For Authors
We have compiled some handy resources on publishing.
- Authorship Guidelines
Define authors before you start a paper and follow the guidelines from the International Council of Science Editors on who is an author. http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/services/atf_whitepaper.cfm#4
- Type of Article
Is this an original article, review article, perspective, opinion piece? You need to define the scope of the paper.
- Which Publication to Target?
Know what publication you would like to write for and follow the authorship guidelines. In selecting a journal, consider these factors:- What is the impact factor of the journal?
Check: Definition in Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.
Check: Journals indexed in PubMed.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=journals
- What is the impact factor of the journal?
- Is the journal open access?
Open-access journals are scholarly journals that are available to the reader "without financial or other barrier other than access to the Internet."
Check: Directory of Open-Access Journals. http://www.doaj.org/
- Is there a publication processing fee?
Many journals charge a processing fee – often more than $1,000. Some journals, however, may allow waivers to people in resource-poor countries.
Instructions for authors hyperlinked:
American Journal Public Health
The Journal of Infectious Diseases
The Lancet Infectious Diseases
The New England Journal of Medicine
*UW’s Scholarly Communication and Publishing links
http://healthlinks.washington.edu/hsl/scholcom/
* How to determine the h-index of a scientist. The h-index is an index that quantifies both the actual scientific productivity and the apparent scientific impact of a scientist.
If you are preparing a manuscript for publication in a journal, and if the research was funded by an NIH grant/award, please add the following
acknowledgment and disclaimer to the funding support section:
hyperlink this info:
"This publication was made possible by Grant Number ________ from _________" or "The project described was supported by Grant Number________ from ________." and "Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the [name of awarding office or NIH]."
If the grantee plans to issue a press release concerning the outcome of NIH grant-supported research, it should notify the NIH awarding office in advance to allow for coordination.