Book chapters are not likely to reach the readers as those of journal articles. So the chances of citations of book chapters are likely to be less.

depends on the discipline. within the humanities book chapters are still considered as important research. depending on the editors, the publishers and all the bibliometric things, a chapter can be as important as a journal article.

it depends on the publisher and the scientific relevance of your research.

Journal articles are more accessible to readers....

Dear Dr Subir Bandyopadhyay, thank you for your advice !

Dear Dr Claus Tieber, thank you for your advice !

Dear Mariam Elkhechafi, thank you for your valuable suggestion.

Dear Narayan K. Shrestha, thank you for your suggestion.

Dear Dr Jefferson Prado,

Thank you for the very kind response.

Frankly speaking I do not have experience of writing book chapter except few books based on college curriculum in my country which are not scientific. But generally publish paper in the peer review journals.

Articles published in journals are more important and chances for citations also more than book chapters.

Thank you Dr Geddada Mohan Narasimha Rao for adding your important views.

Dear Dr. Hom,

Articles are quit different from book chapters. You will require both for a fulfilling academic career. Book chapter writing demands that you have gotten experience in the area you are writing about. Depending on the structure laid by the editor, it can involve a combination of reviews, research or accumulated knowledge.

Article writing is usually the starting point. It gets your idea launched to the scientific community easily. By this, your work get recognized and gather citations.

However, an edited book with well written chapters when recognized, finds its way into major libraries of the world where you may find an article. They become reference books and last for years with new editions on it.

So which is better? Article or book chapter?

See an author who likes writing book chapters: https://patthomson.net/2013/06/17/on-writing-book-chapters/

With regards,

Egbuna, C.

Dear Prof Chukwuebuka Egbuna,

I heartily appreciate your mature views. Thank you for adding your valuable views..

Dear Prof Chukwuebuka Egbuna,

I just went through the link you have shared and found its very useful. Thank you for sharing here.

Regards

Dear Dr. Hom,

Thank you so much for your kind words. Do have a nice time.

Kind regards,

Egbuna, C.

Article Publishing is preferable because journals have commonly more circulation than books and are more known to the concerned people dealing with scientific literature. Articles in journals also carry the reward of impact factor points plus greater chances of citations.

Thank you Suman Sarkar for your worthy views.

I think Article Publishing is more preferable

thank you

Dear Dr Mahmoud El-Mezayen please also have a look here.

Thank you so much Dr Chukwuebuka Egbuna Dr Samra Harkat Dr Suman Sarkar Dr Geddada Mohan Narasimha Rao Dr Jefferson Prado adding the beautiful answer and references.

Dear Dr. Horn and colleagues,

Thank you for your question and for the answers. My inclination was always ben that journal articles were more important, however Chukwuebuka Egbuna response has given me a lot to think about. Based on his perspective, it seems as though books are also a worthy way of expanding one´s work and research, especially if it is included in a collection of works on an important or current topic.

Thanking you - Tina

Dear Dr Tina Lindhard, thank you for sharing your important views.

I prefer journal publication

Preferable? I prefer both. I like to publish journal articles on issues regarding biodiversity conservation using TEK while contributing chapters to books on interesting themes that bring progress to global development.

Dear Dr. Tina Lindhard, thank you so much for making known that you find some aspects of my comment useful. Dear Dr. Hom Nath Chalise I appreciate your follow up and systematic analysis of questions.

I like to publish both book chapter as well as articke, believes that both are equally important. Book may serve as a permanent published research of many information at one place, which again depends on theme, whereas, article focuses only to a targeted area of research which does explain everything in details in on one place. For more information, you need to consult many research paper.

article is most important than book chapters. it differs institutes to institutes

Regards,

R

I think both are traditional missions/activities that should be done by researcher. His experience has to be shared in several forms, such as; research articles, review articles, books, reports, translation, etc.

From the academic perspective, I agree with Dr. Rajakishore Nath that it differs from Institute to Institute, but most commonly for assessment of progress of an individual Institutes give more weightage to journal publications than Book Chapters.

In addition, journal articles gain more visibility compared to book chapters in regards to letting your research known to the global audience. However, publishing as a Book chapter allows for wider discussion of your topic while you have to be specific and confine to the scope of journal for a journal article.

Thank you Dr Wishfully Mylliemngap Hassan A. Ibrahim Rajakishore Nath Bikarma Singh for the inputs.

Journal article in most cases

First I will prefer article publication in good journal, second preference to book chapter.

Thank you Dr Felix Nwafor Dr Rajeev Kumar Singh

Journals, if they have Thomson Reuter Impact Factor.

Dear Dr Massimo Zucchetti thank you so much for the suggestions.

Journal's article absolutely are most important. moreover the good one can improve your citation

regards

amir

I would go for journal articles, over books' chapter.

Journal article: requires an intensive search on a particular topic, with more rigorous scientific process. It intends to find new outcomes as well. While, book includes the contents what is already the...And as I see, many of the books are copy of one another.......

Dear Amir Ghasemi and Shovana Shrestha thank you so much for your kind suggestions.

In math it certainly is a journal article, rather than a conference paper; I know it can be the opposite in other sciences. A main reason for the higher prestige in journals is that there you get the chance to provide full proofs, illustrations, and a very good background story, that is, the subject survey. In a conference paper you are seldom allowed space enough to cover all the items I just mentioned, and therefore a journal paper is more informative and valuable over time.

Thank you so much Dr Michael Patriksson for sharing your wonderful views.

Articles published in high-impact-factor journals are rigorously reviewed by experts of the field and can be described as the only reliable sources of academic information which do not reflect the personal opinions of authors. The same is not true for book chapters, book reviews, conference papers and the nonsense published by some low quality journals begging money from some so-called authors.

there are so many publisher are available for publish your articles or books such as; Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, Wiley, ASME, IEEE, Springier, Thomson Reuters, etc.. firstly select the publisher according your work and after that selecting the journals...