1.
Maximizing the Influence and
Impact of Your Scholarly Research
iLearn Workshop
University Libraries
Elaine Lasda Bergman, MLS,
CAS

2.
Your Research: Get it Out There!
• Sharing knowledge
• Influence and Impact
• Grant applications/Funding requirements
• Promotion and Tenure

3.
MEASURES OF IMPACT

4.
Author Identifiers
• ORCID: http://orcid.org
• ResearcherID: http://www.researcherid.com
• Google Scholar Citations:
http://scholar.google.com/intl/en-
US/scholar/citations.html
• NISO?

5.
Why Not Just Use My Name?
• Name disambiguation
• Name change
• Institution change
• Cited references misspelled

6.
Bibliometrics and Altmetrics
• Scholarly Metrics LibGuide
http://libguides.albany.edu/citesearch

7.
Bibliometric Tools
• Web of Science/Web of Knowledge
• Science Citation Index/Social Science Citation Index
• Book Citation Index
• Data Citation Index
• Journal Citation Reports
• Scopus
• Google Scholar (Publish or Perish)
• DataCite

8.
Bibliometric Measures of Influence
• Journal Impact Factor
• Eigenfactor
• Citation Count
• H-index
• SNIP
• SJR
• Google Trends
http://libguides.library.albany.edu/citesearch

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NumberofCitations
Article Number
H-index
Scholar A
Scholar B
H-index Example
Scholar A Scholar B
10 27
10 12
9 5
8 4
7 4
6 2
6 2
56 citations 56 citations
6 h-index 4 h-index

10.
What About Books?
• Book Citation Index – through Web of
Science
• Google Books
– http://books.google.com
– Search for snippets that have your reference
cited
• WorldCat Identities
– http://experimental.worldcat.org/idnetwork/
– Like an author profile for books

11.
Altmetrics Tools
• Altmetric.com (bookmarklet)
http://www.altmetric.com/
• Microsoft Academic (author, institution
profiles)
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Default
.aspx
• ImpactStory –scholar/user subscription
https://impactstory.org

12.
Becker Model
• https://becker.wustl.edu/impact-
assessment

13.
WAYS TO INCREASE IMPACT

14.
Choosing a Journal
• Many factors go into choosing journal
– Relevance
– Prestige
– Who will accept my article?
– Visibility

15.
Identifying Key Journals
• Two basic approaches:
– Reputation approach
– Bibliometric approach
• Your subject librarian knows resources for
locating key journals in your field
– (eg., An Author’s Guide to Social Work Journals)

16.
Scholarly Networking
• Mendeley https://www.mendeley.com/
• Faculty Row (invitation only)
http://facultyrow.com/
• Academia.edu https://www.academia.edu/
• CiteULike http://www.citeulike.org/

17.
Scholarly Networking
• Faculty of 1000 http://f1000.com/
• Figshare http://figshare.com/
• Zenodo http://zenodo.org/
• ResearchGate
https://www.researchgate.net/home

18.
Other Scholarly (?) Output
• SlideShare
• GitHub
• Video Abstracts (Vimeo, YouTube)

19.
Regular Social Media
• Blogs
• Twitter
• Facebook
• LinkedIN

20.
New Tools:
• VIVO http://www.vivoweb.org/
• PeerEvaluation
http://www.peerevaluation.org/
• Kudos https://www.growkudos.com/

21.
Collaborate, Publicity, Discoverability
• Press Releases
• Search Engine Optimization
• Alerts
• Hypothes.is https://hypothes.is/
• Listservs
• http://libguides.library.albany.edu/faculty

22.
Open Access
• Greater visibility – no paywall
• “Google-able”
• Intellectual freedom
• Dissemination of research
• Government grant requirements
• http://libguides.library.albany.edu/scholcom
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23.
Scholars’ Archive
• Easily shareable “portfolio” of your
research in one place
• Showcase research productivity of
individuals, departments, and the
institution
• Preserve and capture research activity of
individuals, departments and the institution
• Now with Altmetric Donut!
http://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/

24.
Other Repositories
• Arxiv
• ICPSR
• SSRN eLibrary
http://www.ssrn.com/update/all/CiteReader
.html
• DRYAD
• Dataverse

25.
Resource
• 30 Day Impact Challenge by Konkiel
• http://blog.impactstory.org/research-
impact-challenge-ebook/

26.
Help at UAlbany Libraries
• http://libguides.library.albany.edu/scholcomm
• Hittp://libguides.library.albany.edu/citesearch
• http://libguides.library.albany.edu/faculty
• http://libguides.library.albany.edu/graduatestudents
Elaine Lasda Bergman
Subject Librarian, Dewey Library
elasdabergman@albany.edu
http://slideshare.net/librarian68