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  • Chapter 8 - How Should We Identify Target Articles?

  • from Part III - Strategies of Planning Journal Articles
  • Zheng Yan, University at Albany, State University of New York
  • Book:
    Publishing Journal Articles
    Published online:
    27 October 2020
    Print publication:
    05 November 2020, pp 82-92

  • Summary

    The key to publishing journal articles is to demonstrate your contributions to your field of study. If we identify our target articles, it means that we know explicitly rather than implicitly what previous contributions are and what our contributions are. This chapter firsts present intuitive thoughts of students and three real-life cases (Robert, Zoey, and Young) and then discusses several pairs of core concepts, that is, highly-cited articles vs. low-cited articles, theoretical articles vs. empirical articles, and publishability vs. responsibility. Based on the discussion in this chapter, practical suggestions are offered: identifying target articles before, during, and after writing our manuscripts, especially when we review the literature; citing target articles and assessing scientific contributions of these articles; and focusing on the positive side rather than the negative side of target articles when we assess them.