Publish and promote your research: 5 things to do
Journals vary widely, so think before you choose a journal for publishing:
Impact and ranking (may refer to Bibliometrics & Research Impact databases)
Audience
Peer Review Process
Acceptance Rate
Editor and Editorial Board
Online Guide: Research Metrics
Predatory journals (fraudulent, deceptive, or pseudo-journals) are journals which aim mainly at profit, and attempt to deceive authors to publish for a fee without providing robust peer-review or editorial services. They publish all articles, including low quality, unrelated to the topic of the journal, or nonsensical ones, as long as the authors pay a fee.
Some journals appear to have been hijacked, meaning that their websites or branding have been co-opted by a predatory journal or publisher.
Online Guide: Avoid Predatory Journals
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Open Access brings you the following benefits:
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To encourage open access, the Libraries has signed Transformative Agreements with various publishers to support APC (Article Processing Charges) for HKU authors.
Details for Transformative Agreements
Online Guide: Open Access@HKUL
Compare journals and look for high-impact journals or articles:
develops research strategy, analyze institutional productivity, monitor collaboration activity, and identify influential researchers with the research evaluation tool.
discovers top papers in various research fields.
discovers journals with metrics such as JIF (Journal Impact Factor).
discovers articles in impactful journals across various scientific disciplines indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded.
visualizes research performance, benchmark relative to peers, develop collaborative partnerships and analyze research trends with the research evaluation tool.
discovers articles and journals with metrics such as CiteScore.
finds out whether a journal is peer-reviewed.
Online Guide: Research Impact
Before preparing a final version of your article for submission, read your target journal's Author Guidelines / Submission Guidelines to understand the journal's policies and practices, including but not limited to:
Many governments, funding agencies, institutions, and journals now require that authors make the data used in the research open, accessible and reusable. This is to ensure reproducibility, research integrity, and scientific rigor.
You may consider HKU DataHub, the cloud platform for storing, citing, sharing, and discovering research data and all scholarly outputs created by HKU researchers and RPG students.
Online Guide: DataHub
You may consider depositing your manuscript in a preprint server before publication for potential benefits such as:
Please check the journal policy on preprints first — some publishers may have restrictions on preprint servers, and some may not accept manuscripts already published as preprints.
Online Guide: Preprints
Online Guide: Researcher Profiles
HKU Scholars Hub is to enhance the visibility of HKU authors and their research. You can find:
ResearcherPages (RPs) for