The University of Malta Library in collaboration with Thomson Reuters is organising two identical training seminars on Web of Science.
The workshops will take place on:
1. Monday, 27 November at 15:00 - 17:00 - Room 113 Old Humanities Building (OH113)
2. Tuesday, 28 November at 10:00 - 12:00 - Hall A Gateway Building (GWHA)
Target audience: academic, research staff and postgraduate students
Target audience: academic, research staff and postgraduate students
The main speaker for the seminar will be Mr Amine Triki, Education Specialist from Thomson Reuters, and will cover the following topics:
- Big Data in Research – Impactful Papers vs Impact Factor or at least Big Data in Research
- The Research Malta
- How to define your research subject area: ideas, hot subjects, literature?
- What to Read and What to Cite?
- Citations Importance
- Journal Selection Criteria
- Publishing Challenges
- Why to publish?
- Where to publish?
- When to publish?
- How to publish?
- With whom to publish?
- The Impact Factor
- Can the impact factor be used as the main evaluation tool ?
- Citations and IF variations
- When not to publish
Please register by email via reservations.lib@um.edu.mt or by phone on 2340 2541.
