How to publish in high impact journals?

[Pages:32]How to publish in high impact journals?

Thomas Voets Laboratory of Ion Channel Research & TRP Research Platform Leuven (TRPLe)

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How to publish in high impact journals?

Next day - reality check...

Publishing research in high impact journals ? different perspectives

You: Funders: University: HI Journals:

"I want to publish in high impact journals because... ... I want my work to be widely read What about open access journals? ... I want to become a famous scientist ... I need it to get a (permanent) position ... I need it to get funding ... my mum would be so proud"

"We fund people that published in high impact journals because... ... it probably means that they did important research Probably? ... it provides an easy metric to compare researchers ... it is much faster than actually reading their papers ... they are more likely to publish again in HI Journals"

"We hire people that published in high impact journals because... ... it probably means that they did important research Probably? ... it provides an easy metric to compare researchers ... it is much faster than actually reading their papers ... they are more likely to attract funding"

"We want to publish papers that... ... represent important advances ... will be highly cited ... increase our next IF sell more copies"

Understanding the "logic" of a High Impact Journal

Logic? Fair??

More scientists more papers submitted

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Intercept Slope

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-391927.16912 52994.19637

200.25735 26.43094

Reduced Chi-Sqr

285026.6299

R-Square

0.79283

Pearson's r 0.89041

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