文档介绍：How to get published in a Western Journal
Prof. Dr. Malcolm W. Kennedy
Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences
University of Glasgow
UK - Glasgow, Scottland, G12 8QQ United
Kingdom
Immunisation against smallpox
Moveable type printing
Circumnavigating the world
Science and discovery in China
Chinese science in ‘Nature’
Palaeontology
Virus evolution
Food plant genomics
Anthropology – Han migrations
Science in China
“The annual National Geographic Survey discovered the sad fact that only 23 out of 56 young A*******s knew the whereabouts of the Pacific Ocean”
What you are up against …
Ignaz Semmelweis (1818 – 1865)
1847 – discovered contagious nature of puerperal fever and use of antiseptic
1850 – lectures on the discovery
1861 – book & polemical response
1865 – nervous breakdown and death
Choosing a journal
Language – does it have to be in English?
Appropriate to your field – does it matter?
Impact factors – who cares?
Who will find my article?
Getting published
Do something new and interesting
Do something challenging – get noticed!
If you think some (Western?!) ideas are wrong – don’t be afraid to do the experiments to show it!
Design and analyse experiments rigorously
Do the proper controls
Remember, technology is a tool, not science itself
First, do good science!
Choosing a journal
Who are your intended audience?
Multidisciplinary journal?
Specialist?
Related field with more widely read journals?
Be safe – but who will read it?
Be brave – you might get lucky, you will learn something, and will make yourself write better.
Balance time expended with the potential reward.
Choosing a journal - Will it be found and read widely?
What institutions will have it in their libraries?
- Paper
- Online
Will electronic databases list it?
- ISI - selective
- Medline, etc.?
- Google
The impact factor is calculated by dividing the number of current citations to articles published in the two previous years by the total number of articles publi