Publishing your research: What? How?

When?
Workshop on scholarly publication

Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember , Indonesia

Timo Bazuin
30 September 2021
The publisher’s role
How do Publishers add value to the scientific and health community?

• Registration
The timestamp to officially note who submitted scientific results first

• Certification
Perform peer-review to ensure the validity and integrity of submissions

• Dissemination
Provide a medium for discoveries and findings to be shared

• Preservation
Preserving the minutes and record of science for posterity

• Use

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Planning your article
Are you ready to publish?

New & Original

GO Refine results
Review subject

Outdated
Duplicated STOP
Incorrect
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 Some questions
• Have you done something new and interesting?
• Have you provided solutions to difficult problems?
• Have you checked the latest results?
• Have you verified the findings?
• Do your results fit - is the story complete?

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Planning Your Article
What makes a strong manuscript?

 Clear and useful message

 A logical manner
 Readers grasp the research

Editors, reviewers and readers all want to receive

well presented manuscripts that fit within the aims
and scope of their journal.

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Preparing your manuscript
Guide for Authors

 Find it on the journal homepage of the publisher, e.g. Elsevier.com

 Keep to the Guide for Authors in your manuscript
 It will save your time

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What type of manuscript are you planning?
Types of manuscripts

Full articles
• Substantial, complete and comprehensive pieces of research
Is my message sufficient for a full article?

Letters or short communications

• Quick and early communications
Are my results so thrilling that they should be shown as soon as possible?

Review papers
• Summaries of recent developments on a specific topic
• Often submitted by invitation

Your supervisor or colleagues are also good sources for

advice on manuscript types.

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Scientific Language – Overview
Write with clarity, objectivity, accuracy, and brevity.

Key to successful scientific writing is to be alert for common errors:

• Sentence construction
• Incorrect tenses
• Inaccurate grammar
• Not using English

Check the Guide for Authors of the target journal for language
specifications

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 January 2015

Structure of a research article

Introduction
Methods
Title Results and Discussion
Abstract
Conclusion
Keywords
Acknowledgements
References
Supporting materials

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Building an article

Title, Abstract, Keywords

Conclusion Introduction

Methods Results Discussion

Figures/Tables (your data)

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Methods

Describe how the problem

was studied

Identify equipment and

materials used

Include detailed information,

reproducible

Do not describe previously

published procedures

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Results
Include illustrations
and figures

Include only data

of primary importance

Highlight the
main findings

Should be clear and

easy to understand

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Discussion

Interpretation of
Results

The discussion should

correspond to the results

Compare published results

with your own

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Conclusion

Provide justification
for the work

Explain how your work

advances the field

Suggest future
Experiments

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References

Ensure you’ve absorbed the

material you reference

Do not use too many

references

Avoid excessive
self citations

Cited references should also Conform to the style in the

be in English journal’s Guide for Authors

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Introduction

Provide a brief context Address the

to the readers Problem

Identify the solutions Identify what the work is

and limitations trying to achieve

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The title

Joining by plastic deformation

Mori, K.-I., Bay, N., Fratini, L., Micari, F., Tekkaya, A.E.

No technical jargon or unfamiliar Identify the main

abbreviations Issue of the article

Concise, specific and Attract a reader’s

Informative Attention

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The abstract

As brief as possible,
one paragraph

Summarize the problem,

methods, results, etc.

Clearly written and

Easy to understand

Accurate, specific
and catchy

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The keywords
• Joining by plastic deformation
Mori, K.-I., Bay, N., Fratini, L., Micari, F., Tekkaya, A.E..

Should be Should use only

Specific established abbreviations
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Choosing the right journal
Best practices

 Aim to reach the intended audience for your work

 Choose only one journal, as simultaneous submissions are
prohibited
 Supervisor and colleagues can provide good suggestions
 Shortlist a handful of candidate journals, and investigate them:
• Aims
• Scope
• Accepted types of articles
• Readership
• Current hot topics
Articles in your reference list will usually lead you directly to the right
journals.

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 Authorship: Do’s and don’ts

General principles for who is listed first: Abuses to be avoided:

• First Author: Ghost Authors:
 Conducts and/or supervises the data analysis  Leaving out authors who should be
and the proper presentation and interpretation of included
the results
 Puts paper together and submits the paper to
journal Scientific Writers and Gift Authors:
 Including authors when they did not
• Co-Author(s): contribute significantly
 Makes intellectual contributions to the data
analysis and contributes to data interpretation
 Reviews each paper draft
 Must be able to present the results, defend the
implications and discuss study limitations

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 Authorship: Do’s and don’ts

General principles for who is listed first: Abuses to be avoided:

• First Author: Ghost Authors:
 Conducts and/or supervises the data analysis  Leaving out authors who should be
and the proper presentation and interpretation of included
the results
 Puts paper together and submits the paper to
journal Scientific Writers and Gift Authors:
 Including authors when they did not
• Co-Author(s): contribute significantly
 Makes intellectual contributions to the data
analysis and contributes to data interpretation
 Reviews each paper draft
 Must be able to present the results, defend the
implications and discuss study limitations

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Authorship: continued
• While there is no universal definition of authorship, an ‘author’ is
generally considered to be an individual who has made a significant
intellectual contribution to the study.
• The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors who
declared that an author must:
1. substantially contribute to conception and design, or acquisition of
data, or analysis and interpretation of data AND
2. draft the article or revise it critically for important intellectual content
AND
3. give their approval of the final version to be published all three
conditions must be fulfilled to be an author AND
4. Agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work related to the
accuracy or integrity of any part of the work.

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Key author responsibilities

 Report only real, unfabricated data

 Originality
 Declare any conflicts of interest
 Submit to one journal at a time

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The most serious issues to avoid
These are the 3 most common forms of ethical misconduct that the
research community is challenged with:
1. Fabrication
Making up research data
2. Falsification
Manipulation of existing research data
3. Plagiarism
Previous work taken and passed off as one’s own

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Multiple, redundant, or concurrent publication issues
 Should be avoided where manuscripts that describe essentially the
same research are published in more than one journal or primary
publication.
 An author should avoid submitting a previously published paper for
consideration in another journal.
 Duplication of the same paper in multiple journals of different
languages should be avoided.
 “Salami Slicing”, or creating several publications from the same
research, is manipulative and discouraged.

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Thank you!

Questions? Get in touch!

Timo Bazuin
Industrial Manufacturing and Engineering
Email: t.bazuin@elsevier.com