Autor: Luis-Miguel Romero

Recent posts

• What is behind a scientific journal? The process of publishing an article
• Methods, instruments and data collection
• Construction of the theoretical framework, state of the art
• Abstract
• SEO in Science: Keywords and Thesaurus
• The importance of reading
• Impacto, métricas en las revistas
• What is a scientific article/Structure?
• The importance of disseminating our research
• Publishing (in) books: Typologies and principles of editorial quality
• What does it mean to publish in a scientific journal?
• The JCR is not what it used to be: Towards a new JCR that is more universal and, at the same time, selective
• Visibility and impact of our research: Publons, Scopus and Google Scholar Metrics.
• How to answer to reviewers’ requests?
• The scientific review. What do the reviewers look at?
• How to write a highly citable article
• Scientific dissemination of research: Communications at conferences and congresses
• Making a new submission: The first phase of a publication
• Affinity between scientific journals
• Duplicity of information
• A good article to publish
• Why is my article not appearing in Google Scholar?
• Manuscript rejection: A problem or an opportunity?
• A controversial issue: the order of authorship
• ORCID: identification for researchers
• To pay or not to pay to publish. Is this the dilemma?
• What to do when an article is rejected?
• Why is your APA not the same? Reference standards among scientific publications
• Review Results
• Publons
• Choosing the journal to publish an article
• Factors that influence the frequency of citation of an article
• Support: Funding agencies and calls for proposals
• Primary and secondary sources – why not to abuse of them?
• Cohesion and coherence in the scientific article
• Where to begin writing?
• How to write an abstract for a scientific publication
• English: The Language of Science
• Published the JCR-2019 ranking: ‘Comunicar’ consolidates its Q1
• Why report the effect size?
• Published the new SCOPUS-2019: ‘Comunicar’, undisputed leader among Hispanic journals
• SJR-2019 published: ‘Comunicar’ consolidates Q1 leadership
• Some clues to select the journal to which send our article
• Tips for including figures and tables in a manuscript
• Selecting the right research method
• Programs to create scientific images and figures
• From the birth of the idea to the publication of the article: the process.
• Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter… other readings for knowledge
• The citation as an indicator of quality
• Reasons not to abuse of tables and figures
• How to write a good review of scientific literature?
• Pandemic of research on the coronavirus. Opportunity and risk for authors
• APA Manual 7: Comunicar version
• Statistical data presentation in APA Style 7th Edition
• Eight reasons why articles are accepted (or not accepted)
• References as quality criteria of an article
• Authorship: How many people sign, who and in what order?
• The importance of the section “Materials and methods” in scientific articles
• The structure and process of a good review
• The processes of academic selection of the manuscript by a scientific journal
• How to publish a good article and not die trying?
• How to identify a meaningful research question?
• The cover letter. Present and publish a manuscript
• Benefits of publishing open data from research
• Structure of a research paper: Tips to improve your manuscript
• Writing a good research tittle: Mistakes that should be avoided.
• Is there a writing style of the selected journal?
• ‘Comunicar’ available on Researcher App
• Why and what for should we publish?
• How to cite several authors in APA format?
• 5 keys to improve your scientific writing: Importance of punctuation
• The 10 most frequent causes of dismissal of a manuscript
• Coherence and balance in the manuscript
• Checklist: error checking. The last step before sending the article to the journal
• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association APA, (Seventh Edition) 2020
• A key to scientific quality: The list of references
• Reports and services of emerging scientific trends: Essential Science Indicators (from WoS) and SciVal (from Elsevier)
• Is it necessary to put yourself in the place of the reader?
• ‘Comunicar’ is consolidated in JCRR- 2018 as the best Social Sciences journal from Spain and among the 10 best in the world
• REDIB 2018: The best Latin American indexed journals: ‘Comunicar’ the best positioned
• In-Cites and Dialnet Metrics. Two products that «rank» communities. The case of Communication
• Dialnet Metrics: A new way of evaluating the scientific prestige of the journals in Spanish
• Doctoral works published in Institutional Repositories. Plagiarism in journals?
• Writing paragraphs. Three useful tips
• The importance of “bringing to light”, instead of hiding, the unexpected or anomalous results
• Future research. Why is prospective important in scientific articles?
• The image of the results also matters
• The «ritual phrases» Do we abuse of them in scientific articles?
• What is and what is not a scientific article?
• Some advice to increase the number of citations to our publications
• The visibility of articles: presence of journals in international databases
• Manuscript edition in English
• Simple review or blind peers
• Online magazines, printed … global?
• The correct use of quotation marks in academic writing
• Creative Commons. Licenses for the open diffusion of the science
• The diffussion of competitive projects on scientific articles
• CiteScore: percentiles
• The biographical note
• International co-authorships
• The importance of making a good discussion
• Choosing a publication of quality
• Thesaurus: Keywords
• Cover letter: the first step to publish your work
• REDIB, the first ranking of quality in latin American journals
• What does Academia Premium offer to the academic?
• The indexed ESCI journals, a new reference for editors and authors
• Emerging themes. A source of inspiration for research
• Correspondence with the editors
• The sources of information and its evaluation
• FundRef/Crosscheck/SimilarityCheck/CrossTech
• International editions, the worldwide visibility of the journals.
• All the possible readings. Formats and appearance
• RefWorks vs. EndNote
• Quality criteria in the publications
• Indexations
• The meta-labels, describing electronic documents
• Call for Papers
• The peer review process
• Consortium Journals
• The Q1, the excellence for antonomasia
• Immediacy factor: Eigenfactor
• Alternative metrics: ALM
• Types of articles
• How to cite references in the text?
• Key ideas: To highlight the value of the research
• Google Scholar Metrics (GSM)
• The value of “communicating” to society. How to strengthen the impact of a preprint?
• Search for topics and other descriptors in Scopus/WoS
• Reference managers
• Preprint / Postprint
• Keywords
• Scientific social networks: Academia.edu
• Promotion of research in social networks
• Impact factor, a scientific indicator to measure scientific journals
• The thorny issue of self-citing
• OJS
• Open Access
• H, H5, G, i, i5
• International presence
• Main types of limitations
• The importance of the languages of scientific publications
• Policy of reviewers
• Rates of acceptance and rejection
• Importance of expressing study limitations
• Ensure an anonymous document
• School of authors
• WOS and SCOPUS: The great allies of every researcher
• Wolf in sheep’s clothing- Fraudulent journals
• Peer friends
• Shipping protocols: checklist
• Theme, range, approach, focus, aims and scope. The heart of a journal
• Scientific social networks: Research Gate
• Four keys to a good state of affairs
• Quality of the references
• Fraudulent and false metric indexes. A scam for publishers and authors
• A good article with sequels. An example to follow
• Endogamy
• The identifiers of author, journal and article: ORCID, ISSN and DOI
• Plagiarism, antiplagiarism and selfplagiarism
• To pay or not to pay for publishing
• Transparency and honesty: the ethical code of scientific journals
• The revision process and the reviewers protocol
• Standardization of authors: ORCID
• International visibility: getting to know how to connect and disseminate a scientific contribution
• Relevance, originality and anonymity. Coordinates for the publication
• The key: the reviewers
• The prior checking
• Standards, standards, standards
• Selecting journals to publish…
• The access to scientific information. The Navigator’s Compass
• The writing of the abstract: the art of focusing
• Read: The first task
• Scientific writing: accuracy, clarity and brevity
• APA standards and cite system with DOI
• A good title says it all
• The School of Authors of Comunicar: clues to publish in scientific journals