Publishing Research by Dr Lim Jit Kang

Salam,
Just wanna share with you guys about the talk that I attended last Monday on "Publishing Research" by Dr Lim Jit Kang, the representative of the American Chemical Society Malaysian chapter.A lecturer from USM.
Really good talk. I learned a lot. Just summary from what I gained from the talk.

1. You have to publish your work first! This is important as people around the world doing similar what you did.So, the one that reported it earlier will be acknowledged by others :) .So ,please write a paper!hahah (honestly,i hate writing a technical paper).

2. Go publish in the journal by the professional society such as American Chemical Society because it will be reviewed by the experts on that field. Not looking for the impact factor only.The calculation of impact factor seem not really ok as it is only calculate from the total citation. 
For eg:
 total articles for 2 years : 143
 total citation: 6479
 impact factor : 6479/143 =40++

so, not all the paper accepted in high impact factor is good. it depends on the citation:).

3.Don't ever share your result in internet/fb/blog before it officially published!Afraid of the publisher figure out and they will reject your paper.

4. Stop using excel!use other software to draw the result. (huhu,I always use excel!.need to figure out any software to draw my result). Use powerpoint to draw figure!

5.How to write an abstract:-
         1)introduction on what purpose of this reserach was
         2)brief overview on methods without being too specific.
         3)for the result, try to include your important data
         4)what is it the important/the outcomes
         5)use past tense
         6)should be self-contained- no abbreviations,references

6) Do thorough literature Review! Set aside the difficult paper, start with fundamental. You must used text book!

Hope the tips will help you!
Thank Dr for the sharing!