Workshp for Ph.D. candidates, postdocs and faculy on how bilbiometrics, altmetrics, open access, ORCID, and other resources enable greater visibility of research output.

1. Early Career Tactics
to Increase Scholarly Impact
Elaine Lasda
Dewey Graduate Library
iLearn Session
Spring 2019

2. Making it in Academia
• Teaching
• Service
• Scholarship

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

4. Measuring Impact
•Measure why?
•Measure what?
•Measure how?

5. Some Key Resources
•Web of Science
•Google Scholar
•(Scopus)

6. Some Key Measures
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7. Journal Level Metrics
• Citation Count
– Minus self citations
• Journal Impact Factor
• Eigenfactor, others…
• (CiteScore, SNIP, SJR)

8. Author Level Metrics
• Citation count (minus self)
• h-Index (& variations)
• Google Scholar Metrics
–(h-index, i10)

9. Article Level Metrics
• Citation metrics
• Usage metrics
• Alternative metrics

10. 0
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10
15
20
25
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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

11. Web of Science Demo
• Journal Citation Reports
• Citation Searching
• Author profile/ResearcherID
• Publons
• EndNote

12. Author Profiles & Identifiers
• ORCID: http://orcid.org
• Google Scholar Citations:
http://scholar.google.com/intl/en-
US/scholar/citations.html
• ResearcherID (through WoS)

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

16. Altmetrics
Image source: https://guides.library.unr.edu/impact/altmetrics

17. Altmetrics Tools
• Altmetric.com (bookmarklet)
http://www.altmetric.com/
• ImpactStory http://impactstory.org
• PlumX

20. Other Cool Options
• Becker Model
– https://becker.wustl.edu/impact-assessment
• PeerEvaluation
– http://www.peerevaluation.org
• Kudos
– https://growkudos.com

21. Collaborate, Publicity, Discoverability
• Press Releases
• Search Engine Optimization
• Database Alerts
• Disciplinary e-mail lists
• Mainstream Social Media

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

23. 3 “Quick Hits” to Get Started
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24. Manuscript Matcher Tool
• Finding Citations to Social Work Literature: The Relative Benefits of Using Web of Science, Scopus,
or Google Scholar
• Past studies of citation coverage of Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar do not demonstrate
a consistent pattern that can be applied to the interdisciplinary mix of resources used in social work
research. To determine the utility of these tools to social work researchers, an analysis of citing
references to well-known social work journals was conducted. Web of Science had the fewest citing
references and almost no variety in source format. Scopus provided higher citation counts, but the
pattern of coverage was similar to Web of Science. Google Scholar provided substantially more
citing references, but only a relatively small percentage of them were unique scholarly journal
articles. The patterns of database coverage were replicated when the citations were broken out for
each journal separately. The results of this analysis demonstrate the need to determine what
resources constitute scholarly research and reflect the need for future researchers to consider the
merits of each database before undertaking their research. This study will be of interest to scholars
in library and information science as well as social work, as it facilitates a greater understanding of
the strengths and limitations of each database and brings to light important considerations for
conducting future research.
• Web of science endnote http://library.albany.edu

25. Open Access

26. OA Journal Models
http://researchguides.library.vanderbilt.edu/c.php?g=144567&p=946137ck
Green OA
Traditional Open
Access Journals
• Journals established by digital commercial or nonprofit publishers for the sole purpose of publishing
open access content
• Typically utilize a Creative Commons Attribution License for publishing
• Authors usually retain their copyright.
• Different funding strategies used to support the journal:
• Advertising
• Membership fees
• Author fees (money may come from the author or more likely the author's research grant)
• Can be waived in cases of financial hardship
• Subsidies from institutions such as universities, laboratories, research centers, libraries, foundations,
museums or government agencies
Hybrid Open Access
Journals
• Journals where only some of the articles are open access
• Open access status requires the payment of a publication fee/ processing fee to the publisher
• Definition of open access may vary according to publisher
Delayed Open
Access Journals
Delayed Open Access Journals
• Traditional subscription-based journal
• Provide open access or free access after the elapse of an embargo period following the initial date of
publication
• Embargo periods vary from a few months to two or more years
• Journal subscription or individual article purchase required to view articles prior to the end of the
embargo period
• Model adopted by many scholarly society journals

27. Other OA Models
GOLD OA
Institutional Repository Scholars Archive
Subject/Discipline-Specific Repositories ERIC
https://eric.ed.gov
Author's Personal Website
http://rmpruzek.com/

30. Create Profiles
http://orcid.org Author
Identifier
https://scholar.google.com/citati
ons?
Google
based profile
of academic
impact
http://scholarsarchive.library.alb
any.edu/
Institutional
Repository

31. Help at UAlbany Libraries
• http://libguides.library.albany.edu/scholcomm
• http://libguides.library.albany.edu/citesearch
• http://libguides.library.albany.edu/faculty
• http://libguides.library.albany.edu/graduatestudents

32. Thank You for Coming!
Questions?
Elaine Lasda
Associate Librarian, Dewey Library
elasda@albany.edu
http://slideshare.net/librarian68