Communicate Science Papers, Presentations, and Posters Effectively

Gregory S. Patience, Daria C. Boffito, Paul Patience

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9780128017098
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

Communicate Science Papers, Presentations, and Posters Effectively is a guidebook on science writing and communication that professors, students, and professionals in the STEM fields can use in a practical way. This book advocates a clear and concise writing and presenting style, enabling users to concentrate on content.

The text is useful to both native and non-native English speakers. The book includes chapters on the publishing industry (discussing bibliometrics, h-indexes, and citations), plagiarism, and how to report data properly. It also offers practical guidance for writing equations and provides the reader with extensive practice material consisting of both exercises and solutions.

• Covers how to accurately and clearly exhibit results, ideas, and conclusions
• Identifies phrases common in scientific literature that should never be used
• Discusses the theory of presentation, including "before and after" examples highlighting best practices
• Provides concrete, step-by-step examples on how to make camera ready graphs and tables

Chapter 1

Publishing Industry

Abstract

Writing well is as much art as it is science. Captivating your audience such that the audience members read your entire article is art. Following a rigorous method and respecting predefined structure is…science. It takes practice, effort, and time to write well—any sentence can take what seems like hours. The immediate reward for all your toil and trouble is when an editor accepts your manuscript. We say that

– you are not working if you don’t write; but in fact,

– you are not working if you don’t publish; furthermore,

– you are not working if your papers aren’t cited.

you are not working if you don’t write; but in fact,

you are not working if you don’t publish; furthermore,

you are not working if your papers aren’t cited.

Journals compete to attract the best papers to improve their reputation and increase readership. The prestigious journals attract the best papers, and thereby maintain their stature.

Keywords

Impact factor

Hirsch index (h₅)

Web of Science

Google Scholar

Bibliometric indicators

Citations

Rankings

ϕ factor

Scientific categories

Tsallis power law distribution

Chapter Outline

1.1 Bibliometrics 2

Country Scientific Productivity 4

University Ranking 4

1.2 Citation Indices 6

1.3 Scientific Categories—Disciplines 8

1.4 Citations 9

Scientific Category (ϕ_26,0.1) 10

1.5 Journal Prestige 12

Impact Factor 13

h-Index 14

IF/SJR Versus h-Index 15

1.6 Article Citations 18

Classifying Articles—ϕ_τ,ξ 21

Increasing Citations 22

1.7 Personal Citation Reports 23

Funding 23

Metrics 24

1.8 Exercises 25

Writing well is as much art as it is science. Captivating your audience such that they read your entire article is art. Expressing ideas precisely in a systematic sequence and a logical structure is…science. It takes practice, effort, and time to write well—any sentence can take what seems like hours. The immediate reward for all your toil and trouble is when an editor accepts your manuscript.

You have to communicate your research: if you are not writing, you are not working. Editors publish work that is original, important, clear, and rel...