Following all the online workshops around the universe, I had the chance to participate in an online workshop through Zoom software about scientific publishing, and how to find the right references and resources for your literature. part of it was explaining the right way to search through the web about scholarly work and the right method. This workshop was prepared by Elsevier publishing, sharing about Funding opportunities and the easiness of having the application Mendeley for organizing your references. So, in this blog, I will be summarizing the topics they have covered in this workshop. It was entitled “before publishing”. but what was interesting for me that the first peer-reviewed journal was in 1665 for “the philosophical transaction of the royal society “. which means how important is publishing to get your work out to the world.
starting the main steps before publishing according to Elsevier, First, you need to have the right tool to cite all references such as Mendeley, Endnote and so and then finding funding opportunities before publishing to help you in your research. they have mentioned that through Mendeley, you can find opportunities for funding, and collaboration opportunities through their research groups to join. this will provide you with updates and recommended resources and might help to get your work spread out the community of publishing.
The literature research can be done through several tools, the library page, or through science direct, Scopus, Wos, google scholar, PubMed, etc. You have to use the advanced search for both of these scientific research engines, as those are more resourceful for journals and literature search compared to google. The best advice was to alarm the notification from those search engines for any recommendation of papers within the same topic interest. The second thing is to choose the right publisher and journal for your publication stated it into these steps.
Check the references for the journals in your article to have an indication of possible journal interest.
Check their Review system, if they have a strong peer review, as they might not be as strong and risk your publication.
It is important to make sure that the journal Does exist and not dubious, by reading their aim/scope of the journal.
Make sure that the journal is not by invitation only, you might lose time before submitting it.
Review recent publications of the journal for each” candidate journal” and check their hot topics to avoid rejection.
Check the type of the article
Check if it is an open-access journal
Check the readership community, as it might indicate to the interest to the local community of the publications.
Get advised by your adviser or the library about the publisher
Check always the journal homepage, especially read aim and scope
For Reliable metric support, you need to know how to choose the right decision: General rule 1: use both qualitative and quantitative input into your decision, and General rule 2: use more than one research metric as the quantitative input.
When you search for journals you can through Elsevier journal finder, But the best way to find the right literature, you have to check its metric, citation percentage, use analysis compared references if you check the source details it will show you the journal if interested. An interesting thing to know, some journals don’t allow to submit to other journals when submitted, unless got rejected. I hope this will be of help to any interested researchers.