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Introduction To Scientific Journals: by Faisal Muhammad

This document provides an introduction to scientific journals. It explains that scholarly journals are peer-reviewed publications that promote new discoveries across many disciplines. Articles in scientific journals are highly technical and contain an abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion, and conclusions sections. The quality of a journal is determined by its impact factor, which is a calculation of citations received by the journal's publications over a two year period. The document outlines the steps for publishing in a scientific journal and describes common types of manuscripts such as research articles and reviews. It also includes examples of impact factors and citations for some prominent journals.

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Introduction To Scientific Journals: by Faisal Muhammad

This document provides an introduction to scientific journals. It explains that scholarly journals are peer-reviewed publications that promote new discoveries across many disciplines. Articles in scientific journals are highly technical and contain an abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion, and conclusions sections. The quality of a journal is determined by its impact factor, which is a calculation of citations received by the journal's publications over a two year period. The document outlines the steps for publishing in a scientific journal and describes common types of manuscripts such as research articles and reviews. It also includes examples of impact factors and citations for some prominent journals.

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Introduction to Scientific

Journals

By
Faisal Muhammad

Thursday, May 23, 2019


Scholarly Journals
• Are periodical publication, peer reviewed academic journals to promote
science and report new discoveries in wide range of disciplines.
• Articles are highly technical, compact and dense e.g. Nature, Science
etc.
• Generally a research article contains “an abstract, Introduction (including
background for the research), methods, results, discussion, and finally
the conclusions”.
• Quality of a journal will be checked through its impact factor.

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Impact Factor

• Impact factor is a rough estimate to check the quality of a journal.


• The higher the impact factor, the more highly ranked the journal.

IF 2018 = All citations received in 2018 to any content published in 2016-17


Number of items published in that journal in 2016-17

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6 steps to publishing in a scientific journal

• Do no rush submitting your article for publication.


• Select an appropriate journal.
• Read aims, scope and author guidelines of the targeted journal.
• Make a first good impression with the title and abstract.
• Submit a cover letter with the manuscript.
• Address reviewer comments very carefully.

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Types of journal manuscripts

1. Research articles
2. Reviews (narrative & systematic)
3. Letters
4. Case study

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Nature, Impact Factor 2010-2017
44

42

40

38

36

34

32
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

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Nature (total cites vs external cites)

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Nature: cited vs uncited documents

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Science, Impact Factor 2010-2017
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
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Science (total cites vs external cites)

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Science: cited vs uncited documents

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Nature Geoscience, Impact Factor 2010-2017
16

14

12

10

0
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

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Nature Geoscience (total cites vs external cites)

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Nature Geoscience: cited vs uncited documents

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Earth & Planetary Sciences Letters, Impact Factor 2010-2017
4.8
4.7
4.6
4.5
4.4
4.3
4.2
4.1
4
3.9
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

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EPSL (total cites vs external cites)

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EPSL: cited vs uncited documents

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