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Using Bibliometric Tools to Increase the visibility of your publications

Ciarán Quinn, Research Support Librarian, Maynooth University

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“Emergent Scholarship to Academic Conversations: Increasing the visibility of your Scholarship”

National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

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“Using Bibliometrics Tools to Increase the visibility of your publications”

Ciarán Quinn

Research Support Librarian

Maynooth University

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Outline

Strategies to improve the impact/visibility of your research

Using Keywords

Author Identities

What are Bibliometrics?

Your Academic Footprint

Citation Tracking

Identifying the top ranked Journals

Academic Collaboration

Altmetrics

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Strategies to increase the Impact of your Research (1)

Make yourself discoverable ! If you can’t be found you won’t be cited

Use Keywords throughout your paper (Title, Abstract) & use Subject terminology from various classification schemes (MESH, CINAHL, EMTREE, Library of Congress)

Search them to see if you find results that relate to your research area

If you are logged into Google the search will be influenced by how you like to search so Log Off

Check out how Google Scholar/PubMed searches/collates material (What Journals, Repositories etc) and make yourself findable.

Web Crawlers are used e.g. “Googlebot”. Check out Google Scholar inclusion Guidelines & coverage http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/metrics.html#coverage

Make sure the WebCrawler can access them and they are not behind a paywall or behind a login screen such as that of Blackboard, or Moodle or Peer Network (e.g. Research Gate)

Checkout how Google Rankings works

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Strategies to increase the Impact of your Research (2)

Choose Journal Titles that are highly cited and indexed by a number of different databases

Use Journal Citation Reports (Web of Science) & Compare Journal (Scopus)

Check what’s getting traction in your research area

Top cited articles or check out top downloaded articles e.g. Science Direct Top 25 Hottest Articles, Where are the top authors publishing?

Consistency:

Author Identity (if a common name use initials) & Add Corporate Author (Dept, Research Group etc.)

Set up a Researcher ID (RIS, Orcid, Scopus, WoS, Peer Networks, Google Citations, PubMed) to avoid ambiguous author names

Use Affiliation Identity correctly

Title of study (+ use it in the title of your work)

Keep the title concise

Be clear and descriptive

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Strategies to increase the Impact of your Research(3) Publish thought-provoking, critical pieces or literature reviews

these traditionally have higher citation rates

Use the Libraries resources to do your searching/Lit Reviews (Google Scholar or PubMed is not enough)

Communicate & Disseminate your Research

Get recognition from peers/collaborators, current & potential funders

Repositories, Open Access,

Posters, Conferences, Media

Deposit your research in open access repositories

Institutional or a Subject Repository/Disciplinary such as AgEcon search, arXiv.org (Cornell Sciences), RePEc (Economics), SSRN (Social Science Research network), Europe PubMed Central http://europepmc.org/

Share Data (Research Data Management) to increase visibility, share your research & increase citations

Internal institutional Repository or external e.g. PLOS (Public Library of Science) One http://www.plosone.org/ which uses article level metrics (as opposed to journal title) to make their assessment (increases Citation rates)

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Strategies to increase the Impact of your Research (4)

Rise of the PrePrint (not yet Peer Reviewed): Blogs, Repositories e.g. arXiv (physics,maths,Comp Sci), bioRxiv, Nature precedings, PeerJ, SSRN (Social Sciences)

Create a Personal Website Profile or Blog and have links to your papers (get others to link to your papers from their websites) & publications list/ add links to your reading list

Use Mendeley (manage & share research papers) Cite U Like (bookmark & share citations you like) and Zotero to share your work

Circulate links to free access (e.g. eprints (50 copies) in Francis & Taylor or Share Link(50 days free access in Elsevier)

Use Social Media: Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Slideshare, YouTube

Publish a secondary paper on your findings (for a different audience! maybe in a different language !) Not a duplicate paper ! http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/publishing-and-editorial-issues/overlapping-publications.html

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Strategies to increase the Impact of your Research (5)

Do presentations of your findings & share (Figshare, Slideshare)

Audience: Who are they?

Select an appropriate Journal so you’ll be read & cited

Peer Reviewed/Scholarly Journals vs Professional/Peer Journals/public policy papers/seminars/conferences

Career progression = H Index Vs Academic Freedom

Collaboration increases publication numbers & citations

Find current & potential collaborations

Collaborate: More articles & more visibility = more citations

Lead Author (get your name in first if possible ! Don’t be the “et al”)

Track your research: use Bibliometrics, Altmetrics

Who/Where are you being Cited/Viewed/Downloaded

Set up Alerts for your citations in WoS, Scopus, Google Scholar

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Keywords

Mesh MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) is the NLM controlled

vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing articles for PubMed

CINAHL (Cumulative Index of Nursing & Allied Health)

Emtree: Elsevier Life Science thesaurus

Library of Congress : Subject Headings

Database Thesauri e.g. EBSCO (Cinahl, PsychInfo, Academic

Search Complete), Proquest: (ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences), Sociological Abstracts, ERIC (Educational Resources Information

Centre) )uses Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index).

Understand the terminology of your discipline !

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Author Identities

Web of Science: Researcher ID

Scopus: Author Identifier

Orcid: persistent digital identifier

Google Scholar Citations

Institutional

Research Information System (RIS) at MU (Profile/Research expertise/Publications/Research Grant Applications

Pure (Elsevier)Aggregates organisational research information. Includes Pure Experts Portal to promote your work.

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Researcher ID (Web Of Science)Unique Author identity

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Scopus Author Identifier

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Orcidhttp://orcid.org/

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Google Scholar Citations

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Researcher Social Networking(Afternoon Session)

Research Gate

Academia.edu

Mendeley

Social Sciences Research Network

LinkedIn

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Research Information System (RIS)

The Maynooth University Research Information System (RIS) is a workbench of tools that allows you (Maynooth University academic and research staff ) to manage your individual research profile (including research theme/cluster affiliation), to record your research achievements (grants awarded, papers published, invited lectures etc) and to track the progress of your submitted research proposals. It is important to keep your RIS profile up to date because it is used as a database for much of the Maynooth University web content. If it is used correctly RIS is a more powerful and accurate way to capture the impact and diversity of our research, when compared to commercial Bibliometrics data services. The University frequently uses RIS information to identify research opportunities for individuals.

https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/research-development-office/ris-guide

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Pure

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How well are you doing?Your Current Footprint !

H Index:

The h-index of a publication is the largest number h such that at least h articles in that publication were cited at least h times e.g. H Index of 20 means you have 20 articles that have been cited at least 20 times.

Productivity & Impact of Researcher

Need to measure like with like: Subject Area & Career stage

Does not reflect much larger citations numbers for individual articles

Find Your Citations & Create a Master List

Find your publications and find out how they rank

Set up Alerts on your Articles

Use Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar Citations, Publish or Perish

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Citation Tracking

Web of Science: Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences & Science Citation Indexes

Scopus: Citation Overview/ Tracker, Analyze Results, Author Evaluator

Publish or Perish

Google Scholar Citations

EBSCO: Find Citing Articles (Cited by EBSCO)

IEEE Xplore (Electrical Eng & Computer Science)Cited by IEEE

ACM Digital Library (Cited by)

JSTOR: (Items citing this item)

Anthro Source

SciFinder (Get References & Get Citing Options)

Cite Seer http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/index

Computer & Information Science

MathsSciNet: Author & Publications Citations

Altmetics: Looks at non traditional metrics at article level

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Publish or Perish http://www.harzing.com/pop.htm

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Journal Impact FactorsWhere should I publish?

Web of Science (JCR)Journal Citation Reports

Scopus (Compare Journals: SNIP & SJR)

SciMago Journal & Country Rank: SJR Scientific Journal Rankings (uses Scopus Data)

Impact Factor Search (JCR 2014 Data)

http://www.impactfactorsearch.com/

Publish or Perish: Google Scholar Dataset

Law: http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ/

Washington & Lee University School of Law: Journal Rankings

Heine Online (Scholar Check)

EBSCO : Citations but only from EBSCO Host

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Journal Citation Reports“Authors can identify the most appropriate, influential journals in which to publish,

as well as confirm the status of journals in which they have published. “

Journal Citation Reports allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from approximately 12,000 scholarly and technical journals and conference proceedings from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. It includes the areas of science, technology, and social sciences.

Compare Journals in your Research Area

Journals also ranked by category

Comparing like with like !

Top Journal in a specific research area

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Scopus Compare Journals

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SciMagohttp://www.scimagojr.com/

Freely available on the web & via Scopus

Uses Scopus dataset & Google PageRank™ algorithm

Coverage is wider than Web of Science / JCR

SJR gives higher weight to citations from high impact journals

Calculated over a 3 year period

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Identifying Collaborations (Current & Potential)

Research Online (Potential Collaborators & Funding Bodies)Websites (e.g. EU Research Partners Database & EU funding) & Email Lists

Attend Conferences

Network (formal & informal)

Or you could use:

Scopus (Co-Authors)

Scival: Elsevier(to identify international current & potential collaborations at a institutional level)

Web of Science (Co Authors)

Incites: Thomson Reuters (Institutional Level & Individual level)

Use Altmetrics to see who is citing you, downloading you, viewing you etc.

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SciVal and Incites

Bibliometrics

What else can they do?

Overviews of your Institution

Showcasing your Research strengths

Benchmarking

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Altmetrics Non Traditional Metrics (Article level metrics)

Social Media (Fb, Twitter,Google+)

Downloads/Saved (Mendeley, Cite U Like)

Cited (Impact Story)

Article

Views/discussed/mentioned/saved/cited/recommended

Not just articles ! people, journals, books, data sets, presentations, videos, source code repositories, web pages etc

Controversial !

Lack of Standards, Practices

Gaming pages to increase views, downloads & social media shares

Does measure/flags scholarly conversation outside traditional impact measures

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Impact Story https://impactstory.org/

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Altmetrics.Com

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Altmetrics Mainstream Usage

Elsevier bought & use Mendeley readership statistics statistics with Scopus

EBSCO bought PlumX Analytics and intend to integrate it in the future. (Plum X is now partnering with Orcid !)

http://www.plumanalytics.com/metrics.html

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Finish

Questions?

Research Support Librarian Blog

http://ciarnthelibrarian.blogspot.ie/