This presentation covers various options you have when choosing a place to publish your research. It provides details about impact factors and also describes typical structure of experimental papers. It was presented at NlpSeminar (http://nlpseminar.ru/)

1. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
Scientific Papers
Publishing in International Journals and Conferences
Dr. Natalia Konstantinova1
1Research Institute in Information and Language Processing
University of Wolverhampton
www.nkonst.com
26 April, 2014

2. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
About me
Graduated from Mathematical linguistics, Saint-Petersburg
State University;
Got PhD from Research Institute in Information and
Language Processing, University of Wolverhampton, UK;
I am an editorial assistant for the Journal of Natural
Language Engineering for 5 years, I was participating in
the organisation of various conferences and workshops;

3. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
Outline
1 Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors and quartile rankings
Review process
2 Research Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More Details
3 Questions?

4. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
Why to publish?
Get recognition for your work;
Share your knowledge with others;
acquire new contacts;
Get feedback from the reviewers;
Add to your CV;

5. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
Where to publish?
Different quality standards, selectiveness and impact:
Journals
more space (usually about 20 pages);
more thorough reviews;
more impact (especially long-term impact);
more highly rated by selection/promotion committees;
Conference proceedings
faster process;
quality of reviews depends on your luck;
you have to pay conference fees;
direct contacts can be made at the conference;

6. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
What to check before submitting?
Avoid poor quality journals and conferences;

7. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
What to check before submitting? (2)
Before sending check:
Where the proceedings are published/reputation of the
journal;
Programme committee;
Submission topics;
Submission guidelines;

8. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
Other options
Special issues at the journal;
Special issues connected to workshop;
Open-access digital archives of preprints, e.g.
http:/arxiv.org/

9. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
Publications as a performance indicator
Some universities use the amount and quality of
publications as a performance indicator for the researchers;
Different types of publications get more value;
monographs;
book chapters;
journal papers;
conference proceedings;
handbooks;

10. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
Quality of journal publications
Quartile rankings - journals are ranked based on various
bibliometric indices;
impact-factor Journal Citation Reports by Thompson
Reuters (database Web of Science) - 12,500 journals;
SJR (SCIMago Journal Rank), calculated by a research
group SCImago in a partnership and based on data of
Elsevier (database Scopus) - 21,000 journals;
Identify level of citations for a journal;
NB! Many journals from humanities do not have an official
impact factor, therefore it is recommended to use SJR.

11. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
Rankings
impact-factor Journal Citation Reports by Thompson
Reuters (database Web of Science)
“the impact factor of a journal is calculated by dividing the
number of current year citations to the source items
published in that journal during the previous two years”;
SJR (SCIMago Journal Rank)
based on data from Elsevier (database Scopus);
is calculated in a more difficult way (it takes into account
the influence of the journals that refer to this journal,
proximity of the area of a journal etc.);

12. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
Journal quartiles
Journals are classified into quartiles;
four levels - quartiles (quarters), ranging from Q1 (the
highest) to Q4 (the lowest);
there are thematic categories (Web of Science – about
250, Scopus – about 350);

13. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
Rankings - official websites
are calculated every year and are published on official
websites:
Journal Citation Reports (available at
www.isiknowledge.com);
SCImago JR (available at www.scimagojr.com);

14. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
Your impact factor

15. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
Review lifecycle
Submit a paper;
It gets assigned 3-4 reviewers;
Review process (conference: about 2 weeks - 1 month,
journal: 2-3 months);
Get decision (binary for conferences, n-ary for a journal):
Decline/reject;
Revise and resubmit (cannot be accepted in the current
form and needs revision);
Major (can be accepted but needs major changes);
Minor (can be accepted but needs minor adjustments);
Accept as it is;
Address comments of the reviewers and send paper again;

16. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
Review
Address reviewer’s comments:

17. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
Typical structure
Title
Abstract
Introduction
Related work
Resources/data collection
Methodology
Evaluation
Error analysis
Conclusions and future research
Bibliography

18. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
Title and Abstract
Should reflect the content of the paper;
Abstract should present the main idea of the paper and its
main contribution;

19. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
Related work
We show awareness of the research in the area;
We describe existing methods;
We describe why our research is different from everything
that was done before;

20. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
Related work(2)
Mistakes:
Not up-to-date research;
Too narrow;
Too broad;
Fail to show the difference with your research;

21. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
Data
Description of your data;
The way the data was collected (for example, the
description of the corpus or dataset);
If special annotation of the data was done (for example,
guidelines for annotators, inter-annotator agreement ,etc.)

22. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
Methodology
How your experiment was done?
All the steps to re-produce it;
What rules/techniques you used?
Ideally other researchers should be able to reproduce your
experiment;

23. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
Evaluation
A very important part of your research!
Why do we need evaluation?
Allows to assess the results of a method or a system;
Allows to compare results of different methods and
systems;
Allows to understand why method fails or which parts
create problems;
How the evaluation was done?
What metrics were used?
What are the baselines?
What gold standard?

24. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
Error analysis
Most probably your method gives errors;
Analyse them;
Try to group;
Try to explain why they occur;
Suggest ways to tackle them in the future research; Or
describe why you cannot make it better;

25. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
Conclusions and future work
Make final conclusions about your experiment;
Was your hypothesis proved?
Did you get a better performance than someone else?
Why your performance is valuable?
Describe what you plan to do in the future;
Are you planning to address some shortcomings of the
current research?
Do you want to use some other data set?

26. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
Bibliography
Should be consistent;
Should contain all needed information (pages, publisher
etc.);
Better use some reference style;

27. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
Tips
Make sure it is clear;
Readers should be able to re-produce your experiment;
English and formatting are important!
Negative results are still results! But! You need to have
solid methodology!

28. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
Further Links
http:
//research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/pbailey/
sigir-paper-writing-tips.aspx?1702280376
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/paper.html
http://www.journalprep.com/FILES/How_to_Write_
and_Publish_an_Academic_Research_Paper.pdf
http://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2008/08/
30/how-to-write-a-paper-and-get-it-published/

29. Scientific
Papers
Dr. Natalia
Konstantinova
About me
Introduction
Why? Where?
Impact factors
and quartile
rankings
Review process
Research
Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More
Details
Questions?
Questions