Salaam alaikum i'm philip purnell and i'm research services director at knowledge e we're based in dubai in the united arab emirates. I started my career as a scientific researcher at the max planck institute in germany and i've spent the last 15 years working with international abstract and citation databases most recently prioritizing journals for selection from the middle east and africa. I'm keen to provide you with an overview to the course entitled what international databases are looking for in a journal to be held shortly in your region. Once participants have completed. This course you'll be knowledgeable about the key abstract and citation indexes. You'll also have a deep understanding of the selection policies of each and be in a strong position to prepare a journal for submission to an international database. Most researchers have at some time in their career been encouraged to publish their work. In a high impact journal now there are many definitions of a high impact journal some are referred to as isi journals impact factor journals scopus journals web of science journals or other similar descriptions. What all these terms have in common is that they mean. That either thomson reuters or elsevier have received and reviewed and accepted the journal and indexed it in one of their databases. I said that researchers are often encouraged to but in some cases the incentives are far more serious with funding promotion career directions depending on having the right number of your research articles published in whatever database people are using who count your productivity. This course will provide an in-depth view of the interdisciplinary global abstract and citation databases namely the web of science scopus and google scholar for each of these databases. We'll look at how they're constructed their indexing mechanisms and of course they're all important selection policy this is made of a series of criteria some of which are very specific and others that are far more subjective but a journal editor needs to know them all in in order to maximize their chance of having the journal accepted after the evaluation period during the course we'll go through each of the selection criteria for all of these databases in turn to give participants exposure to examples of the good practice being sought and highlight common reasons.

That journals are rejected. Finally we'll go through the selection procedure for each database including for print electronic and open access journals and also for books and conference proceedings. I hope you can join us for the course and look forward to seeing you on the day.