Research Publications

• Publishing is a means by which one claims recognition of work done.
• Publishing your work through visible sources helps others to learn. By adding your experiences to the literature of the field, it helps to build the corpus of knowledge in your subject area.
• Publishing in journals can give your work visibility among other researchers in your field, outside of your immediate circle of contacts and colleagues. Publishing establishes you as a researcher and contributor to that field.
• Publishing in particular journals can be an essential component to advance your career, by meeting necessary assessment criteria and output performance targets.

• When you are in the early stages of your research and have some preliminary results to share, you may opt for a Conference or a short communication
• Publishing at a conference gives you a platform to register and claim your idea amongst the international research community
• Work can be published in a journal when it has progressed reasonably so that a logical conclusion on the same is possible. One should speak to his/her supervisor to understand whether the quality of work done permits publication in a good peer-reviewed journal.

One can identify a prospective journal by

• Reading relevant research papers (i.e., literature review). The reference section of a paper will give a lot of information on possible journals for the topic.
• Use the Journal Finder Tool / Websites.
• Indexing Databases (e.g., Google Scholar, Web of Science, Scopus, etc)
• Publishers Website
  Please refer to the following webpage for links to some journal finder webpages Here

Yes. One can publish a patentable work, by taking care to file your patent first and then publish. In case you wish to publish your work before filing the patent, be smart not to disclose confidential information.

Impact factor (IF) is a measure of the number of times an average paper in a journal is cited, during a year. Clarivate Analytics releases the Journal Impact Factors annually as part of the Web of Science Journal Citation Reports. Only journals listed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) receive an Impact Factor.

CiteScore is a metric for measuring journal impact in Scopus. The calculation of CiteScore for the current year is based on the number of citations received by a journal in the latest 4 years (including the calculation year), divided by the number of documents published in the journal in those four years. A primary difference between these two metrics is the period of time for the calculation; while the Journal Impact Factor calculates the metric using the two previous years as a basis for the citation count, CiteScore uses a four-year period.

Open access is a broad international movement that seeks to grant free and open online access to academic information, such as publications and data. A publication is defined as 'open access' when there are no financial, legal or technical barriers to accessing it - that is to say when anyone can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search for and search within the information, or use it in education or in any other way within the legal agreements.

Not necessarily. The journal website gives information about publication charges. These vary from journal to journal. Good-quality journals that operate on the subscription model (reader-pays for the article) do not charge the authors unless the authors want to publish in Open-access mode.

Once the paper is submitted through its electronic submission system, it undergoes a peer-review process. The opinion of a minimum of two reviewers is sought on the quality of work and its originality for a decision on the acceptance of the manuscript.

This process of peer review may take about 3 months to about a year depending on the journal policy, availability of reviewers, and type and complexity of the article.

With reference to a research paper:

A citation is a formal reference to a published or unpublished source that you consulted and obtained information from while writing your research paper.A direct quotation should be preceded by a short introduction. Identify the author and the source of informationFor example, in the paragraph below, Lai and Locatelli (2021) and Owens (2022)are papersthatare being cited for the reason of justifying a sentence.

“Lai and Locatelli (2021) determine merit measures such as the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) and LCoE for large-scale energy storage technologies. However, the use of LCoE is limited to a particular class of problems involving a regular cash inflow; thus, being deficient in the universality of application. Further, though measures such as NPV incorporate the time value of money and net cash flow over the entire project life, they cannot be applied easily to compare projects with unequal life spans (Owens 2002). “

With reference to your profile as a researcher:

Citation means the number of times your research paper is referenced by other researchers in their paper. Higher the number of citations, the greater is the credibility of the researcher.

Acknowledge your source when you use: a direct quotation, a statistic, someone else’s idea, concrete facts, information from the internet, illustrations, photos or charts (not your own), or information not commonly known.

If many facts from one source are contained in a paragraph, use one citation for all of them after the last fact or idea. At the outset, use a phrase to signal the reader that you are using a source, such as “according to…” The citation should be in the same paragraph as the source.

Plagiarism is the intentional/unintentional use of another’s words or ideas without acknowledgment. It is an unethical practice.

If in doubt, cite your source. To avoid plagiarism:

• Always give credit for facts, quotations, and opinions that are not common knowledge, even when expressed in your own words.
• Always give credit when you use another person’s wording, even a phrase. Use quotation marks.

Plagiarism amounts to a ‘fraud’ and is punishable under the Indian Copyright Act, 1957. As per section 63 of the Act, imprisonment from six months to three years is awardable on conviction.

A reference is a list showing the papers that one has cited. It is typically included at the end of the article. For the conference paper, you should give 20+ references, and for the Journal paper 30+. A good review paper for a journal should have 150+ references.