Be e-Visible or Vanish:Increase your research visibility with Google Scholar Profiles

Zine Sapula (Research Librarian)

Anriette Pretorius (Librarian: Natural sciences library)28 October 2016

Open Access Week 24-30 October 2016

e-Visible

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…e-Visible

Create, Track, Trace, AND Monitor your research footprints in a digital

platform.

Professional gain

Collaboration

Research financial support

Knowing who is citing you

How many times you have been

cited

Accuracy of all your publication

Or Vanish..

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Evolution of Bibliometrics

Over 50 YEARS ago

(1962) Eugene Garfield

The first citation index for papers published in

academic journals.

Aim:

A statistical approach to master the growing flood of

scientific information and to analyse it. (Glanzel,2009)

To assess the impact of scientific work that articles,

journals and institution.

Provide bibliographic information and cited references.

Science Citation index (1963)

Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1975)

Social Sciences Citation index (1965)

Thelwall, M. 2007 Bibliometrics to Webometrics. Journal of Information Science, 34(4)1-18.Glänzel, W. 2009 "History of bibliometric and its present-day tasks in research evaluation." Ankara, March.

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Easy access (subscription or Open

Access).

Faster dissemination

More people have access to

publications.

Increase usage

Print to digital publishing ,online resources

Technology development

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index

…Print to digital publishing ,online resources

H- Index was suggested in 2005

Jorge E. Hirsch

“to measure both the productivity and citation

impact of the publications of a scientist or

scholar” Wikipedia

Bibliometrics today

2002

(available via Library subscription)

Provides citation counts for articles indexed

within WoS

2004

(available via Library subscription)

Provides citation counts for articles

indexed within WoS

NRF-recommends

2004

(Free on the web)

NRF- in the process to acknowledge

Citations- H-index

Which h-index?

Google scholar

Allows researchers to create a

Google account and Google

citations profile for free.

Allows researchers to find out

about the impact of their research

and keep track of citations at no

cost.

H-Index and i-10 index

i10-Index = the number of

publications with at least 10

citations

Option to make the profile public:

Transparency

Visibility: funders, collaborators,

reviewers can gain free access to the

list of the researcher’s publications.

Free promotion of the researcher’s

scientific results.

Google Scholar & Open Access

Open science movement principle: “Open Access”

“To make scientific research, data and dissemination accessible to all… and communicate scientific

results.

…scientists should publicly share resources with each other so that they could collectively

do their work” (Wikipedia).

“The advantage of Google Scholar is

its availability and open access.”

(Glanzel,2009)

Glänzel, Wolfgang.2009. History of bibliometrics and its present-day tasks in research evaluation. Ankara, March.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science Date of access 25 October 2016

Benefits…

Option to add groups of related articles,

articles manually.

Options: for automatic updates or

manually update your publications.

You may export bibliographic

information to ORCID or to any reference

management.

Easily identify author with google

profiles, author names are underlined on

google scholar search results.

Webometrics: University ranked by its

scholarly visibility and presences on the

web.

https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/citations.html Date of access: 21 October 2016

Alerts

Follow other researchers and they

follow you.

Receive alerts when your new

publication has been added to the

profile.

Receive alerts when someone cites

you.

Scope:

Scope: conference papers, study guides, websites,

social media, news, documents, datasets, slide

présentations, posters etc.

Webometrics: Ranking of World Universities

NWU scientists ranked based on their performance according to Google Scholar

Citations public profiles

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Newman, L. 2013. Be Visible Online or Vanish…Using the Internet to Increase Your Research Impact

https://www.flinders.edu.au/ehl/fms/educationalfutures/general/Newman_Visible%20or%20Vanish_Sept%202013.pdf Date of access: 20 October 2016.

NWU researchers with Google scholar public

profiles

Total no = 390

Top cited researcher has been cited 12719

Search to view the list

https://scholar.google.co.za/citations?mauthors=north-west+universty&hl=en&view_op=search_authors

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Data retrieved 23 October 2016

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On 12 August 2016 PER has reached its limit for 2016

http://journals.assaf.org.za/per/index

Create a Google citations profile

Step 1

Log on to http://scholar.google.com:

with an existing Google account OR create one.

Step 2

Set up Google Profile: Click the “My Citations” link at the top of the page.

Step 3:

Add your photo + provide keywords to your profile about

your research

Step 4

Click on + Add publications

Step 6

Make it public

If your profile is private, it won’t appear on search results.

Step 5: Verify if all

Verify if all articles are your

publications

Step 7

: Edit your profile anytime

Remember:

Verify the spelling of your name

Enter your affiliation (North-West university)

Enter university email for verification and

Constantly check your profile for duplicates and errors.

My Citations

Add articles

Add manually

Edit the record

Export to ORCID

Make the profile Public

Google Scholar public profile search

Public profile view

Graph citations view

Thank you