MOVESCI 250 Lecture 3: Reading and Evaluating Research

• School: U of M
• Department: Movement Science
• Course: MOVESCI 250
• Professor: Zhankia Zhang

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Peer review: process where research manuscripts submitted to journals reviewed by knowledgeable researchers, revised by authors in accordance with suggestions prior to publishing, editorial recommendation/decision, accepted, minor revision, major revision, rejected. Indicators of journal quality: acceptance rate - (number of papers accepted)/(number of papers submitted, locating can be difficult for kinesiology, find in cabells database. Journal impact factor (jif): 2017 jif = (citations in 2017 to items published in 2015 and 2016)/(number citable items in 2015 and 2016, locate on web of science journal citation reports. Conference proceedings: conference proceeding published record of conference, congress, symposium sponsored by society/association, less strict peer review process than journal papers. Predatory journals: publish work without proper peer review process, can charge scholars huge fees to submit, target scholars through mass e-mail spamming attempting to publish, quick acceptance of low-quality papers, scholar credibility seriously damaged.