1. Turning Your Research Into Publications
Ioana Banicescu
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Mississippi State University

2. Overview Identifying areas and factors
Factors that improve publication record
Steps to improving publication record
Publishing pointers
Publishing results of an ongoing study
Q & A

3. Identifying Areas and Factors
Quality vs. quantity
Consider a large number of factors
Strong research:
Science & engineering
Fundamental vs. multidisciplinary
Education (evaluating learning):
How material is absorbed, rate of knowledge dissemination, rate of making connections between, different topics studied, impact short/long of material studied

4. Factors that Improve your Publication Record
Strong research program (establish goals)
Self
Collaborators: faculty, researchers (natural, suitable, competent)
Maintain funding (choose appropriate)
Grants: research vs. contracts
Assess how this can take you to your goal (accomplish research, publications)
Need good students (show then the reason to develop publications and ways to accomplish that)

5. Steps to Improve Your Publication Record
Strong research program
Plan (goals, objectives; NSF CAREER, etc)
Start implementing the plan
Evaluate every few months whether you are on target or you need to change a bit the short term goals or objectives
Exposure of your research program
Invited talks, presentations, publications
Publish

6. Publishing Pointers Plan (refereed conferences, journals)
Write "honest and strong/ambitious papers":
Reviewers are your peers not - don't get discouraged!
Established reviewers "impressed" by good work presented in a conference, may invite authors for improvement or their papers and submission to publication into journals of which they are editors or guest editors.

7. Publishing Pointers (cont’d)
Be persistent!
You are "committed" to achieve your research goal
your must "convince" your peers of the value of your research results (intellectual merit, broader impact)
"know your research community"
Send your work to be reviewed by a research community in "that area", to get most of the benefits from critical reviews of experts in that area.

8. Publishing results of an ongoing study
Theoretical aspects (modeling and analysis)
Eval. impact on problem of practical aspect
You need applications (collaborative work)
Qualitative and quantitative aspects
Integrate your new method, procedure, technique, algorithm into the existing technology and prove its benefits
Find open problems from questions raising from the work you just have accomplished (or follow-up concepts) and continue.