1. The 1st. International Conference on Non-Communicable Diseases
Addressing the Challenges of NCDs Reaching SDGs,
28th. – 29th. August 2018,
Kigali, Republic of Rwanda.
Journal Impact Factors and Researcher h-index How to improve research quality?
by:
Asst. Prof. Dr.
Emad Kamil Hussein
Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University, ATU
Babylon, Iraq
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2. Asst. Prof. Dr. Emad Kamil Hussein
Journal Impact Factors and Researcher h-index How to improve research quality?
Asst. Prof. Dr. Emad Kamil Hussein
Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University
Al-Mussaib Technical College
Pumps Engineering Dept.
28th. August 2018

3. “The best way to predict the future is to create it” Abraham Lincoln
My present lecture will be based on the following international themes:
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Aims of Research
The Ultimate aims of research are to generate measurable and testable data, gradually adding to the accumulation of human knowledge
Ancient philosophers believed that all answers could be achieved through CONCLUSIONS and LOGIC rather than MEASUREMNET!
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5. Responsibilities of Researchers
1- Conducting research in collaboration with graduate students and other research colleagues.
2- Identify question/ gap in literature
3- Develop research design, procedures
4- Seek funding
5- Implement procedures.
Misbehavior !!!!
Gift Authorship
Plagiarism
Fabrication
Falsification
Conflict of Interest
Duplicate publication
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6. Main Elements of Publication Process
EDITING
BOARD
PUBLISHER
REVIEWER
RESEARCHER
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STD Format checker
2nd. Reviewer
Language checker
3rd. Reviewer
1st. Reviewer
Submitted paper
Plagiarism checker
Researcher
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8. Classification of Scientific Journals
Citation
Indexed Journals
Scopus
SJR
Thomson ISI
(Master Journal List)
Journal
Citation Reports
Eigen Factor
Non-Citation
Local J.
Commercial J.
New J.
Unknown J.
Predatory Journals !!!???
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Citation Indexed Journals BEER REVIWER HIGH CONTENT NOT OPEN ACCESS FREE OF CHARGE IN PB. NEED PAYMENT IN DL Non-Citation Indexed Journals NOT LOW CONTENT OPEN ACCESS NEED PAYMENT FOR PB. FREE OF CHARGE IN DL.
Predatory Journals !!!???
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10. Journal Classification Tools
For example:
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PLAGIARISM
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13. True Cost of Research Misconduct
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15. Most important websites for checking plagiarism
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16. Common Types of Evaluation Factors
Journals IF
h-index
Immediacy
g-index
e-index
delta-h index
delta-g index
i10. Index
h5th. Index
h10th. Index
others
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17. Common Trusted Publishers All over the World1
IEEE 6
SciTePress 2
ACM 7
SPIE 3
Springer 8
DBLP 4
Elsevier 9
LTLiberary 5
IET 10
IASTED
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18. WHAT IS IT? HOW TO CALCULATE IT?
JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR ,
WHAT IS IT? HOW TO CALCULATE IT?
The journal Impact Factor is the average number of times articles from the journal published in the past two years have been cited in the JCR year. The Impact Factor is calculated by dividing the number of citations in the JCR year by the total number of articles published in the two previous years.
IF(2015)= 𝑻𝑶𝑻𝑨𝑳 𝑪𝑰𝑻𝑨𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵 𝑰𝑵 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟓 𝑫𝑬𝑷𝑬𝑵𝑫𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑶𝑵 𝑷𝑼𝑩𝑳𝑰𝑺𝑯𝑬𝑫 𝑷𝑨𝑷𝑬𝑹𝑺 𝑰𝑵 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟑 & 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟒 𝑻𝑶𝑻𝑨𝑳 𝑵𝑼𝑴𝑩𝑬𝑹 𝑶𝑭 𝑷𝑼𝑩𝑳𝑰𝑺𝑯𝑬𝑫 𝑷𝑨𝑷𝑬𝑹𝑺 𝑰𝑵 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟑 & 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟒
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19. Researcher Status today !!!
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Journal Impact Factor
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The Immediacy Index
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The Cited Half-Life
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24. Prof.. Dr. Jorge Eduardo Hirsch
Researcher h-index A researcher has an index of h if h of their papers have been cited at least h times each. The h-index is an author-level metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar. The index is based on the set of the scientist's most cited papers and the number of citations that they have received in other publications.
The index was suggested in 2005 by Jorge Eduardo Hirsch, (born 1953) is an Argentine American professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego. UCSD, as a tool for determining theoretical physicists' relative quality and is sometimes called the Hirsch index or Hirsch number.
Prof.. Dr. Jorge Eduardo Hirsch
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A Geometrical Explanation of the e-index. The e-Index, Complementing the h-Index for Excess Citations.
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27. A Descartes Coordinate System for the h-e plane.
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28. Top Ranking h-index Scientist Around the world 2016
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29. Socially unlucky scientist with h-index of 37 !!??
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30. Predatory Open Access Journals & Publishing
In academic publishing, predatory open access publishing is an exploitative open-access publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors without providing the editorial and publishing services associated with genuine journals (open access or not). "Beall's List", a regularly updated report by Jeffrey Beall, sets forth criteria for categorizing predatory publications and lists publishers and independent journals that meet those criteria. Newer scholars from developing countries are said to be especially at risk of becoming the victim of these practices.
Jeffery Beall
Who coined the term "predatory publishing first time in 2010.
He is a Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Colorado Denver, USA. He is studying scholarly open-access publishing.
Prof. Dr. Jeffery Beall
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31. Examples of Predatory Journals
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32. Examples of Predatory Conferences
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33. Number of Predatory Journals Number of Predatory Publishers
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34. SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) www.scimagojr.com
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) is a measure of the number of times an average paper in a particular journal is cited, and as such is conceptually similar to the Impact Factor.
57 journals will no longer be indexed in Scopus in 2015 due to their non ethical behavior !!!
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35. International Top Ranking Countries 2016
Middle East Top Ranking Countries 2016
Jordan
Iraq
Turkey
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38. Comparison Between Four Middle East Countries 2016
Iran
Turkey
Jordan
Iraq
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World vs Middle East Shape of Science, The Shape of Science is an information visualization project whose aim is to reveal the structure of science.
Middle East Only
All over the World
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40. UNISCO INSTITUTE FOR STATISTICS - 2015
EXPENDITURE ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
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41. FINAL NOTES TO REMEMBER …
Impact Factor, Immediacy Index, etc., are meant to evaluate the world's leading journals
Never compare Impact Factor or other metrics across different disciplines, such as
Biophysics vs. Mathematics
Biomedical Engineering vs. Civil Engineering
Etc
Why?
Because different disciplines have different citation patterns!
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Conclusions
Journal Impact Factors will likely be around for a long time… the key is to understand how they work.
Don’t use Journal Impact Factors to evaluate individuals. Perhaps use h-index, instead?
Use multiple resources (Web of Science, Google Scholar, PsycInfo, Scopus, etc.) to find how many papers have cited your works.
When considering where to publish, besides Journal Impact Factor of the journal also consider:
1- International reach
2- Where or if it’s indexed
3- Openly accessible?
4- Readership numbers
5-Subject appropriateness
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43. Thank you so much for attention Any question please?
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