ISI or Scopous? A webquest for TEFL students who are going to publish their papers.

Have you ever known that ISI and Thomson Reuters are of the same origin?  

What do you know about ranking, impact factor and citation index?

Do you know what journal ranking is based on? 

Do you know about the databases of ISI?

Do you know about the databases of Scopus? 

Do you know what is SCIMAGOJR for?

Do you know JCR stands for Journal Citation Reports on the Web?

Do you know it  provides a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the
world's leading research journals?

Do you know which journals are the largest?

Do you know what journals are most frequently used or cited?

Do you know what are the "hottest" journals?

Do you know how do you identify journals with an emphasis on reviews?

Do you know which journals have the highest impact?

It is time to answer these questions and obtain sufficient information regarding over-heard terms in your disciplinary community.

These are some fundamental points that every postgraduate students should know, due the significance role of academic publications in distributing and producing science. Nowadays, one of the most important concern of all instructors, and all university students is finding or publishing papers.

Having a good command of knowledge concerning the points mentioned above, including reputable journals in your field, grand databases, journal ranking, impact factor, etc assist students to save their time and energy with sending their already-finished papers to the right journal, if they have become familiar with such issues in advance.

It is high time to identify which databases provide some measure of the academic impact of the papers indexed in it which lead to increasing their impact by making them more visible and providing them with a quality label, because as was suggested appearing in these databases can double the number of citations received by a given paper.  

  Definitely,  it is a desire for all students and writers that their papers are seen, read and cited by others, even all around the world. So, you may find some clues here. 

Be ready to set off for our quest!

Before embarking on the quest, however;  think it individually, then share  of your thoughts with the rest of the class.