In just over 30 minutes per lecture, experienced professionals will show you:
How editors look at your paper: Looking through the eyes of an editor will help you understand what to focus on when writing and submitting a paper
Ways for researchers to store, share, discover, and use data: Learn about the growing importance of research data and its availability
How to tell your research story with AudioSlides: Top tips for communicating about your research, and step-by-step guidance on using Elsevier’s AudioSlides to give your story a different perspective
How to choose a journal for submission? This is a guide for those students who have prepared a research paper, and want to know where to submit it for publication. It is worth noting that there should be at least one publishable paper in every MS thesis. However, the MS thesis itself is not written in a format suitable for publication. Learning to write a paper for an academic journal is itself an art. I will try to provide some tips on how to do this on these pages at a later time. For the moment, this is just meant as a guide to selection of journal for those who have a paper in hand.
A list of PEDAGOGICAL & EDUCATIONAL JOURNALS
WARNING: Recently, a large number of journals have come out which publish anything that is submitted and charge some fees for doing so. It is very important to recognize and avoid these FRAUD journals.
Papers which challenge orthodox economic views are called HETERODOX -- these are very hard to publish in conventional journals. A list of journal which do publish such papers and some discussion about this issue is given in the link
TIPS:
It is easiest to publish papers about Pakistan in Pakistani journals. For those who are interested in an academic career, it is extremely useful to select HEC - approved journals for publication. A current list is available on HEC Website. A PDF document listing Social Science journals approved by HEC is attached below.
A good opportunity for economists is the Annual PSDE Conferences sponsored by PIDE. Papers accepted for the conference are automatically published in the PIDE journal PDR which is HEC recognized.
See this link for an article about rankings of journals. In deciding wher to submit there are several factors to look at in deciding to submit:
Time-to-Decision/Evaluation. If journals provide quick decisions, it does not cost much to submit to them.
Ranking and Name Recognition -- higher ranked and more prestigious journals are more worthwhile to publish in
Impact Factor -- this tells how often papers in the journal are cited by others. Higher impact factors are good.
Acceptance Ratio -- out of 100 papers submitted, how many are accepted? This tells us how easy it is to get a paper accepted at the journa
Normally, this information is not easily available, but you can write to the editors to try to find out -- sometimes they will write back and tell you, and sometimes they will not.
ONE very important fact to note is the this publication business is very HEARTBREAKING. You get rejected very often. Good journals accept 1 paper in 20 -- this means that a good paper will be rejected nineteen times before one acceptance. Only people with tough hearts and ready for lots of rejections should enter this business.
Main kabhi na paper likhta agar mujhay yay khabr hoti,
kay hazar gham milangay, mujhay ek khooshi say pehlay