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Introduction ...... 1 Getting published ...... 2 Getting noticed ...... 23 Tracking your impact ...... 27 Why publish with Elsevier? ...... 29 Useful links ...... 31

December 2020 © 2020 Elsevier . All rights reserved How to get your research published and then noticed

As a researcher, you make huge strides in advancing essential knowledge . Your achievements can save lives, change the way we understand the world and improve our quality of . When you’re ready to share your knowledge, the best way to do it is by your work . In this booklet, you’ll find simple, Then it’s to get your work actionable support that will help you noticed… publish and promote your research and With your peer-reviewed make the biggest impact you can with published and available online, there’s your work . a lot you can do to promote your work In the first section, we’ll look at getting and get it out to a wider audience . published . ● Sharing your article The decisions you make about your ● Increasing your visibility affect their ultimate impact: ●  a lay summary the journal you choose, the type of ● The power of social media article and the way you write about your ● Media coverage research all contribute to the result . ● When and what to publish … And finally, track your impact . ● How to write a great research paper This won’t be the only paper you’ll ● Choosing the best journal for your publish, so it’s useful to build an work understanding of what works well and where you could make improvements . ● Your options You can do this by tracking your impact . ● Navigating the publishing process ● Article-level metrics ● Getting the most out of ● Tools you can use ● Publishing ethically

elsevier.com/authors 1 Getting published

When and what to publish

Do you have a story to tell? How can you tell your story? This is a great question to ask yourself Scholarly articles come in a variety of when you’re considering publishing an shapes and sizes, each designed to suit article . Editors and reviewers are looking research published at different stages, for original and innovative research that in different fields and to share different adds to their field of study, sheds new aspects of the work . light on previous findings or joins the 1. Full articles contain significant data, dots between work in different areas . detail, developments and outcomes . Your conclusions must be sound and 2. Letters and short based on robust data . are intended for the quick and early of significant or Is there an audience for your story? original advances, without including If your research contributes to too much data or detail . knowledge in your field, your peers 3. Review summarize and researchers in other areas are developments on a specific topic, likely to be interested in your work . without introducing new data . However, your audience could be even broader than this . The more original 4. Research articles and innovative your research, the more complement full research papers people will be interested . And if it’s and describe output, such as data, clear, understandable and compelling, and protocols, software, you could also share your work with code and hardware . the general public especially if you can If you’re unsure which type of article explain how it to write, it’s a good idea to discuss affects their your options with your supervisor or lives . colleagues . What’s more, remember that not all journals accept all types of article… NB: In this booklet, you’ll find guidance for writing and publishing a full article .

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Research elements Elsevier’s Research Elements journals are a suite of open access journals dedicated solely to publishing research elements articles . Research elements articles are brief, peer-reviewed articles that complement full research papers and describe output that has come about as a result of following the research cycle – this includes data, methods and protocols, software, code and hardware . The Research Elements journals are: ● Data in Brief ● MethodsX ● HardwareX ● SoftwareX ● Software Impacts Read more at: elsevier.com/authors/author-resources/research-elements-journals

How to write a great research paper

Your research is complete, now it’s Authors’ Update time to write . You might enjoy this, ● Stay in touch with but if you’re like many others, it might developments, support and training . also be the most challenging aspect of ● As an , there’s a lot for you to disseminating your results . keep up with – new types, Elsevier has journals, review methods and much many resources more . to support you ● Authors’ Update is a hub for articles as you write your on in publishing, relevant , with topics and being an author – and you step-by-step can sign up to receive new articles as instructions, they appear . training and Visit Authors’ Update: , and elsevier.com/connect/authors-update services to help you perfect your work before you submit . This will help you publish a high-quality paper that shares your research with the world .

3 Researcher Preparing to write Learn skills and Before you start, gather all your content: improve your manuscript . your results, lab notes, , ● Succeeding in a research career means methods, insights from previous learning and continuously building research, any content and, your skills across the board, from importantly, your references . With planning to promoting everything in one place, you can better your published work . organize your thoughts and plan your article . ● The Elsevier Researcher Academy provides free e-learning resources . A full article usually follows a standard With more than 100 modules structure, which we will follow here . But across 18 topics covering research it’s always best to consult the guide for preparation, writing for research, authors of the journal to which you’re the publication process, navigating planning to submit before you begin as peer review and communicating your there might be special instructions you research, you can learn the skills you need to follow . need to take the next step in your If you’re writing a different type of career . article, you may still be able to apply ● When you learn with the Researcher some of the guidance identified below Academy, you join a community of but be sure to consult the guide for authors all working together to gain authors . new skills . One way to get started on your Visit the Elsevier Researcher Academy: manuscript is to create a skeleton researcheracademy.elsevier.com template of the sections of the article – title and (authors, Visit the Author Resources page for more keywords); ; introduction; tools to help you as you write your article: methods; discussion & conclusions; elsevier.com/authors/author-resources acknowledgments . You can then easily add content in each section, which you can work from as you progress . Voilà – no longer a blank page!

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Great writers read One way to improve your manuscript writing is to read other people’s articles . The more you read, the more you will understand what works and what doesn’t, and how best to present the information you want to share . A great way to do this is to be a reviewer – find out more here: elsevier.com/reviewers/role

Title Authors The title is the main advertisement for Only authors who have made an your article . A great title entices the intellectual contribution to the research audience to read on; a poorly titled article should be credited, including those may never reach your readers . who will take responsibility for the data and conclusions, and those who Your article’s title should reflect its have approved the final manuscript . content clearly, enabling readers The of credited names can vary to decide whether it’s relevant for between disciplines; the corresponding them . Being direct about the topic by author may not always be the first including your main keyword(s) helps author . make your article discoverable for your readers . And remember, abstracting and Depending on the journal, you may use indexing services depend on accurate CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy), titles: they extract keywords from them which makes each author’s contribution for cross-referencing . clear . You can read more about this on the following page: elsevier.com/authors/ Make the title catchy and keep it specific . journal-authors/policies-and-/credit- Leave out phrases such as “a study of”, author-statement “investigations into”, “observations on” . And avoid using abbreviations and jargon Keywords – there’s plenty of opportunity for that later . Most journals request a list of keywords: Effective titles: important words that are relevant to the ● Identify the article’s main topic work you’re presenting and capture the ● Are accurate, unambiguous, specific research effectively . Keywords are used and (when possible) complete by abstracting and indexing services and choosing the right ones can increase the ● Are as short as possible chances of your article being found by ● Are enticing and interesting other researchers . 5 To choose your keywords, it may be Graphical abstracts useful to imagine your readers searching Many journals support graphical for research they’re interested in . What abstracts . A graphical abstract is a useful would they type in the search box? way to provide a visual summary of Many Elsevier journals also ask for a your article’s main findings . It appears subject classification during the online in your article on ScienceDirect and it submission process; this helps editors to also features in the results lists returned select reviewers . by online search engines . Graphical abstracts can be shared on social media Abstract or directly with colleagues to help you The abstract is your chance to describe broaden your audience (remember your research in a limited number of to include a link to your article!) . You words (often c . 300); use those words can get help with creating graphical wisely . Together, the title and abstract abstracts from Elsevier’s should fully represent your article . A Services – webshop.elsevier.com/ well written abstract will help readers illustration-services/ understand what your article is about and whether it’s interesting or useful for Introduction them . It will also help improve visibility After months of , you through abstracting and indexing . may have enough background to fill a , but resist the temptation: The abstract should summarize keep the introduction brief . It should the problem or objective of your provide context and background, but research, and its method, results, and not be a history lesson . It should state conclusions . An abstract usually doesn’t the problem being investigated, its include references, figures or tables . It’s contextual background, and the reasons great if your abstract is interesting, but for conducting the research . State the above all it should be accurate . Don’t questions you’re answering and explain promise more than your article delivers . any findings of others that you’re Many authors write the abstract last, so challenging or building on . Briefly and it reflects the content accurately . But it logically the reader to your research can also be helpful to write it first, to questions, hypotheses, and experimental help you focus your thoughts and give design or method . you a good starting point for the article .

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Methods* consider publishing your method as a *also called “ and Methods” or research elements article, then referring “Experimental Methods” to it in your main article . We’ll cover how to do that later in this section . This section should be detailed enough to enable readers to replicate Identify the equipment and the materials your research and assess whether the you used, specifying their . methods justify the conclusions . It’s State the frequency of observations advisable to use the past tense – it’s and what types of data were recorded . about what you did – and avoid using Give precise measurements, stating the first-person perspective (e .g . “I their strengths and weaknesses when transferred liquid A to the mixture”) . necessary . Name any statistical tests, so your quantitative results can be judged . Ultimately, you should explain how you studied the problem, identify the If your research involved human procedures you followed, and structure participants, animals, or this information as logically as possible . other biohazard materials, you’ll need to include certain information in the ethics If your methods are new, you’ll need to statement, such as committee approvals explain them in detail . If they’ve been and permission to publish . You should published before, cite the original work, also explain your criteria for selecting including your amendments if you’ve participants . made modifications . You may also

STAR Protocols and STAR Methods Though the method used for an article is vital for , methods sections have traditionally been neglected, with detail often relegated to the supplementary information and readers skipping straight to results . Two initiatives led by Press aim to change this: STAR Protocols (cell.com/star-protocols/home) is an open access journal that aims to help researchers conduct experiments more efficiently by improving the reproducibility of published methods . STAR Methods (cell.com/star-methods) is a new approach to the methods section of an article, which promotes transparent reporting of experimental design and methodological details . STAR Methods are applied across all journals, and the Key Resources Table is also available in some other Elsevier journals .

7 Results Above all, the discussion should explain This section should present your how your research has moved the body findings objectively, explaining them of knowledge in your area forward . Your largely in text . This is where you show conclusions must be supportable and how your results contribute to the body not extend beyond your results, so avoid of scientific knowledge, so be clear undue speculation and bold judgments and logical . And it’s important not to about impact . This is also a good place interpret your results – that comes in to suggest practical applications for your the Discussion & Conclusions section . results, and to outline what the next steps in your research will be . You can the sequence of this text on the tables, figures and graphs that To summarize, make sure that: best present your findings . Emphasize ● Your results directly support your any significant findings clearly . Tables conclusions . and figures must be numbered ● You use specific expressions and separately; figures should have a brief quantitative descriptions – “12 degrees but complete description – a legend – Kelvin higher” instead of “a higher that reveals how the data was produced . temperature” . ● You only discuss what you defined Discussion & conclusions early in the paper – don’t introduce This is where you describe the meaning the reader to a whole new vocabulary . of your results, especially in the context If you missed an important term, go of what was already known about the back to the introduction and insert it . subject . You can present general and ● All interpretations and speculations specific conclusions but take care not to are based on fact, not imagination . summarize your article – that’s what the abstract is for . Acknowledgments You should link this section back to the Keep acknowledgements brief, naming introduction, referring to your questions those who helped with your research: or hypotheses, and cover how the contributors, or suppliers who provided results relate to your expectations and free materials . You should also disclose cited sources . Do the results support or any financial or other substantive contradict existing ? Are there competing interest that could be seen to any limitations? You can also suggest influence your results or interpretations . further experiments, use cases and extensions .

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References Adding research data New research builds on previously Research data forms the backbone published work, which should always of your research article and provides be acknowledged . Any information the foundation on which scientific, that isn’t “common knowledge”, or technical and medical knowledge is generated by your experiments, must be built . Research data can include but recognized with a . Quoted text are not limited to: raw data, processed should be within quotation marks and data, software, algorithms, protocols, include a reference . methods, materials . The format of and references You can get credit for your research data varies, so you should to the guide and code and make it Findable, Accessible, for authors of the journal to which Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) in line you’re submitting . with community standards on best practices on research data management . As a researcher, you are increasingly encouraged, or even mandated, to make your research data and other research outputs available . To support authors complying with funders requirements and to align with the Transparency and Openness Promotion guidelines for research, Elsevier journals have implemented data sharing guidelines (elsevier.com/authors/author-resources/ research-data/data-guidelines) . Sharing information about your research 9 data, including raw or processed data ● Uploading to Mendeley Data – you can files, code, software, models, algorithms, store your data in Mendeley Data, so it protocols and methods, is a crucial step in will get a DOI, making it citable and FAIR . publishing your work . This could involve Co-submission to Research Elements publishing your data or code as a research journals elements article, linking your article to an already deposited dataset, uploading it to If you decide to publish a research Mendeley Data Repository or sharing a elements article, you can submit directly statement about your data or code . to the journal of your choice . For Data in Brief and MethodsX, you can co-submit ● Citing data –cite your research data your research elements article alongside and code in your article and add a your full article to a participating reference to it . Elsevier journal . ● Publishing a research elements article – Whether you have stored your research publish a brief, peer-reviewed article data in a repository or published a data and cite it . article, be sure to cite your research data ● Linking your article to data and code in your article . This ensures you receive in supported repositories – create credit for your work, while making your bidirectional links between your article research data accessible, giving your and a dataset or code deposited in a readers deeper insights and supporting repository such as Mendeley Data . their work . Find out more at: elsevier.com/ authors/author-services/research-data .

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Data statement SEO your article In some cases, there may be good Make your article more noticeable with reasons that prevent you from sharing search engine optimization (SEO) . your data or code alongside your article With so many millions of research submission . Some Elsevier journals may articles available, it could be easy for require you to submit a data statement yours to get lost in the noise . By paying alongside your manuscript clearly attention to a few points, you can explaining the data or code you’ve used make sure your article is search engine in the article or the reasons why it might optimized and ready to be discovered by not be available for sharing . the broadest possible audience . Tips for SEO include: You may have illustrations, figures, ● Use keywords, especially in the title multimedia or other artwork to submit and abstract . with your article as supplementary files . ● Add captions with keywords to all Requirements will vary depending on photographs, images, graphs and the journal; for specific details on how to tables . format and submit artwork, visit: elsevier. ● Add titles or subheadings (with com/artwork . keywords) to the different sections of Like all content you submit to a your article . journal, the illustrations should be ● Make sure you place links to your high quality . If you need support with article from relevant e .g . this, Elsevier’s illustration services can your institute’s , , help: professional illustrators can create LinkedIn, and social media . or polish images to match your exact Find out more about SEO: elsevier.com/ needs . We support detailed full-color connect/authors-update/top-tips-making- and photorealistic images, simplified your-article-visible-with-seo line drawings, detailed graphs and tables (webshop.elsevier.com/illustrationservices) .

11 A note on quality “All the honeybees were maintained Language issues can mean the in an environment with a constant difference between acceptance and temperature of 23°C ”. And also use rejection . It’s important to ensure the the past tense to describe results: language you use is clear and error-free, “The average life span of bees in the for two main reasons: contained environment was eight weeks ”. ● The clearer your language, the more easily and accurately people Editing and translation services will understand your work and your Elsevier Author Services provides a message . variety of editing services that ensure ● Errors disengage readers – if your your paper is free of grammatical, work is full of mistakes, your readers spelling and other common errors, will be distracted and question giving you a better chance of success the quality of your work . This is when you’re ready to submit . especially important when the reader The standard service features: is reviewing your submission to a ● Editing into proper scientific American journal . or British English Your article should your findings ● Edited by PhD or PhD candidates and conclusions as clearly and concisely ● Free re-editing or money back as possible . To achieve this: It can be easier and more effective to ●  Try to avoid unnecessary words or work in your native language . What phrases – keep it simple . do you do when it’s time to publish ● Use the active voice when possible . in English? Elsevier’s Author Services For example, “Carbon dioxide was provide translation services to help you consumed by the plant” is passive . communicate your research in English . Active writing shortens this phrase to, are done by native English- “the plant consumed carbon dioxide” – speaking PhD or PhD candidates in your which is much snappier . field of study and double-checked by ● Tense is important . For known facts successful authors . and hypotheses, use the present For more information, visit: tense: “The average webshop.elsevier.com/languageservices of a honeybee is six weeks ”. But use the past tense when referring to experiments you’ve conducted:

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Choosing the best journal for your work

Publishing your research in the right Journal metrics journal can help you reach a global When you’re looking at a long list audience, make an impact and move of potential journals for your next forward in your career . How can you submission, how do you decide which to make sure your publication is the best shortlist and submit to? it can be? Here are some tools and tips Journal-level metrics can inform your to help you find the right home for your decision . work . Elsevier’s Journal Insights JournalFinder (journalinsights.elsevier.com) provide extra With potentially hundreds of journals information on three aspects of our in your field, finding the right home for journals – impact, speed and reach . your research isn’t always easy . Impact Powered by the Elsevier Fingerprint ● CiteScore – average citations received Engine, Elsevier JournalFinder uses per document published in the smart search technology and field-of- journal . research-specific vocabularies to match ● Impact Factor – Clarivate metric – your article to Elsevier journals . number of an average paper in JournalFinder is simple to use: enter the the journal is published . title and abstract of your manuscript and ● 5-year – Clarivate metric you’ll get a list of journals best suited to – Impact Factor based on five years of your work . history . Find out more about JournalFinder: ● Article Influence & – journalfinder.elsevier.com citations from highly ranked journals are more important and influential than those from lower ranked journals . ● Source -Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) – the impact of a paper within a subject field . ● SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) – a prestige metric based on the idea that “not all citations are created equal ”.

13 Speed Reach ● The average number of weeks it takes ● The number of downloads at the for an article to be reviewed . country/regional level over the last five ● The average number of weeks it takes full years available . for an article to reach key publication ● The number of primary corresponding points in the production process . authors at the country/regional level over the last five full years available .

CiteScore* SNIP SJR Impact Factor Full name CiteScore Source-Normalized SCImag0 – Impact per Paper Journal Rank Measures Average number Citations relative Average Average citations per of citations received to average for prestige per publication per peer-reviewed discipline; SNIP > publication, document published 1 means journal is depending on in this title, in a cited more than the SJR of the range of four years* average for field citing journal Accounts for Y Y Y Y varying journal size? Accounts for varying N Y Y N behaviour between disciplines? Availability Freely available at .com/sources and via individual journal Available via journal homepages under Journal Metrics and Journal Insights . homepages and Journal Citation , Clarivate Analytics at clarivate.com/ journal-citation-reports

*CiteScore measures the average citations received per peer-reviewed document published in this title . CiteScore values are based on citation counts in a range of four years (e .g . 2016-2019) to peer-reviewed documents (articles, reviews, conference papers, data papers and book chapters) published in the same four calendar years, divided by the number of these documents in these same four years (e .g . 2016–19) .

Checklist: ● Take into consideration the type of ● Check if the journal is invitation-only; article you’d like to publish (full length, some journals only accept articles after letter, review, research element, etc .) . inviting the author to submit . ● Check the references in your article, to ● Check the journal’s for give an indication of possible journals review and publication timelines . of interest . ● If you need to publish open access, ● Read the journal’s aims and scope on remember that most Elsevier journals the journal homepage on elsevier.com . explain their open access options on ● Read or download the journal’s guide the journal homepage . for authors . ● Submit your paper to only one journal at a time . 14 How to get your research published and then noticed

Your open access options

Whatever your discipline, there’s an Benefits of publishing open access with open access home for your research Elsevier include: at Elsevier . With over 2,300 journals ● High visibility – reach the audience that offer gold open access publishing your research deserves . options, we’ve got you covered . ● Proven trust – 140 years’ experience In 2019 we published over 49,000 gold curating and verifying scientific open access articles, a growth of 40 knowledge . percent on the previous year . Today ● Top quality – rigorous standards & Elsevier is one of the world’s fastest- quality journals across the board . growing open access publishers . ● Powerful – access to state- When you publish open access with us, of-the-art that measure you benefit from the world-class expertise your impact and make your life easier . of our editors and reviewers, state-of-the- ● Wide choice – select the publishing art innovations that measure your impact model that’s right for you . and make your work more visible, and Find out more about publishing open exposure on the world’s biggest publishing access with Elsevier: elsevier.com/authors/ platform, ScienceDirect . Your work is journal-authors/open-access also included in relevant indexes and , and we ensure that it always remains discoverable and accessible, no matter how much time passes .

15 Gold and green open access If you choose to publish a subscription 130 of our journals also have an open article, we can still help you meet archive, where content becomes freely your open access requirements . All accessible after a certain period . our journals offer a green open access See Elsevier’s sharing policy for more option, meaning you can post a version information: elsevier.com/about/policies/ of your article in a repository after an sharing embargo, so people can access it freely .

Green open access Gold open access (Sharing your subscription article) Options ● Publish in an open access journal ● Link to your article . or in a journal which supports open ● Select a journal that features an open archive access (hybrid) ● Select a journal that participates in CHORUS ● Self-archive a version of your article Access ● Public access is to the final published ● Free access to a version of your article article ● Time delay may apply (embargo period) ● Access is immediate Fee ● Open access fee is paid by the author, ● No fee is payable by the author as publishing costs are or on their behalf for example by their covered by subscriptions . institution or funding body . ● Fees range between c$150 and c$5000 US Dollars excluding tax, depending on the journal with prices clearly displayed on our Article Publishing Charge (APC) price list and on journal homepages . Use ● Authors can choose between a ● Accepted manuscripts should attach a CC-BY-NC-ND commercial and noncommercial user user license license . ● Authors retain the right to reuse their articles for a wide range of purposes

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Navigating the publishing process

Once you’ve checked (and re-checked!) Article transfer service your manuscript, you’re ready to submit The submission journey is rarely as it to the journal . simple as choosing a single journal Submission and revision can be the – you may need to submit your most frustrating part of the publication manuscript to multiple journals before process . Elsevier aims to take the pain you find the right fit . out of submission with streamlined In Elsevier’s journal ecosystem, editors systems and . can recommend submissions for Once you’ve identified the journal to transfer to connected journals . This which you want to submit, you can find transfer process takes you closer to the the link to submit your manuscript on right journal faster . And because you the journal homepage . The submission don’t need to reformat your manuscript, you’ll use – for example, Editorial you will save time . Manager (EM) – will depend on the Find out more about article transfers: journal to which you are submitting . elsevier.com/authors/journal-authors/ Find out more about submitting your submit-your-paper manuscript: elsevier.com/authors/journal- Agreements and licenses authors/submit-your-paper When you publish with Elsevier, you Check the status of your paper enter into a legal agreement . This After submission, you can follow the means that both we at Elsevier and you status of your article in our electronic as an author agree to certain rights and submission systems using a reference responsibilities and promise to act in a number that you’ll receive by email . legally-sound manner . If your paper is accepted for publication, Protecting author rights you can follow the publication status Copyright aims to protect the specific through to completion using the “track way the article has been written to your article” feature . You’ll receive a describe the research and its results . reference number and link via email, Elsevier is committed to the protection after final decision . and defense of its authors’ work and reputations . We take allegations of infringement, , ethical disputes and fraud very seriously .

17 Publishing agreement Always check your chosen journal for In order for Elsevier to be able to publish details .) and disseminate your article, we need Before choosing an end user license, we certain publishing permissions . These recommend that you: permissions are defined by a publishing ● Understand what each user license agreement between the author and the permits, and the rights it grants to publisher . You’ll be asked to complete a readers for using your article . journal publishing agreement or license ● Check if your funding body or during the time between your article’s institution has a policy requiring the acceptance and its final version . use of a specific license . End user license ● Read your journal’s guide for authors If you’ve chosen to publish your article to ensure it offers the license you want gold open access, you also select an end to use . user license to determine how readers can ● Visit the Creativecommons.org site for share and use your article without having more information on what to consider to request permission . Elsevier offers a before selecting a user license . (It’s choice between a commercial and a important to note that you can’t revoke non-commercial user license, so you can your chosen license .) select the license which suits your type of research . (For health & medical More information is available at: elsevier. journals there are different regulations . com/openaccesslicenses

What is the license process? Step 1: Step 2: Step 3: Step 4: Authors sign a Readers can use and The author grants the The publisher makes publishing agreement share the article as publisher the right to the article available where they will retain defined by the user publish the article under online with the copyright but grant license. the applicable license. author’s user license. publishing rights to the publisher AUTHOR USER Retains copyright LICENSE

Publishes article under the user license

PUBLISHER READER/USER Grants publishing Granted rights to rights reuse the article

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Getting the most out of peer review

Peer review is the cornerstone of the ● Triple-blind review – reviewers are academic publication process . We rely on anonymous, and the author’s identity this process to uphold the quality and is unknown to the reviewers and the validity of individual articles and the journals editor . Articles are anonymized at that publish them . As such, reviewers submission . play a pivotal role in scholarly publishing . ● Open review – this is an umbrella term The peer review system exists to validate for several models . The most common academic work, helps to improve the definition is when reviewer and author quality of published research, and are known to each other during the increases networking possibilities within review process . can research communities . There are several involve the publication of reviewers’ types of peer review; you can find out names, reviewer reports and author what type of review a journal uses in the responses . guide for authors . Read more about peer review with ● Single blind review – the names of the Elsevier: elsevier.com/reviewers/what-is- reviewers are hidden from you as the peer-review author . This is the traditional approach Learn the fundamentals of peer review to peer review . with Researcher Academy: ● Double-blind review – the reviewer researcheracademy.elsevier.com/ and author are both anonymous . This navigating-peer-review/fundamentals-peer- limits , and articles are assessed review on the content alone . However, it is challenging to ensure total anonymity .

Reviewer Hub Manage and get credit for your work as a reviewer: elsevier.com/reviewers As a researcher, you may review other people’s articles that journal editors send to you . By doing this, you help to build knowledge in your field – and you can hone your own article writing skills at the same time . This voluntary work takes time and effort and can be challenging to manage alongside your own research . The Reviewer Hub helps you manage the reviews you are invited to undertake and ensures you get credit for the work you put into them .

19 After acceptance

Congratulations, your article has been accepted! There are a few more things to consider You can pass your Share Link on to that can optimize the publication of your colleagues, friends and family, and use work . At Elsevier, we will do everything it to promote your article by email and we can to have your article published as on social media . Anyone who clicks on quickly and accurately as possible . your Share Link within the 50-day period will be taken directly to the article with Articles in press no sign up or registration required . After Accepted articles are published online the free access period, the usual access on ScienceDirect as an “article in press”, rules apply . and in most cases are assigned to an Find out more about Share Links: issue almost immediately . You can track elsevier.com/authors/journal-authors/ your article and citations throughout submit-your-paper/sharing-and- this process . promoting-your-article/share-link

Proofing Offprints Accurate and clear Some Elsevier journals provide offprints marking of corrections are essential for – an exact of the article published the production of a quality article . As either on paper or as a PDF . If your soon as your article has been typeset, journal does not provide them, you can you’ll receive an email with either a link order offprints from Elsevier Author to it on our online proofing system or a Services: webshop.elsevier.com . You PDF attachment of your article . can order from 50 to 250 offprints, in increments of 50, published on high- Share Links quality glossy paper and with optional When you publish with Elsevier, in covers . most cases you will receive a Share Link – a customized link to your article on ScienceDirect that provides 50 days’ free access .

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Publishing ethically

Your publications reflect the quality of Resources to help you ensure your work is your work and of the work that happens at carried out and published ethically. your institution . Peer-reviewed articles are The Ethics in Research & Publication essential building blocks of knowledge, Program is a collaboration between and they embody the . Elsevier and an independent panel of It is therefore important to agree upon experts in research and publishing ethics . standards of expected ethical behavior . The program’s online resources and tools have been developed to help you and breach of feel confident that you’re doing the right publishing ethics can take different things . Resources include information forms and be committed knowingly or on policies, topics to consider when unknowingly . Examples of misconduct you’re publishing and factsheets to and breaches include: support you in your efforts to promote ● Authorship disputes – deliberately research integrity . See ethics.elsevier.com . misrepresenting a researcher’s relationship with published work . ● Competing interests – not disclosing to a journal that you have a direct or indirect conflict which prevents you from being unbiased . ● Plagiarism – passing off another’s work or idea as your own . ● Simultaneous submission – submitting a paper to more than one publication at the same time . ● Research fraud – including fabrication (making up research data) and falsification (manipulating research data, tables or images) . ● Salami slicing – the “slicing-up” of research that would form one meaningful paper into several different papers .

21 CRediT With the rise of genome-wide association person involved in the work is properly studies and particle accelerators, multi- acknowledged for their role . CRediT author papers are getting more frequent statements should be provided during – and author lists longer . When many the submission process and appear authors are involved in a study, simply above the acknowledgement section of listing their names doesn’t provide the published paper . much information . With CRediT Find out more about CRediT: elsevier. (Contributor Roles Taxonomy), each com/authors/journal-authors/policies-and- author’s contribution is made clear . ethics/credit-author-statement From conceptualization to writing, each

22 How to get your research published and then noticed Getting noticed

Congratulations on your publication! number is rising . So it’s increasingly Now your paper is online, you can important for you to find ways to make promote it – sharing your paper with your article stand out . colleagues, the media and the general Use these resources to share your article public can help you take the next step with the people who need it – and make with your research, by attracting funding an impact globally . and collaborators . elsevier.com/promote-your-work More than 2 .5 million scientific articles are published each year, and that

Sharing your article

Elsevier supports responsible sharing. Howcanishareit.com Sharing and promoting your article There are many options to share your form an important part of research, work so how do you know the best way in terms of fostering the exchange of to do it? Is it best to share your final scientific information in your field and published article, or an earlier version? allowing your paper to contribute to How can you be sure you’ll be credited wider scientific progress . properly? You benefit from sharing the The STM Association has created appropriate version of your article which howcanishareit.com to answer your ensures that: questions . The tool helps explain how you can share articles published in ● You always receive credit academic journals . It includes the “Can ● The integrity of the scientific record is I Share It” look-up tool which provides not compromised users with an easy way to check where a Responsible sharing in line with journal article can be shared in line with copyright enables publishers to sustain the paper’s access and usage rights . high quality journals and the services Visit: howcanishareit.com . they provide to the research community . Find out how you can share your research published in Elsevier journals at: elsevier.com/sharing-articles .

23 Share Links You can pass your Share Link on to When you publish with Elsevier, in colleagues, friends and family, and use most cases you will receive a Share Link it to promote your article by email and – a customized link to your article on on social media . Anyone who clicks on ScienceDirect that provides 50 days’ free your Share Link within the 50-day period access . will be taken directly to the article with no sign up or registration required . After the free access period, the usual access rules apply . Find out more about Share Links: elsevier.com/authors/journal-authors/ submit-your-paper/sharing-and- promoting-your-article/share-link

24 How to get your research published and then noticed

Increasing your visibility

It’s important to make sure people can Write a lay summary find you and links to your publications You’re busy sharing your article online . There are a few easy ways to and getting the word out to other increase your online visibility . researchers . But what about people who aren’t subject matter experts? If you Update your profiles have findings that matter to the general If you have a personal page at your public, it’s important to be able to institute, include links to the final present your work in a way that people versions of your articles on that page . will understand . You should also ensure that your With a lay summary, you can help CV is available online, with links to people without an academic background your publications . You can do this on to access your results . A lay summary is networking sites like LinkedIn, or on a a short account of your paper written personal website or . in clear, non-technical language . You Finally, keep your SCOPUS and ORCID can use it to explain your research, your author profiles up to date so others can findings and why they matter . find your articles . You can now update At Elsevier, several journals give you both at .scopusfeedback.com – just the ability to publish a lay summary of follow the easy online steps . your article, helping you reach a wider Present at a conference audience with your research . Presenting and networking personalizes Read more about writing lay summaries: your work, giving it a face and voice elsevier.com/connect/authors-update/in-a- and can create new opportunities for nutshell-how-to-write-a-lay-summary collaboration . Make sure you connect with other delegates on and LinkedIn and direct them to your website or blog . If you create a poster for a conference, post it on your website and provide links on your blog, social media profiles, online CV or institutional page .

25 Use social media There is an art and a science to using There are billions of people on Facebook, social media . You can brush up on your Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, Twitter, skills with the Researcher Academy WeChat, Weibo… and whatever the next module Social Media for Researchers . platform will be . These are great places Take the module on Researcher to share your research . With a Share Academy: researcheracademy.elsevier. Link (elsevier.com/authors/journal-authors/ com/communicating-research/ensuring- submit-your-paper/sharing-and-promoting- visibility/social-media-researchers your-article/share-link) you can promote your paper on social media, providing 50 Share your story with the media days’ free access to your readers . If you have a compelling story to tell, Social media is also a place for online you could reach a wider audience by networking: you can reach audiences sharing it with journalists . beyond your network by tagging and Elsevier promotes selected research engaging with universities, societies, papers to the global scientific media . If publishers and peers . You don’t need to you think your article is interesting for a be present everywhere; by choosing the wider audience and/or would like more platform(s) that suit you best, you can information about any of the above, establish a profile online and extend your contact the journal publisher . reach . And you can track and measure Remember to also get in touch with the the impact you’re making using PlumX press office at your institute to see what (plumanalytics.com/learn/about-metrics) . they can do to help you promote your paper .

26 How to get your research published and then noticed Tracking your impact

Are your efforts to promote your work ● Citation count – how many citations leading to downloads and citations? By have your articles received? tracking the performance of your article, ● Outstanding articles – which of your you can adjust the way you are sharing articles are in the top percentile of your work and make sure it’s getting to comparable articles? the right people . You can track your ● h- – this metric rates your entire impact using a variety of metrics . publication career based on both output Just like when you’re considering where to and . (An h-index of 11 publish, the best approach to monitoring indicates that 11 of a researcher’s articles your impact is to have multiple ways of have each received at least 11 citations .) assessing your performance . If you’re at an early stage in your career, you can use Your Scopus profile metrics that don’t require longer timeframes: Get credit for your work and explore ● Collaboration – how big is your your metrics . network? What’s the status of When you’ve done the research, you want colleagues in your network? Where in to make sure you’re credited with the the world are they located? publications, so your metrics reflect your ● Scholarly output – how productive are you? work . ● Usage – how often have your Your author profile on Scopus is linked publications been viewed? to all your publications through ORCID ● Article metrics – who’s talking about (orcid.org) . By maintaining an up-to-date papers online and what’s being said? author profile, you can make sure you’re ● Journal status – what’s the status of the showcasing your research and inviting journals that have published your work? career opportunities . With the free The average citation impact of all the Scopus validation tool, you can check articles in a journal is a useful proxy for the and amend your profile . impact your articles will achieve when When you validate your profile, you can they’ve had time to accumulate citations . also access your metrics: When you’re at a later stage in your ● Find out your h-index research career, with a sizeable output ● Discover who’s citing your publications and an impressive number of citations, Validate your Scopus profile:elsevier. further metrics can then become useful: com/solutions/scopus/advance-your-science 27 Article-level metrics

Article-level metrics let you track the Newsflo measures your societal impact impact of your publications in different by uncovering relevant mentions of your areas, from traditional research across tens of thousands of (citations) to broader (social media outlets around the world . shares) . Get more information on tracking It gives you a way to measure the wider your impact: elsevier.com/authors/journal- impact of your work by tracking and authors/measuring-an-articles-impact analyzing its media coverage Elsevier has two tools to help you: PlumX Newsflo provides a near-real-time feed Metrics and Newsflo . of news articles from more than 45,000 news outlets in more than 20 countries . PlumX Metrics provide insights into Tracking is based on sophisticated, high the ways people interact with individual precision search using individual article pieces of research output online, identifiers . showing you a picture of your impact . Find out more about Newsflo:elsevier. PlumX gathers and brings together com/solutions/newsflo research metrics for all types of scholarly research output in five categories: Citations, Usage, Captures, Mentions and Social Media . The PlumX records for your publications will show you how many people are citing and your work, as well as collating mentions and social media activity . You can see your PlumX Metrics directly in a panel in your article on ScienceDirect, which you can click on for more detailed information . Find out more about PlumX Metrics: plumanalytics.com/learn/about-metrics/ .

28 How to get your research published and then noticed Why publish with Elsevier?

Of course, you’ll consider other – is published by Elsevier . publishers and journals for your article . We publish thousands of journals and Why Elsevier? Well, chances are that , including many of the world’s the leading journal in your field of most renowned titles such as Cell and expertise – if you’re a medical Tetrahedon Letters .

Innovation

As a global information analytics such as data, software, methods, videos, , we also pride ourselves on our and more . We’re constantly looking for innovative approach, offering online ways to make your articles easier to find, services, article-based publishing and and to facilitate collaboration between new types of open access publishing, researchers and authors . For example, including research elements, which Share Links allow you to share your work allow you to publish research output with a wide audience .

ScienceDirect

Elsevier publishes your article on Your article will be accessible ScienceDirect, a leading information immediately after acceptance and has solution providing authoritative, full text a unique DOI (Digital Object Identifier) scientific, technical and medical content . number which will always link to the By optimizing the platform and indexing latest available version . Elsevier also all content, Elsevier works to ensure that participates in the multi-publisher your article is more visible and can be initiative Crossref, which creates direct found more easily by search engines, links between your article and those that library discovery services, A&I databases, cite you . The Crossmark logo in online and other search and discovery tools . PDF or HTML documents helps readers to verify that they’re using the most recent and reliable version of your work . Visit .com .

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