Measuring Your Scholarly Impact

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MeasuringYour Scholarly Impact

Big Ideas Caf Fall 2014

MeasuringYour Scholarly Impact

Definitions

Bibliometrics is thequantitative evaluationof publication andcitation data.

The impact of apublication ismeasured by countingthe number of timesthe work is cited byother resources.

Prepared byBonnie Shucha, Assistant Director for Public Services

UW Law [email protected]

Metrics Tools Only as Good as the Data They Are Based On

Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.comGoogle Scholar, a free search engine for scholarly literature, has strong coverage in thehumanities and social sciences. It indexes legal articles in HeinOnline, JSTOR, SSRN,and many other databases and websites.

To view citations to an authors work, go to Google Scholar at the URL above. Enterin authors first and last name. Be sure that Articles is selected and click search.

In your search results, note the number of times that each article was cited.

If the author has created a public profile, a link will appear at the top of the results list.

Altmetrics , short foralternative metrics,provide an alternativeimpact measure.

It can include the

number of downloadsor views of a workonline and/or its reachthrough social media,social bookmarking,and othercollaboration tools.

For a short video on thevalue and use of

bibliometrics inevaluating scholarlyimpact, seehttp://goo.gl/g1LLl3

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Creating a Google Scholar Citations Profile With Google Scholar, authors can create a profile to track citations to their articles. You can check

who is citing your publications, graph citations over time, and view several citation metrics.If you make your profile public (optional), it will appear in Google Scholar results when someonesearches for your name.

If you would like to receive an alert when new publications or citations appear inyour profile, click on the Follow this author links on the right.

You can also follow the work of other authors this wayif they have made their profiles public.

For a short video on howto set up your CitationsProfile in Google Scholar,see http://goo.gl/VzUgSU

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For more detailedinstructions on setting upyour profile, seehttp://goo.gl/0aCPUR

Instructions

Several tools offer moresophisticated searching andanalysis of Google Scholarcitation data.

Scholarometer (http://goo.gl/F1P28e) isa browser extension with awidget that authors candisplay on their websites.

Publish or Perish (http://goo.gl/SLz1IB) issoftware that calculatesadditional impact metrics.

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Web of Science - http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.web/wok

Web of Science is a subscription-based citation indexing service. Its coverage is strongest in the sciences, butit does also index some humanities and social sciences publications.

To view citations to an authors work, open the campus libraries subscription to WoS at the URL above. Inthe search box, enter authors last name followed by first initial. Select Author and click search.

This will retrieve a list of articles written by the author with corresponding citation counts.

Click on Create Citation Report for more detailed citation analysis of all the authors work in WoS.

For a video tutorial of the WoS CitationReport tool, see http://goo.gl/pMV81c

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Social Science Research Network (SSRN) - http://www.ssrn.com/en/ SSRN is an open access repository to which authors can upload their social sciences scholarship. SSRNdisplays both the number of times an authors work was cited and the number of times it was downloaded.

The download count in SSRN is a valuable alternative to the more traditional citation metric. Itdemonstrates that while a work may not have garnered a lot of citations, it may still have attracted wideinterest and readership.

To view citations and downloads for an authors work, open SSRN at the URL above. Click on the Searchtab and do a search by authors name. Or, to find UW Law School authors, see the UW Law SchoolResearch Paper Series page at http://goo.gl/gGXdwQ.

In the results list, click on the authors name to open their profile. The profile contains all of the works that

an author has uploaded to SSRN. It includes citation and download counts for each work, as well asaggregate totals for all of the authors works.


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HeinOnline Law Journal Library - http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.web/heinonline

HeinOnlines Law Journal Library is a subscription database of legal journals. Coverage ranges from veryearly to more recent volumes.

For each article in the Law Journal Library, HeinOnline indicates both how many articles and cases that citethe article, as well as how many times it has been accessed on HOL.

Like the download count in SSRN, the access count in HeinOnline may be a useful alternative metric. Whilean article may not have garnered a lot of citations, it may still have attracted wide interest and readership.

Note that in your search results, you can sort by the number of times that the article was cited or accessed.This is useful if you wish to see which articles had the highest impact.

To see a list of the articles or cases that have cited your article, click on theCited by links either in the search results list or in the document itself.

If you would like toreceive an email alertwhen an article is cited,

see the short how-tovideo athttp://goo.gl/LIyGEC.

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