Publishing and ‘impact’ Information Literacy PhD students
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Publishing and ‘impact’
Information Literacy PhD students
Programme
Intro: motivations for publishing
Metrics
●Article metrics
●Author metrics
●Journal metrics
●Research group metrics
●Metrics and VLAG
Publishing
●Journal choice
●Getting cited
Programme
Intro: motivations for publishing
Metrics
●Article metrics
●Author metrics
●Journal metrics
●Research group metrics
●Metrics and VLAG
Publishing
●Journal choice
●Getting cited
Intro: motivations for publishing
Edge, P., Martin, F., Fao, S. R., & Manning, N. (2011). Researcher Attitudes and Behaviour Towards the “ Openness ” of Research Outputs in Agriculture and Related Fields.
Motives for publishing
Programme
Intro: motivations for publishing
Metrics
●Article metrics
●Author metrics
●Journal metrics
●Research group metrics
●Metrics and VLAG
Publishing
●Journal choice
●Getting cited
How do we compare numbers
Scientist Z. Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations
Scientist M. Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations
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Baselines for Molecular Biology
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Citation enhanced A&I databases
Web of Science
● Based on ± 12000 journals
● Metrics: Impact factor
● Baselines per ‘discipline’ (ESI)
● Analysis tools (Insight)
Scopus
● Based on ± 19000 journals + other
publication types
● Metrics: SNIP and SJR
● Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)
Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com)
● Based on unknown journals + many
other things
● No baselines
There are other citation enhanced databases: PsychInfo, SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)ArXiv (Physics)Spires (high energy physics)Citeseer (ICT)
Programme
Intro: motivations for publishing
Metrics
●Article metrics
●Author metrics
●Journal metrics
●Research group metrics
●Metrics and VLAG
Publishing
●Journal choice
●Getting cited
Bibliometric indicators: An example
Kroes-Nijboer, A; Venema, P; Bouman, J; van der Linden, E (2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation. Food Biophysics 4(2):59-63.
●Citations from WoS: 11
Journal: Food Biophysics
●Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences
Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences.
●Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences:
●On average: 5.47 citations; top 10%: 14 citations; top 1%: 34 citations
Relative Impact: 11/5.47 = 2.01 Values June 2013
Essential Science Indicators (ESI)
Analytical database, covering 10 years + current year building
Comparisons between Countries, Institutes, Scientists and Journals
Hot papers / Highly cited papers
Research fronts
Baselines
ESI Baselines
Alternative to ESI: Scival (Elsevier)
Alternative to ESI: Scival (Elsevier)
Steps in a citation analysis
1. Look up the citation data (Web of Science)
2. Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields (Essential Science Indicators)
3. Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)
4. Calculate the relative impact
Programme
Intro: motivations for publishing
Metrics
●Article metrics
●Author metrics
●Journal metrics
●Research group metrics
●Metrics and VLAG
Publishing
●Journal choice
●Getting cited
H-index
Balance between productivity and citedness
To rule out the effect of one or two highly cited papers
Applicable to authors, journals, research groups, compounds, subjects etc.
But there are some serious doubts about robustness
Waltman, L. & N. J. van Eck (2011). The inconsistency of the h-index. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2):406-415 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.21678
H-index
Omnipresent h-index
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Programme
Publishing
Metrics
●Article metrics
●Author metrics
●Journal metrics
●Research group metrics
Programme
Intro: motivations for publishing
Metrics
●Article metrics
●Author metrics
●Journal metrics
●Research group metrics
●Metrics and VLAG
Publishing
●Journal choice
●Getting cited
Journal Performance Indicators
Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles
Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
●a.o. standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors
Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)
●a.o. SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
●Also available on http://journalmetrics.com/
Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
Reports three measures
Impact factor
Immediacy Index
Cited half life
Adapted from: Amin, M and Mabe, M. (2000) Impact factors: use and
abuse. Perspectives in Publishing, No. 1, 6 pp.
http://www.elsevier.com/framework_editors/pdfs/Perspectives1.pdf
IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems
Selecting journals on the basis of IF
Word of warning
●Our opinion: Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist
●Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR
Opthof, T. (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor. Cardiovascular Research, 33(1): 1-7 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0008-6363(96)00215-5
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
Programme
Intro: motivations for publishing
Metrics
●Article metrics
●Author metrics
●Journal metrics
●Research group metrics
●Metrics and VLAG
Publishing
●Journal choice
●Getting cited
Journal quality and article impact 2003-2009, for Wageningen UR
Source: Wageningen Yield, Feb. 2012
Bibliometric analysis
Increase in share of Q1 articles at WageningenUR
Journal selection affects Relative Impact
2010
2011
2003
Interpretation of RI for small groups
With 10-50 publications per year
RI ≤ 0.8 : below world average impact
0.8 < RI ≤ 1.2 : world average impact
1.2 < RI ≤ 2.0 : above world average impact
2.0 < RI ≤ 3.0 : very good average impact
RI > 3.0 : excellent average impact
Programme
Intro: motivations for publishing
Metrics
●Article metrics
●Author metrics
●Journal metrics
●Research group metrics
●Metrics and VLAG
Publishing
●Journal choice
●Getting cited
Metrics and VLAG : Relative Impact
Category Maastricht WageningenAgricultural Sciences 2.04 2.07Biology & Biochemistry 1.52 1.36Chemistry 2.44 1.56Clinical Medicine 0.98 2.81Computer Science 2.18Economics & Business 0.45Engineering 1.94Environment/Ecology 1.61Geosciences 0.66Immunology 2.98 1.34Materials Science 3.76Mathematics 0.2Microbiology 1.14 3.13Molecular Biology & Genetics 3.4 1.91Neuroscience & Behavior 2.01 1.25Pharmacology & Toxicology 0.74 1.53Physics 1.25Plant & Animal Science 2.44Social Sciences, General 0 2.87"All research fields 1.81 2.04
Metrics and VLAG : Top 10 %Category Wageningen Maastricht
Agricultural Sciences 27% (212) 24% (181)
Biology & Biochemistry 15% (85) 17% (27)
Chemistry 20% (97) 33% (26)
Clinical Medicine 34% (202) 18% (12)
Computer Science 18% (2) 22% (11)
Economics & Business 0% (0) 20% (10)
Engineering 24% (9) 29%
Environment/Ecology 27% (12) 21% (6)
Geosciences 0% (0)
Immunology 20% (6)
Materials Science 35% (25)
Mathematics 0% (0)
Microbiology 25% (28) 0% (0)
Molecular Biology & Genetics 22% (20) 30% (3)
Neuroscience & Behavior 13% (9)
Pharmacology & Toxicology 22% (22) 20% (1)
Physics 16% (8)
Plant & Animal Science 30% (26) 75% (3)
Social Sciences, General 40% (34) 0% (0)
"All research fields 25% (799) 23% (302)
Programme
Intro: motivations for publishing
Metrics
●Article metrics
●Author metrics
●Journal metrics
●Research group metrics
●Metrics and VLAG
Publishing
●Journal choice
●Getting cited
Types of publications
Reports
Conference proceedings
Books/book chapters
Journals
●Professional journals
●Scholarly journals
(Scientific journals) Peer review
Peer review is the corner stone of scholarly quality control
●Publications
●Research proposals/grants
●Research institutions/universities
More info
●http://www.rin.ac.uk/peer-review-guide
●Course on Peer Review organized by WGS
Programme
Intro: motivations for publishing
Metrics
●Article metrics
●Author metrics
●Journal metrics
●Research group metrics
●Metrics and VLAG
Publishing
●Journal choice
●Getting cited
Choosing the right journal to publish
Many factors influence journal selection
●Journal scope/Intended audience
●Editorial board/standing
●Open Access
●The speed of reviewing and publication
●Acceptance/Rejection rate
●Journal circulation
●Coverage in A&I databases (bibliographies)
●Journal performance
Open Access
OA publishing e.g. PLoS, BMC and Sage Open
Self-archiving in repositories e.g. Wageningen Yield (WaY)
SHERPA/RoMEO: Publisher copyright policies & self- archiving http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
Directory of open access journals DOAJ (currently ca. 10,000 journals)
Be aware of predatory OA publishers
“Predatory publishers”
“Green” open access: deposit author versions to WaY
See: http://edepot.wur.nl/169331
Send your version of the article to: [email protected]
Speed of publication
PLoS One
Euphytica
Rejection / acceptance rates
Sugimoto, C. R., Larivière, V., Ni, C., & Cronin, B. (2013). Journal acceptance rates: A cross-disciplinary analysis of variability
and relationships with journal measures. Journal of Informetrics, 7(4), 897–906. doi:10.1016/j.joi.2013.08.007
Rejection / acceptance rates
Rejection / acceptance rates
Journal circulation
Compare e.g.
●“Agricultural Systems”
●"Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America"
Coverage in A&I databases
Programme
Intro: motivations for publishing
Metrics
●Article metrics
●Author metrics
●Journal metrics
●Research group metrics
●Metrics and VLAG
Publishing
●Journal choice
●Getting cited
Making your publications known: networking
Networking is important
Start early, make use of Social Networking tools
●Social networks for scientists
●Academia.edu, Researchgate.net
Imagine what happens when Michael Müller tweets about his latest article
Advertise yourself
Cite your previous articles!
Be active at conferences
Cooperate with other people/research groups
Write, or expand, articles in the Wikipedia, refer to your thesis.
Blog or tweet about your research and thesis research
Make use of social networking tools (LinkedIn, Researchgate.net, Mendeley etc.)
Create author’s identifiers (ScopusID, Researcher ID, ORCID)
Claim your publications
ResearcherID (Web of Science)
Scopus Author ID (Scopus)
Google Scholar Citations
Mendeley
Enserink, M. (2009). Scientific Publishing: Are You Ready to Become a Number? Science,
323(5922): 1662-1664 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.323.5922.1662
ORCID
●http://orcid.scopusfeedback.com/
What's in a name
On the cover:
●Arina Schrier
First first title page:
●A.P. Schrier-Uyl
Second title page:
●Adriana Pia Uyl
In here own publication list
●A. Uyl
●A. Uijl
●A.P. Schrier Uyl
This also applies to the names of groups
Environmental Policy Group, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University
Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University
Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University and Research Centre
Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen UR
Get your affiliation right
For the university:
Chair group + Wageningen University
Plant Production Systems Group, Wageningen University, P.O. box ..., 6700 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands
For the institutes:
Institute + Wageningen University & Research Centre
Alterra, Wageningen University & Research Centre, P.O. box ..., 6700 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands
Some other options to make you articles effective
Apart from doing good research and writing well, that is
Collaboration with private sector effective
Kamalski, J., & Aisati, M. h. (2013). International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes: Food Safety research. A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL.
University-industry collaboration and impact
"The average scientific impact of university-
industry papers is significantly above that of
both university-only papers and industry-only
papers"
Lebeau, L. M., Laframboise, M. C., Larivière, V., & Gingras, Y. (2008). The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications: The Canadian case, 1980-2005. Research Evaluation, 17(3), 227-232. http://dx.doi.org/10.3152/095820208x331685
Choosing journals with High Impact factors?
More co-authors?
References?
Recent articles! N. Onodera and F. Yoshikane, “Factors affecting citation rates of research articles,” J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. Jun. 2014.
Self citations and more
Self citations
The model [...] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations, so that we have the “chain reaction:” Larger size leads to more self-citations, which lead to more external citations.
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van Raan, A. F. J. (2008). Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10): 1631-1643.
More articles per research project?
Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers.
●Beware of the ethical standards
●Bornmann looked at total citations, not to relative impact
Bornmann, L. & H.-D. Daniel (2007). Multiple publication on a single research study: Does it pay? The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(8): 1100-1107 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.20531
Publish your data!
Henneken et al. (2011) "articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links"
http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.3618
Piwowar et al. (2007) "Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000308
Library assists in curating datasets
Why is data management important
Good data management improves thinking and writing up your results
Data should be reproducible 5 years after publication (code of conduct)
It facilitates sharing of data with other researchers
Why is data management important
Good data management improves thinking and writing up your results
Data should be reproducible 5 years after publication (code of conduct)
It facilitates sharing of data with other researchers
As of April 2014, a Data Management Plan is mandatory for new PhD students
Sharing data increases impact
"Publicly available data was significantly associated with a
69% increase in citations, independently of journal impact
factor, date of publication, and author country of origin"
Piwowar, H. A., Day, R. S., & Fridsma, D. B. (2007). Sharing Detailed Research Data Is Associated with Increased Citation Rate. PLoS ONE, 2(3), e308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000308
More info on Data Management Plan
http://www.wageningenur.nl/library/dmp
Template for DMP
Additional information
http://wageningenur.nl/library
●Write & Cite a.o.
●Publishing and impact
●Copyright
●Open Access
●PhD theses submission
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