Becoming a

Productive Author
Budi Hidayat

Figure out how to become

a (productive) scholar
that contributes to the
discourse of your field..
Publish your work in high
quality scholarly journals
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Things to share
1. Challenges to successful publications
2. Improve the productivity of scientific
publications;
3. Improve Probability of the Article Being
Reviewed, and get acceptance
4. Personal Experiences
5. Other Issues
6. Translating ideas into publications
7. Supplement
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Successful
Publications: Yes
BUT, Common Challenges Exist

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Common challenges
face by full-time
faculties
Daily activities being lecturer,
program administrator and/or
project hunter absorb the time
Cant find time to work on
writing journal articles for more
than an hour
After a while one lose his place
and forget what he originally
wanted to do

How do we divide 24 hours day, and allocate some of

them for writing a journal article

Last minute: BINGE

writing
Common Form of Indonesian
Scholarly BINGE (wait till the last
minute to accomplish the work and
do the paper
Lead to stress and
sleeplessness
Lead to poor quality work, and
is realized after the work have
been done
How to overcome the problem of binge
writing
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BINGE Writing
Causes (3P)
Procrastination
Feel overwhelmed
Self-doubt

Perfectionism
Destructive self talk
Perfect conditions

Poor Skills
Technical
Non-technical

Step Solution
(3P)
Planning
Use time wisely
Separate small activities

Persistence/Diligence
Use every day

Practice
habit of writing

Regardless of the
challenges, Id like to
improve my productivity
and publish my work in
scientific journals

Strategies
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Improve Productivity
Overall Strategies:
Do write
regularly;
Make a good
balance between
reading and
writing;
Rewrite, rewrite,
and rewrite and
then rewrite
some more.

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Start with something have

already written Dont start
with a blank page but always be
continuing something.
Thrilling days when writing seems
easy and you dont want to stop
go ahead and do submit ASAP.
Having many different writing
projects at different stages of
completion (new text, rewrites,
editing, note making, evidence
collecting, polishing) going on
simultaneously.

Improve Productivity in
case of Data Constraints
Reuse data aimed to contextualized issue
(structural analysis, methods innovations,
policy analysis, etc) produce several articles,
and send them to different specialized target
journal.
Has been adopted by many universities and
research institutes (e.g., RAND Health Insurance
Experience in the US, RCT of the CCT program in
many Latin America) results on dozen articles.
Publications by Indonesian researches always
lags behind if a paper must be derived from new
dataset ($, time, etc)

RHIE - produced many papers

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Brook RH, Ware JE, Rogers WH, Keeler EB, Davies AR, Sherbourne CA, et al.
The effect of coinsurance on the health of adults. Results from the RAND Health Insu
rance Experiment.
Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1984. Report R-3055-HHS.
ISBN 0-8330-0614-2. ["An earlier version of the present report appeared in the
December 8, 1983, issue of The New England Journal of Medicine (Vol. 309, pp. 14261434)."]
Manning WG, Newhouse JP, Duan N, Keeler EB, Benjamin B, Liebowitz A, et al.
Health insurance and the demand for medical care. Evidence from a randomized exp
eriment.
Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1988. Report R-3476-HHS.
ISBN 0-8330-0864-1. ["An abridged version of this report... was published in The
American Economic Review, June 1987."]
Manning WG, Liebowitz A, Goldberg GA, Newhouse JP, Rogers WH.
A controlled trial of the effect of a prepaid group practice on the utilization of medical
services.
Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1985. Report R-3029-HHS.
ISBN 0-8330-0679-7. ["An abridged version of this report was published in the New
England Journal of Medicine, June 7, 1984."]
Wagner EH, Bledsoe T. The Rand Health Insurance Experiment and HMOs. Med Care
1990;28:191-200.
Newhouse JP, Manning WG, Morris CN, Orr LL, Duan N, Keeler EB, et al.
Some interim results from a controlled trial of cost sharing in health insurance. N
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Engl J Med 1981;305:1501-7.

RHIE - produced many papers (Cont.)

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Brook RH, Ware JE Jr, Rogers WH, Keeler EB, Davies AR, Donald CA, et al.
Does free care improve adults' health? Results from a randomized controlled trial. N Engl J Med
1983;309:1426-1434.
Ware JE Jr, Brook RH, Rogers WH, Keeler EB, Davies AR, Sherbourne CD, et al. Comparison of health
outcomes at a health maintenance organisation with those of fee-for-service care. Lancet
1986;1(8488):1017-22.
Lohr KN, Brook RH, Kamberg CJ, Goldberg GA, Liebowitz A, Keesey J, et al.
Use of medical care in the Rand Health Insurance Experiment. Diagnosis- and service-specific analyses in
a randomized controlled trial.
Med Care 1986;24:S1-S87.
Lurie N, Kamberg CJ, Brook RH, Keeler EB, Newhouse JP.
How free care improved vision in the health insurance experiment. Am J Public Health 1989;79:640-642.
[Erratum, Am J Public Health 1989;79:1677.]
Keeler EB, Brook RH, Goldberg GA, Kamberg CJ, Newhouse JP.
How free care reduced hypertension in the health insurance experiment. JAMA 1985;254:1926-1931.
Newhouse JP. Consumer-directed health plans and the RAND health insurance experiment. Health
Affairs 2004 Nov/Dec;23(6):107-13.
Ginzberg E. Managed care hasn't lived up to its promises. New York Times 1992 Feb 20. Nyman JA.
American health policy: cracks in the foundation. J Health Polit Policy Law 2007;32:759-83.
Newhouse JP, Brook RH, Duan N, Keeler EB, Leibowitz A, Manning WG, et al.
Attrition in the RAND Health Insurance Experiment: a response to Nyman. J Health Polit Policy Law
2008;33:295-308; discussion 309-17. Levy H, Meltzer D. The impact of health insurance on health. Annu
Rev Public Health 2008;29:399-409.
Goldman DP, Joyce GF, Zheng Y.
Prescription drug cost sharing: associations with medication and medical utilization and spending and he
alth.
JAMA 2007;298:61-69.
Etc there are many others publication using RHIE dataset

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Improve productivity in case

of data constraints: my
experiences
SIMILAR DATA: IFLS 1993-2010
Accepted
Date
Issues
Background
Differ

Harm Reduction 2011, 8:6

March 2009 - Feb 2011 (3 years)

IJERPH 2010, 7(6), 2473-2485

March 2010 Mei 2010 (3
mos)
Testing myopic addiction
Addiction based on economic
theory only

Testing rational addiction

Addiction characteristics based on
public health, psychological and
economy theory.
Different Sample Split (male and female)
All sampel
Different Model Cig. consumption: past & future
Pas consumption only
Different
Four estimators: OLS, 2SLS, GMM, 6 estimators: OLS, FE, RE,
Number
and System-GMM.
2SLS, FE2SLS, RE2SLS, GMM.
Estimator
Different Nr of IV 8 variables
Only 5 variables
Results
Similar data with different methods produced a similar results: (i)
smoking lead to addiction which was myopic (iii) price lead to
reduce tobacco consumption
Different Policy Redesign antiImprove levy tax. Funds are used to finance
tobacco campaign health program due to negative externalities
of smoking.

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Q&A
From now onward, please identify
how many articles that you can
produce from your existing project?

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Making Your Article

Be Potentially
Published
Your article will not be reviewed,
and then get an acceptance,
UNLESS it provides both local
(e.g. Indonesian) and global
contexts, and more importantly
offers New Insight
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Scooping of the topic to

make it potentially
publishable

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1. Alarming key Issues in specific field

A similar issues are sometime scattered, so make them integrates
Hint: do rigorous meta-analysis and publish your work
Missing-gap of key issues, and make your article filled-in the gap
Hint do rigorous-research and publish your work

2. Scientific Methods and Digging Theirs Innovations

Replicate existing methods in the literature, and applied those in other (or in
your) research projects/contexts
Synthesis existing methods that yield many caveats, and offer new
approaches in your paper. painful and take times!

3. Policy: Option, Advocates and Testing

Varies by countries, depending resources and empirical works
Offered contextual bases-approaches
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Ramifications of the
Topics
Narrowing your
research into a paper
that fits with one of
the three areas (or all
combined) below:
1. Key Issues
2. Methods
3. Policy: Options,
Advocates,
Testable

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The specific components

being addressed in your
article MUST be mentioned
in the abstract; and
presented completely, but be
written concisely in the
Introduction. Discussions
and Conclusions are then
follows.
Without having a
comprehensive literature
review and technical skills,
you wont be able to satisfy
this.

Improve Probability of Article

Being Reviewed and get
acceptance:
Tips From the Authors Perspectives

Conducting Literature Review,

and the output MUST be concisely
written
Writing the Introduction
Writing the Conclusion

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Literature Review, and

concisely written in your
article

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a literature review surveys

scientific articles, books,
medical journals, dissertations
and other sources [] relevant
to a particular issue, area of
research, or theory, providing a
description, summary, and
critical evaluation of each
work.

Journal articles; Books;

Empirical Example
Conference Preceding;
Govt/Corporate report;
theses/ Dissertation;
Internet
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Writing the
Introduction
In the introduction, you should:
Define the general topic, issue, or area of concern,
thus providing an appropriate context for
reviewing the literature.
Point out overall trends in what has been
published about the topic; or conflicts in theory,
methodology, evidence, and conclusions; or gaps
in research
Establish the writer's reason (point of view) for
reviewing the literature; explain the criteria to be
used in analyzing and comparing literature
Empirical Example

Writing the
Conclusion
In the conclusion, you should:
Summarize major contributions of significant
studies and articles to the body of knowledge
under review, maintaining the focus established in
the introduction.
Evaluate the current "state of the art" pointing
out major methodological flaws or gaps in
research, inconsistencies in theory and findings,
and areas or issues pertinent to future study.
Conclude by providing some insight into the
relationship between the central topic of the
literature review and a larger area ofEmpirical
study Example
(rationale)

Improve Probability of Article

Being Reviewed and get
acceptance:

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Tips From the Editors/Reviewer Perspectives

Key Tips (Editors):
1. The paper is good fit
for the target journal
2. Author(s) familiar with
the journal
3. Cite the journal: if
nothing has been
written on the topic in
the journal how can it
be a good fit?
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Add TIPS (both):

1. Strong introduction
& writing
2. Use Ecommons
3. Has shared the
work widely (e.g.,
present at conf.)
4. Develop cadre of
research colleagues

Other Issues:
Understanding Processing Manuscripts
Manuscript arrives
(assign number)
Editor Review (editors
reject)
Find Reviewers
Send out for review
Reviews in
Decision: Accept,
Reject, Revise and
resubmit

Revise and
resubmit
comments sent to
author (example)
Revised
Manuscript and
letter with
explanation
arrives (example)
Re-review (could
be 2-4 rounds) and
Decision

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Personal Experience (Lesson

Learn)
Author Actions - an example of article published in the
specific issue of health economics

Once the manuscript ready and has been formatted

to the target journal, I did the following steps:
1. Submit the Manuscript
2. Responding to Editors Concerns (I received
comments and explanation from editor)
3. Working on article revision (I received email
from Editors on Referees comments)
4. Revising the articles and submit with details
explanation
5. Pay the journal, Proof Reading, and Celebrate!

1-Step: Submit the Article

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This email is an example of

submission article to guest
editor. It was supplemented
by two attachments:
Cover Letter (describe a
concise articles, and proposed
potential referee
Article being submitted

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Once article has been submitted, you

will receive a confirmation from the
Journal (editor or PIC).
In my case, I received an email on
January 12 (two days after submitting
the paper, see next slide). I then paid
attention on the message, and did
response quickly.

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2nd-Step:
Responding Editor Concern

Make confirmation ASAP, and address Editors

request. Example; the above email was sent
promptly.
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3rd-Step
I received a comment
from the referee (sent
by the editors). Of
course, there area
internal process
between referees and
editors.
This email was sent by
editor, included two
referee comments:
Referee A (Accept)
Referee B (Accept and
Minor Revision)

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4th-Step
This is critical steps. I
addressed all referees
concerns, and submitted the
revision to the Editor
This email was sent on
5/15/2015 with the following
attachments:
Cover Letter which
describing any details
revisions made (example)
Revised Article,
responding referees
comment
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5th-Step
Celebrate your
self

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Supplement
Working With the Literature

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Literature Review, and

concisely written in your
article

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a literature review surveys

scientific articles, books,
medical journals, dissertations
and other sources [] relevant
to a particular issue, area of
research, or theory, providing a
description, summary, and
critical evaluation of each
work.

Journal articles; Books;

Empirical Example
Conference Preceding;
Govt/Corporate report;
theses/ Dissertation;
Internet
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Working with Literature

Working with
with Literature
Literature
Working
Find it!
it!
Find

Manage it!
it!
Manage

Use it!
it!
Use

Review it!
it!
Review

Knowing the
the
Knowing
literaturetypes
types
literature

Reading
Reading
efficiently
efficiently

Choosing your
your
Choosing
researchtopic
topic
research

Understanding the
the
Understanding
reviewspurpose
purpose
litlitreviews

Usingavailable
available
Using
resources
resources

Keeping track
track
Keeping
ofreferences
references
of

Developing your
your
Developing
question
question

Ensuring adequate
adequate
Ensuring
coverage
coverage

Honingyour
your
Honing
search skills
skills
search

Writingrelevant
relevant
Writing
annotations
annotations

Arguing your
your
Arguing
rationale
rationale

Writing
Writing
purposefully
purposefully

Informingyour
your
Informing
work with
withtheory
theory
work

Workingon
on
Working
styleand
andtone
tone
style

Designingmethod
method
Designing

Sources of Literature
Journal articles:
these are good sources, especially for upto-date information. They are frequently
used in literature reviews as they offer a
relatively concise, up-to-date format for
research.
Depending on the publication, these
materials may be refereed materials.

Non-refereed
Journals?
Non-refereed materials such as magazines
use less rigorous standards of screening
prior to publication.
Non-refereed materials may not be checked
as intensely as refereed materials, but
many can still be considered useful,
although not for scientific literature and
research.

Sources of Literature
(cont.)
Books:remember that books tend to be less
up-to-date, as it takes longer for a book to
be published than for a journal article.
BUT, they are still likely to be useful for
including in your literature review as they
offer a good starting point from which to
find more detailed and up-to-date sources
of information.

Sources of Literature
(cont.)
Conference proceedings: these can be
useful in providing the latest research,
or research that has not been published.
They are also helpful in providing information
about people in different research areas, and
so can be helpful in tracking down other
work by the same researchers.

Sources of Literature
(cont.)
Theses and dissertations: these can be
useful sources of information. However there
are disadvantages:
they can be difficult to obtain since they are
not published, but are generally only available
from the library or interlibrary systems
the student who carried out the research may
not be an experienced researcher and hence
you might have to treat their findings with
more caution than published research.

Sources of Literature
(cont.)
Internet: the fastest-growing source of
information is on the Internet.
bear in mind that anyone can post information
on the Internet so the quality may not be
reliable
the information you find may be intended for
a general audience and so not be suitable for
inclusion in your literature review (information
for a general audience is usually less detailed)

In assessing each piece of

literature, consideration
should be given to:
ProvenanceWhat are the author's credentials? Are the
author's arguments supported by evidence (e.g. primary
historical material, case studies, narratives, statistics, recent
scientific findings)?
ObjectivityIs the author's perspective even-handed or
prejudicial? Is contrary data considered or is certain
pertinent information ignored to prove the author's point?
Persuasiveness is the author's thesis convincing?
ValueDoes the work ultimately contribute in any
significant way to an understanding of the subject of my
research?

Concept Planning and

the Original
Contribution
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Things To Share
Strategy to translate scientific ideas into
scientific publications? (Strategi mentranslasi
ide ilmiah menjadi tulisan ilmiah);
The urgency of planning concept in making
scientific writing (Pentingnya pemahaman
concept planning dalam pengembangan tulisan
ilmiah;
Identifikasi kontribusi spesifik dari tulisan
ilmiah terhadap bidang ilmu.

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Strategy to translate
ideas into publications
Adopting Tools of Scholarly
Research
1. Step-by-Step Notebook
2. Conceptual Frameworks
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The Step Process:

Key-question is how to transforms a project into
Writing a Paper to be published in scholarly journal?

Self-Organizing:
1. Materials
2. Time
3. Ideas

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Organizes Materials
Three-ring BINDER:
The binder keeps all the
material in one place
TABS
The tabs organize and
separate discrete materials
(notes, drafts, bibliography,
data, etc) and activities
(things-to-do list).

Organizes Time
Planning
Things-to-do list
Calendar

Organizes Ideas
Integrated Outline
Before writing begins the outline
incorporates the reading, notes, interviews
Entire notebook builds to create the outline
Conceptual Frameworks

Note: It is the most challenging and intellectual part of the Step process.
Ideas are organized through an outline. The outline developed is a
unique since it integrates the materials from the reading into the
organizational structure of the outline. The entire Step process is
designed to facilitate the building of the integrated outline.

Example:
How scholars organize their
materials?

This is how
scholars
organize their
materials.
Bullets
correspond to
tabs.

Bibliography
Notes
Integrated Outline
Drafts
Sources
Data
Things-To-Do List &
Calendar
To find & useful information

Review:
Organizing the Work
Time
Things-to-do list
calendar

Materials
All of the
tabs in the
notebook

Ideas
Things-to-do list
Notes
Integrated Outline
Key tabs

Conceptual Frameworks
and Research Papers
Literature Review (It helps with
the outline)

Empirical Research
Most useful and give the activities
(e.g.: topic selection, purpose, method,
data collection, statistics, data
analysis, and discussion) coherence
and integrated.

Understanding
Conceptual Framework
Formal way of thinking (conceptualizing) about a
process/system under study.
Set of concepts linked to a planned or existing
system of methods, behaviors, relationships and
objects.
Type of intermediate theory that connects to all
aspects of inquiry (purpose, literature review,
methodology, data collection, statistics).
Conceptual frameworks act like maps that
give coherence to empirical inquiry.

Applied Conceptual
Frameworks in Journal
Figure and narrative;
Model specifications and narrative
Other, lets explore

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