1. Tracking Research Impact Alanna Ross AUS Library November 2015 aross@aus.edu

2. Session Overview Tools & strategies for….. – analysing your citations – measuring / tracking your impact – reporting your impact – building your profile – boosting citations

3. Research performance is a hotly debated topic!

4. A. A top-tier paper that has been cited 15 times? Which paper is more significant? B. A mid-tier paper that’s been cited 500 times? OR

5. Level 1: Article-level impact Level 2: Journal-level impact Level 3: Author-level impact Level 4: Institutional impact When we talk about impact… 4 levels

6. Norton, C.J. (2000). The current state of Korean paleoanthropology. Journal of Human Evolution, 38(6), 803-825. Article-level impact Number of citations? Who is citing my article? When am I being cited? Average number of citations per year? Average number of citations per paper? Tools: citation indexes including Web of Science (WOS) Google Scholar

10. https://scholar.google.ae/

11. EbscoHost Proquest JSTOR Science Direct PsycINFO Not sure where your article may be indexed? Check Ulrich’s (or ask your liaison librarian!) Citation counts can be sourced elsewhere

12. Norton, C.J. (2000). The current state of Korean paleoanthropology. Journal of Human Evolution, 38(6), 803-825. (Total citations: 40, sourced WoS, Nov. 2015). Reporting at the article-level Bassi, S. (2014). Foreign metaphors and Arabic translation: an empirical study in journalistic translation practice. Journal of Language and Politics, 13(1), 120-151. (Total citations: 1, sourced Google Scholar, Nov. 2015).

13. Journal-level impact Main Metrics:Available:Access: Journal Impact Factor (JIF)Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Thomson Reuters AUS Subscription SCImago Journal Ranking (SJR) SCImago websiteFree Source Normalized XX (SNIP) SCOPUS - ElsevierSubscription H5-indexGoogle Scholar MetricsFree

14. The Impact Factor (IF) Most frequently cited journals in a field Highest impact journals in a field Largest journals in a field The journal Impact Factor is the average number of times articles from a journal published in the past two years have been cited in the JCR year. As indexed by Thomson Reuters – Web of Science

15. Journal Citation Reports

16. The journal Impact Factor is the average number of times articles from a journal published in the past two years have been cited in the JCR year.

17. Journal Citation Reports The 5-year journal Impact Factor is the average number of times articles from the journal published in the past five years have been cited in the JCR year. It is calculated by dividing the number of citations in the JCR year by the total number of articles published in the five previous years.

18. Journal Citation Reports Norton, C.J. (2000). The current state of Korean paleoanthropology. Journal of Human Evolution, 38(6), 803-825.

19. Norton, C.J. (2000). The current state of Korean paleoanthropology. Journal of Human Evolution, 38(6), 803-825. (JIF: 3.867, ranked 3 (of 82) in Anthropology).

20. Journal-level impact Main Metrics:Available:Access: Journal Impact Factor (JIF)Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Thomson Reuters AUS Subscription SCImago Journal Ranking (SJR) SCImago websiteFree Source Normalized XX (SNIP) SCOPUS - ElsevierSubscription H5-indexGoogle Scholar MetricsFree

21. www.scimagojr.com/

22. http://scholar.google.ae/

23. H5-index of 15 means that the journal has published 15 articles in the last 5 years that have 15 or more citations each. h5-median for a publication is the median number of citations for the articles that make up its h5-index

25. Level 1: Article-level impact Level 2: Journal-level impact Level 3: Author-level impact Level 4: Institutional impact When we talk about impact… 4 levels

26. The h-index – What is it? A performance measurement that aims to describe the productivity and impact of a researcher over time. (Author-level Impact) The larger the number of important papers, the higher the h-index, regardless of where the work was published. It relies on citations to your papers, not the journals An h-index of 30 means that the author has published 30 articles that have been cited 30 times or more.

27. Researcher A Researcher B Two researchers with the same number of publications The h-index The h-index relies on citations to your papers, not the journals h-index is most useful for comparison within disciplines. Researcher B has a higher number of cited papers than researcher A Researcher B’s h-index will be higher than researcher A.

28. Your h-index – how to find it 1: Web of Science 2: Scopus 3: Google Scholar

29. Your h-index – how to find it

31. Reporting your h-index Out of 26 publications indexed in Web of Science (ranging from 2000-2014), an h-index of 11 was obtained (WoS Dec, 2014).

32. Reporting your h-index Total citations 318, average citations per item 12.23, h-index 11 (WoS ranging 2000-2014, sourced 30 December, 2014). There are another five publications not indexed in WoS, one of which received 100 citations on Google Scholar (verified December 30, 2014).

33. Google Scholar

34. Google Scholar Citations

35. Google Scholar Profiles i10 index = Number of publications with at least 10 citations

36. Create your own ‘Google Profile’ http://scholar.google.com1. 2. 3.

38. Edit your profile

39. Add details of articles

40. Manage your profile

41. h-index will vary! Don’t rely on only one tool SourceProducerh-index Web of ScienceThomson Reuters11 Scholar My Citations Google13

42. Contemporary h-index aims to improve on the h-index by giving more weight to recent articles and therefore rewards academics who maintain a steady level of activity Publish or Perish http://www.harzing.com/pop.htmhttp://www.harzing.com/pop.htm g-index aims to improve on the h-index by giving more weight to highly cited articles Other formulae exist!

43. Sign up on social networking sites, list publications there, and track how often articles have been cited and who is “following” you. Build your profile http://researchgate.net https://www.academia.edu http://www.ssrn.com/ https://impactstory.org/ https://www.mendeley.com/

44. http://researchgate.net

45. Tell your story qualitatively! altmetrics

46. Impact Story https://impactstory.org/

47. Create a public profile in Google Scholar Set up an ORCid ID Sign up on social networking sites Consider Open Access (OA) publishing Deposit a ‘shareable version’ of your article in our institutional repository (Dspace) Boost your citations

48. Session Recap Tools & strategies for….. – analysing your citations – measuring / tracking your impact – reporting your impact – building your profile – boosting citations

49. Contact your library liaison Consider a department presentation researchhelp@aus.edu Visit the Library’s Tracking Research Impact Subject Guide. Research Impact Advice

50. http://aus.libguides.com/ResearchImpact

51. “True impact is essentially impossible to measure, and to shy away from this fact is to do great disservice to the countless ways that scholars are making a difference in the eyes of their peers, and possibly in even greater circles as well”. Roemer & Borchardt (2015), p. 61.