英文文章一般写法(杂志主编讲).ppt

Preparing your results for publication Hans Lambers School of Plant Biology The University of Western Australia Perth, Australia Editor-in-Chief of Plant and Soil Senior Author of Plant Physiological EcologyMember of (Advisory) Editorial Boards What to publish? Full-length articles are about 5,000 words: a series of experiments making a coherent story Short notes are about 200 words General rule: it is better to publish one solid paper than to split it into two or three short notes Articles in books and reports are less prestigious: publish your primary data in international journals Where to publish? Carefully select the right journal From which journals do you cite papers in your reference list? Which journals publish on a similar topic? Final decision Prestige (“impact factor”) Time to publish (check time between submission of the manuscript and publication) Your experience with a specific journal (attitude of reviewers and editors) What exactly is the “impact factor” (IF)? Put simply: IF is a rough indicator for the quality of a journal in a narrowly defined discipline, e.g., Agriculture Plant sciences Molecular biology It is silly to compare impact factors between disciplines, e.g., Ecology and Molecular Biology More accurately: IF is the number of citations of all papers published in a journal over two years divided by number of papers published in the preceding two years, e.g., IF for 2001: (number of citations in 2001+2000)/(number of papers published in 2000+1999) Plan your experiments in such a way that the data can be published Make sure you have a sound question (hypothesis) before you begin your research That hypothesis may not be the same you wish to use when publishing the data Research without a sound hypothesis is hard to write up, but … sometimes there are good reasons to make an “inventory” (no sound hypothesis required) Think three times before you start your experiments Data that have not been published do not exist! If you do not publish you