هذة المحاضرة من مبادرة خليك فى البيت ارجوك التى تتبناها المدرسة العلمية البحثية المصرية

1. Choosing the right journal
and Journal Ranking
Measures: A Comprehensive
Guide
‫حسنين‬ ‫عطيفى‬ ‫أبوالعال‬ ‫الدكتور‬ ‫االستاذ‬
‫البحثية‬ ‫العلمية‬ ‫المدرسة‬ ‫ورئيس‬ ‫مؤسس‬
‫والذكاء‬ ‫الحاسبات‬ ‫بكلية‬ ‫واالستاذ‬ ‫المصرية‬
‫االصطناعى‬–‫القاهرة‬ ‫جامعة‬
Megajournal
Publication in Journal Types
Bibliographic database
Authorimpactmeasures
Journal impact measures
Impact Factor - Five year Impact factor
Immediacy Index
SJR - SCImago Journal Rank
CiteScore
Raw impact per paper
Eigenfactor
Relative Database Citation Potential
SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
Increase Your Citation Count
% Self-citations

2. Agenda
• Keys to Living a Happier Life
• Publication in Journal Types
• Megajournal
• Choosing a proper journal to publish my research paper rules
– Manual vs. automatic
• Bibliographic database
• Journal impact measures
– Impact Factor
– Five year Impact factor
– Immediacy Index
– SJR - SCImago Journal Rank
– CiteScore
– Raw impact per paper
– Eigenfactor
– Relative Database Citation Potential
– SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
• Author impact measures
– H-index

3. 1. Focus on the positive.
2. Accept imperfection.
3. Live in the moment.
4. Do what you love.
5. Celebrate little victories.
6. Stop worrying.
7. Hang out with happy people.
8. Nothing compares to you.
9. Build meaningful relationships.
10. Being at peace with myself
11. Surprise yourself.
12. Give back
Celebrate little victories.
Life is full of ups and downs, but in between we have a lot of little victories that go
unnoticed. Take a moment to celebrate these small wins.
Keys to Living a Happier Life
Surprise yourself :Put yourself in new
or unexpected situations. Set goals for
yourself and then work to achieve them.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/315636

4. Ms. Ref. No.: NEUNET-D-19-
00383R2
Title: Real-Time Multiple
Spatiotemporal Action Localization
and Prediction Approach using Deep
Learning Mathematical and
Computational Analysis
Neural Networks
Dear Dr. Mona Soliman,
I am pleased to notify you that your
manuscript has now been accepted
for publication in Neural Networks.

5. L’Oréal-UNESCO
Pour les Femmes et la Science
Prix International
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•‫اليونسكو‬ ‫جائزة‬(‫لولاير‬-‫يونسكو‬2020–
2021)‫والتي‬ ،‫العلوم‬ ‫مجال‬ ‫في‬ ،‫للسيدات‬
‫العام‬ ‫هذا‬ ‫تخصص‬‫والري‬ ‫الفيزيائية‬ ‫للعلوم‬‫اضيات‬
‫اآللي‬ ‫الحاسب‬ ‫وعلوم‬‫المرأة‬ ‫بإبداع‬ ‫والخاصة‬ ،
‫مج‬ ‫في‬ ‫العلمي‬ ‫التقدم‬ ‫في‬ ‫البارزة‬ ‫وإنجازاتها‬‫ال‬
‫العلوم‬.‫المرأة‬ ‫دور‬ ‫تعزيز‬ ‫الجائزة‬ ‫وتستهدف‬‫في‬
‫العلمية‬ ‫الشخصيات‬ ‫ومكافأة‬ ،‫العلوم‬ ‫مجال‬
‫الجائزة‬ ‫قيمة‬ ‫تبلغ‬ ‫حيث‬ ،‫المتميزة‬100000
‫يورو‬.
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‫يوليو‬ ‫في‬ ‫للترشيحات‬2020,‫سبتمبر‬ ‫شهر‬ ‫خالل‬ ‫التحكيم‬ ‫هيئة‬ ‫قبل‬ ‫من‬ ‫الفحص‬ ‫ويتم‬2020.
100000 ‫يورو‬

6. Part (I)
Publication in Journal Types

7. Publication in
Journal
Trusted Journal
but not in
Scopus or WoS
Free-based
Paid-based
Predatory
Journal
Journal in
Scopus or WoS
Open Access
Closed Access
Please check Predatory Journals website https://predatoryjournals .com/journals
Publication in Journal Types

8. THE PREDATORY PUBLISHERS
Journals that have no
quality and publish
anything just for money
https://predatoryjournals.com/journals/
Always check the website thoroughly. ...
Check if the journal is a member of
DOAJ, COPE, OASPA or STM. ...
Check the journal's contact information.
Research the editorial board. ...
Take a look at their peer review process
and publication timelines. ...
Read through past issues of the journal.

9. Open vs. Closed
Access
Open Access
• Mean you pay article
processing charge (APC)
• your article will be
available online for free.
• Anyone can see, download
and cite it.
Closed Access
• Mean your paper will be
available only to people
who has subscribe to the
journal.
• Only your abstract
available online
• Even you can not post the
paper on your sites
(ResearchGate)

10. Open Access
• More people can read the results of
scholarly research – More citation
• New ideas can be dispersed more
rapidly and widely, which in turn
triggers new research studies; it
serves as an impetus for knowledge.
• Scientific research shows that
publishing in open access, because
of the worldwide visibility without
barriers, demonstrably leads to
more citations and more impact.
• Businesses also have broad access
to the most recent scientific ideas,
which they can then build upon.
Open access contributes to the
knowledge economy and
provides an economic boost.
• Since open access also implies
wider reuse, recent knowledge
can be put to immediate use in
teaching as "open educational
resource“.
The greatest benefit of open access is that it enables the results
of scholarly research to be disseminated more rapidly and widely

11. Factors to Consider When Deciding Between
an Open Access or Traditional Journal
• Visibility
– Publishing your article in an
OA journal means that more
people are likely to see it,
simply because more people
will be able to access it.
Indeed, one study showed that
full-text downloads of OA
papers were 89% higher, PDF
downloads were 42% higher,
and unique visitors were 23%
higher than those for
subscription-access articles
• Prestige
– Regardless, the fact remains
that many academics still
place importance on “brand-
name” journals because
publication in such journals
can increase their chances of
being promoted, gaining
tenure, and obtaining
funding for grant proposals.
• Speed
• Cost
https://www.aje.com/arc/making-the-choice-open-
access-vs-traditional-journals/

12. Megajournal
• Editorial criteria that judge articles only
on scientific soundness, not
perceived importance or impact
• A very broad subject scope (for
example, all genetics fields, all social
sciences, or even all science and
medical fields)
• An open access model, often involving
article processing charges
• A large editorial board of academic
editors (as opposed to a staff of
professional editors)
• An elastic capacity to publish any and
all articles that are appropriate

13. Limited scope of peer review: In many cases, the
scope of a peer review for a megajournal limits itself
to the technical information presented. It might not
assess whether the research is new or even
important.
Broad range of subjects: Unlike traditional journals,
megajournals accept and publish research articles
from many disciplines. They do not specialize in a
specific discipline or subject.
Article Processing Charges (APCs): APCs for
publishing in megajournals are usually lower than
those of traditional journals.
Turnaround time: They have quicker turnaround
times between reviewers and researchers.
Megajournals vs. Regular Journals
Discussion Slide
Megajournals vs. Regular Journals:
How to Choose Wisely

14. Part (I) Choosing a proper
journal to publish your
research paper rules

15. Choosing a proper journal to
publish your research paper rules
• Rule(1)Ensureyourindexationpreference
–SCI/SCIE/SSCI/ESCI/PubMed/Scopusetc.
– Youcan
refer http://mjl.clarivate.com/for
findingtheindexationof
SCI/SCIE/SSCI/ESCI
andhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nl
mcatalog/journalsforfindingPubMed
indexation.
• Rule(2)Checkforthetypesofarticles
publishedbythejournals.
• Rule(3)Makealistofavailablejournalsin
yoursubjectareaandsurveythetypeof
articlespublishedinthem.Comparethe
qualityofyourarticlestothosepublishedin
thesejournalsandthenmakealistof
journalswithasuitableimpactfactorrange
• Rule(4)Makesuretheaims/scopeofthe
journalsmatchthatofyourstudy.

16. Choosing a proper journal to
publish your research paper rules
• Rule(5)Checkalltheotheraspectsofthe
journalsuchaspeer-reviewprocess,
instructionstoauthors,openaccess
options,audience/readershipofthejournal,
informationaboutthepublisher,timefor
peerreview,acceptance/rejectionratesetc.
• Rule(6)Then,makeafinallistofthe
journalsthatmeetallyourcriteria,prepare
yourmanuscriptaccordingtotheauthor
guidelinesandsubmitthemanuscript.
•

17. Automatic journal selection tools
Elsevier Journal Finder Springer Journal Suggester
https://journalfinder.elsevier.com/ https://journalsuggester.springer.com/

18. Part (II)
Bibliographic database

19. Web of Science (WoS), by Thomson Reuters
Scopus, by Elsevier
Publish or Perish (PoP) by Google Scholar
Bibliographic database
An organized digital collection of references to published literature, including
journal and newspaper articles, conference proceedings, reports, government
and legal publications, patents, books, etc.

20. Web of Science
• It is a platform that provides access
to multiple databases and citation
data for 256 disciplines (science,
social science, arts and humanities).
• The access is under subscription.
• The Institute for Scientific
Information (ISI) was the original
producer, after that, its intellectual
property passed to Thomson Reuters,
and now the maintenance is in
charge of Calrivate Analytics
• The total number of records is
beyond 90 million. Its temporal
coverage is from 1900 to the present.
• Strengths:
– Broad coverage of high impact journals
• Weaknesses:
– Conference papers, book chapters and
dissertations all excluded
– Limited coverage of non-English
language articles
https://incites.clarivate.com/

21. Scopus
• Scopus is a database from Elsevier. ...
It is a large abstract and
citation database of peer-reviewed
literature and quality web sources
with smart tools to track, analyze and
visualize research
• Comprehensive coverage of science,
technology, medicine, social sciences,
and arts and humanities
• 70% of all Scopus records, back to
1823, have an abstract
• References go back to 1970 (Scopus
is in progress of updating pre-1996
cited references going back to 1970.)
• Strengths:
– Better coverage of social science titles
– Includes conference proceedings
• Weaknesses:
– Books, book chapters and dissertations
all excluded
– Citation data from papers published
from 1996
www.scopus.com/sources

22. Google Scholar
• Publish or Perish (PoP) is a free
software program which uses Google
Scholar citation data to calculate the
impact metrics including h-index
and others. The main focus is on
author's impact, but it is also possible
to examine the impact of a journal or
analyze an individual article
• Strengths:
– Free
– Covers non-English language
publications
– Covers all types of publications
including books and conference
publications
• Weaknesses:
– No quality control, lots of errors in data
– Does not cover all journals
– Covers non-scholarly content
– Coverage uneven across disciplines
– Difficult to deal with name variants
GS has been criticized for not
ban the predatory journals
https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/metrics.html

23. Part-III
Journal and author impact measures
Assessing your impact (h-index and
beyond)

24. Measure Journal Impact
Impact Factor
The impact factor (IF) is a measure
of the frequency with which the
average article in a journal has
been cited in a particular year. It is
used to measure the importance or
rank of a journal by calculating the
times it's articles are cited.
The calculation is based on a two-year
period. It is calculated by dividing the
number of citations in the JCR year by
the total number of articles published in
the two previous years.
The Web of Science Journal Citation Reports (JCR) publishes the
official results annually, based on this calculation:
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)

25. Impact Factor Example

26. Measure Journal Impact
5 years Impact Factor
Note that 5-Year Impact Factors require six years of known item counts. A journal with only 2 or 3
years of publication will have a 5 year Impact Factor equal to a 2-Year Impact Factor because the
previous years of item counts are known to be zero.
*Where “items” = reviews, articles,
proceedings papers

27. Using the Impact factor alone to judge
a journal is like using weight to judge a
person health

28. Journal Impact Limitation
Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating
research (limitation)
The Impact Factor only
considers the number of
citations, not the nature or
quality. An article may be
highly cited for many
reasons, both positive and
negative. A high Impact
Factor only shows that the
research in a given journal is
being cited. It doesn’t
indicate the context or the
quality of the publication
citing the research.
You can’t compare Impact
Factors like-for-like across
different subject areas.
Impact Factors can show
significant variation year-
on-year, especially in
smaller journals. Because
Impact Factors are average
values, they vary year-on-
year due to random
fluctuations. This change is
related to the journal size
(the number of articles
published per year)
The JCR doesn’t distinguish
between citations made to
articles, reviews, or editorials.

29. Measure Journal Impact
Immediacy Index
Average number of times published
papers are cited during year of
publication.

30. Measure Journal Impact
Eigenfactor
-TheEigenfactormeasurestheinfluenceofa
journalbasedonwhether it’scitedwithin
otherreputablejournalsoverfiveyears.
-Self-citations ofjournalsareignoredin
Eigenfactorcalculation.
-It doesn’ttakejournalsizeintoaccount.
largerjournalstend tohavelargerEigenfactor
astheyreceive morecitationsoverall.
(1)Intendedtoreflecttheinfluenceandprestigeofjournals.(2)Createdtohelpcapture
thevalueofpublicationoutputvs.journalquality(i.e.thevalueofasinglepublicationina
majorjournalvs.many publicationsinminorjournals).
Thomson Scientifics' Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

31. Measure Journal Impact
Article Influence Score
Measures the average influence,
per article, of the papers published
in a journal.
Calculated by dividing the
Eigenfactor by the number of
articles published in the journal.
Like 5-year Impact Factors, journals
don’t receive an Article Influence
Score unless they have been
covered by the JCR for at least five
years, or from Volume 1.
Eigenfactor/AIS assigns journals to a single category,
making it more difficult to compare across disciplines.

32. Measure Journal Impact
SJR - SCImago Journal Rank
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR indicator) is a measure of scientific influence of scholarly journals
that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or
prestige of the journals where such citations come from. (Scopus Data)
Citation
are
weighted
dependin
g on the
source
they
come
The SJR aims to capture the effect of subject field, quality, and reputation of a journal on
citations. It calculates the prestige of a journal by considering the value of the sources that cite
it, rather than counting all citations equally.

33. SJR: Mathematical calculation

34. Measure Journal Impact
CiteScore
CiteScore (CS) of an academic journal is a measure reflecting the yearly
average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal. This
journal evaluation metric was launched in December 2016 by Elsevier as an
alternative to the generally used JCR impact factors (IFs). (SCOPUS)

35. CiteScore vs. Impact factor
CiteScore
• CiteScore is based on the Scopus
– This means the number of
citations and journal coverage in
certain subject areas is notably
higher.
• CiteScore uses a three-year
citation window
• The CiteScore denominator
includes all content published in
the journal.
• CiteScore covers all subject areas,
Impact factor
• Impact factor is based Web of
Science.
• This means the number of citations
and journal coverage in certain
subject areas is notably lower.
• Impact factor uses a two-year
citation window.
• The Impact factor denominator
includes only articles and reviews.
• Impact factor is only available for
journals indexed in the SCIE and
SSCI.
CiteScore suffers from some of the same problems as Impact factor;
namely that it isn’t comparable across disciplines

36. Measure Journal Impact
Raw impact per paper
Raw impact per paper (RIP) Number of citations in year of analysis to a
journal’s papers published in 3 preceding years, divided by the number of a
journal’s papers in these three years. RIP is fairly similar to the well-known
journal impact factor. Like the journal impact factor,
Scopus
The RIP is the number of citations in the year X received by the papers
published in the three previous years, (X-1), (X-2), and (X-3) in a
certain journal divided by the total number of papers. It is similar to the
impact factor, except that the 3-year citation window is used and only
citations of papers are included and those of errata and editorials are
excluded.

37. Measure Journal Impact
Relative Database Citation Potential
Let us consider the references of the papers which cited in the year X the papers
published in a certain journal in the three previous years, (X-1), (X-2), and (X-3).
Among these references, we consider only the references published during the same
3-year period.
The DCP is obtained by dividing the total number of those references by the number
of citing papers. In this calculation, only citations of the journals belonging to the
database are included and other journals are ignored.
The RDCP is obtained by normalizing the DCP by the median DCP of the database.

38. Measure Journal Impact
Relative Database Citation Potential

39. Measure Journal Impact
Source Normalized Impact per Paper
SNIP developed and calculated for all journals indexed in
Elsevier's Scopus
A corrective metric to account or difference
in citation potential in different fields.

40. SNIP: Mathematical calculation

41. Part (IV)
Your h-index - Calculate Your
Academic Footprint -

42. The h index takes into
account two things:
1. The researcher’s
PRODUCTIVITY (number
of publications a
researcher has produced)
2. The IMPACT of that
researcher’s publications
(how many citations the
researcher’s publications
have received)

43. Author Impact
h- index
• The h-index is a number intended to represent
both the productivity and the impact of a
particular scientist or scholar, or a group of
scientists or scholars (such as a departmental or
research group).
• The h index
– Expresses the journal's number of articles
(h) that have received at least h citations. It
quantifies both journal scientific
productivity and scientific impact and it is
also applicable to scientists, countries, etc.
• Example
– Author’s total article count = 12
– 8 of the articles are cited at least 8 times
– h-index = 8
The h-index is calculated by counting the number of publications for which an
author has been cited by other authors at least that same number of times

44. h-index resources
• Resources: Scopus - Web of Science - Google
Scholar
• Keep in mind that different databases will give
different values for the h-index. This is
because each database must calculate the
value based on the citations it contains. Since
databases cover different publications in
different ranges of years, the h-index result
will therefore vary. You should also keep in
mind that what is considered a "good" h-index
may differ depending on the scientific
discipline. A number that is considered low in
one field might be considered quite high in
another field.

45. % Self-citations
• % self-citations - the percentage of self-
citations of a source, calculated as the
percentage of all citations given in the
present year to publications in the past
three years that originate from the source
itself.
• Self-cites are not inherently problematic.
• Most scientific publications describe a
part of a longer-term research effort, and
self-citations can put the new publication
in the context of that larger effort.
• Self-cites become a problem only when
they are either spurious or biased.
Is self-citation ethical?

46. Increase Your Citation Count: A
Checklist
• Citeyourpastworkwhenitisrelevanttoanew
manuscript.However,donotreference everypaper
youhavewrittenjusttoincreaseyourcitationcount.
• Makesurethatyourinformationiscorrect. Checkthat
yournameandaffiliationarecorrectonthefinal
proofsofyourmanuscriptandcheckthatthepaper’s
informationisaccurateindatabasesearches.
• Carefullychooseyour
keywords. Choosekeywordsthatresearchers inyour
fieldwillbesearching forsothatyourpaperwill
appearinadatabasesearch.
• Useyourkeywordsandphrasesinyour
titleandrepeatedlyinyour
abstract.Repeatingkeywordsandphrases
willincreasethelikelihoodyourpaper
willbeatthetopofasearchenginelist,
makingitmorelikelytoberead.
• Useaconsistentformofyournameonall
ofyourpapers. Ifyournameisvery
common,considergettingaresearch
identifier,suchasanORCID.
https://www.aje.com/arc/10-easy-ways-increase-your-citation-count-checklist/

47. Increase Your Citation Count: A
Checklist
• Makeyourmanuscripteasilyaccessible.Ifyour
paperisnotpublishedinanopen-accessjournal,
postyourpre-orpost-publicationprintsto
arepository
• Shareyourdata.Thereissomeevidencethat
sharingyourdatacanincreaseyourcitations.
Considerpostingtodatasharingwebsites,such
asfigshareorSlideShare,orcontributing
toWikipediaandprovidinglinkstoyourpublished
manuscripts.
• Presentyourworkatconferences.Although
conferencepresentationsarenotcitedbyother
others,thiswillmakeyourresearchmore
visibletotheacademicandresearch
communities.
• Usesocialmedia.Providelinkstoyourpapers
onsocialmedia
(e.g.,Facebook,Twitter,Academia.edu,Researc
hGate,Mendeley)andyouruniversityprofile
page.
Activelypromoteyourwork.Talktootherresearchersaboutyourpaper,evenonesnotin
yourfield,andemailcopiesofyourpapertoresearcherswhomaybeinterested

48. How Collaborative Reading Online Can
Increase Your Productivity and Visibility in
Research
As a researcher, you hardly have a moment to spare. Your
days are spent doing fieldwork, teaching, mentoring, grant
writing, attending meetings
Reading collaboratively
allows researchers and
students to discuss articles
and books online while
enriching them at the same
time. Readers can attach
questions, opinions, links,
and figures directly in the
margin of the original text
where everyone can benefit
from their contributions.

49. Choosing the Right Journal
for Your Research: Final
Words
What are the aims and scope of the
journal?
Has the journal published articles that are
similar to yours?
What are the journal’s restrictions?
What is the journal’s Impact Factor?

50. What are the disadvantages of the Impact Factor?
What are the differences between CiteScore and Impact
Factor?
Is self-citation ethical?
Questions

52. ‫يرحمهم‬ ‫هللا‬–‫عظام‬ ‫اساتذة‬
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53. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The essential mission of SRGE toward the research
and education in Egypt is to foster learning and
promoting research integrity in the current and next
generation of researchers in Egypt. SRGE is
rededicating itself to this fundamental purpose.
**Slides are adapted from several presentations, papers, and notes on the
internet as well as Elsevier and Springer ethic, COPE,.. In addition,
experiences **