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Queensland University of Technology

Janet Baker, QUT Library

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2013: Research Income = $86m, HDR completions=325, Researchers around 1,600 active

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L I B R A R Y S E R V I C E S

Measuring up! Bringing everything we

know together to make the researcher

profile “sing”

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Platforms bringing research information together

Examples of Commercial Platforms - CRIS Systems: Current Research Information Systems

• Pure ( Elsevier)• Symplectic (Digital Science )• Vivo• ConVeris ( Thomson Reuters) and there are “Find an Expert” information systems – commercial and

home grown

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QUT Academic Profile

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Examples of web profiles with integrated citations, plus links to publications, research data, co-authorship trends, esteem measures, media releases, social media activity, interest beyond academia…

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More examples – but researcher can find themselves with many researcher profiles to maintain

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Main Challenges1. Author ID -Disambiguation- Author has to claim publications, - Author request merging, and maintain over time- Multiple IDs over time2. Research outputs- THE REACH –increasing interdisciplinarity- Document type-creative works, books, reports, working papers, - Tracking affiliated institution- Tracking funding agency, grantmaker3. Impact - Citation metrics- Attention metrics, media releases, - Beyond Academia - importance of creating a narrative4. Time - increasing pressure for early signals of return on investment/ significance/ productivity/ performance

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Disambiguation

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1. Disambiguation - sample of author ids now Thomson Reuters (ResearcherID) Elsevier (Scopus Author Identifier) Google Scholar (My Citations) ORCID (Open Researcher & Contributor ID) arXiv Author ID eRA Commons Username: National Library of Australia and

Australian National Data Service ISNI - ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier QUT ePrints ID - Institutional unique identifier

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Which author identifier ?ORCID

Journals, funders, institutions are moving to ORCID ( PLOS, Nature, Elsevier, Wellcome Trust, NIH)

ORCID integrators - API can be embedded in your RIS and Institutional Repository workflow

ORCID provides a central registry with metadata about researcher

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Google Scholar Citations Profile – author managed

• Easy steps – create gmail account

• Make public – visible to others

• Create Alerts• Opt for automated

updates• three metrics - h-index,

i10-index and the total number of citations.

• Author has to monitor

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2. Research Outputs - Accuracy of publication counts

• Depends on discipline• Google Scholar - most complete • Web of Science - ( 18,843 journals and

conference papers) Science and Engineering• Scopus – (29,566 journals and conference

papers)Social Sciences, Interdisciplinarity• Considerations- document type, language,

patents? Devices? Procedures?

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3. Impact measures to include

Citation MetricsInstitutional Repository - all publications - open

access full text - link to research data repository – links to Data Sets and to registry of metadata descriptions – Web of Science and Scopus citations (API).

Other Outputs -software, devices, patents, new

processes, changed behaviours, policies, media Community impact such as legislation, regulation,

change to national discourseEsteem measure such as Awards, Invitations to

Commercial Partnerships, Funding, Collaborations, Chairs in Industry, to Review Panels

Collaboration analysis for Trends and Comparison/Benchmarking

Altmetrics Visualizations of trends in income and output

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4. Time - influence on the profile

• Timeframe for acceptance e.g. in high impact journals

• Varying citations behaviours per discipline• Time for all citations to accumulate• Collation of media and “celebrity” portfolio• Collaborative networking grows organically• Community relationships – building social

enterprise

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Customise views of the ProfileAuthority levelsPublic web - WS/OAI--‐PMH ( open access

interoperability) Researcher - can edit, add biography, update

supervisions, projects, interests, social mediaAdministrator - Support Institutional workflows –

tenure, promotion, census, assessments, budget tracking, safeguard intellectual property and commercial and licensing concerns.

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Best Practice for QUT authors now 1. Awareness of their Author Identifier2. Deposit all publications in

Institutional Repository and include accepted version full-text file

3. Create a Google Scholar Citations Profile4. Make this public and link to 5. Link to University Academic Profile

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Thank you