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Scholarly Publishing
Information Super Highway
Digital Present
Hybrid Approach
Academic Rigour
Availability/Accessibility
Transparency
Outputs Traditional
Journal Article, Book, Edited Book, Book Chapter, Working Paper, Technical Paper, Commentary, Review.
Citations Journal Level Metrics
New
Blogs, Mentions, Captures, Downloads, Media, Videos, Patents, Social Media.
ImpactItem level metrics
Traditional Outputs
• Measures to quantitatively analyse academic literature based on citations
• Logic– Citations indicate research is important, being
talked about, is of an excellent quality?
Crude measure
Bibliometric indicators
• Trends, publication types, journals used, research field
• Citations – Average, trends, normalised, share of output in
worlds top 10%, top 1%.• Collaborations..international/national. • individual/institutional/ government metrics.
There are others….
Qualitative methods Peer Review Funding Awards Patents Open Access Bibliometrics not the only game in town but
is seen as more objective and transparent
Web of Science Documents 2008-2015
Normalised citation impact 2008-2015
Publish in a Journal
• Impact Factor of the journal (JIF)– Averages the number of citations received by
a journal in a given year by the number of articles published in the previous two years
Journal Citation Reports Publishers Website
• JIF will change every year
Other measures
• SCImago• Measure of scientific influence of a journal that accounts
for both the number of citations received by that journal and the prestige of the journals where the citation is coming from.
• EigenfactorRating of the total importance of a scientific journal according to the number of incoming citations from highly ranked journals weighted to make a larger contribution to the E than those from poorly ranked journals
Citation Databases
• Databases that count citations• Databases that provide bibliometrics/Analysis• Web of Science (2661) + Incites• Scopus (3820) + Scival Take the data and tell the storiesindividual – Institution-National-International
High quality and high curation
• Google Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications.
• Deals with last 5 years• Larger publications• Prone to duplications, no
quality control.
Publish or Perish• Software program that uses Google Scholar
and (since release 4.1) Microsoft Academic Search
• Total number of papers and total number of citations
• Average citations per paper, citations per author, papers per author, and citations per year
• H Index• The average annual increase in the individual
h-index• The age-weighted citation rate• An analysis of the number of authors per
paper.
• Better for the SS/Humanities
Author Profile
• Claims your research and brings all your citations together
• H Index– Author H index of 20
– Author had 20 papers each of which has been cited more than 20 times.
– Alternative to total citations which can be skewed by a few highly cited papers.
Set up citation alerts in WOS, Scopus, ScholarCheck how you look in Scopus/WOS
Recap
• Name and Affiliation clean• RIS/Populated Orcid ID • Impact Factor of the Journal• Is it indexed WOS/Scopus?• Self citations..often excluded• Review papers cited more• Papers broad areas cited more
New Outputs
• Citations, downloads, views, captures, referrals, social media, Wikipedia, Slideshare, YouTube, LinkedIn, Community sites, academic social networking sites (ResearchGate)
• How an article is used/cited, reproducibility, feeding into policies, social media impact, societal impact
Altmetrics
• New ways of measuring different forms of output…referred to as “societal impacts”
• More article level metrics• Alternative to “only using citations”
Not alternative to citations• Accrue more rapidly than citations• Can be easily manipulated• Better for SS/Humanities
PlumX• PlumX tracks metrics from over 30 sources –
with new ones added frequently. • Allows for fact that not all metrics are created
equal. An article that is downloaded is different than a tweet about the same article.
• Categorizes the metrics into 5 categories : citations, usage, mentions, captures, and social media.
Widget can go anywhere
Academic Social Networking Sites
• ResearchGate, Academia. edu• Network with peers and share• Can upload publications• Copyright applies• Infringement can lead to takeover
Open Access
Gold Open Access Author pays publisher for rights
Green Open Access Use final print version Obtain publisher’s permission
National Principals are for Green http://arrow.dit.ie/National_Principles_on_Open_Access_Policy_Statement.pdf Copyright still applies!
• Attribution• Attribution, no derivatives• Attribution, non commercial share
alike• Attribution, share alike• Attribution, non- commercial• Attribution, non-commercial, no
derivatives
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Open Access Journals
• Member of DOAJ• Member of Open Access Scholarly
Publishers Association• Quality of the Editorial Board• Contact details• Visibility of costs associated with publishing• Predatory publishers– Check Scholarly Open Access
Institutional Repository: Arrow
• Complementary publishing• Dissemination• Use Authors final proof• Monthly/annual counts of downloads• 1 url for open access publications• Handles all formats• Managed by the library
DCU
DIT
RCSI
UCD
WIT
DKIT
UCC
NUI M
ULMI
DBSNUI G
Marine I
HSE
Teagasc
Connaught /Ulster Alliance(ITS, LKIT, GMIT)
Ireland’s Open Access Repository Network
• Greater discoverability
• Higher impact
• All research outputs
HarvestedHarvested
• Ireland’s OA Repository network: 18+ institutions• All universities, many other research institutes• National Open Access Portal: RIAN (http://rian.ie ) – RIAN: Higher
Education Authority- funded
Searched
TCD
http://network.bepress.com/
Datasets
• Open Science• Funders driving this• Data Management Plan• Can be taken into Arrow• Accrues citations• To ensure wider dissemination, increased
impact and online sharing.
Research Strategy
• Make it easy to find your research• Be strategic about where you publish• Think about citations• Use one version of name• Populate your orcid id• Maximise the open access advantage• Upload your datasets (if you can!)• Talk about your work on social media
Bibliometrics/ArrowYvonne [email protected]:4027807Brian Widdis…[email protected]:4027812
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