Disseminating your research: Scientific profiles and tools

Disseminating your research

Scientific profiles and tools

Nicolás Robinson-García

@nrobinsongarcia

2nd IMPRESS Workshop, March 2, 2016

THEORY

o Databases and scientific visibility

o Open Access and online visibility

o Digital identity and reputation

DEMOS

o How-to guide: tools for disseminating scientific papers (repositories, Google Scholar & reference managers)

Agenda

Databases and scientific visibility

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o Scientific names o Scientific profiles – ORCID & ResearcherID o Web of Science and Scopus – Indicators o Google Scholar Citations Profiles

Sign your papers consistently

This means avoiding name variants and making it easy for others to find you

Especially relevant if you have more than one surname

Scientific names

Recommendations

o Always sign in the same format

o Use your full given name, no need for initials!

o Use hyphens if you have two surnames

o If you can choose between different scientific names, use the most uncommon one

o Correct any error you may find in a database

Scientific name

Scientific profiles Identifying researchers uniquely is a big issue for researchers, funding agencies, publishers

and universities

How much does it cost others to find your work?

Scientific visibility

How much does it cost others to find your work?

Scientific visibility

How much does it cost others to find your work?

Scientific visibility

Even if we hate them we should learn about bibliometric indicators to know their meaning and limitations as we will be asked to provide them at

some point.

Bibliometric indicators

H-Index

An author has an h index when h of their papers has at least h citations

Journal Impact Factor

The Journal Impact Factor is not a good proxy of the expected impact of papers published in such journal

Total number of citations received in year X by papers published in a journal in years X-1 and X-2

Total number of paper published in a journal in years X-1 and X-2

Web of Science Citations and usage

Citations reports

Web of Science

Article level

Scopus

Scopus Researcher profile

Google Scholar Citations

Indicators Fields Alerts References Citations

Open Access and online visibility

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o Main milestones of the OA movement o The roads to Open Access o Some reflections on Open Access and

Scholarly Communication

A few publishers control an increasingly higher share of

‘elite’ journals

The problem THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE PUBLISHING SYSTEM…

Which they sell to academic institutions through a ‘big deal’

strategy

o Publishers impose their own collections o Abusive increases on pricing, up to 20% o Libraries acquire journals that are never used

The problem

… ALL OF THIS LEADS TO THE BEGINNING OF THE OPEN ACCESS

Government funds research

Researchers publish their results

in peer reviewed scientific journals

Publishers edit these papers and sell them back to them

through libraries

Researchers access their papers through

suscription

The paradox

1991 - Paul Ginsparg launches ARXIV

The alternative

2002 - Budapest Open Access Initiative

2002 - Doris Lessig develops the Creative Commons licenses

Government funds research

Researchers publish their results

in peer reviewed scientific journals

Publishers edit these papers and sell them back to them

through libraries

THIS ARE OFFERED IN

OPEN ACCESS GRATIS

Researchers access their papers through

suscription

Researchers publish their papers in

journals or repositories

The alternative

The revolution

The key to all these issues is the right of authors to achieve easily-accessible distribution of their work. If you would like to declare publicly that you will not support any Elsevier journal unless they

radically change how they operate…

THE COST OF KNOWLEDGE 2013

The revolution

We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open Acces

Swartz † 1986-2013

Robin Hoods of Science

Robin Hoods of Science

Alexandra Elbakyan

Recommendation on access to and preservation of scientific information

States that “Policies on open access to scientific research results should apply to all research that receives public funds.

EU Open Access policy

Implementing OA

GREEN

ROAD

GOLD

ROAD

The Roads to OA

Self-archiving Journals

The Roads to OA

The author is responsible of ensuring open and free universal

to its work WEBSITE REPOSITORY

A repository, deposit or archive is a centralized place where digital information is stored and preserved, normally databases or digital files

• Institutional • Thematic

• Articles • Data

The Roads to OA

The Roads to OA Benefits of repositories

o They ensure universal and permanent access

o They use metadata to describe content and make it easier for research engines to find it

o They use permanent URLs that ensure sustainability of hyperlinks.

Peer Review

Accepted for publication

Published version

PRE PRINT

POST PRINT

PUBLISHER VERSION

SUBMIT TO

JOURNAL

The Roads to OA

Personal Website Repository +

The Roads to OA My advice:

The Roads to OA

OPEN ACCESS HYBRID MODEL

FULL OPEN

ACCESS

OPEN ACCESS AUTHOR

PAYS

Models of Open Access journals

Author pays model JOURNAL Euros per article Articles 2010 Benefits 2010

Genome Biology (BMC) 1.800 € 155 279.000 €

Breast Cancer Res. (BMC) 1.345 € 138 185.610 €

PLoS One 987 € 6.690 6.603.030 €

PLoS Medicine 2.120 € 85 180.200 €

Hybrid Model: British Medical Journal>2.500 €

The Roads to OA

The Roads to OA

Who’s Afraid of Peer Review? Bohannon, Science, 2014

Some reflections BEWARE!

OA journals ≠ Predatory journals

The Google scholar experiment Delgado, Robinson & Torres-Salinas, JASIST, 2014

Some reflections BEWARE!

Things are not always what they look like

Digital identity and reputation

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o From scientific to digital reputation o Reputation and misconduct o Building a digital identity

Going digital

The two worlds

Going digital

The two audiences

The web as a

scholarly

communication

tool

Publishing as a

scientific

communication

tool

The world The scientists

Going digital

Reasons for disseminating research

o Social outreach

o Influencing public opinion

o Self-presentation

HOWEVER…

One cannot have a digital scientific reputation if they have no previous

scientific reputation

Going digital

Going digital

Digital reputation

A Digital

Identity

B What they say about

us

C

Positioning

Going digital Digital Identity What they say about us Positioning

Our on-line reputation is build upon our off-line scientific reputation

Internet does not forget, science does not forgive

Build first your scientific reputation with papers acknowledged by

your community, then you can start to work on your on-line reputation

Do not try to earn an on-line reputation dishonestly

or with strategies from other sectors

IT IS YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO SCIENCE THE STORY YOU HAVE TO TELL THROUGH THE INTERNET

Reputation & misconduct

WHO DO YOU WANT TO BE?

Building a digital identity

Type of profile Speaker

Researcher

Innovative

Miscellaneous

Channel Web

Blogs

Networks …there are hundreds of tools…

Style Formal vs Informal

Scientific vs

Personal

Misc.

WHO DO YOU WANT TO BE?

Building a digital identity

Audience Audience – ej. journalists

Community – ej. country

Contacts – ej. selective

Objective Dissemination of publications

Discuss results

Alert

Share resources

Paco Herrera Science communication

Selective audience Facebook

Informal style

Ismael Rafols Science communication International audience

Institutional blogs Formal style

Daniel Torres Professional + Sci comm

National audience Twitter

Informal style

Some examples…

Some examples…

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/01/25/how-to-write-a-blogpost-from-your-journal-article/

Demos: How-to guides

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o Depositing a paper in a repository o Dealing with complementary material and

data sets o Making your research visible o Managing scientific information

Depositing a paper

1) Analyze the OA policy of your journal

2) Choose a repository

3) Prepare the post-print: elements

4) Deposit!!

Depositing a paper

OA journals’ policies Journal’s website

Sherpa/Romeo - Dulcinea

Repository

Institutional - Thematic

Post-print Elements

1) Analyze the journal’s policy

2) What do you want to share?

data vs. material

3) Choose a repository

4) Deposit!!

Complementary material

Data policy of a journal

Journal’s website

Complementary material vs. datasets

Material – Data set

Where do I deposit the data

Repository - Databank

Complementary material

1) Deposit in a repository

2) Link from your website

3) Tweet, blog, spread the word

Visible research

1) Create a profile in Google Scholar

2) Add new publications

3) Manage your publications

4) Create citation alerts

Managing sci information

o Open-source reference manager

o Easy to import records from the website

o Nice citation options

o Powerful syncing

Managing sci information

o Free reference manager

o Easy and powerful reading tool

o It is also social network

o Collaborating options available

Managing sci information

BASIC TOOLS

1) OA policies-> Sherpa/Romeo – Dulcinea

2) Repositories -> ArXiV – Digibug

3) Data -> Figshare

4) Managing scientific data-> Google Scholar, Zotero and Mendeley

Wrapping up

Acknowledgements Much of the content and ideas included in this presentation are not my own, but are borrowed from other talks given in collaboration with Daniel Torres-Salinas.

elrobin@ingenio.upv.es

@nrobinsongarcia

2nd IMPRESS Workshop, March 2, 2016

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Disseminating your research

Scientific profiles and tools

2nd IMPRESS Workshop, March 2, 2016

elrobin@ingenio.upv.es

@nrobinsongarcia