0 Publishing Your Research

This was a very informative presentation about publishing research. Although, I've published a few papers and it is not a totally new process, I found the session very informative. The session was led by Holly Rushmeier from Yale University.

• - Quality, not quantity: valuable ideas expressed clearly
• - As career progresses number of citations, not number of papers, matters
• - How to generate cites? High quality work; Highly visible publication venue
• Go to a conference, where those papers seem to be cited a lot.
  

We all do it ... we have one or two more paragraphs that we want to include in the paper, so we increase the margin size or decrease the font size (to something unreadable). The rule is "Don't cheat on the font size, margins, etc." Why? Because this gives the reviewers an easy reason to 'throw out' your paper, no matter how well it is written.

Calculation for journal impact factor

A = Year N cites to articles published in Years N-1 and N-2
B = number of articles published in years n-1 and n-2
C = a/b = year n impact factor