1. Writing scientific papers and publishing your research
1) Writing a paper helps you identify missing information
2) Helps develop new ideas
3) Documents your discoveries
4) Communicates your results to your peers
5) Allows your work to be judged
6) Provide new methods to other scientists.

2. Stages in writing Research Write the introduction, thesis & hypotheses
Write-up experimentals as you do research
Find citations and build bibliography for paper
Write up results & begin to discuss
Identify journal(s) for publication
Go to instruction to authors page and get specific requirements for journal
Run manuscript through spelling and grammar check software
Submit manuscript online

3. Picking Publications Peer reviewed academic
More
Peer reviewed academic
publications (e.g. Nature Chemistry)
Symposium proceedings
(peer reviewed, e.g. MRS proceedings)
Government of Industrial Reports (e.g. Los Alamos National Lab Reports or LANL Reports)
Symposium proceedings (not reviewed, e.g. Polymer Preprints)
importance
less

4. Picking journal: Example
For a Polymer synthesis project
Potential journals: Macromolecules, Macro Letters, Journal of Polymer Chemistry, Polymer, Chemistry of Materials, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Polymer Bulletin.
Look up Journal Citation reports
Pick highest impact journal you can.
Got to journal webpage and get instructions to author or word template.

6. Journal Citation Reports
Rate journals based on citation impact: how many times people cite papers published in journal

7. Select category of interest: Polymer Science

8. List journals as function of impact factor
Review
Review
The larger the number the greater the impact having a paper in the journal will be.

9. Journal Citation Impact Rankings for multidisciplinary Chemistry

10. How to use Citation Impact
Publish in as high an impact journal as possible to disseminate your work to greatest audience
Measure quality of work partly based on journal it is in (not perfect – but useful)
The citation impact of the journals in which you publish has direct influence on evaluations of performance.

12. Pick Journal and get instructions
Journal website
Instructions to author
Word template with correct formatting
Online submission
Manuscript
your word that you have not published any of the work in another journal
List of keywords
List of professionals who are suitable referees for the paper
Letter to editor detailing why this paper is suitable

13. Paper review 3 professionals review paper
Decide if it is worthy of publishing
may reject, accept as is, or accept with revisions
If your paper is rejected, you may write the editor to contest the decision.
If not successful, submit to another journal after making changes to deal with reviewers complaints.

14. Impact of an author Number of papers published
Journals in which you publish (impact factors)
Number of times your papers have been cited by others work.
Hirsch Number or index

15. Hirsch Index
measures both productivity and impact of publications of an author
List all of an authors papers ranked by the number of citations
Number them from 1 at the top.
The point on the list where the number of the paper exceeds the number of citations is the Hirsch index.

17. Hirsch index = 28

18. Study Guide Name of five Chinese Chemistry journals
Describe how the Hirsch index is determined (from number of citations and numbers of papers)
What is the Journal Citation Report and what does it tell you about a paper (Impact of journal)
How do you find out what a journals manuscript requirements are in order to publish a paper in it. (Instructions to authors)
What is peer review? The technical review of your manuscript by experts to determine if it is worthy of publication.
How can you proof your manuscript for spelling and grammar? Hire an English major. Use a software reviewer like “grammarly.”
Plus review internet terms form first quiz.