1. WIMEK talents & topics
Publish like a pro
Wouter Gerritsma, Wageningen UR Library

2. Not your average publishing tips

3. Roadmap
 Introduction
 Why publish?
 Where to publish?
 Citation impact
 Publishing tips

4. Introduction
http://wowter.net
http://twitter.com/wowter
http://nl.linkedin.com/in/wowter
wouter.gerritsma@wur.nl

5. Where to publish?
 A valued journal?
● Editorial board
● Acceptance rate
● Time to publication
● Journal circulation
● Visibility
● Journal performance

6. Journal performance measures (indicators)
 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
● a.o. standard Journal Impact Factor and 5-year
Impact Factor
 Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)
● Scimago Journal Rank (SJR)
prestige metric based on the idea that ‘all
citations are not created equal’
● Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
Measures contextual citation impact by
‘normalizing’ citation values

7. Baselines for Mathematics

8. Baselines for Molecular Biology
400
Baseline
Cumulative no. citations
300 top 10%
top 1%
200
100
0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12
Years after publication

9. Bibliometric indicators: An example
 Zee, F.P.v.d., G. Lettinga & J.A. Field (2001) Azo dye
decolourisation by anaerobic granular sludge.
Chemosphere 44:1169-1176.
● Citations from WoS: 94
 Journal: Chemosphere
● Categorised by ESI in Environment/Ecology
 Baseline data for Environment/Ecology.
● Article from 2001 in Environment/ecology:
● On average: 19.36 citations; top 10%: 44 citations; top1%: 141
citations
 Relative Impact: 94 / 19.36 = 4.9

10. h-index
 A scientist has index h
if h of his/her Np
papers have at least h
citations each, and the
other (Np − h) paper
have no more than h
citations each.

11. h-index
 h-index tries to find a balance between productivity and
citation impact
 Only published in 2005, has made a substantial impact
in the world of bibliometrics.
 Applicable to authors, journals, research groups,
compounds, subjects etc…
 But there are some serious doubts
Waltman, L. & N. J. van Eck (2011). The inconsistency of the h-index. Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology: n/a-n/a http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.21678

12. h-index

13. After excellent research.
Where do you publish?

14. Journal selection and article impact

15. Look at the IF in a different way

16. Journal quality and article impact 2002-
2008
Journal
Quartile Pubs RI T10(%T10) T1(%T1)
Q1 6943 2.01 1732(25%) 281(4%)
Q2 3184 1.20 395 (12%) 23 (1%)
Q3 1559 0.85 114 (7%) 6 (0%)
Q4 640 0.58 17 (3%) 4 (1%)
Aggregate 12326 1.58 2258(18%) 314(3%)
Source: Wageningen Yield, Feb. 2010

17. Journal selection and impact universities
globally

18. Where is Wageningen?

19. Journal selection at EPS
EPS Annual Report 2009. http://www.graduateschool-eps.info/

20. Journal selection and impact at EPS
JIF Pubs RI St. Dev.
> 10 55 8.73 8.73
5 < 10 156 4.07 3.64
2<5 444 1.93 2.08
0<2 326 1.35 3.51

21. The impact factor Matthew effect
The journal in which papers are published have a
strong influence on their citation rates, as duplicate
papers published in high-impact journals obtain, on
average, twice as many citations as their identical
counterparts published in journals with lower
impact factors..
Larivière, V. and Y. Gingras (2010). The impact factor's Matthew Effect: A natural
experiment in bibliometrics. Journal of the American Society for Information Science
and Technology 61(2): 424-427. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.21232

22. Final word on journal selection
It is better to publish one paper in a quality journal than
multiple papers in lesser journals. [...]. Try to publish in
journals that have high impact factors; chances are your
paper will have high impact, too, if accepted.
Bourne, P. E. (2005). Ten Simple Rules for Getting Published.
PLoS Comput Biol 1(5): e57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0010057

23. Networking

24. Cooperation is effective
WTI2 report 2011

25. 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

26. Networking is important!
Start early, make use of social networking
tools
 Facebook
 LinkedIn
 Social networks for scientists
 Academics.edu, Researchgate, Nature networks,
Labmeeting

27. On social networking

28. On using social media
Manasse (2011) The economics of blogging

29. Self citations and more

30. Self citations
The model [...] implies that external citations are
enhanced by self-citations, so that we have the “chain
reaction:” Larger size leads to more self-citations,
which lead to more external citations.
van Raan, A. F. J. (2008). Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing
mechanism in the science system. Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology 59(10): 1631-1643.
11/28

31. More on references
Articles that cite more references are in turn cited
more themselves
Webster, G. D., P. K. Jonason, et al. (2009). Hot Topics and Popular Papers in Evolutionary Psychology:
Analyses of Title Words and Citation Counts in Evolution and Human Behavior, 1979 – 2008. Evolutionary
Psychology 7(3): 348-362. http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/ep07348362.pdf
To be the best, cite the best
Borrowed from: Corbyn, Z. (2010). "To be the best, cite the best." Nature News, 13 October 2010,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.539 Reporting on the publication of Bornmann, L., F. de Moya Anegón, et
al. (2010). Do Scientific Advancements Lean on the Shoulders of Giants? A Bibliometric Investigation of the
Ortega Hypothesis. PLoS ONE 5(10): e13327 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0013327.

32. Publish your data!
 Henneken et al. (2011) "articles with links to data result
in higher citation rates than articles without such links"
http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.3618
 Piwowar et al. (2007) "Sharing detailed research data is
associated with increased citation rate
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000308
 Also relevant in the view of the latest developments
(KNAW)

33. Open Access Publishing

34. Most theses are available as OA

35. e-Theses are the mainstay of OA
publications for Wageningen UR
 Theses : 200 theses * 4 articles ~ 800
preprints/year
 Productivity Wageningen UR: 2400 peer reviewed
articles / year
 This accounts for: 33% of the output

36. Make your publications OA available
 Be aware of your copyrights when publishing
 Golden Road
 PloS Journals, BMC, etc
Green Road
 Self archived copies (final author’s version)
 Wageningen Yield, RePec, ArXiv etc.
Open Choice
 Hybrid system, author pays and library pays
 Springer journals are a favourable exception

37. Other useful information - WaY
 http://library.wur.nl/way/ - Information for authors
 Publishing dissertations
● http://library.wur.nl/way/authors/dissertations.html
 Copyright Information (copyright transfer – license to publish)
● http://library.wur.nl/way/authors/policies.html
 Open Access
● http://library.wur.nl/way/authors/open_access.html

38. Is there a citation advantage for OA?
 Evidence is not entirely conclusive, but mounting
 van Raan has started to self archive his preprints
 OA is important for developing countries
Evans, J.A., Reimer, J., 2009. Open access and global participation in science.
Science. 323, 1025. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1154562

39. Deposit author versions to WaY
See: http://edepot.wur.nl/139354

40. What’s in a name?

41. Who is the author of this thesis?

42. On the inside

43. On her own publication list

44. Notable examples:
 A. Voragen,
 A.G. Voragen,  B.M.L. van Kemenade
 A.G.J. Voragen,  L. van Kemenade
 F.G.J. Voragen,  B.M.L. Verburg van Kemenade
 F.G. Voragen  L. Verburg van Kemenade

45. Use maximally 2 institutional names!

46. Science groups are not of interest

47. 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

48. Claim your publications
 ResearcherID
 Scopus Author ID
 Google Scholar Citations
 AuthorClaim
Enserink, M. (2009). Scientific Publishing: Are You Ready to Become a Number? Science,
323(5922): 1662-1664 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.323.5922.1662
 ORCID

49. Thank you!