Impact and influence
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Presentation given, with Leah Emary, to York St John's PostGraduate Research Supervisors' Forum on impact factors, citation searching, altmetrics and more.
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Impact and influence
- 1. Measuring research impact Leah Emary and Clare McCluskey Academic Liaison Librarians, ILS
- 2. Demonstrating impact -Traditional -Complementary The support ILS offers your supervisees (and you) Impact by AJ Cann, http://flic.kr/p/ed3tjU used under Creative Commons CC BY-SA 2.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode
- 3. Journal Impact Factor 2008 impact factor = A/B A = the number of times that all items published in that journal in 2006 and 2007 were cited by indexed publications during 2008. B = the total number of "citable items" published by that journal in 2006 and 2007. ("Citable items" for this calculation are usually articles, reviews, proceedings, or notes; not editorials or letters to the editor). (Wikipedia Contributors, 2015)
- 5. Hirsch Index “For example, an h-index of 20 means there are 20 items that have 20 citations or more. This metric is useful because it discounts the disproportionate weight of highly cited papers or papers that have not yet been cited.” (Thompson Reuters Web of Science) (Hirsch, 2005)
- 7. The complementary way Article-centric (more individual) Dig deeper O’Connell Street News by Herr Sharif, https://flic.kr/p/js4ctD used under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc- sa/2.0/legalcode social media by Sean MacEntee, https://flic.kr/p/8WnyVB used under Creative Commons CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode The Houses of Parliament and Westminster Bridge by Rob Stokes, https://flic.kr/p/3cG4q used under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by- nc-nd/2.0/legalcode
- 8. Altmetrics Badge for BMJ 2015;350:h68, retrieved 21 Jan 2015. Visit www.altmetric.com for the most up to date data.
- 9. • What else is on offer? – Sessions… – http://ysjilsresearch.blogspot.co.uk/
- 10. Resources and Bibliography • Hirsch J.E. (2005) An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102 (46), pp.16569 - 16572. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1283832/ • Wikipedia contributors (2015) Impact Factor. Available from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor [Accessed 21/01/2015]. • Altmetric, http://www.altmetric.com/ • Impact Factor Search, http://www.impactfactorsearch.com/ • Web of Science, http://apps.webofknowledge.com.ezproxy.yorksj.ac.uk/ • Google Scholar Metrics, http://scholar.google.co.uk/intl/en/scholar/metrics.html • Scopus, http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/scopus • ILS Researcher Support Blog, http://ysjilsresearch.blogspot.co.uk/ • ResearcherID & ORCID http://ysjilsresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/orcid-id-for-researchers.html
Editor's Notes
- Open: Impact Factor search, Web of Science, Google Scholar http://scholar.google.co.uk/intl/en/scholar/metrics.html, Web of Science, research blog
- Why are we having this session? Demonstrate tools that will help measure (however imperfectly) ‘research impact’ Research impact in the sense of scholarly attention within a field as well as the broader influence and reach Outline for you/your supervisees the support sessions we will be offering this semester When will this be useful? Helps you decide which outputs to use for REF Evidence of impact for CVs Helps you choose where to publish This will work in concert with a push towards open access and our use of the institutional repository
- Journal impact factor – is a proxy for understanding how important a journal is for a discipline. The numbers do not compare across disciplines. It’s imperfect but it is used, so that’s why we need to understand it. Thompson Reuters keep the what and why of the indexing proprietary. Done by Thompson Reuters with Web of Science Journal Citation Reports (JCR) which we’ll be looking at in a moment.
- Scopus and Web of Science allow you to look it up for all publications BUT we don’t have access. Fortunately, most journals allow you to look it up on their website.
- Also known as H-index. Demonstrating it for individual researchers today, you can also have this for publications
- Web of Science. Search for Akhurst, J or Bannigan, Katrina to demonstrate how to generate a citation report! Warning, for ambiguous names, this is proof that you need a ResearcherID, ORCID. You can link your publications in Web of Science to your ID, also in the repository. Show the Google Scholar Metrics section briefly.
- Clare - Altmetrics – the complementary way Divorces the article a bit from the journal, as compared with traditional metrics A good measurement for non-standard research outputs Social media, blogs, scholarly bookmarking, social referencing management such as Mendeley, policy documents from NGO’s, charities, gov documents
- Altmetrics examples McCluskey – supporting research by being a researcher (cited in Scholar vs altmetric Twitter and Mendeley activity) Gorard – Who is eligible for free school meals (BERJ) Recent – BMJ – Impact of a behavioural sleep intervention on symptoms…
- Other sessions we’ll be hosting this semester: Open access Introducing RaY Keeping track of your reading Publishing your research with social media Discover Discover