Slides from my workshop on tools to increase research impact. Topics include: citation metrics, open access publishing, scholarly collaboration, open peer review, academic social networking, choosing a journal in which to publish, making your scholarly output more discoverable.

1. Early Career Tactics
to Increase Scholarly Impact
Elaine Lasda Bergman
Dewey Graduate Library
Workshop for Educational Psychology Ph.D. Students
March 3, 2016

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

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

4. Some Key Resources
•Web of Science
•Scopus
•Google Scholar

5. Some Key Measures
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6. Journal Level Metrics
• Journal Impact Factor
• Eigenfactor
• SNIP
• SJR
• Google Scholar Metrics

7. Journal Metrics Exercise
• Split up into 3 teams. Each team search
for the Journal of Educational Psychology
in one of the following:
– Web of Science
– Scopus
– Google Scholar Metrics
• How do the results differ? Why?

8. Newer, Bigger Concerns with JIF
http://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2013/may/17/science-policy

10. Author Level Metrics
• h-Index
• Variations on h index
• Eigenfactor
• Author Identifier(s)

11. Author Exercise
• Elaine M. Lasda Bergman
• Elaine M. Lasda
• Elaine L. Bergman
• ORCID ID 0000-0002-9498-7074
Search in Web of Science, Scopus, and Google
Scholar Citations. Differences? Why is the ORCID
ID handy?

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

13. Article Exercise

14. Altmetric Bookmarklet

16. Strategies to Increase Visibility
& Maximize Impact
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17. Get Published in a Key Journal
•Bibliometric approach
•Reputation approach

18. Open Access

19. 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

20. 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/

21. Scholarly Networking
• Academia.edu
• ResearchGate
• CiteULike
• Mendeley
• Faculty of 1000
• Zenodo

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

23. 3 “Quick Hits” to Get Started
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24. Create Profiles
http://orcid.org Author
Identifier
https://www.researchgate.net/ Academic
Networking
and Sharing
http://scholarsarchive.library.alb
any.edu/
Institutional
Repository

25. Other Cool Options
• Becker Model
– https://becker.wustl.edu/impact-assessment
• PeerEvaluation
– http://www.peerevaluation.org
• Kudos
– https://growkudos.com
• Hypothes.is
– https://hypothes.is/
– https://via.hypothes.is/http://libguides.library.albany.edu/citesearch

26. 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

27. Thank You for Coming!
Questions?
Elaine Lasda Bergman
Subject Librarian, Dewey Library
elasdabergman@albany.edu
http://slideshare.net/librarian68