THE ART OF CONDUCTING

RESEARCH
WRITING A RESEARCH PAPER
FOR HIGH IMPACT FACTOR
JOURNALS

Dr Zahoor Sarwar
CEO Research Teck (pvt) Ltd
 WHAT IS
RESEARCH
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 Research is undertaken within a
framework of a set of philosophies,
RESEARCH uses procedures, methods and
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techniques that have been tested for
their validity and reliability, and is
designed to be unbiased and objective

Research Methodologies
Ranjit Kumar(2009)
 WHY
RESEARCH
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 WHY RESEARCH
RESEARCH
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PUBLICATIONS
 How Nations
RESEARCH
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RESEARCH
POPULATIONOF
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China
India
Pakistan
Bangladesh
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WHO IS
Responsible???
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3 BEST METHODS
TO PUBLISH
Read
From where to extract good quality
Knowledge?????
Read a Book

Use Internet

Ask a Friend
Read Journal Papers
and Conferences Proceedings

Ask a Consultant
SET YOUR TARGET

Three options available

 Conference Paper
 Conference Paper ( for a well recognized forum
e.g. IEEE)
 Journal Paper
(at least one or more international publications)
TYPE OF SUBMISSIONS
• Feature Article (present important new research results of broad
significance)
• Reviews/Essays (describe new developments of broad significance
and highlight unresolved questions and future directions
• Briefs (are brief analyses focusing on a specific topic or question
using new data or existing databases)
• Technical Comments (discuss articles published)
• Commentaries
• Policy
• Letters
• Books
 50 Top Ranked Journals IS Field
1 MIS Quarterly 21 IEEE Trans on Sys, Man, & Cyb
2 Information Systems Research 22 ACM Computing Surveys
3 Communications of the ACM 23 Journal on Computing
4 Management Science 24 Academy of Management Journal
5 Journal of MIS - 25 Int'l J of Electronic Commerce
6 Artificial Intelligence 26 Journal of the AIS
7 Decision Sciences 27 IEEE Transactions on Computers
8 Harvard Business Review 28 Information Systems Frontiers
9 IEEE Transactions (various) 29 Journal of Management Systems
10 AI Magazine 30 Organization Science
11 European Journal of IS 31 IEEE Computer
12 Decision Support Systems 32 Information Systems Journal
13 IEEE Software 33 Administrative Science Quarterly
14 Information & Management 34 J of Global Info Management
15 ACM Transactions on DB Sys 35 The DB for Advances in IS
16 IEEE Trans on Software Eng 36 Journal of Database Management
17 ACM Transactions (various) 37 Information Systems
18 J of Computer and System Sci 38 Academy of Management Review
19 Sloan Management Review 39 Journal of the ACM
20 Communications of the AIS 40 Computers & Operations Research
41 Human-Computer Interaction
42 California Management Review
43 Information Technology & People
44 Journal of Strategic IS
45 Journal of Global IT Management
46 ACM Transactions on IS
47 Informing Science
48 Journal of Information Management
49 Operations Research
50 Journal of Computer IS
List of Journals
• ABS (UK)
• AERES (France)
• Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC)
• Quality Journal List
• BFI (Denmark)
• CNRS (France)
• ESSEC (France),
• FNEGE (France)
• JourQUAL 2.1 (Germany)
• NSD (Norway)
• CORE (Australia)
• HEC Recognized Journals List
What is the Criteria??????????
• Scopus, Thomson Reuters (ISI)

• Scimago

 Impact Factor
 H Index
 Eigen Value
 Article Influence
 Scimago Value
 Data Bases
 ProQuest (ABI/INFORM)
 Elsevier (ScienceDirect)
 IEEE (Comp Soc & Xplore)
 ACM (Digital Lib)
 Blackwell (Synergy)
 Free Full Text Web Access
 EBSCOhost
 LEA Journals
 Wilson (OmniFile)
 Thomson (G. Bus, OneFile)
 INFORMS
 JSTOR
 SPRINGERLINK (EMERALD)
Internet Exercises
Using ZOTERO
Which format to use
 IEEE for conference paper
 APA/Harvard for journal paper

Length of the Paper

 5-6 pages for conference paper
 14-20 pages for journal paper
Major Portions of a Paper
 Abstract
 Introduction
 Literature Review
 Research Methodology
 Findings
 Conclusions and Future Research
 Recommendations
 References
What is an Abstract ?

How to write an Abstract ?

Purpose of this paper What are the reason (s) for writing the paper
or the aims of the research?
Design/methodology/appr How are the objectives achieved? Include
oach the main method (s) used for the research.
What is the approach to the topic and what
is the theoretical or subject scope of the
paper?
Findings What was found in the course of the work?
This will refer to analysis, discussion, or
results.
Research If research is reported on in the paper this
limitations/implications (if section must be completed and should
applicable) include suggestions for future research and
any identified limitations in the research
process.
Practical implications What outcomes and implications for practice,
(if applicable) applications and consequences are
identified? Not all papers will have practical
implications but most will. What changes to
practice should be made as a result of this
research/paper?
What is original/value of What is new in the paper? State the value
paper of the paper and to whom.
Research
Methodology
 Concentrate on two steps

 Data collection
 Data Analysis
How to do Data Collection
STEP 1
 Which data collection tool to use?
 Only internationally accepted data
collection tools (questionnaires) should
be used (due to Reliability and Validity
constraints)
 Beginners can go for Quantitative
tools (make your life simple)
STEP 2
 Modify the questionnaire as per
Pakistani environment

STEP 3
 Collect a sample of 50 only for
pilot study (use easy topic)
STEP 4
 If pilot study is successful go for
field survey or case study

STEP 5
 Determine an appropriate sample
size and select an appropriate
sampling Technique
What should be
the Sample Size ?
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