1. Bryan Coad Research Fellow Ian Wark Research Institute University of South Australia 18 th July 2013 Publishing during your PhD and during your post-doc

2. UniSA Post-docs PhD Introduction Publishing in the Natural Sciences Mawson Institute My Background Research Physical chemistry Materials science

3. UniSA A qualitative story about your research interests. What a publication record should be... A quantitative measure Number of publications Impact factor of journal Number of citations Authorship position “Currency” of Academia How your publication record tends to be viewed Why Publish? When to publish? Where to publish? How to develop your style. Tips Key issues Publication Metrics

4. UniSA Get your results out there Ask yourself: Why do you do experiments? Establish yourself in the field In science, publications are still the best way to do this (compared to conferences etc.) Currency of academia: key performance indicators, grant writing Why publish?

5. UniSA Writing starts with reading so read every day Academic writing is a learned skill, therefore you must practice Time management: make time to read and to write Write every day (practice) Get into the habit of writing Developing as an author

6. UniSA Post Doc Should always be writing or thinking about writing Start the “paper” before starting the experiment Gets you thinking of the potential pitfalls before you start experiments Think as a referee: “What is the weakest part of the proposed research” Pitfalls: “Does it rely heavily on assumptions?” PhD Student Start Now! Even if you are still collecting data / conducting experiments Early PhD: Write a review paper (chapter 1 of your thesis) Mid PhD: Write your methods section, chapter introductions – a little bit every day Late PhD: Put together journal publications When to publish?

7. UniSA Open access journals? Best strategy is to find inspiration from leaders or mentors in your field. Publish in the journals where they publish. Where to publish? Engineering – more focussed on presenting at conferences – conference abstracts Applied science: may be more important to publish in a journal with high peer readership – not necessarily high impact In natural sciences: tend to publish in the best (highest impact) journal relevant to the topic

8. UniSA Publication style Authorship role Collaborations Find the best / your favourite paper in your field and analyse what makes it good Publishing strategies quality vs. quantity? “Salami” publications?

9. UniSA Ask you supervisor if there is anything you can write up Top 5 Tips for Authors Read with a pen in your hand (or PDF mark-up tools) and assess critically Become a journal peer-reviewer Archive read publications in your reference management software See if you can negotiate time at the end of your post- doc to finish papers – otherwise, they might never get written