Miscellaneous

Some information related to researchers are useful either to avoid predatory journal, finding impact factor of journal or checking conference before submitting manuscript or attenting as speaker invitation. The following information may be useful in deciding publishing research output. In addition some of the research publication related tools or resources are given below. All of these tools are freely available except otherwise mentioned.

SAFE

Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) recognized journals including peer review process, reputaion, how to understand a fake conferences and related information. KISTI defined the system as 'Scholarly ecosystem Against Fake publishing Environment' in acronym  as SAFE. The website of SAFE is https://safe.koar.kr

Impact Factor (IF)

The Impact Factor (IF) or Journal Impact Factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as indexed by Clarivate's Web of Science. Many predatory journals claims they have impact factor, however, if the journal title or ISSN number is not listed in the website — https://jcr.clarivate.com, that means the journal claiming the Impact Fator is not recognized by the Impact Factor evaluation authority. To check the informaion from this website, user login might be required.

Fake Conference

Think. Check. Attend. is an initiative that aims to guide and assist researchers and scholars to judge the legitimacy and academic credentials of conferences in order to help them decide whether to or not attend the same.  To check authentic conference information this website https://thinkcheckattend.org is useful.

Conference Ranking

Sometimes we need to check the ranking and recognition of conferences. Conferences rank types are A*. A, B, and C. Conferences ranking can be checked at  https://portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks

PACE Tool

Publishers need high quality image during final production of research works. To check quality image the tool called — PACE tool, https://pacev2.apexcovantage.com, is helpful.

Detexify

The tool Detexify is helpful to find latex symbol or symbol. The website of Detexify tool is https://detexify.kirelabs.org.

Text2Bib Converter

This site allows you to convert a text file of references to a BibTeX file. It is maintained by Martin J. Osborne. An explanatory video (5:45) is available at https://youtu.be/uDYHszzWhfk

JabRef

A free reference manager that helps you to discover, collect, organize and cite your scholarly literature and research in an efficient way. JabRef is an tool that helps to identify missing years or journal title and many more facilities at a glance in tabular view.

Bibtex Entry Fields and Converter

All the possible entry fields for Artitle, Conference, Unpublished study, and other type sources can be checked here. In addition, the resources is useful to convert reference in different formats.

Illustration/Image Editing Tools

To prepare illustartion microsoft powerpoint, miscrosoft visio, Figma, Lucid, drawio or GIMP freeware is useful.

Some Latex Code

Some of the frequently required latex code for developing manuscript is listed here.

CRediT author statement

CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) was introduced with the intention of recognizing individual author contributions, reducing authorship disputes and facilitating collaboration. The idea came about following a 2012 collaborative workshop led by Harvard University and the Wellcome Trust, with input from researchers, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and publishers, including Elsevier, represented by Cell Press. The CREdiT statement can be accessed here.

MSC Classification

The Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC) is an alphanumerical classification scheme of mathmatical subject derived subjects area. The classification can be accessed at https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/msc/msc2020.html? or https://zbmath.org 

Cover letter 

Latex sample cover letter for manuscript submission.

Mistakes to avoid during manuscript preparation

A good tutorial is given at https://beta.springernature.com/pre-submission?

Copy Table from Word to Excel

Copy Word table to Excel without splitting cells https://youtu.be/9BlxoOqEdtU?si=2bmdB1vsowIB4kcQ

Springer Journal Finder

To find suitable journals by matcjing keywords and abstracts, this link—https://link.springer.com/journals/journal-finder is helpful.

Sage Journal Finder

The related link is https://journal-recommender.sagepub.com/?

Wiley Journal Finder

Wiley Journal Finder https://journalfinder.wiley.com/search?type=match

Wiley Journal Finder in ICT Domain

Journal finder in ICT domain link is here.

JCR.Clarivate Website

The original website to to check Journals' Impact Factor (JIF) is https://jcr.clarivate.com/jcr/home. Related master journal list can be accessed at https://mjl.clarivate.com/home

Keep Words Together

Sometimes texts extracted through OCR in word file, do not stay together, especially if in the computer system asian fonts/languages are installed (Korean, Japanese, Chinese). However, to make the words together in such case, the video (https://youtu.be/pjEYGqEeTv0?si=M8IpiWvlDXX9_TdO) is useful. 

List of Major Big data Journals

Top 20 publications matching big data in Google scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_venues&vq=big+data&btnG=

How to evaluate similarity reports?

https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/conferences/crosscheck_tips.pdf

Writing With Integrity

An excellent course is given in the link https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/evidence. Thanks to Walden University Writing Center.

Can I put a figure or a photo from other published papers into my manuscript?

A useful answer is given here: https://www.editage.com/insights/can-i-put-a-figure-or-a-photo-from-other-published-papers-into-my-manuscript. A related answer is also given here: https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/66042/can-i-copy-an-image-from-another-paper-that-i-am-citing

Is it self-plagiarism if I use an image from one of my previous papers?

A useful answer is available here: https://www.editage.com/insights/is-it-self-plagiarism-if-i-use-an-image-from-one-of-my-previous-paper

Publication ethics and related information journal

The link to the journal articles is here: https://insights.uksg.org/articles