'School of Authors' is a website from Media Education Research Journal Comunicar, indexed in main international data bases, that complements other websites in Spanish, English and Portuguese. It is written and edited, basically, by the Editorial Board of 'Comunicar' and it aims to offer different sources, for manuscript submissions in scientific journals in a planned and strategic manner. It is intended to make authors think about scientific information management for publishing scientific manuscripts in high impact journals.
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- International co-authorships
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- What does Academia Premium offer to the academic?
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- RefWorks vs. EndNote
- Quality criteria in the publications
- Indexations
- The meta-labels, describing electronic documents
- Call for Papers
- The peer review process
- Consortium Journals
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- 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)
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- Search for topics and other descriptors in Scopus/WoS
- Reference managers
- Preprint / Postprint
- Keywords
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- Open Access
- H, H5, G, i, i5
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- Main types of limitations
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- Endogamy
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