Making an impact ANU Library

What is impact What (the heck) are bibliometrics Publish with impact – an overview Debate on impact How innovative are you in publishing? 2

Thanks to Bodleian Libraries 3

What is impact Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief, Nature Looks for “wonderful, wonderful stuff…” Survey of 100 most cited papers in history – a lot of them were cited because somewhere in their methods section they had a little technique that suddenly everybody found they could use 4

Most cited work in history a 1951 paper describing an assay to determine the amount of protein in a solution It has achieved than 305,000 citations its lead author, the late US biochemist Oliver Lowry said “Although I really know it is not a great paper … I secretly get a kick out of the response”. 5

How is impact measured – the art of bibliometrics Bibliometrics is a statistical analysis of books, articles, or other publications. Bibliometric analysis use data on numbers and authors of scientific publications and on articles and the citations therein (and in patents) to measure the “output” of individuals/research teams, institutions, and countries … 6

Citations to an individual paper

Citations to a researcher

Citations to a research group/department

Citations to a journal

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Some issues to consider Citations vs use Public policy impact Long tail (and disciplines) Monographs 12

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Bibliometrics

Many ways to measure ISI JCR Eigenfactor H-index Journal analyser Altmetrics Google Scholar

ISI – Web of Science Indicates impact of individual article – how many times has my article been cited? Links to Journal Citation Reports for information on impact of the journal

H-index Attempts to quantify an individual’s research output Can be calculated manually or automatically in Scopus or Web of Science

Google Scholar Designed to “help authors consider where to publish” Based on h-index Can browse publications in broad areas such as engineering and computer science, development economics _op=top_venues&hl=en

Journal citation reports (JCR) Thomson Reuters – data from WoS 5000 journals in science & technology 1500 journals in social sciences Indicates - Highest impact journals Most frequently used journals Largest journals

Journal analyser Scopus (Elsevier) SJR – weighted by prestige of journal SNIP - measures conceptual impact by weighting citations based on total # of citations in a subject field Freely available (More from Thomas!)

Eigenfactor Takes into account the “prestige” of a journal Attempts to analyse the influence of a journal Journals with ^ impact factor in a field have higher Eigenfactor Data from Thomson Reuters JCR

Impact factor JIF – ave # times article from journal has been cited in last two years Uses ISI Web of Knowledge data

Altmetrics Reflect impact of article, not container *Altmetric *Impact Story *PlumX *Google + *Wikipedia ain_Page&action=history ain_Page&action=history

ORCiD  Persistent digital identifier  Distinguishes individuals – name disambiguation  Automated linkages between author and professional activities – manuscript submission; grant applications, etc  Endorsed by ARC/NHMRC

Open Access

Open access citation advantage

How? Digital Collections -ANU open access publications repository -Facilitates ANU Open Access Policy -Disseminate your research more broadly -Meet funder obligations -Increase your impact!

Problems That sounds great BUT… Remember results are influenced by – * Size * Time/frequency of publication * Non-English language journals * Journals not indexed by Scopus/WoS

Publish with the best – an overview Editor in Chief of Nature – wonderful wonderful stuff How to get published — SAGE Publishing Presenter: Rosalia da Garcia, SAGE Publishing Video presentation (MP4, 88MB) Slide presentation (PDF 17.4MB) 30

How to get published — CSIRO Presenter: Andrew Stammer, Executive Manager Communications & Publishing and Director of CSIRO PUBLISHING Audio presentation (MP4, 58.5MB) Slide presentation (PDF 2.49MB) 31

Current debate Citation Boost or Bad Data? Academia.edu Research Under Scrutiny. “A critical review at the promises and achievements of academia.edu – does it make as big a different to impact? » read moreread more 32

Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) paper Research Engagement for Australia: Measuring research engagement between universities and end users Research Engagement for Australia: Measuring research engagement between universities and end users 33

Social science academic influence external research impacts 34

Influence on public policy 35 The Utilisation of Social Science Research in Policy Development and Program Review

Influence on business & industry Open access and data is critical Online searching powerful Length not a determinant in reading Mediators important (including news media) Communication tips – title, abstract 36

How innovative are you in publishing? 37

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