Attended a research talk about reviewer's point of view in getting a journal paper published.

very informative, and of course got hadiah in the end hahah!

free ipad2??

nah... just a pen..

Hi all, Master student in the making here...

I heard a lot about paper publishing from my seniors that it can be really frustrating and time consuming.

I have yet to publish any papers yet but eager to learn more about it and share my experience with all of you.

Hope this thread can gain more momentum or such...

BTW, I am into carbon-based materials research.

Greetings everyone.

Currently doing PhD in Economics in UKM and just published a paper. Was hell try to publish in int. journals such as American economic review or Review of Economic Study. However managed to publish one in Journal of Monetary Economics. Presentation was so scary I couldn't even speak properly.

Here are few tips that may help anybody that wish to publish research paper:

1. Language. Use proper researching english
2. Author. Always an advantage to include a renown Professor as secondary author.
3. Methodology. Chapter 3 is always the deciding factor. Make sure you use the most appropriate and latest method and test everything to show there is no error.
4. Topics. Topic must be interesting yet have major impact to the latest issue of your field.
5. Originality. Originality is critical as most thesis is just application of an old theory or small modification of old theory. Add something new to the table.
6. Reputation. Build your reputation by publishing paper in some unknown or domestic publisher. Join as many seminar as possible as speaker. Slowly and surely you will have your change.
7. Networking. Try to do your research with some renown professors in your field.

Still learning here so will be grateful if anybody can provide tips for me on method of publishing paper on publisher such as AER. Got rejected so many times before.......

dear altan and ru40342

thanks for participation and sharing, pm me if you want your specific research area mentioned in the first post of the thread.

As mentioned by ru40342, one way to broaden your network is to make your research area known to others through websites such as tapping on Emerald's research collaboration.

Congratulation ru40342 on your first PHD publication!

Knowing the right people when it comes to publishing does make a difference. Too bad I am just starting out as a fresh student... Time to get network.

For those who teach and taking masters/PhD at the same time, this is the standard set by my uni.

Research 50%
Publication 20%
Teaching 25%
Admin 5%

make sense? I teach 15 hours a week.

Thanks! Good luck 4 u 2

15 hours a week? that a lot of time..

then how do you can focus on your study?
which uni are you now?

UTAR, i'm only a tutor, compared to lecturer I have lots of free time except teaching and preparing materials.

15 hours a week and you have lots of free time compared to lecturer? How many hours per week the lecturer there are doing?

At least you don't have to take classes or exams to to qualify your candidature... I have to take three night classes within a year.

their max hour is 12, but because of maintaining admin record (like leading a unit subject), set exam paper, they did more things than me as a tutor. Somemore they need to supervise undergraduate students etc stuff. I just need to deliver teaching.

Haha actually got, there are 2 compulsory module (saturday class) for research methodology. Commence next year Jan =D

so, I am optimistic?

Hello guys. Glad I found this thread.

I'm just completed Msc in Human Resource Development. I already submitted one paper (I'm the main author) for Australian journal and now waiting for the referees' report. Before this my supervisor submitted one paper (I'm second author) for Romanian journal and already accepted for publication this coming December.

Anyway guys, aside from becoming a lecturer. What other academic jobs we can apply in uni? Is research fellow worth it?

If you are very interested in the field of your research, then by all means do proceed. I don't think research fellow would have a high salary compare to industrial job.

Alternatively, last time when I'm completed my master, I went to work in Intel, they accept fresh graduate even for M.Sc and Ph.D. Thing is, you'll need to go for multinational company if you want to be paid based on your master level. Some of the local company would not pay the supposedly amount for M.Sc graduate.

By the way, congratulations on your 1st publication and I wish you good luck for your both journal and your viva presentation in the near future.

Thanks. Actually I don't really like giving lecture. I'm more interested to conduct academic research. Right now I'm lean towards academic line rather than corporate/industrial jobs.

Yes, I do agree with you that local companies pay lower that what a master graduate should earn as they only only looking for bachelor's degree graduates. I already passed viva voce and already submitted the final manuscript. Now I'm just waiting for graduation.

BTW, currently are you working or studying PhD? How much you got paid by Intel with master's degree? Hope you don't mind to share. Thanks again.

As for myself, I'm doing my masters in molecular microbiology.
Pressured to publish papers...

This post has been edited by adrian1984: Aug 14 2011, 07:10 PM

rm3.5k for M.Sc fresh graduate. Currently I'm doing Ph.D.

Thanks for the info. I'm having a dilemma to continue phd or not