Research and Publication
This page is provided to support the research activities of USQ academics and to help facilitate publication. Further development and expansion of this page will occur frequently, as we locate new resources and respond to your evolving research needs. We encourage you to discuss your needs with your Faculty Liaison Librarian, or you may forward comments and suggestions to Ron Pauley.
Research Bibliography A subject listing of recent publications on research held in the USQ Library.
Where do I publish An excellent workshop from the University of South Australia covers:
- what a peer reviewed journal is, and why it is important
- how to find and choose a journal in which to publish your paper
- how to measure the quality of a journal
- what you need to do once you have chosen a journal
Journal Citation Reports For each journal indexed JCR provides:
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Number of articles published in the current year ('source items')
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The number of times any issue of the journal has been cited in the current year ('total citations')
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What publications a journal cites, and which journals cite it
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'Impact factor': the average number of current citations to articles that a journal has published in the
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previous two years
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'Immediacy index': the average number of times a journal's current articles are cited in the same year
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'Cited half-life': the number of journal publication years which account for 50% of the total citations received by the cited journal in the current year
Ulrich’s Periodical Directory When looking for journals in your areas try Ulrich’s, which provides users with essential serials bibliographic and access information that ranges from subscription rates to the latest web sites. It can be used to identify relevant, scholarly publications and the links to publishers, websites can be a source of information for intending authors. It also provides list of indexing services which cover each title; a valuable indication of accessibility to the wider research copmmunity.
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar also indicates citations, providing citation links , not only from journals, but also from web sites.
Articles on the significance of Journal Rankings
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You might like to read the commentary on 'Does one size fit all?'
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‘Journal Rankings - How much credence should we give them,?’
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A description of what is mean by Tier 1, 2 etc
http://www.isworld.org/csaunders/uq.htm
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Multidiscipline Journal Rankings
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The Journal Quality List, compiled and edited by Dr. Anne-Wil Harzing is published primarily to assist academics to target papers at journals of an appropriate standard. – Extensive
http://www.harzing.com/
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CiteSeer crawls and harvests academic and scientific documents on the web and uses autonomous citation indexing to permit querying by citation or by document ranking them by citation impact. It has over 700,000 documents, primarily in the fields of computer and information science and engineering.
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/
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ePrint Archives Add your articles and conference papers into USQ ePrints for increased use, citation and impact factor. For further information contact
Alison Hunter the ePrints co-ordinator.
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Other ePrint Archives including
Arrow (Australian Research Repositories Online to the World) can be access through
http://eprints.usq.edu.au
Be aware Web Citation Indexing is coming!
