Importance of research publication, what, why and how to

1. IMPORTANCE OF
RESEARCH PUBLICATION
Prof. Ir. Dr. Hairul Azhar Abdul Rashid
PG Society Talk Series
22nd November, 2016

2. ……. Don’t let it ruin your life!

3. CONTENTS
1. 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 and
Science 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

26. 5. PAPER WRITING PHILOSOPHY
A paper contains:
• a report on (new) findings and/or solutions.
• Purpose is to convince the reader that your
findings/solutions are
– important
– and better (than the existing solutions).

27. 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?

28. 6. WRITING PROCESS FLOW
1.Research Planning
2.Obtaining results
3.Organizing results
4.Planning for publication

29. 5. Pre-submission review
6. Editing
7. Submitting
8. Correcting
6. WRITING PROCESS FLOW

30. The process …
1.Writing the title
2.Writing the abstract
3.Writing the introduction
4.Writing the main contents
– Theory
– Simulation/ Experiment
– Results and Discussion
5.Writing the conclusion

31. Conclusion
• Have the right attitude to publishing
• Understand the game
• Play your game right
• Practice! Practice! Practice

32. Thank You
hairul@mmu.edu.my