Publish and Flourish

Scientometrics

This study aims to determine the cognitive, social, physical, and affective barriers that prevent academics from publishing and the enablers suggested to overcome these barriers. The study, using the phenomenological research method, involved semi-structured interviews conducted with 41 academicians differing in gender, branch, age, and experience. The deductive analysis of the obtained data showed that the academicians had cognitive difficulties especially in writing the IMRAD sections and writing in English. Their social barriers were found to include the difficulty of journal evaluation processes, the problems experienced in carrying out collaborative studies, and educational, administrative, and family responsibilities. The physical barriers included problems about time management, data collection process, and infrastructure. Lastly, the main affective barriers were not being in the right mood for writing, thinking that studies do not contribute to real life, fear of rejection, lack of self-confidence, and perfectionism. The academicians suggested various enablers, such as finding a good research topic, improving one's English language skills, cooperating, and insisting on acceptance.

How to Practice Academic Medicine and Publish from Developing Countries?, 2021

Although India has 1.3 billion inhabitants, which is 17.7% of the world’s population, it contributes only1.6% of all the articles to the medical literature (1998–2008) [1, 2]. The top two countries with the largest number of scientific publications are the United States and China. The other countries that are at the top after they are the United Kingdom, Japan, and Germany (Fig. 3.1). There is, however, a large difference between the number of papers published by America and other top countries. Although India ranked among the top 20 countries based on the number of publications from 2008 to 2012 [2]. It produced much fewer papers than the world’s leading nations.

Journal of Social Work Education

Over the past several years I have had the delightful opportunity to collaborate with other journal editors on presentations related to publishing at the Council on Social Work Education Annual Program Meetings and the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference. To disseminate what we hope is sage advice that we give in these presentations to a wider audience, I have invited them to collaborate with me on this editorial on writing for publication in peer-reviewed journals. We know that writing is work and is often hard. In fact, Thomas Hood is credited for lamenting, "easy reading is d-d [damned] hard writing" (1837, p. 287). Scholars strive for accurate, informative, interesting, stimulating, and readable text. Writing as a process and pursuit is time consuming and often simultaneously satisfying and daunting. Academics, in particular, face the persistent certainty of and demand to produce a variety of written work. However, manuscripts bound for peer review likely make up a bulk of our writing endeavors. By now, most of us know when we like to write, perhaps in the morning with a cup of coffee, at the end of the workday, or when all other chores are completed. Needless to say, we may know when we feel it is our best time to write, yet the reality is that we often can't find the time to write when we feel like it. Writing is an emotional process for many of us because written words represent our thoughts, logic, and position. Once published, they are like immovable billboards over highways. And if you are writing an academic manuscript, you know that your written work will be judged and reviewed by unknown peers. It is not surprising that the thought of writing can induce panic, anxiety, and a severe case of procrastination. Yet, writing for publication is a key metric used to evaluate and promote your professional career. There is no set rule or schedule for writing. Some authors will advise writing for an hour or two every day or writing a page each day. Others may suggest setting aside specific days or time periods for writing. Some insist that writing in the early morning can be the most productive, whereas late-night writing works better for others. Rather than relying on another author's writing schedule, it is important to find the days and times that are most productive for you. And this is the starting point-you must write! We all likely have experienced looking at a blank page realizing that it represents exactly what is in our minds at that time. However, if you put your fingers on the keyboard, more often than not, some words will flow. Face the blank page! It is not a mirror, it's just a blank page. Type your name, type your draft title, and type the date; you have started writing. Equally important as starting to write, however, is to have something to write about. An important distinction between just writing and writing for publication is that the latter must have relevance for the professional field, whether it is advancing social work practice, disseminating research findings, promoting advocacy efforts, or informing social work education. Fortunately, a variety of manuscript types are publishable. Some may be based on research, others may be a theoretical or conceptual piece, possibly a case study for student edification, or even a reflective piece based on your practice. Although these are just a few of the various types of manuscripts you may be thinking about writing, you must decide if the work you want to write about is publishable. You might ask yourself the following: Does it bring new knowledge to the field? Is it about a new and emerging area? Can you offer a new or unique way to address an educational situation or think about a social problem or policy? Will your research findings or ideas generate new promises for

Social Science Research Network, 2023

Context and Purpose: The increased focus of higher education institutions on research andlatelyon societal challenges and real-world problems, the importance of academic rankings for financing and international competitions and the research and publication oriented professional advancement criteria transformed academics into publishing hunters. The world of academic publishing is wild and dangerous, due to the massification of research. Aims and objectives are often confounded with means, quantity and quality (already difficult to assess) don't always walk together, stakeholders have conflicting interests, the old linear models of publishing are replaced with intricate looped and interconnected ones, leading to academics publishing more and achieving lessespecially from a societal perspective. The aim of the present study is to summarize the main challenges of the publishing process, together with the pathways chosen by academics to overcome these difficulties. Design/methodology: A meta-analysis of recent studies on academic publishing was performed, together with a nethnographic exploratory approach on publishing patterns in economics and business; informal talks with academics from business and economics fields from several Eastern EU higher education institutions were used, as well. Findings: The inventory of challenges includes individual factors (personality and individual morale, goals, knowledge and status, preferences and habits), institutional factors (university and strategy level), social structures and infrastructural level factors (open access, technological disruptive innovations, new social contract for research, preprints), as well as professional culture type of factors (peer-review issues and various biases, alternative research assessment methods, predatory journals, predatory informal rules). Several pathways chosen by academics were observed, leading to hypotheses formulation for future research. Limitations: The study is exploratory, based on a conventional sample of academics for the empirical part and has an emic, potentially subjective approach. Originality/value: The study touches a delicate and controversial subjectacademic publishingand brings together both positive and negative aspects for existent pathways, offering a ground for future research.

Handbook on student development: advising, career …, 1987

1996

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Annals of Journalism and Mass Communication

Going public with publication, surmounting the difficulties and pressures of quantity and quality to fiercely vie for raises, more academic visibility and fame as well as promotions is mostly what drives researchers all over the world particularly university professors. Regardless of the increasing power these forces exercise to publish, few academics actually do. Accordingly, the aim of the present study is to get to the type of sources that push and the hurdles that deter Moroccan research-active academics to yield or to fight back and publish in internationally indexed journals, the way they deal with publish or perish factors, such as stress, burnout, and satisfaction, and the perceived conflict between the teaching profession and research. Though this emerging publish-or-perish culture has ravaged the academic world and classified universities on a scale from the best to the weakest, in Morocco this culture is still not bothering people in charge of higher education especially that the best Moroccan university,

Nepal Journal of Epidemiology, 2012

ABSTRACT It is clear that academic dissemination has a system of checks and balances which authors may experience as barriers. We all want to be sure that scientific information disseminated in academic journals is based on solid data, ethically collected and correctly interpreted. The process of peer reviewing helps to prevent bad science and/or poor scientific papers being published. Many published scientific papers differ from the original submitted manuscript since papers go through a process of peer-review, editing and rewriting. However, there are other potential obstacles in the field of academic publishing. This paper is a case-study of one methods paper which stumbled upon a number of barriers related to the viability and continued existence of a number of academic journals in Nepal. Finally, we offer some advice to help health journals to survive when their editors leave.

LOGOS: Journal of the World Book Community, 2007