【正文】 Publishing in Biomaterials Professor David Williams, EditorinChief Peggy O’Donnell, Managing Editor 第十二屆中國生物材料學 術 年會 The 12th Biennial Chinese Conference on Biomaterials 中國 廣州 Guangzhou China December 2020 Publishing in High Impact Factor Journals Why publish scientific papers Why publish in scientific journals What is an Impact Factor Who decides what papers are accepted for publishing The basic rules of scientific writing Why Publish Scientific Papers There is no point in carrying out research if the results are never analysed, conclusions properly drawn and appropriately disseminated. Unless constrained by confidentiality (military, product development, industrial knowhow, economic forecasting for mercial reasons), the outputs of research should be subjected to review and ment by other scientists and disseminated as widely as possible. The best indicators of the scientific quality of individuals are their output of scientific papers importance of CVs. The quality of research teams and their corporate institutions are judged primarily by their outputs, including scientific papers, also patents, strategic reviews etc. Why Publish in Scientific Journals The main forms of published outputs are edited books, conference proceedings, magazines and peerreviewed scientific journals. Edited books are rarely peerreviewed and the choice of author and subject usually made before the quality of the contribution is known. Abstracts of conference proceedings are usually reviewed before acceptance of the paper for the conference, but the full papers are rarely reviewed and the quality is very variable. Magazines are of variable quality, content determined by editorial policy, mercial considerations and topicality of subjects. Scientific journals also vary in quality but they should always be peerreviewed, are subject to independent editorial control and are generally widely available and widely read. What is an Impact Factor The value of a journal is judged by the impact which its papers have on society. It is impossible to assess how many people read any one particular paper, although it is possible with some publishers to know how many times particular papers are downloaded from online versions of journals. We can, however, measure exactly how many times readers quote a particular paper in their own subsequent publications. It is convention in scientific writing for authors to cite any previous work which is directly relevant to their paper, where they have drawn upon the previously published work in support of their work or where they seek to contradict previous data or theory. Usually at the end of a scientific paper there will be a list of such ‘references’ to previous work, these generally being known as ‘citations’ The number of citations to a particular paper is a mark of the quality and impact of that paper. What is an Impact Factor The impact of a journal on society is judged by the collective impact of its papers. This is assessed through the Impact Factor of the journal, which is calculated annually by the Institute of Scientific Informat