This document discusses how bibliometrics and citation analysis can be used to measure research impact and quality. It describes various bibliometric databases like Web of Science, Scopus, and Publish or Perish that allow users to track citations and measure researcher influence. It also discusses newer altmetric tools that analyze social media to provide alternative measures of scholarly impact. While bibliometrics are useful, the document cautions that they must be interpreted carefully given disciplinary differences and limitations of citation data.
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This is a presentation I created for our group’s keynote at our Global Fujitsu Forum event held in May 2010 in Tokyo. Following a brief intro, the main body describes our group’s vision, thinking, and mantra re the essential ingredients to become a "Tomorrow Company" today. As these slides were designed to be presented in front of a live audience lead by the presenter’s strong narrative lead as opposed to being a handout document,
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ANDS Webinar. Data Management Policies and PeopleJulia Gross
Over nine months in 2011 Edith Cowan University Library successfully completed an ANDS funded Seeding the Commons project. The project team were tasked with developing a data management plan and policy, identifying and describing a selection of datasets and producing training for researchers at the university. As part of the project, the library team learned new skills, including conducting data interviews, describing data using RIF-CS, and understanding the many issues surrounding the management of research data. In this webinar Constance and Julia will discuss how they approached the project, the lessons learned along the way, and how the benefits are being taken forward in 2012
Presentation on open access published at the ASAA (Association for the Studies of Australasia in Asia) International Conference in Hyderabad, India, December 2011
This is a brief presentation of a usability study on Serials Solutions Summon. A full paper, detailing all the findings, has been submitted for publication and is expected to be published by Emerald Publishing later in 2010.
A presentation on Facebook and Libraries for the Unconference in Perth, Western Australia, 22 August 2008. The theme of the Unconference was Library 2.0 and beyond: getting our hands dirty
1. Using Metrics to Determine
Research Impact
Julia Gross, ECU Library
Contact Info: www.ecu.edu.au/research/week
2. What is bibliometrics?
• Quantitative analysis of research
publications based on citations
• Online tracking
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3. Bibliometrics applications
• Review the literature in a discipline
• Map influential researchers in a field
• Measure research quality and impact
• Map collaboration between researchers
• Compare output of individuals, research
centres, and institutions (ERA)
• Compare national publication
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4. Citation analysis - tools
Web of Science
Scopus
Publish or Perish
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5. Web of Science journal coverage
Science Citation Index ~8,300
Social Science Citation Index ~4,500
Arts & Humanities Citation Index ~2,300
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6. Types of Web of Science searches
• Search (topic, author,
publication)
• Author finder
• Cited reference
search
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Hamilton, G.
Resnicow, K.
Shaw, T
Waters, S.
Milne, E.
Johnston, R.
Giles-Corti, B.
English, D.R.
Hall, M.
Hearn, L.
Jacoby, P.
Burns, S.
Maycock, B.
McManus, A.
Monks, H.
Shaw, T.
James, S.
Hart, B.
Howat, P.
Gabebodeen…
Kambaran, N.S.
Beatty, S.E.
Langner, H.G.
Lower, T.
Bishop, B.
Broughton, H.R.
Miller, M.
Kane, R.
Brown, G.
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Nichols, T.
O'Connell, M.
Pearce, N.
Perren, S.
Reddy, S.P.
Costa, C.
Roberts, C.M.
Runions, K.
Dooley, J.
Epstein, M.
Slee, P.
Stevenson, M.
Vaughan, R.D.
Falconer, S.
Excel graphs of bibliometrics data
Fenton, J.
Williams, P.
Series2
14. Scopus Web of Science overlap
Contact Info: www.ecu.edu.au/research/week Source: Iselid, L. (2007)
15. Publish or Perish (Google Scholar)
Citation analysis of
Google Scholar data
Software download
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17. Why use Publish or Perish?
• Better than using Google Scholar on its own
• Broad multidisciplinary coverage
• Includes results across many major databases
• Better for social sciences, arts and humanities
• Produces research performance metrics
• Download results to Excel
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18. Which database to use?
• Scopus
• Web of Science
• Publish or Perish
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24. Altmetrics to determine research impact
• Altmetrics manifesto
• New ways to measure impact
• New metrics based on analysing the social web
• Scholarship is changing
• Scholars use the Web: blogs, Twitter, social media
Source: altmetrics.org (2012)
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25. Altmetrics new tools – Web 2.0
• Reference managers • Mendeley, Zotero
• Social media • Blogs, Twitter
• Social bookmarking • Delicious
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Priem, J. (2012) http://bit.ly/x2aSI9
26. Bibliometrics – handle with care!
• Disciplinary differences
• Citation impact vs Impact of research
• Assumption that
• Cited articles have been read/used
• But we also have
• Time-lag
• Self citing
• Diplomatic citing/non-citing
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27. Any questions?
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