Before you Begin: How to Publish in High Quality Scientific Journals: 101 Hints and Tips (#0005)

This article is an extract from the above book. See the end of the article for more information.

Whether you are a published author already, or just starting out, there are a few things that you should do. As your academic career develops it is nice to have certain tools and resources at your disposal, and more importantly, so that other people have the ability to find and access your work. You could wait and do many of the things in this section later, but as your life gets busier and busier, you may struggle to find the time. Better to do it now, so that a basic infrastructure is in place.

People will often search for you on the internet. We don’t know when people are searching for us, what they are looking for and what opportunities those searches might lead to. They might be reviewing a paper of yours, they might want to cite one of your papers, they might be looking for a keynote speaker or they might want to offer you a job. Whatever the reason, you should be easy to find and, once found, what is seen, should be up to date and looking professional.

As an experiment, go Google yourself. What turned up? Was your home page at the top of the search results? Were you in the top ten entries? If you have common name, try Googling your name and affiliation. Did you do any better?

You need to be easy to find. If somebody types in your name and, optionally, your affiliation, they should be able to find you. If they can’t then some of the hints and tips should go some way to resolving that. It may take Google (other search engines are available) a while to catch up, so the sooner you do this the better.

The hints and tips in this first section won’t necessarily help you write better papers, but they will help people that are reviewing your papers, as well as helping other areas of your academic exposure which will help as your career develops.

Other hints and tips in this section will also give you a good foundation from which to write better papers. If nothing else, these hints and tips will save you time and energy as you write those high-quality journal papers.

You can see the previous article here. You can view the next article here.

Book

This series of articles are extracts from the above book. I aim to publish an article each week. Over time, I will publish most of the book on LinkedIn. To get through the entire book is likely to take about 70 weeks.

More information about this series of articles is given in the brief introduction before we started publishing material from the book.

If you are interested in finding more about the book, take a look at its homepage.

If you want to order the Kindle version of the book from Amazon, take a look at this page.

There is a Table of Contents for this series of articles here.

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