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Publications Report –BOG Meeting

New Orleans – May 30, 2003

Paul Wesling, VP-Publications, CPMT Society


Items

1. Bringing our journals to “High Impact”

2. The CD-ROM Compendium: 1954-2002

3. New Rate Sheet for advertising


The CPMT Transactions: From “High Quality” to

“High Impact”

Paul Wesling, VP-Publications, CPMT Society


CPMT Vision

The pre-eminent global component, devices, and microsystems packaging and manufacturing society, serving its global members by providing the latest worldwide technology advancements


Challenges for the Transactions

1. Our reputation– The Citation Index

2. Improving authors’ citations to our literature

3. Getting the best novel papers– Especially for T-AdvP and T-EPM


Bringing our Transactions to “High Impact”

• Problem: ESI does not include predecessor journals in the Citation Index they calculate for an IEEE journal

–Thus, only current citations back to 1999 are included in their computation

–Not included: T-PHP (1971-1977), then T-CHMT (1978-1993: vol 1-16), then T-CPMT-A (1994-1998: vol 17-21)

• Solution: Do our own calculation of the Citation Index; publicize this alternate computed number



• Problem: Many papers have incomplete references to the literature (eg, a short list of references; non-journal references)

–Reasons: engineers in industry are not used to citing earlier papers; they might not have the research resources; our Associate Editors and Reviewers are not contributing suggestions or asking for better citations

• Solution: Create “ontologies” for topical areas; circulate these freely to authors, AEs, Reviewers


What is an “Ontology”?

• Ontology: The hierarchical structuring of knowledge about things by subcategorizing them according to their essential (or, at least, relevant and/or cognitive) qualities.

–Eg: The Plant Ontology™ Consortium aims to develop, curate and share structured, controlled vocabularies for plant-specific knowledge domains.

• An ontology is created for the purpose of enabling knowledge sharing and reuse (Gruber 1993).


Creating Ontologies

• 6 to 10 “topical areas” are identified for each journal

• A key technologist with an understanding of the historical literature makes a listing of the “top 40” papers that made key contributions in this area

• A two- or three-sentence summary explains the contribution

• This ontology is circulated for review, critique, update, and use


Creating Ontologies

• What does an Ontology look like?

6. Otsuka, Kanji, Yuji Shirai, Ken Okutani, “A New Silicone Gel Sealing Mechanism for High Reliability Encapsulation” T-CPMT vol 7 no 3 (Sept 1984) pp. 249 – 256. KEYWORDS: Encapsulation; Integrated circuit packaging; Integrated circuit reliability. The first reported use of a silicone rubber as an encapsulant specifically to improve the reliability of plastic-molded ICs. Compares silicone to ceramic and epoxy-molded; HAST and 85/85 tests and corrosion results. Explains chemical structure and bonding mechanisms.


Creating Ontologies

• Beginning the Ontology development:–Divide the journal’s coverage into 6 to 10 topics–Select key person(s) for each topic

• Resources:–The 10-CD set of Transactions: keyword searches, full-text search, full text of papers; easy for others to verify or extend.–The references listed in known-quality papers

• All (or nearly all) citations are to be from predecessor Transactions (eg, T-PHP, T-CHMT, T-CPMT-B)


Verifying Quality of Ontologies: The Review Process

• Once created, a researcher’s proposed ontology is circulated to the Editor, AEs, Technical Committees for comment/concurrence

• Suggestions for revised wording of coverage, addition/ deletion of items can be made

• As each ontology becomes available, it is published on the web; the AEs and Reviewers can excerpt from it during reviews; it can be sent to authors


Promoting the Ontologies

• Following review, some might be published in the Transactions

• Several related ontologies might form the basis for gathering the referenced papers into a single CD-ROM, as a product

• Where the initial topical area proves to be too wide, an ontology can be sub-divided into complimentary ontologies with separate editors/maintainers


Using the Ontologies

• A prospective author in a topical area can download the applicable ontology

• He/she can look up these papers (on IEEE XPLORE or in the 10-CD Compendium) to read about previous work

• Suitable references can be added to the developing paper, reducing the duplication of reporting and the resultant length of the present paper

• The writer’s number and quality of references is improved• Citations to our journals are enhanced, even when papers

are published in other journals.


Further uses of the Ontologies

• Our AEs and Reviewers can more quickly spot work that has been previously reported, to cull unnecessary papers and improve quality

• The CPMT Society will become more widely recognized as the definitive source of archival material through these ontological “shortcuts” to the literature

• We attract more subscribers – either new CPMT Members, or corporate/university researchers accessing our papers through XPLORE or their libraries.

• Authors will wish to publish in our journals, since ours contain the key literature stream with which they wish to associate



• Problem: With the exception of T-CPT, our Transactions do not seem to be getting strong numbers of submissions

• Solution: Make researchers more aware of our desire to be their “publisher of choice” for new developments


Soliciting More Submissions to our Transactions

• Design several “Calls for Papers” that outline the topical areas we are seeking, and the process to use

• Shorten the review/approval cycle and publicize what the author can expect

• Ask certain technologists to be “paper searchers” who can request that a presenter submit a paper to our Transactions

• Publicize each “Special Section” and its papers in notices in other journals, on the website, in Conference publications, etc.


Our Objective

• To become the “High Impact” journals in our fields

• To be the “publisher of choice” for technologists in our fields

• To be proud of our journals – and have more fun!


2. CD-ROM Compendium: 1954 - 2002

• Finished in time – available here at ECTC (for shipment by IEEE in June)

• Nearly on-budget: $3k overrun because we included 2002

• We expect to turn a profit on this project!


3. New Advertising Rate Sheet

• Created this spring

• Needed for our “technical co-sponsorship” conferences

• Full-sponsor events get free ads

• We have sold to two events so far

• If you know of an event/company with an interest, let me know!

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