Publishing for impact Wouter Gerritsma, Wageningen UR Library Elements for a publication strategy.

Publishing for impact

Wouter Gerritsma, Wageningen UR Library

Elements for a publication strategy

Social science publications at Wageningen UR

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How are we able to compare numbers?

Scientist Z. Math has a publication from 2001 with 17 citations

Scientist M. Biology has a publication from 2007 with 32 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

A quantitative example

Bouma, J, Bulte, EH, & DP van Soest (2008) Trust, Trustworthiness and Cooperation: Social Capital and Community Resource Management. J. Env. Ec. & Mngmt 56(2)155-166.

●Cited 12 times

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management from journals menu in ESI:

●Economics & Business

Baseline data for Economics & Business (from ESI)

●Article from 2008: Average: 3.62 Citations; Top 10%: 9 citations; Top 1% 27 citations

RI = 12 / 3.62 = 3.31

Baseline data to normalize citation data?

Citations data source Baselines

Web of Science ESI or InCites

Scopus SciVal Strata

Google Scholar none

Propriatary A&I database none

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

In practice

After excellent research, where should you publish?

Where to publish?

A valued journal?

●Quality

●Editorial board

●Acceptance rate

●Time to publication

●Journal circulation

●Visibility

50% of articles generate 90% of all cites

Seglen, P. O. (1997). Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research. BMJ 314(7079): 497-502. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/314/7079/497

Look at the IF in a different way

Journal quality and impact global universities

Highlighting Dutch Universities

But where is Tilburg?

Journal quality and article impact 2003-2009, for Wageningen UR

Journal Quartile Pubs RI T10(%T10) T1(%T1)

Q 1 7170 2.26 2444(34%) 505(7%)

Q 2 2919 1.26 578 (20%) 61 (2%)

Q 3 1303 0.93 143 (11%) 10 (1%)

Q 4 587 0.66 30 (5%) 6 (1%)

Aggregate 11917 1.79 3195(27%) 582(5%)

Source: Wageningen Yield, Feb. 2012

Document type and article impact 2003-2009, for Wageningen UR

Document type Pubs RI T10(%T10) T1(%T1)

Article 11212 1.62 2777(25%) 437( 4%)

Review 705 4.45 418 (59%) 145(21%)

Aggregate 11917 1.79 3195(27%) 582(5%)

Source: Wageningen Yield, Feb. 2012

The impact factor Matthew effect

The journal in which papers are published have a strong influence on their citation rates, as duplicate papers published in high-impact journals obtain, on average, twice as many citations as their identical counterparts published in journals with lower impact factors..

Larivière, V. and Y. Gingras (2010). The impact factor's Matthew Effect: A natural experiment in bibliometrics. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 61(2): 424-427. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.21232

Final word on journal quality

It is better to publish one paper in a quality journal than multiple papers in lesser journals. [...]. Try to publish in journals that have high impact factors; chances are your paper will have high impact, too, if accepted.

Bourne, P. E. (2005). Ten Simple Rules for Getting Published. PLoS Computational Biology 1(5): e57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0010057

Networking

International cooperation

  No Cooperation International CooperationUniversity % output Impact % output ImpactEUR 16 1.13 40 2.00RUG 23 1.07 39 1.43RUN 20 0.94 39 1.46TUD 33 1.24 43 1.52TUE 29 1.50 41 1.52UL 20 0.90 46 1.38UM 16 0.90 42 1.48UT 33 1.33 37 1.36UU 21 1.54 39 1.61UvA 20 1.15 43 1.64UvT 25 1.15 42 1.21VUA 18 1.15 43 1.68

WUR 21 1.12 49 1.27         Aggregate 25 1.15 44 1.53

NOWT (2008). Wetenschaps- en Technologie- Indicatoren 2008. Maastricht, Nederlands Observatorium van Wetenschap en Technologie (NOWT).

Cooperation is effective

WTI2 report 2011

Cooperation...

Teams increasingly dominate solo authors in the production of knowledge. Research is increasingly done in teams across nearly all fields.

Teams typically produce more frequently cited research than individuals do, and this advantage has been increasing over time.

Teams now also produce the exceptionally high-impact research, even where that distinction was once the domain of solo authors.

Wuchty, S., B. F. Jones, et al. (2007). The increasing dominance of teams in production of knowledge. Science 316(5827): 1036-1039. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1136099

Networking is important

Start early, make use of Social Networking tools

●Facebook

●LinkedIn

●Social networks for scientists

●SSRN, Academics.edu, Researchgate

On social networking

On using social media

McKenzie and Özler (2011) The impact of economics blogs

Consider the Wikipedia

For better or worse, people are guided to Wikipedia when searching the Web for biomedical information. So there is an increasing need for the scientific community to engage with Wikipedia to ensure that the information it contains is accurate and current.

Logan, D.W., M. Sandal, P.P. Gardner, M. Manske & A. Bateman (2010). Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia. PLoS Comput Biol, 6(9): e1000941 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000941

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 on references

Articles that cite more references are in turn cited more themselves

Webster, G. D., P. K. Jonason, et al. (2009). Hot Topics and Popular Papers in Evolutionary Psychology: Analyses of Title Words and Citation Counts in Evolution and Human Behavior, 1979 – 2008. Evolutionary Psychology 7(3): 348-362. http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/ep07348362.pdf

To be the best, cite the bestBorrowed from: Corbyn, Z. (2010). "To be the best, cite the best." Nature News, 13 October 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.539 Reporting on the publication of Bornmann, L., F. de Moya Anegón, et al. (2010). Do Scientific Advancements Lean on the Shoulders of Giants? A Bibliometric Investigation of the Ortega Hypothesis. PLoS ONE 5(10): e13327 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0013327.

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

Journal selection and referencing with multidisciplinary research

Higher citations are linked to the citation-intensive disciplines.

● But Larivière et al. looked at absolute citations rather that relative to the field

Articles citing citation-intensive disciplines are more likely to be cited by those disciplines and, hence, obtain higher citation scores than would articles citing non-citation-intensive disciplines.

Larivière, V. & Y. Gingras (2010). On the relationship between interdisciplinarity and scientific impact. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(1): 126-131 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.21226

Consider Open Access publishing

Be aware of your copyrights when publishing

Golden Road

●PloS Journals, BMC, etc.

Green Road

●Self archived copies (final author’s version)

●TU Repository, RePec, SSRN etc.

Open Choice

●Hybrid system, author pays and library pays

●Sage model (only 10% of standard fees)

Is there a citation advantage for OA?

Evidence is mounting

●There is certainly no dis-advantange

●Van Raan has started to self archive his preprints

●Publishers allow self archiving of the final peer reviewed authors version

●Open Citation Project

OA is important for developing countriesEvans, J.A., Reimer, J., 2009. Open access and global participation in science. Science. 323, 1025. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1154562

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

Also relevant in the view of the latest developments

(KNAW)

Library assists in curating datasets

What is in a name?

Who is the author of this thesis?

On the inside

On her own publication list

Final word of warning!

Publishing strategies are meant to improve the impact of good quality research. Using these techniques to upgrade CVs or boosting research performance ratings of research groups is a dangerous tactic.

Tijssen, R.J.W. (2003). Scoreboards of research excellence. Research Evaluation, 12(2): 91-104; p.16 is especially relevant for Tilburg University

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