- •Find a formula of the exponential growth of the number of scientific problems appearing in harmonically developing society.
- •2. Find a formula for the period of doubling Tп of urgent scientific problems in limiting minimally developing society.
- •3. Find a formula for the average life time τ(t) of the old problem which is being solved from the time moment t0.
- •4. Find a relation between the doubling period Tп, life time τπ and the coefficient of problem reproduction g.
- •5. Coefficient of problem reproduction “g” and main conclusions connected with it.
- •6. Goals and objective regularities of science development.
- •7. Objectives and criteria of importance of fundamental research.
- •General laws of science development.
- •Law of accelerated motion of science, law of accelerated rate: science develops by exponential law.
- •Law of distribution of the outstanding scientists among the men of science of different time.
- •11. Law of team spirit in science and collaboration of generations
- •12. Law of planning in the modern science.
- •13. Law of international character of science.
- •Law of exponential growth of scientific information.
- •Law of increase of repeated discoveries.
- •Law of increase of period of education for science occupation.
- •Law of particular specialization of men of science and differentiation of science.
- •18. Law of growth of national income of the state, expended for science.
- •19. Law of transformation of the modern science from descriptive methods
- •20. Law of historical depth of citations in scientific works
- •21. Law of interaction and interrelation of science.
- •22. Law of interpenetrating development in a system «Science (s) - Technique
- •23. Law of qualitative and quantitative change of productivity of work of scientists in dependence on their age
- •24. Law of increase of number of doctors and candidates of science
- •25. Law of preparation of scientific staff reserve
- •26. Law of age structure of scientific employers working in research institutes
- •27. Law of distribution of geniuses among the planet’s inhabitants
- •28. Law of influence on the process of knowledge of heretics in science
- •29. Optimal structure of science.
- •30. Horizontal scheme.
- •31. Vertical scheme – is an optimal organizational structure of the science of the 21st century.
- •32. Mechanism of realization of the vertical scheme and its functioning
- •33. International system of scientific publications
- •34. About the history of scientific publications
- •35. Peer-review procedure
- •36. Primary and secondary scientific publications
- •37. Author rights in the system of international scientific publications
- •38. Bibliometric (scientometric) indicators in the system of international scientific publications: index of scientific citation and impact-factor
- •39. Organization of the text of original article for journal
- •40. Peculiarities of style of scientific publications in English
- •41. Название (Title)
- •Introduction
- •42. Materials and Methods
- •43. Choice of journal and manuscript submission
43. Choice of journal and manuscript submission
A correct choice of journal for publication of article is very important. Not less important the correct submission of manuscript. If you make a mistake regard to one or another, then you can delay the publication of the manuscript for long or it will just gets lost. On behalf of journal the answers are given and the final decision on publication of articles' manuscripts is made by the editor-in-chief who is an authoritative scientist, exactly he «does» the journal. One or several technical editors help him. In addition there are members of editorial board - scientists which consider manuscripts and recommend or do not recommend them for publication.
Choice of journal
There is a question before the author - which journal the article to send to. Obviously, that firstly, a choice of journal is defined by thematic of work. For beginning one can think about journals in which the articles on the thematic are published. One can also pay attention for the articles of which journals the authors refers to, who work in your or close to your field of science, talk to colleagues, having successful experience for publication.
You can look for the journal in the bibliographic data-base of scientific literature.
Science direct (http://www.sciencedirect.com)
Elsevier (http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/homepage.cws_home)
Scopus (http://info.scopus.com)
The first two sites allow realizing the search of journals after simple registration on the site, and to use the Scopus one should have a password, which one can get from institute if your institute is a subscriber.
The same concerns the access to journal Current Contents, which give an opportunity to get to know with content of the close issues of more than 8000 scientific journals, and search in these journals. To define whether the journal found is appropriate for article publication, one has to read not only the title, but also a section, which is usually called Statement. In this section it is written which fields of science the articles should cover in the journal. A good idea - is to look through the journal's issue for the last decade and convince that it publishes articles on your specialty. No matter how broad the research interests area of a journal, still in fact it is usually somewhat narrower than that stated in the Statement, and it is connected with the specialty range of editor's interests, publisher and most influential members of the Editorial Board. You quickly make sure that the journal has "favorite" topics, and even authors. Try to follow the main flow of articles in the journal, but your publication should remain original!
If you made a mistake when choosing a journal, then the following can occur with your manuscript or article if it will be published. Firstly, the editor just sends the manuscript back to the author with refusal in publication, which will be explained as work is not suitable for this journal. It is not seldom that you get this refusal after weeks or even months after you sent the manuscript to the journal, since it would possibly be sent for the peer-review. Secondly, if the theme of your work is on the boundary of the journal thematic, then you can get undeserved bad reviews, since neither the editor-in-chief, nor the members of the editorial board and even reviewers are specialists in your research field. You will have to experience a psychological trauma, although it is likely that the manuscript would be accepted for publication in journal corresponding to the work by thematic. If the manuscript suffers from definite disadvantages, then the reviews written by non-specialists will not help in improving it and that usually occurs if the review is written by expert in this field of science. Thirdly, even the manuscript will be published, and then the article will remain unknown for specialists since they do not read this journal. When choosing a journal it is important to pay attention for its prestige value. The most prestigious are those journals issued by professional societies of researchers and having good circulation. A quantitative evaluation of a journal's prestige value is its impact-factor. However the publication in more prestigious journal will be more difficult and requires more time. At submission of several articles one can balance a portfolio, combining presentation of the first-class results in prestigious journals with publication of simple good results, which may never be published anywhere. It is important to think which audience your work can be interesting for. If it is connected to solution of fundamental scientific or practical problems, which are general for all the mankind, then in makes sense to send it to international journal. If the investigation is connected with problem having a regional meaning, then one can limit to a journal of the same scale.