Bijesh Mishra, Ph.D.

Writing Skills Enhancement Resources:

• BibDesk: Paper Organizing Tool: A good paper literature organization tool
• Citation Machine: Cite articles.
• Citation Tree: Creates a tree of citations and related papers. A cool way to be more efficient in searching papers.
• Connected Papers: Build a network of papers.
• Harvard College Writing Center
• The Journal Database: This is a YouTube video that helps to develop a database of papers and articles in Excel to organize your research papers using slicer function in excel.
• Purdue Online Writing Lab (Online writing guide from Purdue University)
• The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library Resources for publication, plagiarism, and several other topics.
• URCH (tonnes of resources on GMAT, GRE, eLearning, College Admission, and Networking)
• UNC Chapel Hill writing Center Tips and Tricks
• WikiDiff: Compare two words, their meaning, and their differences.

Writing a Scientific and Technical Papers:

• What is Peer Review?
• Introduction Formula: How to write the introduction section in a research article.
• The Conclusion Formula: How to write the conclusion section?
• Tips for Economics Research Papers
• How to write a Research Paper

Tips to Avoid Predatory Journals and Find Proper Journal for Publication: While searching journals for publication or published and peer-reviewed articles, checking the following website is always helpful to find if the journal is genuine or predatory. There are so many scams or predatory journals which publish articles for monetary motives without maintaining quality. The authentic Open Access Journals should be registered or listed in the Directory of the following websites:

• The Open Access Scholarly Publisher Association (OASPA)
• The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Belles List & Beall’s List of Predatory Journals and Publishers. (This is the list of predatory journals. DO NOT publish articles in journals listed on this website. The first list is a recently updated link (June 30, 2020) and the second link was from the past.)

Journal Finder, Databases, and Publishers:

• Books Beginning with A, Springer Books
• Edanz Journal Selector
• Epub: Write a book and publish.
• Global Institute for Scientific Information (GISI) Journal Impact Factor (JIF)
• JANE: Journal Author Name Estimator
• Journal Guide: Find the best journal for your research
• Microsoft Academia
• Open Access Journal Finder Powered by Enago
• SJR: Scimago Journal and Country Ranking
• Springer Nature Journal Suggester
• Web of Science Master Journal List
• Where to Publish Your Research: Identifying Potential Journals: This is a post with the link to several journal finder tools and some other useful information when navigated through different pages.
• WILEY Journal Finder
• Use databases such as EBSCOhost, ProQuest, PubMed, SciFinder, Scopus, and Urich’s Web Global Serials Directory to find potential journals to publish your paper. Most of them should be accessible from your university library.

Additional information about predatory journals and publication tips:

• Webinar Synthesis: Choosing the right Journal
• Jocalyn Clark: How to avoid predatory journals-a five-point plan: (Comment and opinion from The BMJ’s international community of readers, authors, and editors)
• Predatory Journals List: This is a list of possibly predatory journals. The kernel for this list was extracted from the archive of Beall’s list at web.archive.org.
• Predatory open access publishing
• How to target a journal that’s right for your research
• How to write superb literature review?
• Resource for publishing: Predatory Publishing
• What’s the best journal for my paper? New Tool Can Help
• Selecting a Journal for Publication: BernardBecker Medical Library
• Publishing with Elsevier: Step by step

Teach:

• Berkeley center for teaching and learning
• Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, University of Connecticut
• Book: Teaching at Its Best : A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors
• Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation, Clemson University

Miscellaneous

• Aurora by Beyond the Professoriate: Empowering PhDs to build impactful careers and engaged lives wherever smart people are needed.
• Better Data Management: Workshop from OSU Library
• Create a Resume that Stands Out (By Google)
• Professional Development, Berkeley Graduate Division
• Harvard University Office of Career Service Resources