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Publishing and ‘impact’
Information Literacy PhD students
Programme
Publishing
Metrics
●Article metrics
●Author metrics
●Journal metrics
●Research group metrics
Programme
Publishing
Metrics
●Article metrics
●Author metrics
●Journal metrics
●Research group metrics
Motives for publishing
Edge, P., Martin, F., Fao, S. R., & Manning, N. (2011). Researcher Attitudes and Behaviour Towards the “ Openness ” of Research Outputs in Agriculture and Related Fields.
Motives for publishing
Types of publications
Reports
Conference proceedings
Books/book chapters
Journals
●Professional journals
●Scholarly journals
(Scientific journals) Peer review
Peer review is the corner stone of scholarly quality control
●Publications
●Research proposals/grants
●Research institutions/universities
More info
●http://www.rin.ac.uk/peer-review-guide
●Course on Peer Review organized by WGS
Choosing the right journal to publish
Many factors influence journal selection
●Journal scope/Intended audience
●Editorial board/standing
●Open Access
●The speed of reviewing and publication
●Acceptance/Rejection rate
●Journal circulation
●Coverage in A&I databases (bibliographies)
●Journal performance
Open Access
OA publishing e.g. PLoS, BMC and Sage Open
Self-archiving in repositories e.g. Wageningen Yield (WaY)
SHERPA/RoMEO: Publisher copyright policies & self- archiving http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
Directory of open access journals DOAJ (currently ca. 10,000 journals)
Be aware of predatory OA publishers
“Predatory publishers”
“Green” open access: deposit author versions to WaY
See: http://edepot.wur.nl/169331
Send your version of the article to: [email protected]
Speed of publication
PLoS One
Euphytica
Rejection / acceptance rates
Sugimoto, C. R., Larivière, V., Ni, C., & Cronin, B. (2013). Journal acceptance rates: A cross-disciplinary analysis of variability
and relationships with journal measures. Journal of Informetrics, 7(4), 897–906. doi:10.1016/j.joi.2013.08.007
Rejection / acceptance rates
Rejection / acceptance rates
Journal circulation
Compare e.g.
●“Agricultural Systems”
●"Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America"
Coverage in A&I databases
Making your publicatns known: networking
Making your publications known: cooperation
WTI2 report 2011
UNIV.Single Author
addressNational
copublicationInternational copublication
EUR 1.16 1.23 1.92RUG 1.15 1.19 1.62RUN 1.14 1.18 1.81TUD 1.27 1.12 1.36TUE 1.27 1.30 1.49LEI 1.18 1.26 1.72MAA 0.91 1.19 1.51TUT 1.20 1.32 1.42UU 1.83 1.28 1.74UVA 0.98 1.20 1.67TIU 1.09 0.98 1.19VU 1.21 1.26 1.66WUR 1.19 1.43 1.49Avg 1.20 1.23 1.58
Cooperation
Teams increasingly dominate solo authors in the production of knowledge. Research is increasingly done in teams across nearly all fields.
Teams typically produce more frequently cited research than individuals do, and this advantage has been increasing over time.
Teams now also produce the exceptionally high-impact research, even where that distinction was once the domain of solo authors.
Wuchty, S., B. F. Jones, et al. (2007). The increasing dominance of teams in production of knowledge. Science 316(5827): 1036-1039. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1136099
Additional information
http://wageningenur.nl/library
●Write & Cite a.o.
●Publishing and impact
●Copyright
●Open Access
●PhD theses submission
Advertise yourself
Cite your previous articles!
Be active at conferences
Cooperate with other people/research groups
Write, or expand, articles in the Wikipedia, refer to your thesis.
Blog or tweet about your research and thesis research
Make use of social networking tools (LinkedIn, Researchgate.net, Mendeley etc.)
Create author’s identifiers (ScopusID, Researcher ID, ORCID)
What's in a name
On the cover:
●Arina Schrier
First first title page:
●A.P. Schrier-Uyl
Second title page:
●Adriana Pia Uyl
In here own publication list
●A. Uyl
●A. Uijl
●A.P. Schrier Uyl
This also applies to the names of groups
Environmental Policy Group, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University
Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University
Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University and Research Centre
Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen UR
Get your affiliation right
For the university:
Chair group + Wageningen University
Plant Production Systems Group, Wageningen University, P.O. box ..., 6700 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands
For the institutes:
Institute + Wageningen University & Research Centre
Alterra, Wageningen University & Research Centre, P.O. box ..., 6700 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands
Exercises
Manual Chapter 9.8
●Exercise 1
Programme
Publishing
Metrics
●Article metrics
●Author metrics
●Journal metrics
●Research group metrics
Web of Science
Search:
●Articles are found based on Authors, Addresses, etc.
●For each article Times cited is presented
Cited reference search:
●Searches in the reference lists of records
●Not all of your articles are found. Non-cited articles are missing
How do we compare numbers
Scientist Z. Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations
Scientist M. Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations
Baselines for Mathematics
Baselines for Molecular Biology
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Citation enhanced A&I databases
Web of Science
● Based on ± 12000 journals
● Metrics: Impact factor
● Baselines per ‘discipline’ (ESI)
● Analysis tools (Insight)
Scopus
● Based on ± 19000 journals + other
publication types
● Metrics: SNIP and SJR
● Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)
Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com)
● Based on unknown journals + many
other things
● No baselines
There are other citation enhanced databases: PsychInfo, SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)ArXiv (Physics)Spires (high energy physics)Citeseer (ICT)
Programme
Publishing
Metrics
●Article metrics
●Author metrics
●Research group metrics
Bibliometric indicators: An example
Kroes-Nijboer, A; Venema, P; Bouman, J; van der Linden, E (2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation. Food Biophysics 4(2):59-63.
●Citations from WoS: 11
Journal: Food Biophysics
●Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences
Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences.
●Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences:
●On average: 5.47 citations; top 10%: 14 citations; top 1%: 34 citations
Relative Impact: 11/5.47 = 2.01 Values June 2013
Essential Science Indicators (ESI)
Analytical database, covering 10 years + current year building
Comparisons between Countries, Institutes, Scientists and Journals
Hot papers / Highly cited papers
Research fronts
Baselines
ESI Baselines
Alternative to ESI: Scival (Elsevier)
Alternative to ESI: Scival (Elsevier)
Steps in a citation analysis
1. Look up the citation data (Web of Science)
2. Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields (Essential Science Indicators)
3. Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)
4. Calculate the relative impact
Exercises
Manual Chapter 9.8
●Exercise 2: Number of publications and times cited
●Exercise 2.1
●Exercise 2.2 is optional
Exercises
Manual Chapter 9.8
●Exercise 3: Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)
●Exercise 3.1a (3.1b optional)
Programme
Publishing
Metrics
●Article metrics
●Author metrics
●Journal metrics
●Research group metrics
H-index
Balance between productivity and citedness
To rule out the effect of one or two highly cited papers
Applicable to authors, journals, research groups, compounds, subjects etc.
But there are some serious doubts about robustness
Waltman, L. & N. J. van Eck (2011). The inconsistency of the h-index. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2):406-415 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.21678
H-index
Omnipresent h-index
54 47
57
Programme
Publishing
Metrics
●Article metrics
●Author metrics
●Journal metrics
●Research group metrics
Journal Performance Indicators
Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles
Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
●a.o. standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors
Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)
●a.o. SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
●Also available on http://journalmetrics.com/
Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
Reports three measures
Impact factor
Immediacy Index
Cited half life
Adapted from: Amin, M and Mabe, M. (2000) Impact factors: use and
abuse. Perspectives in Publishing, No. 1, 6 pp.
http://www.elsevier.com/framework_editors/pdfs/Perspectives1.pdf
IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems
Selecting journals on the basis of IF
Word of warning
●Our opinion: Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist
●Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR
Opthof, T. (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor. Cardiovascular Research, 33(1): 1-7 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0008-6363(96)00215-5
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
Exercises
Manual Chapter 9.8
●Exercise 4: Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
Programme
Publishing
Metrics
●Article metrics
●Author metrics
●Journal metrics
●Research group metrics
Journal quality and article impact 2003-2009, for Wageningen UR
Source: Wageningen Yield, Feb. 2012
Bibliometric analysis
Increase in share of Q1 articles at WageningenUR
Journal selection affects Relative Impact
Journal selection affects Relative Impact
2010
2011
2003
Interpretation of RI for small groups
With 10-50 publications per year
RI ≤ 0.8 : below world average impact
0.8 < RI ≤ 1.2 : world average impact
1.2 < RI ≤ 2.0 : above world average impact
2.0 < RI ≤ 3.0 : very good average impact
RI > 3.0 : excellent average impact
Exercises
●Exercise 5: (Group) Bibliometric analysis
