A publishing strategy may help you reach your academic publishing goals. It can be considered before, during your writing, and at the stage when an article is completed. The following questions may help you with the design of your publishing strategy.
Prestigious journals | It is good to publish your article in a prestigious journal, keeping in mind that prestigious journals usually take a longer period to assess articles and to process accepted articles due to the large number of submissions. |
Professional or general magazines |
Will professional groups or the public be interested in your article?
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Journals in a specialised research field |
Is your research in a very specific research field?
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Local or international journals |
Does your article focus on issues that are unique to New Zealand?
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Open access publishing
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Why publish OA?
Consider:
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Conference presentations and proceedings |
Does your article meet the theme of a conference in your research area?
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PBRF | The Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF) aims to ensure that excellent research in the tertiary education sector is encouraged and rewarded. You can use library databases and other online tools to identify and choose higher impact journals in your field to raise the level of your research impact. |
Institutional repository |
Under the AUT Open Scholarship Policy 2020, AUT staff are required to deposit the accepted manuscripts of their published articles into the Tuwhera Institutional Repository. Self-archiving in an institutional research repository ("Green OA") has been shown to increase citations. When selecting a journal for publishing, it is important to check whether the journal allows you to deposit your article in an open access institutional repository. Search the journal on the SHERPA RoMEO website to find publisher copyright policies and self-archiving information. |
Publishing time |
Is your research a fast growing topic and is it expected to reach an audience in a short time?
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Avoiding predatory journals | Predatory open-access publishing involves charging publication fees to authors without providing the editorial and publishing services associated with legitimate journals. These are not usually indexed in academic databases (even when they say they are) and therefore will not achieve a high level of citations. |
Consider who are you writing for:
How to promote your publications and get cited?
Your article will only get cited when it can be discovered by other researchers. There are many ways to promote your research and make your research visible to research communities.