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[pmunishankar]

Dear All,

 

This may seem to be irrelevant query in this forum. But, looking at the experience of members in this community, I want to seek your help to know about writing of technical papers.

 

I want to write technical papers and participate in conferences. Till now I dont have the experience in doing this. I dont know how to proceed and have few questions.

1. Is it true / necessary that those who have done research in a particular field can only publish papers?

2. Can anyone who can choose a topic and do literature survey be able to write a paper? Are they accepted?

3. Are there any guidelines to put the contents in a paper? (i.e. Content and Format)

4. Any case study. i.e. any one who has published a paper in past, to explain how s/he chose a topic, carried out literature survey and finally drafted a paper. (if any)

 

Thanks and Regards,

Muni Shankar

[thorium90]

Papers need to have sufficient impact, novelty, content and relevance to be deemed worthwhile for editors of journals to publish them. That implies quality research that your peers in the field have reviewed. You can read the guidelines by the various journals like Elsevier, Science, Nature etc to get an idea.
Conferences are slightly different. Papers that you present at conferences may or may not be published in the proceedings.

 

Attached an online presentation from a publisher that has a very useful guide on this topic.

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•  Guide to Getting Published Emerald.pdf   830.55KB   33 downloads

Edited by thorium90, 03 October 2013 - 09:29 AM.

[curious_cat]

There's a difference between a scholarly journal & a trade magazine. Former tends to accept research oriented work or reviews. Latter is more amenable to shorter, crisper articles including case studies, heuristics, opinions etc.