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Scholarly Publishing USF Tampa Library Graduate Dissertation Forum. July 19, 2012. Contact Information. Matt Torrence [email protected]. Defining Impact. Determining the value of faculty research for purposes of retention, promotion, tenure decisions - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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JULY 19 , 2012
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Scholarly PublishingUSF Tampa Library Graduate Dissertation Forum
Defining Impact
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Determining the value of faculty research for purposes of retention, promotion, tenure decisions
Impact is “research visibility that enhances institutional stature among peers” (Alpert, 1985)
Impact Measures May Include
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Cited references to an author’s work (who is citing that author as an authority)
Journal rankings and quantitative data about journals (Impact Factor, SCOPUS, and others)
Getting to the Resources
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Under “Guides” on the library home page click on “Other Research Guides.”
Next, click on “Library and Information Resources Related to Promotion and Tenure.”
http://guides.lib.usf.edu/promotion-tenure
The ISI Suite of Resources
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Web of Knowledge Social Sciences Citation Index Science Citation Index Arts & Humanities Citation Index
ISI’s Web of Science (aka Web of Knowledge)
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A combination of resources and resource types
A database that does more than just “find” articles
Tracking the articles that cite other articles…
Links to articles contained in these bibliographies (some are outside the ISI “universe”)
Citation Mapping
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After locating an author’s work, the Web of Science database also allows for visual representation of each article’s relationship to other works in the same field
You have the option of seeing this relationship in either direction (forward, or backward)
Let’s take a look at an example!
Citation Mapping
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Here’s a look at one article by Andre Ariew…
Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
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JCR distills citation trend data for over 10,000 journals from more than 25 million cited references indexed every year
Science Edition and Social Science Edition released annually (summer)
No Arts and Humanities edition
All journals in JCR appear in Web of Science
Caveats: Underrepresentation of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Emphasis on sciences
Of the 1669 titles in the database America: History & Life, 615 (37%) are indexed by ISI’s Web of Science database
It’s even worse for other fields, like business…there are 3335 journals in the database ABI/Inform Global and only 959 (29%) are included in the Web of Science computations
In contrast, Biosis Previews, a primary resource for biology researchers, indexes 4459 journals, 2950 of which are indexed in ISI’s Web of Science (66%)
Differences in Cited References by Discipline
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Here's a sample from an ISI-based data set for citations of Canadian-authored articles published between 1981 and 2000. The number for each discipline is the average number of citations per published article (both article and citations in ISI-listed journals).Posted by: Tom Hurka | December 06, 2007 at 10:26 AM from the Leiter Report
Philosophy: 1.11Literature: 0.33Oncology: 26.73Economics: 6.74Biochemistry: 23.54Art and Architecture: 0.35Neuroscience: 21.41
Other Journal and Scholar Rankings Resources
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Eigenfactor
ERIH (European Reference Index for the Humanities)
Scopus/SciVerse
SCOPUS is not owned by the USF Libraries, but is still part of the equation
h-index
g-index
Verifying Web Sources of “Impact”
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The journal: Reviews in Environmental Science & Biotechnology
“Cites per doc” vs. Impact Factor
Charting the Numbers
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The journal: Reviews in Environmental Science & Biotechnology
Indicators by year:Indicators 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011SJR 0,000 0,000 0,000 0,000 0,000 0,000 0,041 0,081 0,090 0,105 0,102 0,139 0,103Total Documents 0 0 0 0 0 22 15 26 19 25 39 34 18Total Docs. (3years) 0 0 0 0 0 0 22 37 63 60 70 83 98
Total References 0 0 0 0 0 1.291 1.670 2.196 1.825 2.780 2.119 1.912 1.007Total Cites (3years) 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 31 79 129 173 198 116
Self Cites (3years) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 6 4 1Citable Docs. (3years) 0 0 0 0 0 0 22 37 62 58 64 70 78
Cites / Doc. (4years) 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,09 0,84 1,27 2,53 2,86 2,89 1,52
Cites / Doc. (3years) 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,09 0,84 1,27 2,22 2,70 2,83 1,49
Cites / Doc. (2years) 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,09 0,84 1,20 2,00 2,67 2,85 0,75
References / Doc. 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 58,68 111,33 84,46 96,05 111,2
0 54,33 56,24 55,94
Cited Docs. 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 18 40 41 52 46 36Uncited Docs. 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 19 23 19 18 37 62% International Collaboration 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 18,18 26,67 23,08 26,32 28,00 20,51 17,65 11,11
ISI/SCOPUS: Not the only Games in Town
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Google Scholar now a great competitor (examples)
“My Citations” Sign up here
Publish or Perish
Ranking/Researching Journals
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Finding out about:
Acceptance ratesStatus in academe (scholarly, trade, popular)
Abstracting & indexing
Readership
Assessing “Non-Ranked” Journals
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Cabell’s & Ulrich’s offer journal profiles
Acceptance ratesStatus in academe (scholarly,
trade, popular)Abstracting & indexingReadership
Creating faculty publication lists
WorldCat holdings
Importance of Monographs
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From the report Communicating Knowledge: How and Why UK Researchers Publish and Disseminate Their Findings:
Books & Book Chapters
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WorldCat Identities
Google Book SearchGoogle Scholarcited references included for articles
Publish or Perish analysis
Thank you!
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Questions??