improvedndashthrough the interventions of editors reviewers sub-editors and proof-readers

bull Your paper is actively promotedndashit becomes available to a far greater audience

bull Your writing is trustworthyndashmaterial which has been published carries a QA stamp

TYPES OF JOURNALS

20

bull Research journals

bull Scientific journals

bull Research scientific journals

bull News journals

bull News letters

bull Pamphlets

21

Selection Of A Journal

المكتبة األكاديمية جامعة ndashاإللكترونية

الملك سعود

22

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ScienceDirect)

الرقمية

23

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ProQuest Medline)

الرقمية

24

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (Web of Science)

الرقمية

25

26

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE SENDING THE PAPER

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE

SENDING THE PAPER

bull ldquoMany papers are rejected simply because they donrsquot fulfil journal requirements They donrsquot even go into the review processrdquo

bull Identify a few possible target journalsseries but be realistic

bull Follow the Author Guidelines mdash scope type of paper word lengthreferences style etc

bull Find where to send your paper (editor regional editor subject area editor) Check a copy of the journalseries or the publisherrsquos web site

bull Send an outline or abstract and ask if this looks suitable and interesting (or how it could be made so)

bull Confirm how an editor would like a submission eg e-mail hard copy

bull Read at least one issue of the publication mdash visit your library for access

27

ISI

bull HTTPTHOMDONTRUTERSCOMPRODUCTS_SERVICESSCIENCEFREEESSAYSJOURNAL_SELECTION_PROCESS

bull Thomson Scientific is a subsidiary of theThomson Group and is based inPhiladelphia USA

bull Thomson Scientificrsquos lsquolSl Web of Sciencersquodatabase scores 180000 selected journalswith lsquoImpactFactorsrsquo based on journal citations

bull The latest Thomson Scientific statisticswere published in June 2015 for the year2014

28

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 7: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

WHAT EDITORS AND REVIEWERS LOOK FOR

IN A PAPER

7

bull Originalityndashwhatrsquos new about subject treatment or results

bull Relevance to and extension of existing knowledge

bull Research methodology ndashare conclusions valid and objective

bull Clarity structure and quality of writing ndashdoes it communicate well

bull Sound logical progression of argument

bull Theoretical and practical implications (the lsquoso whatrsquo factors)

bull Recency and relevance of references

bull Adherence to the editorial scope and objectives of the journal

Preparing your paper-Structure

8

bull Follow a standard pattern

ndash Abstract

ndash Introduction

ndash Methods

ndash Results

ndash Discussion

ndash Conclusions

bull Use formal scientific style

bull Use a short pithy title that reflects the main conclusion

bull Abstracts should summarize the article briefly

ndash Include motivation what was done how what was found and major conclusions

ndash Avoid abbreviations and references unless absolutely necessary

ndash Keep it short lt250 words in one paragraph

bull The article should tell a story set out to lead from one section to the next

Preparing your paper-Format

9

Preparing your paper-Grammar

10

bull Grammar and punctuation are important because they are fundamental to transmission of meaning

ndash Poor grammar spelling and punctuation

ndash Lead to misinterpretations and ambiguities

ndash Give the impression of lack of care in preparation

ndash Suggest perhaps other aspects of the paper are careless

ndash Can upset some referees and make them more critical than otherwise

ndash Can be difficult to overcome but it is essential to do so

Preparing your paper-Grammar

11

bull Be sure to

ndash Write complete sentences not too long not too short

ndash Use commas properly

ndash Be consistent in the use of tenses

ndash Avoid slang colloquialisms and jargon

ndash Use no contractions ndashldquodonrsquot couldnrsquotrdquo

ndash Write in reasonably sized paragraphs

Preparing your paper-Clarity

12

bull To convey unambiguous meaning

bull write as simply as possible

bull use the correct words and terminology

bull avoid padding ldquoIt is noteworthy that in

this examplehelliprdquo

bull delete meaningless or weak words ndash

very quite shows possibly

bull ensure that pronouns ldquoit this those etcrdquo

are unambiguous

bull be consistent in the use of tenses

bull use ldquosignificantrdquo only in its statistical

sense

bull write in reasonably sized paragraphs

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

13

Copying (or modifying) ideas text tables or

figures from any source without explicitly

acknowledging that source deliberate or

not is plagiarism

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

14

bull Repeating ideas text tables or figures from your own published work without citing the source is self-plagiarism

bull To avoid plagiarism always cite your sources for paraphrased passages and place exact quotes inside quotation marks

bull Copied figures should cite the source in the legend (and may need copyright permissions)

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

15

Common pitfalls

16

Wrong journal

Dual publication

Bad preparation of MS

Weakly presented science

Localism

Lack of discussion

Insignificant conclusions

Poor response to reviews

Do you know

17

1 AHCI Arts and Humanities Citation Index

2 IF Impact Factor

3 ISI Institute for scientific Information

4 JCR Journal Citation Reports

5 SCI Science Citation Index

6 SSCI Social Sciences Citation Index

7 SJR SCImago Journal Rank

WHAT EDITORS AND REVIEWERS LOOK FOR IN A PAPER (CONT)

18

bull Checking the integrity

bull The title the purpose the answer and the recommendations

bull The listing sequence of information

bull The words and their relation to the type of the study

ndash Hypothesis paper (unknownproblematic) examine find out to test

ndash Descriptive paper define describe clarify

ndash Method paper develop design provide make manufacture offer

ndash Epidemiological paper report the incidenceprevalence find out

BEING PUBLISHED MEANS

19

bull Your paper is permanentndashpublished material enters a permanent and accessible knowledge archive ndashthe lsquobody of knowledgersquo

bull Your paper is improvedndashthrough the interventions of editors reviewers sub-editors and proof-readers

bull Your paper is actively promotedndashit becomes available to a far greater audience

bull Your writing is trustworthyndashmaterial which has been published carries a QA stamp

TYPES OF JOURNALS

20

bull Research journals

bull Scientific journals

bull Research scientific journals

bull News journals

bull News letters

bull Pamphlets

21

Selection Of A Journal

المكتبة األكاديمية جامعة ndashاإللكترونية

الملك سعود

22

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ScienceDirect)

الرقمية

23

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ProQuest Medline)

الرقمية

24

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (Web of Science)

الرقمية

25

26

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE SENDING THE PAPER

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE

SENDING THE PAPER

bull ldquoMany papers are rejected simply because they donrsquot fulfil journal requirements They donrsquot even go into the review processrdquo

bull Identify a few possible target journalsseries but be realistic

bull Follow the Author Guidelines mdash scope type of paper word lengthreferences style etc

bull Find where to send your paper (editor regional editor subject area editor) Check a copy of the journalseries or the publisherrsquos web site

bull Send an outline or abstract and ask if this looks suitable and interesting (or how it could be made so)

bull Confirm how an editor would like a submission eg e-mail hard copy

bull Read at least one issue of the publication mdash visit your library for access

27

ISI

bull HTTPTHOMDONTRUTERSCOMPRODUCTS_SERVICESSCIENCEFREEESSAYSJOURNAL_SELECTION_PROCESS

bull Thomson Scientific is a subsidiary of theThomson Group and is based inPhiladelphia USA

bull Thomson Scientificrsquos lsquolSl Web of Sciencersquodatabase scores 180000 selected journalswith lsquoImpactFactorsrsquo based on journal citations

bull The latest Thomson Scientific statisticswere published in June 2015 for the year2014

28

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 8: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

Preparing your paper-Structure

8

bull Follow a standard pattern

ndash Abstract

ndash Introduction

ndash Methods

ndash Results

ndash Discussion

ndash Conclusions

bull Use formal scientific style

bull Use a short pithy title that reflects the main conclusion

bull Abstracts should summarize the article briefly

ndash Include motivation what was done how what was found and major conclusions

ndash Avoid abbreviations and references unless absolutely necessary

ndash Keep it short lt250 words in one paragraph

bull The article should tell a story set out to lead from one section to the next

Preparing your paper-Format

9

Preparing your paper-Grammar

10

bull Grammar and punctuation are important because they are fundamental to transmission of meaning

ndash Poor grammar spelling and punctuation

ndash Lead to misinterpretations and ambiguities

ndash Give the impression of lack of care in preparation

ndash Suggest perhaps other aspects of the paper are careless

ndash Can upset some referees and make them more critical than otherwise

ndash Can be difficult to overcome but it is essential to do so

Preparing your paper-Grammar

11

bull Be sure to

ndash Write complete sentences not too long not too short

ndash Use commas properly

ndash Be consistent in the use of tenses

ndash Avoid slang colloquialisms and jargon

ndash Use no contractions ndashldquodonrsquot couldnrsquotrdquo

ndash Write in reasonably sized paragraphs

Preparing your paper-Clarity

12

bull To convey unambiguous meaning

bull write as simply as possible

bull use the correct words and terminology

bull avoid padding ldquoIt is noteworthy that in

this examplehelliprdquo

bull delete meaningless or weak words ndash

very quite shows possibly

bull ensure that pronouns ldquoit this those etcrdquo

are unambiguous

bull be consistent in the use of tenses

bull use ldquosignificantrdquo only in its statistical

sense

bull write in reasonably sized paragraphs

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

13

Copying (or modifying) ideas text tables or

figures from any source without explicitly

acknowledging that source deliberate or

not is plagiarism

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

14

bull Repeating ideas text tables or figures from your own published work without citing the source is self-plagiarism

bull To avoid plagiarism always cite your sources for paraphrased passages and place exact quotes inside quotation marks

bull Copied figures should cite the source in the legend (and may need copyright permissions)

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

15

Common pitfalls

16

Wrong journal

Dual publication

Bad preparation of MS

Weakly presented science

Localism

Lack of discussion

Insignificant conclusions

Poor response to reviews

Do you know

17

1 AHCI Arts and Humanities Citation Index

2 IF Impact Factor

3 ISI Institute for scientific Information

4 JCR Journal Citation Reports

5 SCI Science Citation Index

6 SSCI Social Sciences Citation Index

7 SJR SCImago Journal Rank

WHAT EDITORS AND REVIEWERS LOOK FOR IN A PAPER (CONT)

18

bull Checking the integrity

bull The title the purpose the answer and the recommendations

bull The listing sequence of information

bull The words and their relation to the type of the study

ndash Hypothesis paper (unknownproblematic) examine find out to test

ndash Descriptive paper define describe clarify

ndash Method paper develop design provide make manufacture offer

ndash Epidemiological paper report the incidenceprevalence find out

BEING PUBLISHED MEANS

19

bull Your paper is permanentndashpublished material enters a permanent and accessible knowledge archive ndashthe lsquobody of knowledgersquo

bull Your paper is improvedndashthrough the interventions of editors reviewers sub-editors and proof-readers

bull Your paper is actively promotedndashit becomes available to a far greater audience

bull Your writing is trustworthyndashmaterial which has been published carries a QA stamp

TYPES OF JOURNALS

20

bull Research journals

bull Scientific journals

bull Research scientific journals

bull News journals

bull News letters

bull Pamphlets

21

Selection Of A Journal

المكتبة األكاديمية جامعة ndashاإللكترونية

الملك سعود

22

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ScienceDirect)

الرقمية

23

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ProQuest Medline)

الرقمية

24

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (Web of Science)

الرقمية

25

26

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE SENDING THE PAPER

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE

SENDING THE PAPER

bull ldquoMany papers are rejected simply because they donrsquot fulfil journal requirements They donrsquot even go into the review processrdquo

bull Identify a few possible target journalsseries but be realistic

bull Follow the Author Guidelines mdash scope type of paper word lengthreferences style etc

bull Find where to send your paper (editor regional editor subject area editor) Check a copy of the journalseries or the publisherrsquos web site

bull Send an outline or abstract and ask if this looks suitable and interesting (or how it could be made so)

bull Confirm how an editor would like a submission eg e-mail hard copy

bull Read at least one issue of the publication mdash visit your library for access

27

ISI

bull HTTPTHOMDONTRUTERSCOMPRODUCTS_SERVICESSCIENCEFREEESSAYSJOURNAL_SELECTION_PROCESS

bull Thomson Scientific is a subsidiary of theThomson Group and is based inPhiladelphia USA

bull Thomson Scientificrsquos lsquolSl Web of Sciencersquodatabase scores 180000 selected journalswith lsquoImpactFactorsrsquo based on journal citations

bull The latest Thomson Scientific statisticswere published in June 2015 for the year2014

28

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 9: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

Preparing your paper-Format

9

Preparing your paper-Grammar

10

bull Grammar and punctuation are important because they are fundamental to transmission of meaning

ndash Poor grammar spelling and punctuation

ndash Lead to misinterpretations and ambiguities

ndash Give the impression of lack of care in preparation

ndash Suggest perhaps other aspects of the paper are careless

ndash Can upset some referees and make them more critical than otherwise

ndash Can be difficult to overcome but it is essential to do so

Preparing your paper-Grammar

11

bull Be sure to

ndash Write complete sentences not too long not too short

ndash Use commas properly

ndash Be consistent in the use of tenses

ndash Avoid slang colloquialisms and jargon

ndash Use no contractions ndashldquodonrsquot couldnrsquotrdquo

ndash Write in reasonably sized paragraphs

Preparing your paper-Clarity

12

bull To convey unambiguous meaning

bull write as simply as possible

bull use the correct words and terminology

bull avoid padding ldquoIt is noteworthy that in

this examplehelliprdquo

bull delete meaningless or weak words ndash

very quite shows possibly

bull ensure that pronouns ldquoit this those etcrdquo

are unambiguous

bull be consistent in the use of tenses

bull use ldquosignificantrdquo only in its statistical

sense

bull write in reasonably sized paragraphs

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

13

Copying (or modifying) ideas text tables or

figures from any source without explicitly

acknowledging that source deliberate or

not is plagiarism

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

14

bull Repeating ideas text tables or figures from your own published work without citing the source is self-plagiarism

bull To avoid plagiarism always cite your sources for paraphrased passages and place exact quotes inside quotation marks

bull Copied figures should cite the source in the legend (and may need copyright permissions)

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

15

Common pitfalls

16

Wrong journal

Dual publication

Bad preparation of MS

Weakly presented science

Localism

Lack of discussion

Insignificant conclusions

Poor response to reviews

Do you know

17

1 AHCI Arts and Humanities Citation Index

2 IF Impact Factor

3 ISI Institute for scientific Information

4 JCR Journal Citation Reports

5 SCI Science Citation Index

6 SSCI Social Sciences Citation Index

7 SJR SCImago Journal Rank

WHAT EDITORS AND REVIEWERS LOOK FOR IN A PAPER (CONT)

18

bull Checking the integrity

bull The title the purpose the answer and the recommendations

bull The listing sequence of information

bull The words and their relation to the type of the study

ndash Hypothesis paper (unknownproblematic) examine find out to test

ndash Descriptive paper define describe clarify

ndash Method paper develop design provide make manufacture offer

ndash Epidemiological paper report the incidenceprevalence find out

BEING PUBLISHED MEANS

19

bull Your paper is permanentndashpublished material enters a permanent and accessible knowledge archive ndashthe lsquobody of knowledgersquo

bull Your paper is improvedndashthrough the interventions of editors reviewers sub-editors and proof-readers

bull Your paper is actively promotedndashit becomes available to a far greater audience

bull Your writing is trustworthyndashmaterial which has been published carries a QA stamp

TYPES OF JOURNALS

20

bull Research journals

bull Scientific journals

bull Research scientific journals

bull News journals

bull News letters

bull Pamphlets

21

Selection Of A Journal

المكتبة األكاديمية جامعة ndashاإللكترونية

الملك سعود

22

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ScienceDirect)

الرقمية

23

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ProQuest Medline)

الرقمية

24

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (Web of Science)

الرقمية

25

26

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE SENDING THE PAPER

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE

SENDING THE PAPER

bull ldquoMany papers are rejected simply because they donrsquot fulfil journal requirements They donrsquot even go into the review processrdquo

bull Identify a few possible target journalsseries but be realistic

bull Follow the Author Guidelines mdash scope type of paper word lengthreferences style etc

bull Find where to send your paper (editor regional editor subject area editor) Check a copy of the journalseries or the publisherrsquos web site

bull Send an outline or abstract and ask if this looks suitable and interesting (or how it could be made so)

bull Confirm how an editor would like a submission eg e-mail hard copy

bull Read at least one issue of the publication mdash visit your library for access

27

ISI

bull HTTPTHOMDONTRUTERSCOMPRODUCTS_SERVICESSCIENCEFREEESSAYSJOURNAL_SELECTION_PROCESS

bull Thomson Scientific is a subsidiary of theThomson Group and is based inPhiladelphia USA

bull Thomson Scientificrsquos lsquolSl Web of Sciencersquodatabase scores 180000 selected journalswith lsquoImpactFactorsrsquo based on journal citations

bull The latest Thomson Scientific statisticswere published in June 2015 for the year2014

28

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 10: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

Preparing your paper-Grammar

10

bull Grammar and punctuation are important because they are fundamental to transmission of meaning

ndash Poor grammar spelling and punctuation

ndash Lead to misinterpretations and ambiguities

ndash Give the impression of lack of care in preparation

ndash Suggest perhaps other aspects of the paper are careless

ndash Can upset some referees and make them more critical than otherwise

ndash Can be difficult to overcome but it is essential to do so

Preparing your paper-Grammar

11

bull Be sure to

ndash Write complete sentences not too long not too short

ndash Use commas properly

ndash Be consistent in the use of tenses

ndash Avoid slang colloquialisms and jargon

ndash Use no contractions ndashldquodonrsquot couldnrsquotrdquo

ndash Write in reasonably sized paragraphs

Preparing your paper-Clarity

12

bull To convey unambiguous meaning

bull write as simply as possible

bull use the correct words and terminology

bull avoid padding ldquoIt is noteworthy that in

this examplehelliprdquo

bull delete meaningless or weak words ndash

very quite shows possibly

bull ensure that pronouns ldquoit this those etcrdquo

are unambiguous

bull be consistent in the use of tenses

bull use ldquosignificantrdquo only in its statistical

sense

bull write in reasonably sized paragraphs

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

13

Copying (or modifying) ideas text tables or

figures from any source without explicitly

acknowledging that source deliberate or

not is plagiarism

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

14

bull Repeating ideas text tables or figures from your own published work without citing the source is self-plagiarism

bull To avoid plagiarism always cite your sources for paraphrased passages and place exact quotes inside quotation marks

bull Copied figures should cite the source in the legend (and may need copyright permissions)

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

15

Common pitfalls

16

Wrong journal

Dual publication

Bad preparation of MS

Weakly presented science

Localism

Lack of discussion

Insignificant conclusions

Poor response to reviews

Do you know

17

1 AHCI Arts and Humanities Citation Index

2 IF Impact Factor

3 ISI Institute for scientific Information

4 JCR Journal Citation Reports

5 SCI Science Citation Index

6 SSCI Social Sciences Citation Index

7 SJR SCImago Journal Rank

WHAT EDITORS AND REVIEWERS LOOK FOR IN A PAPER (CONT)

18

bull Checking the integrity

bull The title the purpose the answer and the recommendations

bull The listing sequence of information

bull The words and their relation to the type of the study

ndash Hypothesis paper (unknownproblematic) examine find out to test

ndash Descriptive paper define describe clarify

ndash Method paper develop design provide make manufacture offer

ndash Epidemiological paper report the incidenceprevalence find out

BEING PUBLISHED MEANS

19

bull Your paper is permanentndashpublished material enters a permanent and accessible knowledge archive ndashthe lsquobody of knowledgersquo

bull Your paper is improvedndashthrough the interventions of editors reviewers sub-editors and proof-readers

bull Your paper is actively promotedndashit becomes available to a far greater audience

bull Your writing is trustworthyndashmaterial which has been published carries a QA stamp

TYPES OF JOURNALS

20

bull Research journals

bull Scientific journals

bull Research scientific journals

bull News journals

bull News letters

bull Pamphlets

21

Selection Of A Journal

المكتبة األكاديمية جامعة ndashاإللكترونية

الملك سعود

22

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ScienceDirect)

الرقمية

23

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ProQuest Medline)

الرقمية

24

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (Web of Science)

الرقمية

25

26

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE SENDING THE PAPER

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE

SENDING THE PAPER

bull ldquoMany papers are rejected simply because they donrsquot fulfil journal requirements They donrsquot even go into the review processrdquo

bull Identify a few possible target journalsseries but be realistic

bull Follow the Author Guidelines mdash scope type of paper word lengthreferences style etc

bull Find where to send your paper (editor regional editor subject area editor) Check a copy of the journalseries or the publisherrsquos web site

bull Send an outline or abstract and ask if this looks suitable and interesting (or how it could be made so)

bull Confirm how an editor would like a submission eg e-mail hard copy

bull Read at least one issue of the publication mdash visit your library for access

27

ISI

bull HTTPTHOMDONTRUTERSCOMPRODUCTS_SERVICESSCIENCEFREEESSAYSJOURNAL_SELECTION_PROCESS

bull Thomson Scientific is a subsidiary of theThomson Group and is based inPhiladelphia USA

bull Thomson Scientificrsquos lsquolSl Web of Sciencersquodatabase scores 180000 selected journalswith lsquoImpactFactorsrsquo based on journal citations

bull The latest Thomson Scientific statisticswere published in June 2015 for the year2014

28

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 11: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

Preparing your paper-Grammar

11

bull Be sure to

ndash Write complete sentences not too long not too short

ndash Use commas properly

ndash Be consistent in the use of tenses

ndash Avoid slang colloquialisms and jargon

ndash Use no contractions ndashldquodonrsquot couldnrsquotrdquo

ndash Write in reasonably sized paragraphs

Preparing your paper-Clarity

12

bull To convey unambiguous meaning

bull write as simply as possible

bull use the correct words and terminology

bull avoid padding ldquoIt is noteworthy that in

this examplehelliprdquo

bull delete meaningless or weak words ndash

very quite shows possibly

bull ensure that pronouns ldquoit this those etcrdquo

are unambiguous

bull be consistent in the use of tenses

bull use ldquosignificantrdquo only in its statistical

sense

bull write in reasonably sized paragraphs

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

13

Copying (or modifying) ideas text tables or

figures from any source without explicitly

acknowledging that source deliberate or

not is plagiarism

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

14

bull Repeating ideas text tables or figures from your own published work without citing the source is self-plagiarism

bull To avoid plagiarism always cite your sources for paraphrased passages and place exact quotes inside quotation marks

bull Copied figures should cite the source in the legend (and may need copyright permissions)

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

15

Common pitfalls

16

Wrong journal

Dual publication

Bad preparation of MS

Weakly presented science

Localism

Lack of discussion

Insignificant conclusions

Poor response to reviews

Do you know

17

1 AHCI Arts and Humanities Citation Index

2 IF Impact Factor

3 ISI Institute for scientific Information

4 JCR Journal Citation Reports

5 SCI Science Citation Index

6 SSCI Social Sciences Citation Index

7 SJR SCImago Journal Rank

WHAT EDITORS AND REVIEWERS LOOK FOR IN A PAPER (CONT)

18

bull Checking the integrity

bull The title the purpose the answer and the recommendations

bull The listing sequence of information

bull The words and their relation to the type of the study

ndash Hypothesis paper (unknownproblematic) examine find out to test

ndash Descriptive paper define describe clarify

ndash Method paper develop design provide make manufacture offer

ndash Epidemiological paper report the incidenceprevalence find out

BEING PUBLISHED MEANS

19

bull Your paper is permanentndashpublished material enters a permanent and accessible knowledge archive ndashthe lsquobody of knowledgersquo

bull Your paper is improvedndashthrough the interventions of editors reviewers sub-editors and proof-readers

bull Your paper is actively promotedndashit becomes available to a far greater audience

bull Your writing is trustworthyndashmaterial which has been published carries a QA stamp

TYPES OF JOURNALS

20

bull Research journals

bull Scientific journals

bull Research scientific journals

bull News journals

bull News letters

bull Pamphlets

21

Selection Of A Journal

المكتبة األكاديمية جامعة ndashاإللكترونية

الملك سعود

22

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ScienceDirect)

الرقمية

23

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ProQuest Medline)

الرقمية

24

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (Web of Science)

الرقمية

25

26

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE SENDING THE PAPER

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE

SENDING THE PAPER

bull ldquoMany papers are rejected simply because they donrsquot fulfil journal requirements They donrsquot even go into the review processrdquo

bull Identify a few possible target journalsseries but be realistic

bull Follow the Author Guidelines mdash scope type of paper word lengthreferences style etc

bull Find where to send your paper (editor regional editor subject area editor) Check a copy of the journalseries or the publisherrsquos web site

bull Send an outline or abstract and ask if this looks suitable and interesting (or how it could be made so)

bull Confirm how an editor would like a submission eg e-mail hard copy

bull Read at least one issue of the publication mdash visit your library for access

27

ISI

bull HTTPTHOMDONTRUTERSCOMPRODUCTS_SERVICESSCIENCEFREEESSAYSJOURNAL_SELECTION_PROCESS

bull Thomson Scientific is a subsidiary of theThomson Group and is based inPhiladelphia USA

bull Thomson Scientificrsquos lsquolSl Web of Sciencersquodatabase scores 180000 selected journalswith lsquoImpactFactorsrsquo based on journal citations

bull The latest Thomson Scientific statisticswere published in June 2015 for the year2014

28

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 12: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

Preparing your paper-Clarity

12

bull To convey unambiguous meaning

bull write as simply as possible

bull use the correct words and terminology

bull avoid padding ldquoIt is noteworthy that in

this examplehelliprdquo

bull delete meaningless or weak words ndash

very quite shows possibly

bull ensure that pronouns ldquoit this those etcrdquo

are unambiguous

bull be consistent in the use of tenses

bull use ldquosignificantrdquo only in its statistical

sense

bull write in reasonably sized paragraphs

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

13

Copying (or modifying) ideas text tables or

figures from any source without explicitly

acknowledging that source deliberate or

not is plagiarism

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

14

bull Repeating ideas text tables or figures from your own published work without citing the source is self-plagiarism

bull To avoid plagiarism always cite your sources for paraphrased passages and place exact quotes inside quotation marks

bull Copied figures should cite the source in the legend (and may need copyright permissions)

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

15

Common pitfalls

16

Wrong journal

Dual publication

Bad preparation of MS

Weakly presented science

Localism

Lack of discussion

Insignificant conclusions

Poor response to reviews

Do you know

17

1 AHCI Arts and Humanities Citation Index

2 IF Impact Factor

3 ISI Institute for scientific Information

4 JCR Journal Citation Reports

5 SCI Science Citation Index

6 SSCI Social Sciences Citation Index

7 SJR SCImago Journal Rank

WHAT EDITORS AND REVIEWERS LOOK FOR IN A PAPER (CONT)

18

bull Checking the integrity

bull The title the purpose the answer and the recommendations

bull The listing sequence of information

bull The words and their relation to the type of the study

ndash Hypothesis paper (unknownproblematic) examine find out to test

ndash Descriptive paper define describe clarify

ndash Method paper develop design provide make manufacture offer

ndash Epidemiological paper report the incidenceprevalence find out

BEING PUBLISHED MEANS

19

bull Your paper is permanentndashpublished material enters a permanent and accessible knowledge archive ndashthe lsquobody of knowledgersquo

bull Your paper is improvedndashthrough the interventions of editors reviewers sub-editors and proof-readers

bull Your paper is actively promotedndashit becomes available to a far greater audience

bull Your writing is trustworthyndashmaterial which has been published carries a QA stamp

TYPES OF JOURNALS

20

bull Research journals

bull Scientific journals

bull Research scientific journals

bull News journals

bull News letters

bull Pamphlets

21

Selection Of A Journal

المكتبة األكاديمية جامعة ndashاإللكترونية

الملك سعود

22

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ScienceDirect)

الرقمية

23

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ProQuest Medline)

الرقمية

24

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (Web of Science)

الرقمية

25

26

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE SENDING THE PAPER

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE

SENDING THE PAPER

bull ldquoMany papers are rejected simply because they donrsquot fulfil journal requirements They donrsquot even go into the review processrdquo

bull Identify a few possible target journalsseries but be realistic

bull Follow the Author Guidelines mdash scope type of paper word lengthreferences style etc

bull Find where to send your paper (editor regional editor subject area editor) Check a copy of the journalseries or the publisherrsquos web site

bull Send an outline or abstract and ask if this looks suitable and interesting (or how it could be made so)

bull Confirm how an editor would like a submission eg e-mail hard copy

bull Read at least one issue of the publication mdash visit your library for access

27

ISI

bull HTTPTHOMDONTRUTERSCOMPRODUCTS_SERVICESSCIENCEFREEESSAYSJOURNAL_SELECTION_PROCESS

bull Thomson Scientific is a subsidiary of theThomson Group and is based inPhiladelphia USA

bull Thomson Scientificrsquos lsquolSl Web of Sciencersquodatabase scores 180000 selected journalswith lsquoImpactFactorsrsquo based on journal citations

bull The latest Thomson Scientific statisticswere published in June 2015 for the year2014

28

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 13: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

13

Copying (or modifying) ideas text tables or

figures from any source without explicitly

acknowledging that source deliberate or

not is plagiarism

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

14

bull Repeating ideas text tables or figures from your own published work without citing the source is self-plagiarism

bull To avoid plagiarism always cite your sources for paraphrased passages and place exact quotes inside quotation marks

bull Copied figures should cite the source in the legend (and may need copyright permissions)

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

15

Common pitfalls

16

Wrong journal

Dual publication

Bad preparation of MS

Weakly presented science

Localism

Lack of discussion

Insignificant conclusions

Poor response to reviews

Do you know

17

1 AHCI Arts and Humanities Citation Index

2 IF Impact Factor

3 ISI Institute for scientific Information

4 JCR Journal Citation Reports

5 SCI Science Citation Index

6 SSCI Social Sciences Citation Index

7 SJR SCImago Journal Rank

WHAT EDITORS AND REVIEWERS LOOK FOR IN A PAPER (CONT)

18

bull Checking the integrity

bull The title the purpose the answer and the recommendations

bull The listing sequence of information

bull The words and their relation to the type of the study

ndash Hypothesis paper (unknownproblematic) examine find out to test

ndash Descriptive paper define describe clarify

ndash Method paper develop design provide make manufacture offer

ndash Epidemiological paper report the incidenceprevalence find out

BEING PUBLISHED MEANS

19

bull Your paper is permanentndashpublished material enters a permanent and accessible knowledge archive ndashthe lsquobody of knowledgersquo

bull Your paper is improvedndashthrough the interventions of editors reviewers sub-editors and proof-readers

bull Your paper is actively promotedndashit becomes available to a far greater audience

bull Your writing is trustworthyndashmaterial which has been published carries a QA stamp

TYPES OF JOURNALS

20

bull Research journals

bull Scientific journals

bull Research scientific journals

bull News journals

bull News letters

bull Pamphlets

21

Selection Of A Journal

المكتبة األكاديمية جامعة ndashاإللكترونية

الملك سعود

22

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ScienceDirect)

الرقمية

23

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ProQuest Medline)

الرقمية

24

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (Web of Science)

الرقمية

25

26

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE SENDING THE PAPER

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE

SENDING THE PAPER

bull ldquoMany papers are rejected simply because they donrsquot fulfil journal requirements They donrsquot even go into the review processrdquo

bull Identify a few possible target journalsseries but be realistic

bull Follow the Author Guidelines mdash scope type of paper word lengthreferences style etc

bull Find where to send your paper (editor regional editor subject area editor) Check a copy of the journalseries or the publisherrsquos web site

bull Send an outline or abstract and ask if this looks suitable and interesting (or how it could be made so)

bull Confirm how an editor would like a submission eg e-mail hard copy

bull Read at least one issue of the publication mdash visit your library for access

27

ISI

bull HTTPTHOMDONTRUTERSCOMPRODUCTS_SERVICESSCIENCEFREEESSAYSJOURNAL_SELECTION_PROCESS

bull Thomson Scientific is a subsidiary of theThomson Group and is based inPhiladelphia USA

bull Thomson Scientificrsquos lsquolSl Web of Sciencersquodatabase scores 180000 selected journalswith lsquoImpactFactorsrsquo based on journal citations

bull The latest Thomson Scientific statisticswere published in June 2015 for the year2014

28

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 14: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

14

bull Repeating ideas text tables or figures from your own published work without citing the source is self-plagiarism

bull To avoid plagiarism always cite your sources for paraphrased passages and place exact quotes inside quotation marks

bull Copied figures should cite the source in the legend (and may need copyright permissions)

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

15

Common pitfalls

16

Wrong journal

Dual publication

Bad preparation of MS

Weakly presented science

Localism

Lack of discussion

Insignificant conclusions

Poor response to reviews

Do you know

17

1 AHCI Arts and Humanities Citation Index

2 IF Impact Factor

3 ISI Institute for scientific Information

4 JCR Journal Citation Reports

5 SCI Science Citation Index

6 SSCI Social Sciences Citation Index

7 SJR SCImago Journal Rank

WHAT EDITORS AND REVIEWERS LOOK FOR IN A PAPER (CONT)

18

bull Checking the integrity

bull The title the purpose the answer and the recommendations

bull The listing sequence of information

bull The words and their relation to the type of the study

ndash Hypothesis paper (unknownproblematic) examine find out to test

ndash Descriptive paper define describe clarify

ndash Method paper develop design provide make manufacture offer

ndash Epidemiological paper report the incidenceprevalence find out

BEING PUBLISHED MEANS

19

bull Your paper is permanentndashpublished material enters a permanent and accessible knowledge archive ndashthe lsquobody of knowledgersquo

bull Your paper is improvedndashthrough the interventions of editors reviewers sub-editors and proof-readers

bull Your paper is actively promotedndashit becomes available to a far greater audience

bull Your writing is trustworthyndashmaterial which has been published carries a QA stamp

TYPES OF JOURNALS

20

bull Research journals

bull Scientific journals

bull Research scientific journals

bull News journals

bull News letters

bull Pamphlets

21

Selection Of A Journal

المكتبة األكاديمية جامعة ndashاإللكترونية

الملك سعود

22

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ScienceDirect)

الرقمية

23

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ProQuest Medline)

الرقمية

24

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (Web of Science)

الرقمية

25

26

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE SENDING THE PAPER

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE

SENDING THE PAPER

bull ldquoMany papers are rejected simply because they donrsquot fulfil journal requirements They donrsquot even go into the review processrdquo

bull Identify a few possible target journalsseries but be realistic

bull Follow the Author Guidelines mdash scope type of paper word lengthreferences style etc

bull Find where to send your paper (editor regional editor subject area editor) Check a copy of the journalseries or the publisherrsquos web site

bull Send an outline or abstract and ask if this looks suitable and interesting (or how it could be made so)

bull Confirm how an editor would like a submission eg e-mail hard copy

bull Read at least one issue of the publication mdash visit your library for access

27

ISI

bull HTTPTHOMDONTRUTERSCOMPRODUCTS_SERVICESSCIENCEFREEESSAYSJOURNAL_SELECTION_PROCESS

bull Thomson Scientific is a subsidiary of theThomson Group and is based inPhiladelphia USA

bull Thomson Scientificrsquos lsquolSl Web of Sciencersquodatabase scores 180000 selected journalswith lsquoImpactFactorsrsquo based on journal citations

bull The latest Thomson Scientific statisticswere published in June 2015 for the year2014

28

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 15: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

Plagiarism self-plagiarism and dual

publication

15

Common pitfalls

16

Wrong journal

Dual publication

Bad preparation of MS

Weakly presented science

Localism

Lack of discussion

Insignificant conclusions

Poor response to reviews

Do you know

17

1 AHCI Arts and Humanities Citation Index

2 IF Impact Factor

3 ISI Institute for scientific Information

4 JCR Journal Citation Reports

5 SCI Science Citation Index

6 SSCI Social Sciences Citation Index

7 SJR SCImago Journal Rank

WHAT EDITORS AND REVIEWERS LOOK FOR IN A PAPER (CONT)

18

bull Checking the integrity

bull The title the purpose the answer and the recommendations

bull The listing sequence of information

bull The words and their relation to the type of the study

ndash Hypothesis paper (unknownproblematic) examine find out to test

ndash Descriptive paper define describe clarify

ndash Method paper develop design provide make manufacture offer

ndash Epidemiological paper report the incidenceprevalence find out

BEING PUBLISHED MEANS

19

bull Your paper is permanentndashpublished material enters a permanent and accessible knowledge archive ndashthe lsquobody of knowledgersquo

bull Your paper is improvedndashthrough the interventions of editors reviewers sub-editors and proof-readers

bull Your paper is actively promotedndashit becomes available to a far greater audience

bull Your writing is trustworthyndashmaterial which has been published carries a QA stamp

TYPES OF JOURNALS

20

bull Research journals

bull Scientific journals

bull Research scientific journals

bull News journals

bull News letters

bull Pamphlets

21

Selection Of A Journal

المكتبة األكاديمية جامعة ndashاإللكترونية

الملك سعود

22

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ScienceDirect)

الرقمية

23

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ProQuest Medline)

الرقمية

24

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (Web of Science)

الرقمية

25

26

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE SENDING THE PAPER

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE

SENDING THE PAPER

bull ldquoMany papers are rejected simply because they donrsquot fulfil journal requirements They donrsquot even go into the review processrdquo

bull Identify a few possible target journalsseries but be realistic

bull Follow the Author Guidelines mdash scope type of paper word lengthreferences style etc

bull Find where to send your paper (editor regional editor subject area editor) Check a copy of the journalseries or the publisherrsquos web site

bull Send an outline or abstract and ask if this looks suitable and interesting (or how it could be made so)

bull Confirm how an editor would like a submission eg e-mail hard copy

bull Read at least one issue of the publication mdash visit your library for access

27

ISI

bull HTTPTHOMDONTRUTERSCOMPRODUCTS_SERVICESSCIENCEFREEESSAYSJOURNAL_SELECTION_PROCESS

bull Thomson Scientific is a subsidiary of theThomson Group and is based inPhiladelphia USA

bull Thomson Scientificrsquos lsquolSl Web of Sciencersquodatabase scores 180000 selected journalswith lsquoImpactFactorsrsquo based on journal citations

bull The latest Thomson Scientific statisticswere published in June 2015 for the year2014

28

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 16: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

Common pitfalls

16

Wrong journal

Dual publication

Bad preparation of MS

Weakly presented science

Localism

Lack of discussion

Insignificant conclusions

Poor response to reviews

Do you know

17

1 AHCI Arts and Humanities Citation Index

2 IF Impact Factor

3 ISI Institute for scientific Information

4 JCR Journal Citation Reports

5 SCI Science Citation Index

6 SSCI Social Sciences Citation Index

7 SJR SCImago Journal Rank

WHAT EDITORS AND REVIEWERS LOOK FOR IN A PAPER (CONT)

18

bull Checking the integrity

bull The title the purpose the answer and the recommendations

bull The listing sequence of information

bull The words and their relation to the type of the study

ndash Hypothesis paper (unknownproblematic) examine find out to test

ndash Descriptive paper define describe clarify

ndash Method paper develop design provide make manufacture offer

ndash Epidemiological paper report the incidenceprevalence find out

BEING PUBLISHED MEANS

19

bull Your paper is permanentndashpublished material enters a permanent and accessible knowledge archive ndashthe lsquobody of knowledgersquo

bull Your paper is improvedndashthrough the interventions of editors reviewers sub-editors and proof-readers

bull Your paper is actively promotedndashit becomes available to a far greater audience

bull Your writing is trustworthyndashmaterial which has been published carries a QA stamp

TYPES OF JOURNALS

20

bull Research journals

bull Scientific journals

bull Research scientific journals

bull News journals

bull News letters

bull Pamphlets

21

Selection Of A Journal

المكتبة األكاديمية جامعة ndashاإللكترونية

الملك سعود

22

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ScienceDirect)

الرقمية

23

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ProQuest Medline)

الرقمية

24

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (Web of Science)

الرقمية

25

26

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE SENDING THE PAPER

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE

SENDING THE PAPER

bull ldquoMany papers are rejected simply because they donrsquot fulfil journal requirements They donrsquot even go into the review processrdquo

bull Identify a few possible target journalsseries but be realistic

bull Follow the Author Guidelines mdash scope type of paper word lengthreferences style etc

bull Find where to send your paper (editor regional editor subject area editor) Check a copy of the journalseries or the publisherrsquos web site

bull Send an outline or abstract and ask if this looks suitable and interesting (or how it could be made so)

bull Confirm how an editor would like a submission eg e-mail hard copy

bull Read at least one issue of the publication mdash visit your library for access

27

ISI

bull HTTPTHOMDONTRUTERSCOMPRODUCTS_SERVICESSCIENCEFREEESSAYSJOURNAL_SELECTION_PROCESS

bull Thomson Scientific is a subsidiary of theThomson Group and is based inPhiladelphia USA

bull Thomson Scientificrsquos lsquolSl Web of Sciencersquodatabase scores 180000 selected journalswith lsquoImpactFactorsrsquo based on journal citations

bull The latest Thomson Scientific statisticswere published in June 2015 for the year2014

28

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 17: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

Do you know

17

1 AHCI Arts and Humanities Citation Index

2 IF Impact Factor

3 ISI Institute for scientific Information

4 JCR Journal Citation Reports

5 SCI Science Citation Index

6 SSCI Social Sciences Citation Index

7 SJR SCImago Journal Rank

WHAT EDITORS AND REVIEWERS LOOK FOR IN A PAPER (CONT)

18

bull Checking the integrity

bull The title the purpose the answer and the recommendations

bull The listing sequence of information

bull The words and their relation to the type of the study

ndash Hypothesis paper (unknownproblematic) examine find out to test

ndash Descriptive paper define describe clarify

ndash Method paper develop design provide make manufacture offer

ndash Epidemiological paper report the incidenceprevalence find out

BEING PUBLISHED MEANS

19

bull Your paper is permanentndashpublished material enters a permanent and accessible knowledge archive ndashthe lsquobody of knowledgersquo

bull Your paper is improvedndashthrough the interventions of editors reviewers sub-editors and proof-readers

bull Your paper is actively promotedndashit becomes available to a far greater audience

bull Your writing is trustworthyndashmaterial which has been published carries a QA stamp

TYPES OF JOURNALS

20

bull Research journals

bull Scientific journals

bull Research scientific journals

bull News journals

bull News letters

bull Pamphlets

21

Selection Of A Journal

المكتبة األكاديمية جامعة ndashاإللكترونية

الملك سعود

22

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ScienceDirect)

الرقمية

23

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ProQuest Medline)

الرقمية

24

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (Web of Science)

الرقمية

25

26

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE SENDING THE PAPER

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE

SENDING THE PAPER

bull ldquoMany papers are rejected simply because they donrsquot fulfil journal requirements They donrsquot even go into the review processrdquo

bull Identify a few possible target journalsseries but be realistic

bull Follow the Author Guidelines mdash scope type of paper word lengthreferences style etc

bull Find where to send your paper (editor regional editor subject area editor) Check a copy of the journalseries or the publisherrsquos web site

bull Send an outline or abstract and ask if this looks suitable and interesting (or how it could be made so)

bull Confirm how an editor would like a submission eg e-mail hard copy

bull Read at least one issue of the publication mdash visit your library for access

27

ISI

bull HTTPTHOMDONTRUTERSCOMPRODUCTS_SERVICESSCIENCEFREEESSAYSJOURNAL_SELECTION_PROCESS

bull Thomson Scientific is a subsidiary of theThomson Group and is based inPhiladelphia USA

bull Thomson Scientificrsquos lsquolSl Web of Sciencersquodatabase scores 180000 selected journalswith lsquoImpactFactorsrsquo based on journal citations

bull The latest Thomson Scientific statisticswere published in June 2015 for the year2014

28

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 18: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

WHAT EDITORS AND REVIEWERS LOOK FOR IN A PAPER (CONT)

18

bull Checking the integrity

bull The title the purpose the answer and the recommendations

bull The listing sequence of information

bull The words and their relation to the type of the study

ndash Hypothesis paper (unknownproblematic) examine find out to test

ndash Descriptive paper define describe clarify

ndash Method paper develop design provide make manufacture offer

ndash Epidemiological paper report the incidenceprevalence find out

BEING PUBLISHED MEANS

19

bull Your paper is permanentndashpublished material enters a permanent and accessible knowledge archive ndashthe lsquobody of knowledgersquo

bull Your paper is improvedndashthrough the interventions of editors reviewers sub-editors and proof-readers

bull Your paper is actively promotedndashit becomes available to a far greater audience

bull Your writing is trustworthyndashmaterial which has been published carries a QA stamp

TYPES OF JOURNALS

20

bull Research journals

bull Scientific journals

bull Research scientific journals

bull News journals

bull News letters

bull Pamphlets

21

Selection Of A Journal

المكتبة األكاديمية جامعة ndashاإللكترونية

الملك سعود

22

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ScienceDirect)

الرقمية

23

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ProQuest Medline)

الرقمية

24

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (Web of Science)

الرقمية

25

26

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE SENDING THE PAPER

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE

SENDING THE PAPER

bull ldquoMany papers are rejected simply because they donrsquot fulfil journal requirements They donrsquot even go into the review processrdquo

bull Identify a few possible target journalsseries but be realistic

bull Follow the Author Guidelines mdash scope type of paper word lengthreferences style etc

bull Find where to send your paper (editor regional editor subject area editor) Check a copy of the journalseries or the publisherrsquos web site

bull Send an outline or abstract and ask if this looks suitable and interesting (or how it could be made so)

bull Confirm how an editor would like a submission eg e-mail hard copy

bull Read at least one issue of the publication mdash visit your library for access

27

ISI

bull HTTPTHOMDONTRUTERSCOMPRODUCTS_SERVICESSCIENCEFREEESSAYSJOURNAL_SELECTION_PROCESS

bull Thomson Scientific is a subsidiary of theThomson Group and is based inPhiladelphia USA

bull Thomson Scientificrsquos lsquolSl Web of Sciencersquodatabase scores 180000 selected journalswith lsquoImpactFactorsrsquo based on journal citations

bull The latest Thomson Scientific statisticswere published in June 2015 for the year2014

28

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 19: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

BEING PUBLISHED MEANS

19

bull Your paper is permanentndashpublished material enters a permanent and accessible knowledge archive ndashthe lsquobody of knowledgersquo

bull Your paper is improvedndashthrough the interventions of editors reviewers sub-editors and proof-readers

bull Your paper is actively promotedndashit becomes available to a far greater audience

bull Your writing is trustworthyndashmaterial which has been published carries a QA stamp

TYPES OF JOURNALS

20

bull Research journals

bull Scientific journals

bull Research scientific journals

bull News journals

bull News letters

bull Pamphlets

21

Selection Of A Journal

المكتبة األكاديمية جامعة ndashاإللكترونية

الملك سعود

22

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ScienceDirect)

الرقمية

23

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ProQuest Medline)

الرقمية

24

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (Web of Science)

الرقمية

25

26

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE SENDING THE PAPER

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE

SENDING THE PAPER

bull ldquoMany papers are rejected simply because they donrsquot fulfil journal requirements They donrsquot even go into the review processrdquo

bull Identify a few possible target journalsseries but be realistic

bull Follow the Author Guidelines mdash scope type of paper word lengthreferences style etc

bull Find where to send your paper (editor regional editor subject area editor) Check a copy of the journalseries or the publisherrsquos web site

bull Send an outline or abstract and ask if this looks suitable and interesting (or how it could be made so)

bull Confirm how an editor would like a submission eg e-mail hard copy

bull Read at least one issue of the publication mdash visit your library for access

27

ISI

bull HTTPTHOMDONTRUTERSCOMPRODUCTS_SERVICESSCIENCEFREEESSAYSJOURNAL_SELECTION_PROCESS

bull Thomson Scientific is a subsidiary of theThomson Group and is based inPhiladelphia USA

bull Thomson Scientificrsquos lsquolSl Web of Sciencersquodatabase scores 180000 selected journalswith lsquoImpactFactorsrsquo based on journal citations

bull The latest Thomson Scientific statisticswere published in June 2015 for the year2014

28

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 20: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

TYPES OF JOURNALS

20

bull Research journals

bull Scientific journals

bull Research scientific journals

bull News journals

bull News letters

bull Pamphlets

21

Selection Of A Journal

المكتبة األكاديمية جامعة ndashاإللكترونية

الملك سعود

22

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ScienceDirect)

الرقمية

23

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ProQuest Medline)

الرقمية

24

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (Web of Science)

الرقمية

25

26

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE SENDING THE PAPER

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE

SENDING THE PAPER

bull ldquoMany papers are rejected simply because they donrsquot fulfil journal requirements They donrsquot even go into the review processrdquo

bull Identify a few possible target journalsseries but be realistic

bull Follow the Author Guidelines mdash scope type of paper word lengthreferences style etc

bull Find where to send your paper (editor regional editor subject area editor) Check a copy of the journalseries or the publisherrsquos web site

bull Send an outline or abstract and ask if this looks suitable and interesting (or how it could be made so)

bull Confirm how an editor would like a submission eg e-mail hard copy

bull Read at least one issue of the publication mdash visit your library for access

27

ISI

bull HTTPTHOMDONTRUTERSCOMPRODUCTS_SERVICESSCIENCEFREEESSAYSJOURNAL_SELECTION_PROCESS

bull Thomson Scientific is a subsidiary of theThomson Group and is based inPhiladelphia USA

bull Thomson Scientificrsquos lsquolSl Web of Sciencersquodatabase scores 180000 selected journalswith lsquoImpactFactorsrsquo based on journal citations

bull The latest Thomson Scientific statisticswere published in June 2015 for the year2014

28

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 21: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

21

Selection Of A Journal

المكتبة األكاديمية جامعة ndashاإللكترونية

الملك سعود

22

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ScienceDirect)

الرقمية

23

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ProQuest Medline)

الرقمية

24

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (Web of Science)

الرقمية

25

26

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE SENDING THE PAPER

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE

SENDING THE PAPER

bull ldquoMany papers are rejected simply because they donrsquot fulfil journal requirements They donrsquot even go into the review processrdquo

bull Identify a few possible target journalsseries but be realistic

bull Follow the Author Guidelines mdash scope type of paper word lengthreferences style etc

bull Find where to send your paper (editor regional editor subject area editor) Check a copy of the journalseries or the publisherrsquos web site

bull Send an outline or abstract and ask if this looks suitable and interesting (or how it could be made so)

bull Confirm how an editor would like a submission eg e-mail hard copy

bull Read at least one issue of the publication mdash visit your library for access

27

ISI

bull HTTPTHOMDONTRUTERSCOMPRODUCTS_SERVICESSCIENCEFREEESSAYSJOURNAL_SELECTION_PROCESS

bull Thomson Scientific is a subsidiary of theThomson Group and is based inPhiladelphia USA

bull Thomson Scientificrsquos lsquolSl Web of Sciencersquodatabase scores 180000 selected journalswith lsquoImpactFactorsrsquo based on journal citations

bull The latest Thomson Scientific statisticswere published in June 2015 for the year2014

28

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 22: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

المكتبة األكاديمية جامعة ndashاإللكترونية

الملك سعود

22

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ScienceDirect)

الرقمية

23

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ProQuest Medline)

الرقمية

24

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (Web of Science)

الرقمية

25

26

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE SENDING THE PAPER

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE

SENDING THE PAPER

bull ldquoMany papers are rejected simply because they donrsquot fulfil journal requirements They donrsquot even go into the review processrdquo

bull Identify a few possible target journalsseries but be realistic

bull Follow the Author Guidelines mdash scope type of paper word lengthreferences style etc

bull Find where to send your paper (editor regional editor subject area editor) Check a copy of the journalseries or the publisherrsquos web site

bull Send an outline or abstract and ask if this looks suitable and interesting (or how it could be made so)

bull Confirm how an editor would like a submission eg e-mail hard copy

bull Read at least one issue of the publication mdash visit your library for access

27

ISI

bull HTTPTHOMDONTRUTERSCOMPRODUCTS_SERVICESSCIENCEFREEESSAYSJOURNAL_SELECTION_PROCESS

bull Thomson Scientific is a subsidiary of theThomson Group and is based inPhiladelphia USA

bull Thomson Scientificrsquos lsquolSl Web of Sciencersquodatabase scores 180000 selected journalswith lsquoImpactFactorsrsquo based on journal citations

bull The latest Thomson Scientific statisticswere published in June 2015 for the year2014

28

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 23: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ScienceDirect)

الرقمية

23

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ProQuest Medline)

الرقمية

24

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (Web of Science)

الرقمية

25

26

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE SENDING THE PAPER

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE

SENDING THE PAPER

bull ldquoMany papers are rejected simply because they donrsquot fulfil journal requirements They donrsquot even go into the review processrdquo

bull Identify a few possible target journalsseries but be realistic

bull Follow the Author Guidelines mdash scope type of paper word lengthreferences style etc

bull Find where to send your paper (editor regional editor subject area editor) Check a copy of the journalseries or the publisherrsquos web site

bull Send an outline or abstract and ask if this looks suitable and interesting (or how it could be made so)

bull Confirm how an editor would like a submission eg e-mail hard copy

bull Read at least one issue of the publication mdash visit your library for access

27

ISI

bull HTTPTHOMDONTRUTERSCOMPRODUCTS_SERVICESSCIENCEFREEESSAYSJOURNAL_SELECTION_PROCESS

bull Thomson Scientific is a subsidiary of theThomson Group and is based inPhiladelphia USA

bull Thomson Scientificrsquos lsquolSl Web of Sciencersquodatabase scores 180000 selected journalswith lsquoImpactFactorsrsquo based on journal citations

bull The latest Thomson Scientific statisticswere published in June 2015 for the year2014

28

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 24: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (ProQuest Medline)

الرقمية

24

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (Web of Science)

الرقمية

25

26

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE SENDING THE PAPER

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE

SENDING THE PAPER

bull ldquoMany papers are rejected simply because they donrsquot fulfil journal requirements They donrsquot even go into the review processrdquo

bull Identify a few possible target journalsseries but be realistic

bull Follow the Author Guidelines mdash scope type of paper word lengthreferences style etc

bull Find where to send your paper (editor regional editor subject area editor) Check a copy of the journalseries or the publisherrsquos web site

bull Send an outline or abstract and ask if this looks suitable and interesting (or how it could be made so)

bull Confirm how an editor would like a submission eg e-mail hard copy

bull Read at least one issue of the publication mdash visit your library for access

27

ISI

bull HTTPTHOMDONTRUTERSCOMPRODUCTS_SERVICESSCIENCEFREEESSAYSJOURNAL_SELECTION_PROCESS

bull Thomson Scientific is a subsidiary of theThomson Group and is based inPhiladelphia USA

bull Thomson Scientificrsquos lsquolSl Web of Sciencersquodatabase scores 180000 selected journalswith lsquoImpactFactorsrsquo based on journal citations

bull The latest Thomson Scientific statisticswere published in June 2015 for the year2014

28

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 25: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

بيانات قاعدة واجهة (Web of Science)

الرقمية

25

26

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE SENDING THE PAPER

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE

SENDING THE PAPER

bull ldquoMany papers are rejected simply because they donrsquot fulfil journal requirements They donrsquot even go into the review processrdquo

bull Identify a few possible target journalsseries but be realistic

bull Follow the Author Guidelines mdash scope type of paper word lengthreferences style etc

bull Find where to send your paper (editor regional editor subject area editor) Check a copy of the journalseries or the publisherrsquos web site

bull Send an outline or abstract and ask if this looks suitable and interesting (or how it could be made so)

bull Confirm how an editor would like a submission eg e-mail hard copy

bull Read at least one issue of the publication mdash visit your library for access

27

ISI

bull HTTPTHOMDONTRUTERSCOMPRODUCTS_SERVICESSCIENCEFREEESSAYSJOURNAL_SELECTION_PROCESS

bull Thomson Scientific is a subsidiary of theThomson Group and is based inPhiladelphia USA

bull Thomson Scientificrsquos lsquolSl Web of Sciencersquodatabase scores 180000 selected journalswith lsquoImpactFactorsrsquo based on journal citations

bull The latest Thomson Scientific statisticswere published in June 2015 for the year2014

28

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 26: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

26

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE SENDING THE PAPER

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE

SENDING THE PAPER

bull ldquoMany papers are rejected simply because they donrsquot fulfil journal requirements They donrsquot even go into the review processrdquo

bull Identify a few possible target journalsseries but be realistic

bull Follow the Author Guidelines mdash scope type of paper word lengthreferences style etc

bull Find where to send your paper (editor regional editor subject area editor) Check a copy of the journalseries or the publisherrsquos web site

bull Send an outline or abstract and ask if this looks suitable and interesting (or how it could be made so)

bull Confirm how an editor would like a submission eg e-mail hard copy

bull Read at least one issue of the publication mdash visit your library for access

27

ISI

bull HTTPTHOMDONTRUTERSCOMPRODUCTS_SERVICESSCIENCEFREEESSAYSJOURNAL_SELECTION_PROCESS

bull Thomson Scientific is a subsidiary of theThomson Group and is based inPhiladelphia USA

bull Thomson Scientificrsquos lsquolSl Web of Sciencersquodatabase scores 180000 selected journalswith lsquoImpactFactorsrsquo based on journal citations

bull The latest Thomson Scientific statisticswere published in June 2015 for the year2014

28

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 27: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS BEFORE

SENDING THE PAPER

bull ldquoMany papers are rejected simply because they donrsquot fulfil journal requirements They donrsquot even go into the review processrdquo

bull Identify a few possible target journalsseries but be realistic

bull Follow the Author Guidelines mdash scope type of paper word lengthreferences style etc

bull Find where to send your paper (editor regional editor subject area editor) Check a copy of the journalseries or the publisherrsquos web site

bull Send an outline or abstract and ask if this looks suitable and interesting (or how it could be made so)

bull Confirm how an editor would like a submission eg e-mail hard copy

bull Read at least one issue of the publication mdash visit your library for access

27

ISI

bull HTTPTHOMDONTRUTERSCOMPRODUCTS_SERVICESSCIENCEFREEESSAYSJOURNAL_SELECTION_PROCESS

bull Thomson Scientific is a subsidiary of theThomson Group and is based inPhiladelphia USA

bull Thomson Scientificrsquos lsquolSl Web of Sciencersquodatabase scores 180000 selected journalswith lsquoImpactFactorsrsquo based on journal citations

bull The latest Thomson Scientific statisticswere published in June 2015 for the year2014

28

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 28: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

ISI

bull HTTPTHOMDONTRUTERSCOMPRODUCTS_SERVICESSCIENCEFREEESSAYSJOURNAL_SELECTION_PROCESS

bull Thomson Scientific is a subsidiary of theThomson Group and is based inPhiladelphia USA

bull Thomson Scientificrsquos lsquolSl Web of Sciencersquodatabase scores 180000 selected journalswith lsquoImpactFactorsrsquo based on journal citations

bull The latest Thomson Scientific statisticswere published in June 2015 for the year2014

28

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 29: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

ISI (Cont)

bull What is commonly referred to by academics as lsquolSlrsquolsquoSSClrsquo or lsquoImpact Factorsrsquo is actually Thomson Reuters now and more specifically its lsquoJournal Citation Reportsrsquo (JCR)

bull These reports index and rank the journals it has on its lsquolSl Web of Knowledgersquo and is a collection of bibliographic information of over 9000 evaluated scholarly journals

bull Journals are ranked in the JCR depending on how many times the articles included in that journal are cited in other lSl-ranked journals The ranking is published every June andcorresponds to the previous yearrsquos data

bull lSl uses a calculation of citation data over a three year period to produce an Impact Factor for a given year

29

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 30: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

bull Saudi Arabia have a humble number of 10 journals and goodlsquo IF rate (3725)

30

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 31: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

For More GO TO

bull U ARAB EMIRATES (38 journals)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(4295)

bull United States (2910)httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL(1448)

bull India (100) httpadminappswebofknowledgecomJCRJCRRQ=LIST_SUMMARY_JOURNAL (2203)

31

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 32: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

1 Contrasted Scientific Quality

bull Peer reviewed

bull High Impact Factor

bull Scientific editorial committee

2 Contrasted formal Quality

bull Celerity of process

bull Priority of discovering assigned

bull Accomplish publication time release

3 Appropriated field of knowledge covered

32

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 33: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

HOW TO EVALUATE

JOURNAL IMPORTANT

POINTS

4 Wide dissemination over scientific information channels

5 Types of works accepted

6 Copyright issues

ndash Owned by editorial

ndash Owned by author

7 Fees

ndash Author fee

ndash Subscription fee

ndash Free

33

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 34: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

Follow Academic Publishing Steps (I)

1 Author submits manuscript to an academic journal editor

2 Editor determines if the manuscript has sufficient merit to be reviewed

3 If merit manuscript is sent to reviewers if not is sent back to the author with a rejection letter

4 Reviewers return the manuscript to the editor with comments and recommendations

5 Editor sends manuscript back to the author with either a rejection letter or a request for revisions

34

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 35: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

SUBMITTING A SCIENTIFIC

CONTRIBUTION THE

PROCESS

6 Author revises manuscript and resubmits to editor

7 Editor sends revised manuscript back to external reviewers again

8 Repeat steps 4 and 5

9 Author provides editing or proofing of final copy before

10Paper is eventually published in journal

35

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 36: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

IMPORTANT POINT

If you are asked to choose a peerreviewer

bull Be fair

bull Choose someone in your field speciallysomeone in the references

bull Not someone in your count

36

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 37: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

IMPORTANT POINT (Cont)

bull Use of the Digital Object Identifier

bull The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication

bull The assigned DOI never changesTherefore it is an ideal medium for citing a document particularly Articles in pressrsquobecause they have not yet received their full bibliographic information The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows

bull When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web they are guaranteed never to change 37

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 38: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

REVISING THE PAPER

bull Acknowledge the editor and set a revision deadline

bull Clarify understanding if in doubtmdashlsquoThis is what I understand the comments to meanrsquo

bull Consult with colleagues or co-authors and tend to the points as requested

bull Meet the revision deadline

bull Attach a covering letter which identifies point by point how revision requests have been met (or If not why not)

38

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 39: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

THE LETTER FOR REVISION

[EXAMPLE]

Dear editor

I would appreciate the revisions done by the reviewer on my manuscript titled ldquothe effect of X on Y in Z l have followed all the comments and revised the manuscript which is attached The revisions are as follow

1 The title is changed into ldquothe effect of X on Y in Zrdquo and the word comparison is omitted

2 line one in the introduction is changed into ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

3 In line 10 the word ldquomodifiedrdquo is changed into altered as revised by the reviewer

4 In Line 11 the ambiguous sentence was deleted and replaced by the following sentences ldquoCCCCCCCCrdquo

5 In line 16 Sentenceldquo CCCCC was added to clarify the idea

6 In line 18 of the methodology the justification for the selection of the participants was added

7 In line 22 ldquoCCCCCrdquo was added to justify the method and explicit the reason for the selection of the method

8 I am afraid the change suggested by the reviewer in line 35 was not confirmed by the co-authors for thefollowing reasons

ndash Aaaaaaa

ndash Bbbbbb

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience

Sincerely yours

Hanan Alkorashy

39

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 40: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE

PAPER IS REJECTED

40

bull Ask why and listen carefullyMost editors will give detailed comments about a rejected paper Take a deep breath and listen to what is being said

bull Try againTry to improve the paper and re-submit elsewhere Do your homework and target your paper as closely as possible

bull Donrsquot give upAt least 50 of papers in business and management donrsquot get published Everybody has been rejected at least once

bull Keep trying

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 41: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

Dear EditorEnclosed please find a copy of mymanuscript titled ldquothe effect of X in Y in Zrdquofor publication in your accredited journallsquoAmerican yThe justification for the publication in youraccredited journal is that123This submission is original not underconsideration for publication elsewhereand we are aware of the Submissionprocess and guidelines and agree to itspublicationSincerely yoursHanan Alkorashy 41

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 42: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

bull All authors are requested to disclose anyactual or potential conflict of interestincluding any financial personal or otherrelationships with other people ororganizations within three years ofbeginning the submitted work that couldinappropriately influence or beperceived to influence their work

42

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 43: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Example Statement

Dear Editor

All the authors confirm that there is no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately Influence or be perceived to in influence their work

Hanan Alkorashy

Correspondent author

43

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 44: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

Reference Style

bull Text All citations in the text should refer to

1 Single author the authors name (without initials unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication

2 Two authors both authorsrsquo names and the year of publication

3 Three or more authors first authors name followedalrsquo and the year of publication Citations may be made d(or parenthetically) Groups of references should be l alphabetically then chronologically

bull List References should be arranged first alphabetically further sorted chronologically i necessary More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year identified by the letters a b c etc placed after the publication

44

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 45: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

Examples

bull ChhokarJSWal|injA I984 Improving safetythrough applied behavior analysisjournal of SafetyResearc l5 I4I-I5I

bull CookTD Campbell DT Peracchio L I990 Quasiexperimentation In DunnettejD Hou h LM (Eds)Handbook of industrial and OrganizationalPsychology pp 49 | - 76 Consulting PsychologistsPress Palo Alto CA

bull Hale AR Hovden J I998 Management and culturethe third age of safetyA review of approaches toorganizational aspects of safety health andenvironment InWiIIiamsonA FeyerA-M (Eds)Occupational Injury Risk [j Prevention andInjuryTaylor amp Francis

bull Harborview Medical Center Injury Prevention andResearch Center I997 Systematic Reviews ofChildhood Injury Prevention Interventionshttpweberuwashigtonedu_hipricindex_lefthtml(Oct 22 I997)

bull Lipsey MW I990 Design ensitivity Sage PublicationsNewbury Park CA Harvard styleAPACitationMethods-1pdf 45

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 46: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE

bull Journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations httpwwwnlmnihgovtsdserialsljihtml

bull List of serial title word abbreviations httpwwwissnorg2-22661-LTWA-onlinephpCAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) httpwwwcasorgsenthtml

46

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 47: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

47

ldquoAs we have just five mins left

I will take just 3 million questionsrdquo

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر

Page 48: How to publish in an isi journal  حنان القرشي

48

مع تحيات

وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي

لألقسام النسائية

حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر