This document discusses reasons for publishing research, including to get a job or funding and share findings. It outlines tools for evaluating journals, such as ISI, Scopus, Google Scholar, and Beall's List. The reliability of scientific journals is determined by policy from higher education institutions. Web of Science and Scopus are the most widely accepted indexed journals globally. The document provides a brief history of Clarivate Analytics and its tools for analyzing research trends over time.
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Basics about publication in reliable journals
2. Why you do publishing?
The main reason in our region is
Getting job
Get Funding
Share your finding with other researchers in your field.
3. ISI (Clarivate)
Scopus
Google Scholar
Bealls list
Predatory
journals
Questionable
journals..etc.
4. Reliability of scientific journals are determined by the policy of
scientific body of the local region such as the ministry of higher
education or any other institution responsible for researches
issues.
Usually Web of science and Scopus are the only indexed journal
which receive acceptance by almost all global institutions.
5. subscription-based
services focused
largely on analytics,
including scientific
and academic
research, patent
analytics, regulatory
standards, trademark
protection,
pharmaceutical and
biotechnology
intelligence
6. 6
The rich heritage starts in the 1950s with the visionary work of Dr. Garfield
and the field of scientometrics.
BIOSIS founded
by Society of
Bacteriologists
and Botanical
Society
Zoological
Record (ZR)
founded by
Zoological
Society of
London
and British
Museum
Dr. Eugene
Garfield
invents citation
indexing and
searching
Journal
Citation
Report
launched
ISI founded
1864 1926
1955 1957
1973 1992
1997
2016
2017
Thomson
acquires ISI
Web of
Science
launched
Clarivate
Analytics
launched,
following sale
of Thomson
Reuters
Intellectual
Property and
Science
business
Publons
acquired
2015
ESCI
launched
2011
Book
Citation
Index
launched
2014
InCites
launched
8. reviewed journal literature,
trade journals, books, patent
records, and conference
publications. It provides
tools for tracking, analyzing,
and visualizing search
results. Over 24,000 titles
from 5,000 publishers
worldwide
10. Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search
engine that indexes the full text or metadata
of scholarly literature across an array of publishing
formats and disciplines. Released in beta in
November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes
most peer- reviewed online academic journals and
books, conference
papers, theses and dissertations, preprints, abstracts,
technical reports, and other scholarly literature,
including court opinions and patents
12. Forty-five percent of the journals originated in Asia and Africa (27% in
India alone) and 25% in North America and Europe; more than three-
quarters of the authors were from Asia and Africa. The average
author fee was $178 (US), whereas fees from reputable open-access
journals can be up to several thousand dollars. The average time from
submission to publication for journals of all disciplines was 2.7
months, which is substantially less than the more than 12 months for
other open-access journals, which have more rigorous peer-review
processes (Vakil, 2019)