R&D_Tips

Research and Publication for the Better
Development– Tips for Beginners
Dr. SUBASH THANAPPAN
(Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, School of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, Ambo University, Ambo, Ethiopia).
Email id: thanappansubash@gmail.com, subash.thanappan@ambou.edu.et

Guidelines for selecting the appropriate journal for publication
The research work/project work of a student or a faculty member will be
recognized if their work is prepared as a research article and submitted to an
appropriate standard journal for publication. This section clarifies the various terms
in research such as
Referred journals
Impact factor of a journal
h-index and citation index
Frequently asked questions
1. What is research?
Research is the scientific and systematic investigations to establish facts and to
reach new findings and conclusion.
2. Where the themes for the research can be searched?
DOAJ, SCOPUS, DELNET, Citeseer, Google Scholar and Sci-hub.
3. What is meant by citation?
A word or piece of writing taken from a written work. In research, citation is
narrating the entire article in 2 or 3 sentences.
4. Where the standard abbreviation for technical words used in the research
articles can be searched?
http://www.issn.org/2-22661-LTWA-online.php?search=Expert
5. What is SCOPUS?
SCOPUS is a database for research articles, which covers more than 20,000 peer
reviewed research articles from more than 5,000 journals. It is owned by Elsevier.
6. What is Impact Factor?
An index reflecting the average number of citations to the recent articles published
in that journal prepared yearly.
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7. What is Science Citation Index (SCI)?
SCI is a database for research articles, which covers less than 1,000 journals.
Expanded list of SCI (SCI-E) covers around 6,500 journals.
Owned by Thomson Reuters.
8. What is ISSN?
ISSN is expanded as "International Standard Serial Number". It is a unique 8–digit
number to identify print or electronic version of a journal Example:
IJAMT 2608 4573
IJPR 2391 7402
ESwA 4183 8294
9. What is "doi"?
"doi' is expanded as Digital Object Identifier. It is a unique alpha-numerical index
to identify International standard for document identification Example
doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2011.11.110
10. What is h-index?
H-index is an index that measures both productivity and quality of an
author/scientist/scholar suggested by John E.Hirsch. The features of h-index are:
Not only more number of publications
Articles published should be cited by other authors
Published articles not referred by other is a waste
Request your friends to cite your article in his reference
Self-citation is also allowed to some extent
H-index reflects both number of publications & number of citations per publication
11. What are the most standard research databases that index quality journals in
their database?
Scopus – Discipline : Multidisciplinary Journals
Database Provider : Elsevier
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Web of Science – Discipline : Multidiscipinary Journals
Database Provider : Clavariate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters)
PubMed – Discpline : Medicine, Biological Science
Database Provider : NIH
ERIC(Education Resources Information Center)-Discipline: Education Science
Database Provider : U.S. Department of Education
12. For Engineering discipline, which research databases have indexed quality
journals?
For the faculty of Engineering, Humanities & Sciences and Management the
following research databases are recommended:
Scopus
Web of Science
13. What are the metrics used for assessing the quality of the journals?
The quality of a journal is assessed by the following metrics:
Impact Factor – the metric used in Web of Science indexed journals
CiteScore – the metric used in Scopus indexed journals
14. How an impact factor of the journal is calculated by Clavariate?
An impact factor is the measure of the quality of a journal. This is calculated by
the number of citations (references) received by the journal, from other journals
within the Web of Science database.
Not all journals have impact factors. They must be indexed in Web of Science to
have an impact factor
15. How a Journal Cite Score is calculated by Elsevier?
Cite Score of a journal for the current year is calculated by the average number of
citations received by all the research articles published in that journal in the
preceding three years.
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List of Journals referred by IGCE
• UGC CARE LIST OF JOURNALS
https://ugccare.unipune.ac.in/Apps1/User/WebA/CAREList
(To search for the journals you have to create an account and login)
ANNA UNIVERSITY REFERRED JOURNALS
https://cfr.annauniv.edu/research/regulation/journal-list-04072019
SCOPUS INDEXED JOURNALS
https://www.scopus.com/sources.uri?DGCID=Scopus_blog_post_check2015
WEB OF SCIENCE INDEXED JOURNALS
https://mjl.clarivate.com/collection-list-downloads
(To search for the journals you have to create an account and login)
ADDITIONAL WEB OF SCIENCE INDEXED JOURNALS
https://mjl.clarivate.com/collection-list-downloads
(To search for the journals you have to create an account and login)
Online Plagiarism Checker
Urkund.com
Duplichecker.com
Quetext.com
Smallseotools.com
For more details, Read the below article……..!!!
Dr. Subash Thanappan, A Proven map to success with Engineering Research and
Dissertation, Int. J. of Sci. and Research, vol 8(12), pp. 1772-1777, 2019.
Email id: thanappansubash@gmail.com, subash.thanappan@ambou.edu.et