How to increae citations

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o What is citations
o When do I need citations
o Why citing source important
o What does a citation look like
o How to Increase your citations
o References
Outline
Lecturer : Zana Azeez KakarashKurdistan Technical Institute

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• A citation is a formal reference to the source of information used in your research.
• Gives your readers the information necessary to find that source again, including:
1- Information about the author
2- The title of the work
3- The name and location of the company that published
4- The date your copy was published
5- The page numbers of the material you are borrowing
What is Citation

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• Whenever you borrow words or ideas, you need to acknowledge their source.
• The following situations almost always require citation:
- Whenever you use quotes
- Whenever you paraphrase
- Whenever you use an idea that someone else has already expressed
- Whenever you summarize a work of another
When do I need to Cite?

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1) Show respect for the work of others
2) Show the impact your research has had in the field
3) To highlight originality of ideas by distinguishing with those cited
4) It allows to check the validity of my use of other’s people work
5) Demonstrate that we are able to draw our own conclusions
6) Locate your sources
7) Avoid committing plagiarism in your writing
8) To verify quotations
Why Citing Sources is Important?

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Simple Example

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• MLA style (print journal article):
Whisenant, Warren A. "How Women Have Fared as Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Since the Passage of Title IX." Sex Roles Vol.
49.3 (2003): 179-182.
• APA style (print journal article):
Whisenant, W. A. (2003) How Women Have Fared as Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Since the Passage of Title IX. Sex Roles, 49
(3), 179-182.
• Chicago style (print journal article):
Whisenant, Warren A. "How Women Have Fared as Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Since the Passage of Title IX." Sex Roles 49,
no. 3 (2003): 179-182.
What does a citation look like?

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Scopus
WOS (Clarivate)
Google Scholar

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Choose your keywords and Title carefully
o Researchers in your field will be searching for so that paper will appear in a database search.
o it is important to make your title clearly indicate the content of your research.

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Publish Hot Topics
o This could be a standalone article for a regular issue, or a special section, issue, or supplement
which examines the theme in more detail.
o • Example: Covid-19 , AI

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Use a unique Name & Affiliation
o Using the same name on all of your papers.
o Use a standard institutional affiliation and address, using no abbreviations.
o Check that your name and affiliation are correct on the final proofs of your manuscript.

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Make an online CV like ORCID or ResearcherID
o Online CV makes a link between the list of published papers and open access versions of
relevant articles.
o Online CV increases researchers’ output visibility to the academic community.

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Short Title with Colons
o Articles with more short titles had higher citation counts.
o Citations increased with the use of colons (:) in the title, but decreased with the use of question
marks.
o For example “Why has Boeing 737 Ethiopian airlines crashed without intervention?”

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Use keywords and phrases in Title and abstract
o Repeating keywords and phrases will increase the likelihood your paper will be at the top of a
search engine list.
o Close access journal (abstract)

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Publish with international authors
o Papers with international co-authors are cited up to four times more often than those without
international co-authors (Jones and Evans 2013).
o Articles published with multi-countries or multi-institutes collaborations get cited more.

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Team-authored articles
o Team-authored articles typically produce more frequently cited research than individuals.
o Typically high cited articles are authored by a large number of scientists (Aksnes 2003).

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Avoid mentioning a country in your title, abstract
o Papers with country names in the title, abstract or keywords systematically receive fewer
citations, and are compared to papers without country names in the same fields.

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Deposit paper in Open Access repository
o A repository is an online database that allows research data to be preserved across time and
helps others find it.
o The numbers of citations begin to increase.

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Publish in indexed journal / Open Access (OA)
o Articles published in high impact factor journals increase the probability of getting cited.
o Open access papers are cited more often than articles that are only available to subscribers.

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Publish in Highest IF journal ???
o Highest impact factor journal that they can, this doesn’t always lead to the highest number of
citations.
o highest cited papers have been in specialist journals.

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Publish Review Paper
o I learned very early on in my academic career that review papers are more likely to be cited.
o Because of this format, they are often among a journal’s most read and highly cited articles.

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Publish in Special Issues
o Gets more Visibility
o Attract more audience

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Cite Previous work (Self-Citation)
o Too much will be self – citation and cite your papers in the first 2 sentences.
o Only if it is relevant to current research
o However, do not reference every paper you have written just to increase your citation count.
o Citing my own work has never hurt my academic career.

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Present your work at conferences , Workshop, etc
o Conference presentations are not cited by other others, this will make your research more
visible to the academic and research communities.
o Conferences are great place for networking & collaboration.
o Attend more conferences.

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Make your paper easily accessible
o If your paper is not published in an open-access journal, post your pre- or post-publication
prints to a repository.
o A positive relationship between the number of downloads and citations (Jamali and Nikzad 2011).

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Share your data
o Sharing your data can increase your citations.
o Such as figshare or SlideShare, or contributing to Wikipedia and providing links to your
published manuscripts.
o References cited by Wikipedia pages get cited more.

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Use social media
o Your university profile page.
o Facebook
o Twitter
o Academia.edu
o ResearchGate
o Mendeley Kudos account
o LinkedIn
o Create Google Scholar Profile page to link your citations and display your h‐index and i10-index.

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Actively promote your work
o Talk to other researchers about your paper, even ones not in your field, and email copies of your
paper to researchers who may be interested.
o Create a blog , podcast or a website dedicated to your research and share it.
o Put your ResearcherID in your email signature and link that ID to your publication list so that
anyone you email has access to your publications.

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Visual Abstract
o A Visual Abstract is a graphic summary of the information from the abstract of an article that is
meant to convey key findings in a brief format
https://www.surgeryredesign.com/resources

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The size of the paper and reference list
o Size of the paper and reference list are Correlates with citation counts (Corbyn,2010).
o Review papers as they are generally longer.

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Papers with a larger number of “callouts”
o Papers with a larger number of “callouts” be likely to receive a higher number of citations
(Hamrick et al.2010)
o Generally, callouts are inserted by the editorial staff to call attention to potentially interesting
aspects of a paper.

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Cite the leaders in your field.

Conclusion
o When their works are published, they are concerned about citation which is directly related to the
paper’s quality and visibility. The researchers cannot increase the quality of their published papers;
therefore, they can apply some of these previous key points to increase the visibility of their
published papers.
o Citation counts take years to accumulate.

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References

Any questions ?
You can find me at
◉ zana.azeez@kti.edu.krd
◉ zana.azeez.k@gmail.com
Thanks!
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