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1. Select the conference/journal that is:

• Ranked or has an impact factor assessed by a neutral/professional international organization (e.g. Journal Citation Reports (ISI/Thomson Reuters) , Google Metrics, SJR, Elsevier and CORE, among others). Some publication venues announce FAKE Impact Factor that they calculated themselves which should be avoided due to lack of meeting standard criteria.
• Supported by a non-profit leading academic community, such as ACL, AAAI, and a SIG (Special Interest Group) in the field.
• Publish accepted papers by a reputable publisher (e.g., Springer, IEEE Computer Press, ACM Press, Oxford, Cambridge, MIT)
• Each publication receives a digital objectidentifier (DOI).
• Maintain low acceptance rate (usually 20-25%).
• All its accepted papers are properly peer reviewed by an international program committee with high profile (look at their organizations).
• Good reputation of the conference/journal in the past (you might judge this by looking at citation analysis of program committee members, authors, invited speakers – see the note below).

2. Avoid:

• Hijacked or Faked Journals
• Publications to conferences/workshops that only accepts papers by abstracts.
• write-only conferences.
• in-house publications where all/most of the affiliation of editorial board or program committee members are from the same place. Worse if they use public email addresses (e.g. Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.) rather than institutional  (e.g., university, research institutes or centers) emails.

Notice

• Involve in Research activities. To be a successful academic, there are other activities, besides to highly ranked publications, that you should contribute to, including PhD supervision, securing research funds, actively serving the research community, giving keynote, delivering tutorial, etc.
• Avoid plagiarism (PaperRater: Free Plagiarism Checker). The research community believes that taking the ideas and work of others without giving them credit is unfair and dishonest. Copying even one sentence from someone else’s manuscript, or even one of your own that has previously been published, without proper citation is considered plagiarism. You must use your own words instead. The journal editorial board or the conference committee retains the absolute authority to reject the review process of a submitted manuscript if it subject to minor or major plagiarism and even may cancel the publication upon the complaint of victim(s) of plagiarism.

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Impact of a Scientist or Scholar

The h-index is the most common index that attempts to measure both the productivity and impact of the published work of a scientist or scholar. The famous h-index is the one used by  Google Scholar which is based on the largest number h such that h publications have at least h citations. This citation index is used in addition to the new citations in the last 5 years.

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How to Get the Citation Analysis of Your Scientific Production?

• You can use Publish or Perish – A citation analysis software program, designed to calculate  research impact of individual academics (even you can try it for yourself).
• You can use Google Scholar Citations (for more information click here). To get a profile for yourself you should first have a Gmail account. If you don’t have one create one and start to use your Google Scholar Citations. Google Scholar Citations allow you to track your citations, get an analysis, get alerts with your new publications and their citations, and link with co-authors. Here is an Example. Tip: Make your profile public.

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How to Promote and Increase Citation of your Article?

1. List your articles on your LinkedIn, ResearchGate, academia.edu profile.
2. Add a link to your article on relevant Wikipedia subject pages. More and more researchers are using Wikipedia as the starting point for their research. Add your article to pages on relevant themes and topics. If there isn’t a relevant page, why not create one?
3. Share your article with communities and groups in the Twitter and on Facebook.
4. Create your own website. Do you have your own website? If not, create one! You can create a very clean and simple site using Google sites (similar to this web site). Then start add and regularly update your web site. Follow the copyright of the paper’s publisher and add a (pre)published version of paper. Add a link to the DOI of your paper for those who have institutional library account that can access the published version of your paper.

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Notice

• Content is the key. So, Produce a piece of well written, top quality, original research.  This is essential!!!
• Keywords improves the search for your article. Use proper keywords that describe your work.
• Where appropriate, acknowledge and cite your own previous work; only if your own prior research is pertinent to the context of the paper.
• When you cite other authors work they normally cite your work in their own published work.

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