Innovation... Discovery... Education… Achievement Publications Report – BOG Meeting New Orleans – May 30, 2003 Paul Wesling, VP-Publications, CPMT Society

Innovation... Discovery... Education… Achievement Items 1.Bringing our journals to “High Impact” 2.The CD-ROM Compendium: New Rate Sheet for advertising

Innovation... Discovery... Education… Achievement The CPMT Transactions: From “High Quality” to “High Impact” Paul Wesling, VP-Publications, CPMT Society

Innovation... Discovery... Education… Achievement CPMT Vision The pre-eminent global component, devices, and microsystems packaging and manufacturing society, serving its global members by providing the latest worldwide technology advancements

Innovation... Discovery... Education… Achievement Challenges for the Transactions 1.Our reputation –The Citation Index 2.Improving authors’ citations to our literature 3.Getting the best novel papers –Especially for T-AdvP and T-EPM

Innovation... Discovery... Education… Achievement Bringing our Transactions to “High Impact” Problem: ESI does not include predecessor journals in the Citation Index they calculate for an IEEE journal –Thus, only current citations back to 1999 are included in their computation –Not included: T-PHP ( ), then T-CHMT ( : vol 1-16), then T-CPMT-A ( : vol 17-21) Solution: Do our own calculation of the Citation Index; publicize this alternate computed number

Innovation... Discovery... Education… Achievement Bringing our Transactions to “High Impact” Problem: Many papers have incomplete references to the literature (eg, a short list of references; non-journal references) –Reasons: engineers in industry are not used to citing earlier papers; they might not have the research resources; our Associate Editors and Reviewers are not contributing suggestions or asking for better citations Solution: Create “ontologies” for topical areas; circulate these freely to authors, AEs, Reviewers

Innovation... Discovery... Education… Achievement What is an “Ontology”? Ontology: The hierarchical structuring of knowledge about things by subcategorizing them according to their essential (or, at least, relevant and/or cognitive) qualities. –Eg: The Plant Ontology™ Consortium aims to develop, curate and share structured, controlled vocabularies for plant-specific knowledge domains. An ontology is created for the purpose of enabling knowledge sharing and reuse (Gruber 1993).

Innovation... Discovery... Education… Achievement Creating Ontologies 6 to 10 “topical areas” are identified for each journal A key technologist with an understanding of the historical literature makes a listing of the “top 40” papers that made key contributions in this area A two- or three-sentence summary explains the contribution This ontology is circulated for review, critique, update, and use

Innovation... Discovery... Education… Achievement Creating Ontologies What does an Ontology look like? 6. Otsuka, Kanji, Yuji Shirai, Ken Okutani, “A New Silicone Gel Sealing Mechanism for High Reliability Encapsulation” T-CPMT vol 7 no 3 (Sept 1984) pp. 249 – 256. KEYWORDS: Encapsulation; Integrated circuit packaging; Integrated circuit reliability. The first reported use of a silicone rubber as an encapsulant specifically to improve the reliability of plastic-molded ICs. Compares silicone to ceramic and epoxy-molded; HAST and 85/85 tests and corrosion results. Explains chemical structure and bonding mechanisms.

Innovation... Discovery... Education… Achievement Creating Ontologies Beginning the Ontology development: –Divide the journal’s coverage into 6 to 10 topics –Select key person(s) for each topic Resources: –The 10-CD set of Transactions : keyword searches, full- text search, full text of papers; easy for others to verify or extend. –The references listed in known-quality papers All (or nearly all) citations are to be from predecessor Transactions (eg, T-PHP, T-CHMT, T-CPMT-B)

Innovation... Discovery... Education… Achievement Verifying Quality of Ontologies: The Review Process Once created, a researcher’s proposed ontology is circulated to the Editor, AEs, Technical Committees for comment/concurrence Suggestions for revised wording of coverage, addition/ deletion of items can be made As each ontology becomes available, it is published on the web; the AEs and Reviewers can excerpt from it during reviews; it can be sent to authors

Innovation... Discovery... Education… Achievement Promoting the Ontologies Following review, some might be published in the Transactions Several related ontologies might form the basis for gathering the referenced papers into a single CD-ROM, as a product Where the initial topical area proves to be too wide, an ontology can be sub-divided into complimentary ontologies with separate editors/maintainers

Innovation... Discovery... Education… Achievement Using the Ontologies A prospective author in a topical area can download the applicable ontology He/she can look up these papers (on IEEE XPLORE or in the 10-CD Compendium) to read about previous work Suitable references can be added to the developing paper, reducing the duplication of reporting and the resultant length of the present paper The writer’s number and quality of references is improved Citations to our journals are enhanced, even when papers are published in other journals.

Innovation... Discovery... Education… Achievement Further uses of the Ontologies Our AEs and Reviewers can more quickly spot work that has been previously reported, to cull unnecessary papers and improve quality The CPMT Society will become more widely recognized as the definitive source of archival material through these ontological “shortcuts” to the literature We attract more subscribers – either new CPMT Members, or corporate/university researchers accessing our papers through XPLORE or their libraries. Authors will wish to publish in our journals, since ours contain the key literature stream with which they wish to associate

Innovation... Discovery... Education… Achievement Bringing our Transactions to “High Impact” Problem: With the exception of T-CPT, our Transactions do not seem to be getting strong numbers of submissions Solution: Make researchers more aware of our desire to be their “publisher of choice” for new developments

Innovation... Discovery... Education… Achievement Soliciting More Submissions to our Transactions Design several “Calls for Papers” that outline the topical areas we are seeking, and the process to use Shorten the review/approval cycle and publicize what the author can expect Ask certain technologists to be “paper searchers” who can request that a presenter submit a paper to our Transactions Publicize each “Special Section” and its papers in notices in other journals, on the website, in Conference publications, etc.

Innovation... Discovery... Education… Achievement Our Objective To become the “High Impact” journals in our fields To be the “publisher of choice” for technologists in our fields To be proud of our journals – and have more fun!

Innovation... Discovery... Education… Achievement 2. CD-ROM Compendium: Finished in time – available here at ECTC (for shipment by IEEE in June) Nearly on-budget: $3k overrun because we included 2002 We expect to turn a profit on this project!

Innovation... Discovery... Education… Achievement 3. New Advertising Rate Sheet Created this spring Needed for our “technical co- sponsorship” conferences Full-sponsor events get free ads We have sold to two events so far If you know of an event/company with an interest, let me know!