Academic publishing resources

Resources for citation analysis and journal impact measurement

Publish or Perish - a citation analysis software program, designed to help individual academics to present their case for research impact to its best advantage.
Journal Quality List - Ranking of academic journals in the field of business and management.

Papers on journal rankings and referencing

White paper Working with ISI data: Beware of Categorisation Problems - discusses a categorisation problem in Thomson Reuter's ISI Web of Knowledge. ISI appears to regularly misclassify journal articles containing orginal research into the "review" or "proceedings paper" category.
White paper Comparing the Google Scholar H-index with the ISI Journal Impact Factor - compares ISI journal impact factors with an impact factor based on the Google Scholar h-index for more than 800 journals in the field of Economics & Business.
Are our referencing errors undermining our scholarship and credibility? The case of expatriate failure rates - Suggests twelve guidelines for good academic referencing.
Ranking Journals in Business and Management: A Statistical Analysis of the Harzing Dataset - a paper that investigate relationships between the different rankings, including that between peer rankings and citation behaviour; and tries to develop a ranking based on four groups that could be useful for the RAE.

Presentations on research quality and impact

Publish or Perish? - a presentation on publishing in good journals and getting cited; given at Manchester Business School, April 2008.
The value of Google Scholar for extended impact monitoring - a presentation given at the ERIM workshop on research impact, March 2008.
How to build networks and publish in Management? - a presentation given at the ANZAM doctoral colloquium in June 2006.
Research quality, journal rankings and the RQF - slides of a presentation given at the 2005 ANZIBA executive meeting, discussing Australian research quality and impact in a comparative perspective.
Research quality - a comparative perspective - slides of a presentation given at ESC Toulouse October 2006, discussing Australian and French research quality and impact in a comparative perspective.

External websites

The following two websites maintained by the librarier of the University of Western Ontario and the University of Auckland respectively provide a comprehensive collection of articles about the ranking and rating of journals in the broad fields of business and management.

University of Western Ontario Western Libraries journal ranking page.
Business journal rankings/impact factors & PBRF a literature review (University of Auckland).
A useful page on John Lamp's website which provides quick, efficient access to the over 21,000 records which constitute the ERA journal ranking list.

Emerald for Authors Site

http://info.emeraldinsight.com/authors/index.htm

Provided by Emerald publishers, who aim to be the publisher of choice for authors. The authors section offers a range of resources, including "finding the right journal", "write a case study", "write for a practitioner journal" and "write an abstract". Also very useful is Emerald Research Connections: an online meeting place for the academic and corporate research communities, providing the opportunity for researchers to present their own work and interests, and find others to participate in future projects or simply share ideas.

Plagiarism

Many research students are confused about what plagiarism is. I found the following three websites to be most helpful in this respect. They not only include good examples of what constitutes plagiarism and recommendation on how to avoid it, but also have a very accessible lay-out:

Avoiding Plagiarism: Mastering the Art of Scholarship (UC Davis)
http://sja.ucdavis.edu/files/plagiarism.pdf
Plagiarism (Earl Babbie)
http://www.csub.edu/ssric-trd/howto/plagiarism.htm
Plagiarism: What it is and how to avoid it (UBC Biology)
http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/bpg/Advising/Plagiarism.htm