1 Getting published University College London February 2009 Robert West

2 Topics 1.Choosing a journal 2.Publication ethics 3.Good citation practice 4.Communicating the importance of your findings 5.Power calculations 6.Doing the right statistics 7.Qualitative research 8.Acknowledging limitations 9.Interpreting and responding to editors’ letters 10.Reasons for rejection

3 Choosing a journal Coverage Impact factor Efficiency of manuscript handling Fees

4 Publication ethics Double publication Conflicts of interest Salami slicing Duplicate submission Authorship

5 Good and bad citation practice Purposes of citation Citing in support of the obvious Not citing where important Choosing the right citations Avoiding bias

6 Communicating importance Citable statements What is known and what this study adds

7 Power calculations When to do power calculations What figures to use

8 Doing the right statistics Every substantive statement should be directly supported with inferential statistics One-tailed and two-tailed tests Parametric and non-parametric statistics

9 Qualitative studies Appropriate and inappropriate conclusions from qualitative research What type of qualitative analysis?

10 Acknowledging limitations What limitations to acknowledge How to acknowledge limitations

11 Interpreting and responding to editors’ letters What counts as a rejection Point-by-point responses

12 Common reasons for rejection Unsupported conclusions Lack of theoretical foundation Trivial or well-known findings Limited generalisability Failure to review relevant literature

13 The main thing... Have you got something important to report? If so... persevere