CSIEME Program: Research and Publications

• Evaluating Sources, things to consider:
  • author, publication date, methods, analysis
  • conceptual/theoretical framework
  • interplay between sources/ awareness of the scholarly conversation
  • journal quality/impact
• Organization over time
  • getting and staying organized
  • calendaring for scholarship projects
    • ideas, in progress, submissions, revise and resubmits, acceptances, rejections
     

Manage Your Digital Presence And Reputation

• Select and use tools like Mendeley and ORCID to manage your professional online presence.
• Use metrics-based tools to determine journal quality and select publication venues. 

Learn More About Tools For Evaluating Impact:

• Understand bibliometrics and altmetrics.
• Use tools such as Journal Citation Reports, Essential Science Indicators (InCites), and Google Metrics.

Learn more at the Scholarly Impact For Graduate Students page from UNLV Libraries.

From https://www.editage.com/insights/peer-review-process-and-editorial-decision-making-at-journals

Elsevier also offers the following, more detailed look at the process:

From https://www.elsevier.com/reviewers/what-is-peer-review

• Information Literacy (IL) Frames
  • Research as inquiry (iterative nature of research)
  • Information has value (information and power)
  • Scholarship as conversation
• Selecting a Publication (see boxes below for links)
  • Journal rankings
  • Author rights
  • Requirements for submission
  • Improving chances of publication
• Establishing a Research “Agenda”
  • What do you want to be known as an “expert” in?
  • Author order
  • Calendaring for scholarship projects (ideas, in progress, submissions, revise and resubmits, acceptances, rejections)
    • Try this spreadsheet for one option or this document. Choose File>Download As... to save a copy and modify as is useful to you.
  • Self-citation and self-plagiarism
• Using Theory in Research
  • Research Courses   
  • Conceptual and Theoretical frameworks
  • Critical research/Indigenous methods (quant/qual) (as differentiated from Eurocentric research)/knowing the rules to break them while exceeding their “rigor”
  • Awareness of the scholarly conversation
  • National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity - tools and support for academic productivity, healthy relationships, and work-life balance. Create an account with your UNLV email address.

Factors to consider when identifying a journal:

• Quality of venue, fit for your research, publication time, accessibility of your information one it's published.

See below for resources on:

• Journal rankings
• Author rights/publication models (open access vs. traditional)
• Requirements for submission
• Improving chances of publication (“Revise and Resubmit” is good)

Be sure to consider options for retaining your author rights. Librarians can help you navigate this.

• UNLV Libraries information on author rights

There are two different publishing options, which you will want to consider among other factors when selecting a journal.

• Traditional publishing requires readers to pay for access, often through a subscription paid for by your school or library. UNLV Libraries pays over $7 million per year on our collections, for example. As an author, only people with subscription access will be able to read your work.
• Open Access refers to publications which are free to anyone with an internet connection.
  • Learn more from our Open Access guide here and SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). 
  • Open Access publications may require the payment of an Article Processing Charge (APC). UNLV Libraries has an Open Article Fund to help with APC's.
  • Some traditional publishers allow you to pay a fee in order to make your article open access.
  • If you are working on a grant-funded project, many funders require that you publish your research open access.

On the journal website:

• Aims and Scope
• Author Instructions or Guide for Authors

Directories with Journal information (These subscription resources do not rate or rank journals, but instead provide publishing details):

• Cabell's Publishing Directory - includes peer review time
• Ulrich's Directory of Periodicals

Read through the expectations for the journal. And follow the instructions!

Springer has an excellent website that includes the following:

Journal selection and submission

1. What do journal editors want?
2. Cover letters

Peer-review process

1. Common reasons for rejection
2. Revising and responding
3. When to dispute a decision
4. Publication ethics