A research paper is a publication which add to existing body of knowledge. An advertisement is a paid publication for some gain. What when author pays in some form for publication; advertisement OR paper.
@Ismat, when author pays for his paper to be published, it should be considered as a paper/publication! Here is an example for open access! Follow the link! The explanation is used: "To provide open access, PLOS journals use a business model in which our expenses — including those of peer review, journal production, and online hosting and archiving — are recovered in part by charging a publication fee to the authors or research sponsors for each article they publish."
I doubt that such high fees are necessary!
http://www.plos.org/publications/publication-fees/
When an author pays for his/her publication, the quality of work becomes certainly questionable due to the economic interest of the publishers.
@Ismat, when author pays for his paper to be published, it should be considered as a paper/publication! Here is an example for open access! Follow the link! The explanation is used: "To provide open access, PLOS journals use a business model in which our expenses — including those of peer review, journal production, and online hosting and archiving — are recovered in part by charging a publication fee to the authors or research sponsors for each article they publish."
I doubt that such high fees are necessary!
http://www.plos.org/publications/publication-fees/
The answer is clear. It is something else than a research paper. May be an advertisement, too.
It depends on the quality of the research being published by a particular publisher and the kind of quality checks that that publisher has in place. One can therefore say that it will vary from a pure advertisement to a very good research depending on the kind pf publisher we are talking about.
In short, theorems. A research paper will contain one or more theorems (with proofs) with minimal references. By contrast, advertisement will contain no theorems and will probably contain pictures, plots, tables, graphs with references.
Dear Ismat, I completely agree with James. "A research paper will contain one or more theorems (with proofs) with minimal references...".
If you pay for getting your paper published, your paper will still be a paper, although the quality of such journals and papers published in them may vary a lot: some publish total trash, too, as long as the authors pay, but some papers published in such journals are basically ok (although authors should still prefer good journals). I would say that a paper becomes an advertisement if somebody pays you to "prove" something that is not true or to "approve" something that you do not approve (e.g. if a political party pays you to "prove" that their policy is best although it is not or a firm pays you to "prove" that their medicine works although it does not). Doing such kind of "research" is much worse than publishing in "pay & we'll publish your trash" journals.
While many open-access journals may charge authors for "publication charges", there are also some good open-access journals which do not charge authors for publishing their papers. We may look into 'impact-factors' of the journals, etc.
Best wishes
Sundar
Research paper
- Micro attention
- concentrates to focus and minimize errors
- Specialist preferred
- Life span of "report' is long
Advertisement
- Macro detailing
- Spreads to wider audience and maximize reach
- Commonly viewed
- Life span of "advert' is short lived.
Research paper and Advertising are same deference:" Perception and Packaging"; both are factual based drumbeat that sells new and old ideas; it has become a normal practice that most research papers are now published in PAID to publish Journals. Hence both are "Advertising media".
Research Paper is a form of academic writing. Academic publishing describes the subfield of publishing which distributes academic research and scholarship. Most academic work is published in journal article, book or thesis format.
Advertisement is a notice or announcement in a public medium promoting a product, service, or event or publicizing a job vacancy.
Dear friends:
Kindly distinguish "good apples" from "bad apples" on this issue.
Many good journals allow authors "open access" option if they have grants money for their papers to be well-read by a large audience. This helps the 'citation index' of the authors. They may or may not avail the "open access" option. It is their privilege.
Also, there are some "open access" journals - some run by Universities - which do not charge authors any money for their papers and the publishers take care of all the production themselves. Nothing wrong in publishing these journals also.
Finally, I have seen some good "open access" journals - which may charge for papers - but the paper quality in them is very good and these journals carry good impact factor also. Judge journals on academic merit and not by publishing charges they may levy.
Thank you!
Best wishes
Sundar
As we all know, journals allow authors "open access" option by offering charges for their papers. It doesnot mean that these papers are advertisement. Some paid journals are also maintain high quality with good impact factor. They also give quick publication. On the other hand free journals many time take very long time to review and publish. So, I think chargeable or non-chargeable journals not matters for publication. I am talking like this as a research scholar even if I know we Scholars can't pay the publication charges.
Dear Sachin:
I have made some of the same points you have said.
Many reputed journals which publish for free-of-cost also give an option to authors to allow "open-access" of their papers on some payment charge. This is only optional and it is up to the authors to decide. If they have funds, they may allow open-access to improve citations of their papers.
Likewise, there are some good open-access journals run by Universities and Societies, which do not charge authors at all as publishing charges.
In addition, there are reputed journals by some publishers which are open-access and publishing charges may be high, but the quality of papers in them are good. Some of these journals carry high-impact factors.
There are also some "open-access" journals, which may publish papers on payment and may be without a high-level review. Impact factors of these journals may be low.
We need to look into "impact factors', read the papers and check the "quality" and thereby distinguish good apples from bad apples.
Thank you!
With best wishes
Sundar
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