Scientific communication UNISBA

Scientific communicationDasapta Erwin Irawan

Institut Teknologi Bandung

FE-Unisba, 31/03/2016

0000-0002-1526-0863

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introduction

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lisensi CC-BY

• This slide can be copied, distributed, re-used, for commercial and non-commercial purposes as long as it is properly cited.

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a glimpse about me

• Edu: S1 - S2 - S3: Teknik Geologi ITB

• Research interest:

• hydrogeology, hydrochemistry

• data analysis

• scientific profile:

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books

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Hidrogeologi Umum (2015), Penerbit Ombak Yogyakarta

Menulis (ilmiah) itu menyenangkan (2016), Penerbit ITB, Bandung

Belajar statistika dengan R (2016), Penerbit USU, Medan

paper written vs cited

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rapid growth of papers

Bornmann and Mutz (2014), urlhttp://arxiv.org/abs/1402.4578

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publication delays (time spent in editors + reviewers)

http://blog.dhimmel.com/plos-and-publishing-delays/

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number of papers (in English): language drawback?

www.carbonbrief.org

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scientific paper karma

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scientific communication

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how scientists communicate

• through scientific papers and seminars/conferences

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how scientists communicate

• based on data and reproducible analyses

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how scientists communicate

• objectives

• based on facts

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how scientists communicate

• open and transparent

• peer-review

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academic cycle

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expected output

• formal:

• research reports

• papers:

• in journals

• in proceedings

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problems with formal outputs

• research reports (closed distribution)

• papers in journals and proceedings (openly distributed, but yet still for limited number of people)

• in journals (no online version)

• in proceedings (limited circulation)

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the impact

is very low

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how we increase the impact

by increasing scientific communication

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how we increase the impact

by increasing effort to engage with community

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how we increase the impact

by using as many tools to make our work easily found

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how we increase the impact

by exploiting scientific community, eg: Researchgate, Mendeley, etc

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expected output

• non-formal:

• blogs

• websites

• twitter, FB, G+

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expected impact: add more audience

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expected impact: add more citation

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expected impact: reduce citation delay

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take home message

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recommended efforts

• write in English

• international language leads to more audience

• hire a translator if necessary

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recommended efforts

• submit to open access journal

• conventional journal offers open access option

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recommended efforts

• use widely accepted index

• don’t use a single exclusive index (eg Scopus)

• use other indexes endorsed by open science community (Crossref, Altmetrics, etc)

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recommended efforts

• use social media

• promote your work

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recommended efforts

• setup Google Scholar or ORCID profile

• university should facilitate this to promote its staffs

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