self-assessment via web tools

How Auto-Googling Can Help You

Or:Citation Metrics for Self-

Advancement

Why Should You Want To?• NRF rating panels now make use of h-indices

calculated via both ISI Web of Science AND Scopus• Ad Hominem Promotions Committees at UCT look at

publication numbers and citations• Knowing relative impacts in a field can be useful in

rating other people objectively• Departmental / Unit / Group reviews can be

informed wrt numbers of papers, impacts• Patents are an important part of your publications

and achievements for assessment – and UCT keeps careful track of these

First stop: eResearch Pages

Clicking on

Takes you to this resource page – with a serious variety of tools to choose from

Autogoogling: needs some setting up

Autogoogling 2

To start with:• Need a Gmail address for sign-in• Need to train GSC as to which are your papersWhat you can do:• Immediately see your Hirsch or h-index* (which is usually

significantly higher than the Scopus or ISI measure)• See your 5-year h-index&, which is a good measure or

your (or other person's) recent impact

*h-index is the largest number h such that h publications have at least h citations& largest number h such that h publications have at least h new citations in the last 5 years.

Useful Google Scholar tricks

Thanks AJ Cann!

Harzing’s P or P

Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses Google Scholar to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these for:• Total number of papers• Total number of citations• Average number of citations per paper• Average number of citations per author• Average number of papers per author• Average number of citations per year• Hirsch's h-index and related parameters• Egghe's g-index• The contemporary h-index• The age-weighted citation rate• Two variations of individual h-indices• An analysis of the number of authors per paper.The results are available on-screen and can also be copied to the Windows clipboard (for pasting into other applications) or saved Training resourcesA 15-minute audio & slide presentation on citation analysis and Publish or Perish can be found on Slideshare.

Google Scholar / H or H might be best for:• Business, Administration,

Finance & Economics;• Engineering, Computer

Science & Mathematics;• Social Sciences, Arts &

Humanities.

ISI Web of Kn owledge / Web of Science

Elsevier's Scopus

Getting in with Scopus

Note: VERY useful for future searches

Scopus correspondswith Google Scholar citations for papers

UCT patent info from RCIPS

Sample of printout from database kept by RCIPS foreach UCT inventor

Patent records

Concise listing of inventors, claims, etc

Patent records

Full list of countries where filed, status, grant numbers and vital dates

Further analysis of impact

• Deeper analysis of citations is possible using proprietary software. This allows:– Identification of multi/trans disciplinary groups

publishing on a common theme– Assessment of impact of this work in terms of

leadership of the field internationally or at UCT– Quick identification of international and local

collaborators (see http://www.slideshare.net/edrybicki/uct-collaboration-2006-2010-res-indaba)

UCT now has Spotlight!

UCT Competencies: size is proportional to number of publications; position and colours of lines indicate multidisciplinarity (more towards middle)

…so what does it do?

Top Competencies:

Pick a Competency: a circle is outlined and in information window pops up

This one happens to be me and mine…

Click for more info: opens up an analysis page

Drill down – see how the competency rates

Click into Rank Lists – see where you are in the world

…and where you are in your own institution

…and where your institution ranks

How to use this for the NRF / Faculty

• NRF Assessment Biographical info (last 8 yrs):“My publishing impact has increased significantly since 2003: I now have 137 ISI-listed publications, a h-index of 25 and over 2200 citations, compared to a h-factor of 17, 70 publications and 783 citations in 2002.” My research group leads the world in a Distinctive Competency identified by SciVal Spotlight…

• NRF Publications info: best research outputsMotivation :This article established that, unlike previous investigations, it was possible to get high-level expression of HPV-16 L1 protein via transient expression in plants, that it assembled into VLPs, and that it elicited neutralising antibodies in mice. It has been cited 34 times…

• HR174 promotion / assessment infoMy research group leads the world in a Distinctive Competency identified by SciVal Spotlight…because of my group, UCT is top in the field of geminivirus diversity / Jane Austen / bullfrogs….

How to do an institutional searchInstitutional / Unit / Department Review

Limit to last 5 years

Modify search query with advanced tools

Get all IIDMM publications for last 5 yrs

Look at most cited

How to use this for reviews

• Institutional address searches via Scopus (NOT ISI!) allow easy retrieval of papers over a given time period by people who would otherwise have been missed (or forgotten)

• The impact of the publications can very simply be assessed

• Cognate searches done on other Depts / institutes can be done as easily for comparative purposes: eg “we score as highly as the Universities of Sydney / Auckland / Hyderabad…”