Using Bibliometric Tools to Increase the visibility of your publications Ciarán Quinn, Research Support Librarian, Maynooth University
Jul 16, 2015
Using Bibliometric Tools to Increase the visibility of your publications
Ciarán Quinn, Research Support Librarian, Maynooth University
“Emergent Scholarship to Academic Conversations: Increasing the visibility of your Scholarship”
National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
“Using Bibliometrics Tools to Increase the visibility of your publications”
Ciarán Quinn
Research Support Librarian
Maynooth University
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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 !
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.
Researcher Social Networking(Afternoon Session)
Research Gate
Academia.edu
Mendeley
Social Sciences Research Network
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
SciVal and Incites
Bibliometrics
What else can they do?
Overviews of your Institution
Showcasing your Research strengths
Benchmarking
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
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
Finish
Questions?
Research Support Librarian Blog
http://ciarnthelibrarian.blogspot.ie/