The 1 st International Conference on NonCommunicable Diseases

The 1 st. International Conference on Non-Communicable Diseases Addressing the Challenges of NCDs Reaching SDGs, 28 th. – 29 th. August 2018, Kigali, Republic of Rwanda. http: //ines. ac. rw/ Journal Impact Factors and Researcher h-index How to improve research quality? by: Asst. Prof. Dr. Emad Kamil Hussein Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University, ATU Babylon, Iraq https: //www. researchgate. net/profil e/Dr. Emad_Hussein November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 1

Journal Impact Factors and Researcher h-index How to improve research quality? Asst. Prof. Dr. Emad Kamil Hussein Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University Al-Mussaib Technical College Pumps Engineering Dept. emad_kamil 72@tcm. edu. iq www. dremadkamil. com 28 th. August 2018

“The best way to predict the future is to create it” Abraham Lincoln My present lecture will be based on the following international themes: November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 3

Aims of Research The Ultimate aims of research are to generate measurable and testable data, gradually adding to the accumulation of human knowledge Ancient philosophers believed that all answers could be achieved through CONCLUSIONS and LOGIC rather than MEASUREMNET! November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 4

Responsibilities of Researchers 1 - Conducting research in collaboration with graduate students and other research colleagues. 2 - Identify question/ gap in literature 3 - Develop research design, procedures 4 - Seek funding 5 - Implement procedures. Misbehavior !!!! 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) Gift Authorship Plagiarism Fabrication Falsification Conflict of Interest Duplicate publication November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 5

Main Elements of Publication Process EDITING BOARD RESEARCHER REVIEWER PUBLISHER November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 6

STD Format checker 2 nd. Reviewer Language checker 3 rd. Reviewer 1 st. Reviewer Researcher November 26, 2020 Submitted paper Plagiarism checker JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 7

Classification of Scientific Journals Scopus Citation Indexed Journals SJR Thomson ISI (Master Journal List) Journal Citation Reports Scientific Journals Eigen Factor Local J. Non. Citation Indexed Journals Commercial J. New J. Unknown J. Predatory Journals !!!? ? ? November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 8

Citation Indexed Journals BEER REVIWER HIGH CONTENT NOT OPEN ACCESS FREE OF CHARGE IN PB. NEED PAYMENT IN DL. -------------------------------------Non-Citation Indexed Journals NOT LOW CONTENT OPEN ACCESS NEED PAYMENT FOR PB. FREE OF CHARGE IN DL. Predatory Journals !!!? ? ? November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 9

Journal Classification Tools For example: www. simagojr. com November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 10

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PLAGIARISM November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 12

True Cost of Research Misconduct November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 13

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Most important websites for checking plagiarism www. en. writecheck. com/ways-to-avoidplagiarism www. turnitin. com www. ithenticate. com www. scanmyessay. com www. crossref. org www. plagiarismsoftware. net November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 15

Common Types of Evaluation Factors 1) Journals IF 2) h-index 3) Immediacy 4) g-index 5) e-index 6) delta-h index 7) delta-g index 8) i 10. Index 9) h 5 th. Index 10) h 10 th. Index 11) others November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 16

Common Trusted Publishers All over the World 1 IEEE 6 Sci. Te. Press 2 ACM 7 SPIE 3 Springer 8 DBLP 4 Elsevier 9 LTLiberary 5 IET 10 IASTED November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 17

JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR , WHAT IS IT? HOW TO CALCULATE IT? The journal Impact Factor is the average number of times articles from the journal published in the past two years have been cited in the JCR year. The Impact Factor is calculated by dividing the number of citations in the JCR year by the total number of articles published in the two previous years. www. scimagojr. com/journalrank. php November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 18

Researcher Status today !!! November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 19

Journal Impact Factor November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 20

The Immediacy Index November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 21

The Cited Half-Life November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 22

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Researcher h-index A researcher has an index of h if h of their papers have been cited at least h times each. The h-index is an author-level metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar. The index is based on the set of the scientist's most cited papers and the number of citations that they have received in other publications. The index was suggested in 2005 by Jorge Eduardo Hirsch, (born 1953) is an Argentine American professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego. UCSD, as a tool for determining theoretical physicists' relative quality and is sometimes called the Hirsch index or Hirsch number. November 26, 2020 Prof. . Dr. Jorge Eduardo Hirsch JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 24

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A Geometrical Explanation of the e-index. The e-Index, Complementing the h-Index for Excess Citations. November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 26

A Descartes Coordinate System for the h-e plane. November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 27

Top Ranking h-index Scientist Around the world 2016 November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 28

Socially unlucky scientist with h-index of 37 !!? ? November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 29

Predatory Open Access Journals & Publishing In academic publishing, predatory open access publishing is an exploitative open-access publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors without providing the editorial and publishing services associated with genuine journals (open access or not). "Beall's List", a regularly updated report by Jeffrey Beall, sets forth criteria for categorizing predatory publications and lists publishers and independent journals that meet those criteria. Newer scholars from developing countries are said to be especially at risk of becoming the victim of these practices. Jeffery Beall Who coined the term "predatory publishing first time in 2010. He is a Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Colorado Denver, USA. He is studying scholarly open-access Prof. Dr. Jeffery Beall publishing. November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 30

Examples of Predatory Journals November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 31

Examples of Predatory Conferences November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 32

Number of Predatory Journals November 26, 2020 Number of Predatory Publishers JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 33

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) www. scimagojr. com SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) is a measure of the number of times an average paper in a particular journal is cited, and as such is conceptually similar to the Impact Factor. 57 journals will no longer be indexed in Scopus in 2015 due to their non ethical behavior !!! November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 34

International Top Ranking Countries 2016 Middle East Top Ranking Countries 2016 Jordan Iraq Turkey November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 35

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Comparison Between Four Middle East Countries 2016 Iran Turke y Jordan November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. Iraq 38

World vs Middle East Shape of Science, The Shape of Science is an information visualization project whose aim is to reveal the structure of science. All over the World November 26, 2020 Middle East Only JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 39

UNISCO INSTITUTE FOR STATISTICS - 2015 EXPENDITURE ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 40

FINAL NOTES TO REMEMBER … 1) Impact Factor, Immediacy Index, etc. , are meant to evaluate the world's leading journals 2) Never compare Impact Factor or other metrics across different disciplines, such as 1) Biophysics vs. Mathematics 2) Biomedical Engineering vs. Civil Engineering 3) Etc Why? Because different disciplines have different citation patterns! November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 41

Conclusions Journal Impact Factors will likely be around for a long time… the key is to understand how they work. Don’t use Journal Impact Factors to evaluate individuals. Perhaps use h-index, instead? Use multiple resources (Web of Science, Google Scholar, Psyc. Info, Scopus, etc. ) to find how many papers have cited your works. When considering where to publish, besides Journal Impact Factor of the journal also consider: November 26, 2020 1 - International reach 2 - Where or if it’s indexed 3 - Openly accessible? 4 - Readership numbers 5 -Subject appropriateness JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 42

Thank you so much for attention Any question please? November 26, 2020 JOURNAL IF & RESEARCHER H-INDEX by Asst. Prof. Dr. EMAD K. 43