IMPORTANCE OF RESEARCH PUBLICATION

Prof. Ir. Dr. Hairul Azhar Abdul Rashid

PG Society Talk Series

22nd November, 2016

……. Don’t let it ruin your life!

CONTENTS1. Research Methodology

2. Motivation to publish

3. Types of Articles

4. Publication Checklist

5. Paper Writing: The Philosophy

6. The Writing Process Flow

7. Conclusion

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1. Research Methodology

• Scientific Method

• Comprises of 4 sequential phases– Analysis

– Hypothesis

– Synthesis

– Validation

• Applied iteratively and recursively

• To achieve task objective

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Scientific Method

Analysis

Synthesis

Validation

Hypothesis

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Research Process

• Modern Scientific Method

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Analysis

• Purpose:

– Gain clear and comprehensive understanding

– Establish the constraints

– Formulate specific objectives

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Hypothesis

• Specify detail and comprehensive solution

• Assert expected results

• Define factors that will be varied

• Measure against performance metrics

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Synthesis

• Implement the solution

• After rigorous experiment design considering

– Constraints

– Factors

• Results are composed

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Validation

• Performance is computed from results

• Appropriate conclusion is drawn

• Complete documentation

• Publication

• Peer review

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2. Motivation For Publishing

A document to report findings

A way to verify findings

A contribution to the advancement of science

A mode of knowledge sharing

A document of intellectual value

A proof of authors’ scientific credibility

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3. Types of Article Writing

Types of article writing

Popular articles

Research proposal

Report writing

Thesis writing

Conference/ Proceeding articles

Journal articles (Non-SCI)

Journal articles (SCI)

Journal articles (Impact Factor)

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Popular articles

Symbiosis

ISSN 1551-3426

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Popular articles

Synthesis, R&D Digest of UPM

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Conference Proceeding

Aerotech Conference ‘05

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Non SCI Journal

e.g.

Jurnal Mekanikal

Jurnal IEM

Jurnal Teknologi

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SCI Journal

Major current citation indexing services

Science Citation Index (SCI), and later expanding to produce the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI). The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) is now part of Thomson Scientific. (www.thomson.com OR scientific.thomson.com/products/wos/ )

For the list of SCI and Non SCI, Elsevier publishes Scopus andScience Direct, available online only, which similarly combines subject searching with citation browsing and tracking in the sciences and social sciences. Other publishers : Taylor & Francis, SpringerLink, Emerald, Blackwell Synergy, etc.

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SCI Journal (IF)

Composite Structure

Impact factor : 0.953

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4. Publication Check List

Establish a list of journals (SCI, Non SCI, IF)

Develop a publication plan

Organize writing retreats

Editing and publication

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ESTABLISHING LIST OF JOURNALS/CONFERENCES

- Citation index Journal

No Journal tittle IF Ranking Publisher website

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ESTABLISHING LIST OF JOURNALS/CONFERENCES

- Non Citation index Journal

No Journal tittle IF Ranking Publisher website

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ESTABLISHING LIST OF JOURNALS/CONFERENCES

- Conferences

No Journal tittle IF Publisher website

5. PAPER WRITING PHILOSOPHY

A paper contains:

• a report on (new) findings and/or solutions.

• Purpose is to convince the reader that yourfindings/solutions are– important

– and better (than the existing solutions).

The paper describes …

• What you are doing

• What problems you want to solve/reduce

• Why is it important

• What have you achieved

• How you achieved it

• Why you got such results (analysis)

• How much better is it?

6. WRITING PROCESS FLOW

1.Research Planning

2.Obtaining results

3.Organizing results

4.Planning for publication

5. Pre-submission review

6. Editing

7. Submitting

8. Correcting

6. WRITING PROCESS FLOW

The process …

1.Writing the title2.Writing the abstract3.Writing the introduction4.Writing the main contents

– Theory– Simulation/ Experiment– Results and Discussion

5.Writing the conclusion

Conclusion

• Have the right attitude to publishing

• Understand the game

• Play your game right

• Practice! Practice! Practice

Thank You

hairul@mmu.edu.my