CCIG/OS lunch seminar 4: where to publish?

This seminar is part of our CCIG/OS series. Don’t hesitate to bring your lunch!

Journal ranking is now commonly used in the evaluation of an academic journal’s impact and quality.  But how to understand impact factors? How does a citation index work?  What are the various tools to measure your publications’ impact (Scimago, ISI, Publish or Perish, etc.). Are these elements critical for choosing where to publish?

This session will explore the following:

How do you decide which journals you publish in?

Journal ranking (impact factors) and citations

Confirmed speakers include: John Dixon (Faculty of Social Sciences, OU) and Clari Gosling (bibliometrician, OU)

Further details to come.

This seminar will be followed by:

- CCIG/OS Seminar 5 (21 May): Gender and Sexuality Inclusion in Research Design