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1. PUBLICATION:
JOURNALS

2. Journals and Their Importance
What are journals? Why are they important?
• They are the periodically published academic magazines/ books which contain a
series of articles dealing with a particular subject or professional activity.
• They provide a platform to communicate research findings to the wide range of
audience.
• They represent a detailed version of objectives, material and methods, and findings
of the research.
• They keep researchers, experts and scholars updated by explaining a narrow/
specific topic in depth.

3. Open Access (OA) Journals
What are OA Journals?
• Journals which can be openly accessed by all the readers without financial,
technical and legal obstructions
Advantages
• Free for readers
• More viewers
• Good option for small publishing groups
Disadvantages
• Poor quality control
• High article processing fees to be paid by authors after manuscript
acceptance

4. Subscription Journals
What are subscription journals?
• Journals which cannot be openly accessed by all the readers
• The readers have to pay for what they want to read
Advantages
• Free for authors
• Capture genuine readers
Disadvantages
• Only accessed by scholars, researchers and associated people
• Take time in getting published

5. Points to be Considered While Choosing a Journal
For Publication
Aim and scope Type of journal Indexation Impact factor
Rejection/acceptance
rates
Publication lead time
Article processing
charges
Publisher
Audience Time to accept/publish
Is fast track option
available
Journal specifications

6. Impact Factor (IF) of a Journal
• A measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published
in journals, books, patent documents, thesis, project reports, news papers,
conference/ seminar proceedings, document published in internet, notes and
any other approved documents
• A measure used to denote the status of an academic journal
• A measure to assess the importance of an individual's published
contribution to a specific research area

7. Impact Factor : Advantages and Disadvantages
Advantages of IF
• A simple, important and widely adopted index to assess the quality of an
article
• Reflects the changing status of a journal within a research field due to the
increase or decrease in number of citations
Disadvantages of IF
• Incomplete information as all journals do not have a citation IF
• Citation window of IF is too short to detect the real impact of publications
• IF is not the golden standard to assess an article/ journal or an author’s work
as citation practice highly depends upon the subject area

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