1. Scientific Publication
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Scientific Publication By
Dr. Emad Abbas Al-Mulla
College of Science, University of Kufa

2. Scientific Knowledge
“The object of research is to extend human knowledge beyond what is already known”
“Science is a shared knowledge based on a common understanding of some aspect of the physical or social world”
G. Whitesides, 2004
“If it wasn’t published, It wasn’t done”
“E.H. Miller 1993”

3. Author Responsibilities Before Submission of Manuscript (ms):
Ensure work is new and original research
All Authors listed on ms are aware of submission
Include proper affiliation
Ms is well organized and well written

4. Scientific Misconduct
Gift Authorship
Redundant Publication
Plagiarism
Fabrication
Falsification
Conflict of Interest
Duplicate publication/submission of research

5. What is not acceptable…
Papers that are
Routine extensions of previous reports
Fragmentary reports of research results
Verbose or poorly organized
Violations of ethical guidelines

6. Some Aspects …
* Cover Letter
* Highlights
* Graphical Abstract

7. Good Graphical Abstract

8. Poor Graphical Abstract

9. Scientific Publication is a Team Effort
Journal
Authors
Reviewers

10. Classification of Scientific Journals

11. Comparison Non-Citation Indexed Journals Citation Indexed Journals
Not peer-reviewed journal in most of them
Low quality content
Mostly, not online publication
Free online access if any
Need fee for publication
Peer-reviewed Journals
High quality content
Online publication
No free online access
Mostly, Free of charge

12. Quality

16. Impact Factor
The Impact Factor (IF) is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in
science and social science journals
IF is calculated by dividing the number of citations in the JCR year by the total number of articles published in the two previous years
Cites in 2010 to items published in 2009 & 2008
Calculation: ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
Number of items published in 2009 & 2008

17. Some Global Publishers …
* Elsevier (SinenceDirect)
* SpringerLink
* InterScience (Wiley)
* IEEE

21. Impact Factor 1.855

22. Impact Factor 1.094
Impact Factor 1.507

23. Impact Factor 0.832

24. Impact Factor 0.659
Impact Factor 0.748
Impact Factor 0.558

25. Thank you for your attention