How to publish in an isi journal حنان القرشي
Transcript of 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
48
مع تحيات
وكالة عمادة البحث العلمي
لألقسام النسائية
حقوق النسخ محفوظه للمحاضر