Improving your paper’s chances for
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Knowing your Journals
- Wiley Journals in your Area -
An Overview of Wiley Journals
Top Quality Journals – 2012 JCR
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Top Physical Science Journals
14.829 ADVANCED MATERIALS
13.734 ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE
10.043 ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS
9.765 ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
9.583 MEDICINAL RESEARCH REVIEWS
7.976
7.823
7.735
7.712
7.475
LASER & PHOTONICS REVIEWS
SMALL
MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS
PROGRESS IN PHOTOVOLTAICS
CHEMSUSCHEM
Top Life Science Journals
17.949 ECOLOGY LETTERS
13.906 REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS
13.231 FEMS MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS
10.256 BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS
7.795 EMBO MOLECULAR MEDICINE
7.701 STEM CELLS
7.432 MOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES
7.304 JOURNAL OF PINEAL RESEARCH
7.223 GLOBAL ECOLOGY & BIOGEOGRAPHY
6.91 GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
Top Health Science Journals
153.459 CA-A CANCER JOURNAL FOR CLINICIANS
12.155 IMMUNOLOGICAL REVIEWS
12.003 HEPATOLOGY
11.193 ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY
7.615 REVIEWS IN MEDICAL VIROLOGY
7.585 JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY
7.477 ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM
6.87 OBESITY REVIEWS
6.455 JOURNAL OF INTERNAL MEDICINE
6.198 INT’L JOURNAL OF CANCER
Top Social Science Journals
5.422 J OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY & PSYCHIATRY
4.915 CHILD DEVELOPMENT
4.644 MILBANK QUARTERLY
4.4 CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY-SCIENCE &
PRACTICE
4.333 JOURNAL OF FINANCE
4.122 TRANS OF THE INST OF BRITISH
GEOGRAPHERS
3.823 ECONOMETRICA
3.799 JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES
3.702 PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY
3.628 DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE
Civil & Mech Engineering
Civil and Mech Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Microwave and
Optical Technology
Letters
Knowing your Journals
- Selecting and Following -
Prestige
Career
Advancement
High rejection rate
Papers triaged
Delay due to time before final rejection
Some have idiosyncratic style
Your success depends on knowing more than a journal’s IF!
Selecting Your Key Journals
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Rejection Rates for Wiley Journals
Acceptance Rate
Rejection Rate
Immediate Rejection
2010
21%
72%
40%
2011
21%
74%
42%
2012
19%
77%
47%
Communicate your paper's
relevance
Communicate Effectively
http://wileyeditingservices.com
Communicate your paper’s relevance
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Understand how reviewers evaluate
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Reviewer Comments
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Take Heart: Nobody’s Perfect
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Peer Review Survey 2009: Preliminary Findings
senseaboutscience.org.uk
Promote your research
Maximize the impact of your research
Discoverability Top of search
results
Prestige for
both article
and journal
and author
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Usage
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Citations
From “Maximize the impact of your research paper” by Jaslyn Tan
The Importance of SEO
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http://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileyblackwell/pdf/SEOforAuthorsLINKSrev.pdf
Search Engine Optimization
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More Examples
http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/seo.asp
More Examples
http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/seo.asp
Search Engine Optimization
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http://adwords.google.com/ko/KeywordPlanner/Home
http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/rank-checker/
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http://exchanges.wiley.com/blog/2013/07/23/search-engine-optimization-and-your-journal-articledo-you-want-the-bad-news-first/
http://exchanges.wiley.com/blog/2013/10/29/seo-part-ii-keywords-and-lady-gagas-sunglasses/
Use Social Media
Share your paper via
email and social media
From “Maximize the impact of your research paper” by Jaslyn Tan
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Disseminate Your Work
• Send 10 free PDF files to your
colleagues to enhance
discoverability
P.S….
• Add a link to your article on
your email signature line and
link through to the Abstract.
• Add links to your articles on your
own website, your institution’s
site or repository, bulletin boards,
discussion lists, blogs, etc.
From “Maximize the impact of your research paper” by Jaslyn Tan
Improving Citations
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From “Maximize the impact of your research paper” by Jaslyn Tan
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Three core steps for authors
step 2
step 3
Authors write plain
English descriptions to
explain their work:
Authors add links to
resources to add value to
their work:
Authors share links to
their articles within their
networks:
•Short title
•Lay summary
•Impact statement
•Videos
•Images
•Blog entries …
•Email
•Facebook
•Twitter
step 1
Metadata widely
deposited to increase
article discovery&
inbound links
Increase in
inbound links;
enriched reader
experience
Kudos dashboard shows
impact to authors,
publishers
& institutions
Resources
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http://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileyblackwell/pdf/SEOforAuthorsLINKSrev.pdf
http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/seo.asp
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http://materalsviewschina.cn
Wiley China Blog
http://blog.sciencenet.cn/u/WileyChina
Improving your paper’s chances for
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