Proposal
This paragraph is a proposal, not yet an abstract. But since this document is an open one, I state some few information.
During the final workshop of the Course
Scientific Writings (2017),
Publishing in peer-reviewed journals, given and managed by
Richard Lorch, the students analyzed a series of journals. They made a short personal report and a group work (six groups), that has been presented to and discussed by all the participants to the course.
The task proposed to the Collaborator to this document is what they need to be evaluated and to get the final grade and is the following:
- to re-elaborate the discussion made by each participant and group, identifying a flexible characteristics of a so-called "scientific journal" and a way to classify them
- to reach a reasonable classification of all the examined journal, producing a list of them with a short description and classification
Classification of papers and journals characters
Let me add, here, my personal notes from the workshop
AUTHORSHIP (who writes journals? Mainly academics)
AUDIENCE - Professional/academic/stakeholder audience (Who does read those journals? That is the question!)
TYPOLOGY
- Research papers
- Literature review papers
- Policy papers (?)
- Case-study papers
- Methodological papers
- ...
TOPICS DEALT WITH:
- Monodisciplinary specialist journals
- Trans/Multidisciplinary-specialist with specific, technical topics
- Trans/Multidisciplinary-general without a specific topic (multiple or wide topic)
- Broad thinking??
- ...
- With special issue
GEOGRAPHY
- National/International audience
- Geography of authors
- Geography author’s institution and of the members of the editorial board
- Geography of author’s institution
- Geography of the members of the editorial board
STRUCTURE of the papers
- Title
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Literature review? … Discussion?
- Literature review
- Methodology
- Discussion
- Conclusions
METHODOLOGY
- Qualitative/quantitative research methodology
- Clear about the adopted methodology? Or just talking about results.
OWNER (scientific societies or others)
REVIEW MODE
- blind review
- double blind review
- ...
DIMENSIONS
- Number of pages
- length of certain paragraph
FUNDING (Funding of published research what about funding of the editor?)
polimi courses about scientific writing