1. WORQ WORKSHOP How to Write International Quality Publications
Sheena Gardner 
&
Hilary Nesi

2. Aims:  To consider the process of writing for international publication - from the  generation of publishable ideas to article promotion, post publication. 
Peer review might seem like this for you.
Its not quite that but seems that way. Again, I hope this session will give you some more guidance on how it works behind the scenes.

3. Three minute task
What is the “Take Home Message” for your article?
Write one or two short sentences explaining this in a way that colleagues from other disciplines will be able to understand.

4. Workshop Outline
Part 1: Getting started break Part 2: Writing a research article Part 3: Submission, review and promotion

5. Part 1: Getting Started Understanding your contribution
Choosing an appropriate journal
Checking metrics and indices

6. Why do you want to publish your work?
Is it interesting?
Is it a current hot topic?
Have you provided solutions to some difficult problems?
Is the content sufficient (or too much) for a full article?
Do the results advance knowledge and understanding in your field?
Important! You have to be able to answer the question “so what?”

7. Select the best journal for you
Look at your references – what journals do they come from?
Who are the editors? Board members?
Have you heard of them?
What kind of articles do these journals publish?
Are they more theoretical or applied?
Are they more quantitative or qualitative?
Who do you think they are written for?
What are the ‘hot topics’? What is the scope of the journal?
Use the journal home page and SCImago

8. SCImago search result

9. SCImago search result

10. SCImago search result
The h-index measures productivity and citation impact based on the number of citations papers have received in other publications

11. SCImago search result
SJR measures the influence of a journal according to number of citations and the importance or prestige of the citing journals

12. SCImago search result
Studies in Higher Education is now in the 1st Quartile

13. SJR: SCImago Journal Rank

14. Subject Area Differences

15. Journal Impact Factor (IF)?

16. Do you want to publish Open Access?
Subscription 
Articles are made available to subscribers (also perhaps through access programs- e.g. to developing countries). 
Gold Open Access 
Articles are freely available to both subscribers and the wider public with permitted reuse. 
Green Open Access 
Free access to your article, via the journal’s open archive or self-archiving  

17. This may involve payment
Subscription 
Articles are made available to subscribers (also perhaps through access programs- e.g. to developing countries). 
Gold Open Access 
Articles are freely available to both subscribers and the wider public with permitted reuse. 
Green Open Access 
Free access to your article, via the journal’s open archive or self-archiving  

18. There may be a time delay! (embargo period)
Subscription 
Articles are made available to subscribers (also perhaps through access programs- e.g. to developing countries). 
Gold Open Access 
Articles are freely available to both subscribers and the wider public with permitted reuse. 
Green Open Access 
Free access to your article, via the journal’s open archive or self-archiving  

19. Summary: Steps to getting started
1. Identify your contribution (a paper is not a project)
2. Identify your audience
who wants to know what you have to say?
and have you cited their work?
3. Choose a target journal
Q1 or possibly Q2
check H-index (differs by discipline)
international or regional
single or multiple disciplines/ approaches
paper/ online/ open access
4. Next step: Check Author Guidelines and Published Articles