International Guest Lecture on Journal Article Writing (How to Write a Good Paper for a Top

International Journal)

- Prof. Junyi Zhang

Avoid desk rejection
 Fit the journal under consideration
 Accepted based on novelty, importance and sciencetific merit
Informative title, concise abstract emphasizing major significant contributions
 Pay attention to the fundementals of academic paper writing

General structure of academic paper

 Title
 Abstract
 Keywords (Informative, attractive,
 Main Text
 Conclusions
 Acknowledgement
 References
 Supplementary data/info

Result Discussion is the most important part

Type of academic paper

(1) Partically-oriented or phenomenon-oriented (emphasize the context in general)

Applying a structural equation model
-Paper Example : Rural migrant workers intentions to permanently reside .. (2016)
Research questions = 2 questions

(2) Methodologically (the creativity in general)

Exploring new theories
-Paper Example : Interpendences between household residential and car ownership Junyi zhang

(3) In-between

An example of context oriented : (1)

To choose a more suitable journal

Dimas Bayu Endrayana

Indonesian’s common mistakes in writing journal article

 Over confidence
 No strong reason why we need to write research article or why we are taking Ph.D study
 Too often to undertake applied research/no experience to do fundamental research
 Different education system in South east asia and south asia with Europe
 Bad Reading skill
 No focus
 Don’t know my target
 No discipline! No schedule!
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 Thinking culture
- Many Indonesian Ph.D students were failed to finish their Ph.D studies in central Europe
- Do not know the difference between thinking logically and thinking rationally
- Have no culture in making definition
- Have no culture in interpretation
- Have no culture in asking question
- Do not know the use of venn diagram
 Know everything but shallow

What saves me

 Met many Indonesians in Europe with Ph.D degree who let me know the weakness of
Indonesian
 They guide me to go through even in writing thejournal papers
 Being focus
 Always live in congregation, create a group of research, always work in collaboration when it is
neceddary with someone from abroad university
 To do better and better, your efforts will be counted, not your results. If you have continues
efforts, yhen you will mket it someday
 My supervisor

Book : Being logical D.Q Melnerny

Tips in thinking :

Understand the definition (foto di hp)

- Ensure the existence thre is no middle position between exist and no exists
Find paper from the famous author and find the new novelty

How to manage time for writing a lot of paper?