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Manage Your Online Profile, Maximize the Visibility of Your

Work and Make an Impact!

AAAS Annual Meeting 2014, Chicago

February 14, 2014

Julia Gelfand, University of California, Irvineand

Laura Bowering Mullen Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

http://tinyurl.com/ls37td7

Why Are We Here?

• So many opportunities to share your research online; learning about options

• Increasing your research impact by using online tools

• Find out about profiling, scholarly networking tools and making your work open access

• Learn about citation metrics and the value of “altmetrics” for demonstrating impact

• …and more

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Finding vs Discovery: And Now Sharing

• Random information seeking• Role of indexing & ranking tools• Impact of Google • Access issues – immediacy,

subscription/ownership, free• Social Media• Altmetrics

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Supporting Enhancements

• Academic review – P & T• Relationships to funding• Responding to institutional & funder

pressures & guidelines• Utilizes different sources of social

media• Mobile access• Traces career trajectory

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Measuring & Counting

• Bibliometrics– Performance– Grants & External

Funding– Competitiveness– Collaboration

• Tools– Scopus– Google Scholar

• My Citations• Citation Gadget

– Publish or Perish

• Publishing Outcomes– Author Counts– Citation Counts– H-Index– Journal Impact Factor

• Tools– Web of Science

• Citation Reports (JCR)

– SCImago Journal & Country Rankings

– Science-Metrix

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Scholarly Profile

• What is a profile? Why is it useful? – Benefits subject (You), your colleagues &

profession

• How does one create one? Major examples:– Scopus– Microsoft Academic Search – Google Scholar

• Cautions: errors, incomplete info/citation duplication, naming conventions, reliability, access, must have ease & ability to update, …

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Developing a Profile

• Go to any of these sources & create user or scholar profiles – maintain accurate CV with published citations– Google Scholar – Microsoft Academic Search– Harzing.com– Eigenfactor– Web of Science – obtain a “Researcher ID” to

create a citation report

• Test information• If in need of help, ask a Librarian!

Example: Scopus Profile

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Example: Microsoft Academic Search

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Example: Google Scholar Search

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New roles: Self-monitoring

• Verify accuracy of data• Know what your colleagues are

finding out about you & where• Learn who is reading & citing your

work – builds community• Track colleagues working in your

area – select their author profiles to follow – competitive intelligence

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What is Open Access?

“Open access is the practice of providing unrestricted access via the Internet to peer-reviewed scholarly research”

--Wikipedia(October, 2013)

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Benefits of Open Access

Retain some rights Disseminate your research sooner Reach more readers & researchers Permanent links (DOIs) to use wherever

you want Increase citation/research impact

http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html

The Vehicle for Open Access:a Digital Repository

Many universities have an institutional repository (many disciplines do as well)

Crawled by Google; the research is discoverable to everyone on the web

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Two Types of Repositories

Subject repositories Institutional repositories

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I want my to share my work online; is that OK with my publisher?

• When your paper is accepted for publication, many publishers allow you to put your author version online in a digital repository.

• Check the Sherpa/RoMeo website under your publisher or journal title to see what is allowed.

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OA Publishers and Journals

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The example of Science Translational Medicine (AAAS)

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Two Roads to Open Access

The Green Road archive in a repository

The Gold Roadpublish in an open

access journal

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Open Access Journals

(and many free open access journals too!)

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Open Access to Data Share your data with the world to the extent possible!

Articles that include access to data are cited more often. (Piwowar, Priem)

Ongoing management and support for your data can be provided by institutional repositories or cloud services (FigShare, Dryad, many institutional repositories)

Tools and services; consultation may be provided by libraries, others

Free assistance with data management plans (NSF) found at many libraries

DOIs allow data citation

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Disambiguate yourself online; have an ID

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Use “almetrics” to help tell the story of your impact

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Pulling it all together by creating an impactful online presence

• Make your work shareable (OA) via disciplinary or institutional repositories

• Be clearly identified online with an ID (ORCID)• Participate in a profiling or sharing system • Make sure commercial profiling services have

your information correct (follow your profiles)• Utilize altmetrics to “tell your story” in terms of

impact (ImpactStory, etc.)• Promote your work in discipline-appropriate

ways online (LinkedIN, Academia.edu, Google, traditional sharing)

Library Resources

http://libguides.lib.uci.edu/researchimpact-metrics

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Additional Resources• Scopus (by subscription)• Google Scholar

– My Citations - http//scholar.google.com/intel/en/scholar/citations/html#setup

– Citation Gadget - https://code.google.com/p/citations-gadget/

• Harzing/Publish or Perish (POP)- http://www.harzing.com/pop.htm

• H index – how to compute http://www.pnas.org/content/102/45/16569

• Thomson Reuter products (all subscription-based)– Web of Science– Researcher ID– Journal Citation Reports

• Science-Metrix – http://www.science-metrix.com/eng/index.htm• SCImago – http://www.scimagojr.com

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More…• Microsoft Academic Search - http://academic.research.microsoft.com/• Eigenfactor - http://www.eigenfactor.org/• CrossRef - http://www.crossref.org/• DataCite - https://www.datacite.org/• OpCit Database - http://opcit.eprints.org/• RUCore Repository - http://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/• UC eScholarship - http://www.escholarship.org/publish_overview.html• Sherpa/RoMeo - http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/• PLOS - http://article-level-metrics.plos.org/• Figshare - http://figshare.com/• Dryad - http://datadryad.org/• Orcid - http://orcid.org/• ImpactStory – http://impactstory.org• LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/• Academia.edu – https://www.academia.edu• Examples of Library Guides covering related information –

http://libguides.lib.uci.edu/researchimpact-metrics or http://researchguides.uic.edu/if

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Questions?Julia Gelfand

Applied Sciences and Engineering Librarian University of California, Irvine

jgelfand@uci.edu

Laura Bowering Mullen Behavioral Sciences Librarian

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