Introduction to “Research Tools”: Tools for Collecting, Writing, Publishing, and Improving Research Visibility

Introduction to “Research Tools”:
Tools for Collecting, Writing,
Publishing, and Improving
Research Visibility
aleebrahim@Gmail.com
@aleebrahim
https://publons.com/researcher/19626
http://scholar.google.com/citations
Nader Ale Ebrahim, PhD
Research Visibility and Impact Consultant
12th June 2019
All of my presentations are available online at:
https://figshare.com/authors/Nader_Ale_Ebrahim/100797
Link to the current presentation:
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.8258957.v1

Abstract: “Research Tools” enable researchers to collect,
organize, analyze, visualize and publicized research outputs. I
have collected over 700 tools that enable researchers to follow
the correct path in research and to ultimately produce high-
quality research outputs with more accuracy and efficiency.
“Research Tools” consists of a hierarchical set of nodes. It has
four main nodes: (1) Searching the literature, (2) Writing a paper,
(3) Targeting suitable journals, and (4) Enhancing visibility and
impact of the research. This presentation will provide an
overview to the most important tools from searching literature to
disseminating researcher outputs. The e-skills learned from the
workshop are useful across various research disciplines and
research institutions.
Keywords: Research visibility, Research tools, Bibliometrics,
Research impact, h-index
Research Visibility and Impact Center-(RVnIC)
©2019-2021 Dr. Nader Ale Ebrahim
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Never Re-Search,
Do Research
Do Research, Don't Re-Search

Roadmap 1: 30th– 31th, October 2018.
Roadmap 2: Week 26-30, November 2018
Roadmap 3: Week 10-14, December 2018
4.Speaker
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Research Visibility and Impact Center
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July 2016 Top 100 Technology Experts to Follow on
Twitter
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Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency
Journal Reputation and Impact: publishing a paper in a journal based on disciplinary reputatation or with a high impact factor is the most well
known way of getting your paper cited. But there are many other things a scholar can do to promote his or her work and make it easy for
others to find.
Utilize Open Access Tools: Open Access journals tend to be cited more than non open access. Deposit your paper in a repository such as
Scholars Archive here on campus or a disciplinary repository. Share your detailed research data in a repository.
Standarize Identifying Info: try to use the same name throughout your career as well as the name of your affiliated insitution. Using common
"official" names will allow for consistency and easy retrieval of your work by author or affiliation.
Bring Colleagues on Board: team-authored articles are cited more frequently, as does publishing with international authors. Working cross-or
inter-disciplinarily helps as well.
Beef Up That Paper: use more references, publish a longer paper. Also papers which are published elsewhere after having been rejected are
cited more frequently.
Beyond Peer-Reviewed Original Research: Write a review paper. Present a working paper. Write and disseminate web-based tutorials on
your topic.
Search Optimization: use keywords in the abstract and assign them to the manuscript. Use descriptive titles that utilize the obvious terms
searchers would use to look for your topic, avoiding questions in the title. Select a journal that is indexed in the key library databases for your
field.
Market Yourself: create a key phrase that describes your research career and use it. Update your professional web page and publication lists
frequently. Link to your latest and greatest article in your professional email signature file.
Utliize Social Media: Use author profiles such as ResearcherID and ORCID. Contribute to Wikipedia, start a blog and/or podcast, join academic
social media sites.
From: Ebrahim, N.A., et al. (2013). Effective strategies for increasing citation frequency. International Education Studies, 6(11), 93-
99. doi:10.5539/ies.v6n11p93
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Managing and Leading Creative Universities –
Foundations of Successful Science Management: A
Hands-On Guide for (Future) Academics. Tampere, Finland:
International Ambient Media Association (iAMEA); ISBN 978-952-7023-16-7
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Position Associate Professor
Faculty Faculty of Humanities
School School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts
Department Department of Film and Television
Campus Bentley Campus
Location 208.312D/Level 3
Email Artur.Lugmayr@curtin.edu.au
Twitter twitter.com/lartur
Website www.artur-lugmayr.com
Linked In linkedin.com/in/lugmayr
ORCID orcid.org/orcid.org/0000-0001-6994-4470
ResearcherID www.researcherid.com/rid/G-4357-2014
Google Scholar scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=KLpGmngAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Scopus Author Identifier www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=35071658200
Staff Profile
Dr Artur Lugmayr
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©2017-2018 Nader Ale Ebrahim
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Source: http://openaccessojs.com/JBReview/pages/view/Improving%20Research%20Visibility_Scientific%20impact
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Top 10 authors with the highest profile
view counts on ResearchGate
Source: Martín-Martín, A., Orduna-Malea, E., Ayllón, J. M., & López-Cózar, E. D. (2016). The counting house, measuring those who count: Presence of Bibliometrics,
Scientometrics, Informetrics, Webometrics and Altmetrics in Google Scholar Citations, ResearcherID, ResearchGate, Mendeley, & Twitter. EC3 Reseach Group: Evaluación
de la Ciencia y de la Comunicación Científica Universidad de Granada and Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain), In Progress,. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.4814.4402
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1- Searching the literature
2- Writing a paper
3- Targeting suitable journals
4- Enhancing visibility and
impact
Introduction to the Research Tools Mind Map

Research Tools Mind Map
Research Visibility and Impact Center-(RVnIC) ©2019-2021
Dr. Nader Ale Ebrahim
Web of Science
SCOPUS
EndNote
OATD
& many more Research Tools
Source: https://pixabay.com/en/books-stack-learn-study-library-1015594/
dtSearch
SpringerExemplar
Qiqqa
Academic Phrasebank
& many more tools Source: http://fotomelia.com/?download=homme-bureau-ordinateur-images-gratuites
Journal Citation Reports
Journal Metrics
Manuscript matcher
Find the perfect journal for your article
& many more Research Tools Source: https://pixabay.com/en/discussion-session-white-male-1874791/
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Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
ZENODO
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID)
Kudos Innovations
& many more Research Tools
Source: https://pixabay.com/en/network-society-social-community-1020016/
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2- Writing a paper
3- Targeting suitable
journals

Source: Das, A.-K. (2015). Research Evaluation Metrics. 7, place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris 07 SP, France: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization.
Emerging Sources Citation
Index (ESCI) – Launched
2015
Major Citation Databases
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Scopus (Launched 2004)
• Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-
reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference
proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the
world's research output in the fields of science, technology,
medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus
features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
• As research becomes increasingly global, interdisciplinary and
collaborative, you can make sure that critical research from
around the world is not missed when you choose Scopus.
Source: http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/scopus
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A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature
Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases
Source: Aghaei Chadegani, Arezoo and Salehi, Hadi and Yunus, Melor Md and Farhadi, Hadi and Fooladi, Masood and Farhadi, Maryam and Ale Ebrahim, Nader, A
Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases (April 7, 2013). Asian Social Science, Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 18-26, April
27, 2013. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2257540
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SCOPUS - Open innovation
Source: https://www.scival.com
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SciVal - Elsevier Research Intelligence
Open innovation
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Open innovation
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Web of Science - Open innovation
Source: https://login.webofknowledge.com
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Web of Science - Open innovation
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2- Writing a paper
3- Targeting suitable journals
4- Enhancing visibility and
impact

How Scholarcy can help you
Creates an HTML summary version of the PDF with easy navigation, larger fonts and full-
size images for a quick overview
Links to Open Access versions of each cited source, so you don’t have to manually search
for these
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Source: https://www.paper-digest.com/
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Qiqqa: A reference manager and
research manager
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Explore scientific papers and how they connect to a
paper of your choice.
Source: https://the.iris.ai/
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dtSearch
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General meanings or application of meanings
The term X refers to …
The term X encompasses A), B), and C).
X can be defined as … It encompasses …
X can be loosely described as a correlation.
The term X has come to be used to refer to …
The term X is generally understood to mean …
The term X has been applied to situations where students …
In the literature, the term tends to be used to refer to …
The broad use of the term X is sometimes equated with …
Whereas X refers to the operations of …, Y refers to the …
The term disease refers to a biological event characterised by …
The term X is a relatively new name for a Y, commonly referred to…
In broad biological terms, X can be defined as any stimulus that is …
Defined as XYZ, obesity is now considered a worldwide epidemic and is associated
with …
Source: http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/
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Speech to Text
Source: https://www.speechtexter.com/
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Originality Check
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Source: https://twitter.com/AcademicsSay/status/807425026991517697/photo/1
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Source: http://journalinsights.elsevier.com/journals/0142-9612/acceptance_rate
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Select the journal that suits your
research by tools
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Find the perfect journal for your article
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Perfect Match: EndNote’s latest feature matches
article drafts with publications
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Perfect Match: EndNote’s latest feature matches
article drafts with publications
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Path analysis of the relationship between visibility and citation: the mediating roles of
save, discussion, and recommendation metrics
Source: Ebrahimy, S., Mehrad, J., Setareh, F., & Hosseinchari, M. (2016). Path analysis of the relationship between visibility and citation: the mediating roles of save,
discussion, and recommendation metrics. Scientometrics 1-14. doi:10.1007/s11192-016-2130-z
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Increasing Visibility and Enhancing Impact of
Research
Source: Bong, Yiibonn and Ale Ebrahim, Nader, Increasing Visibility and Enhancing Impact of Research (April 24, 2017). Asia Research News
2017. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2959952
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Preparing for Publication – Writing
• Use a unique name consistently throughout academic careers;
• Use a standardized institutional affiliation and address;
• Repeat key phrases in the abstract while writing naturally;
• Assign keyword terms to the manuscript;
• Use more references;
• Write a longer paper;
• Write a review paper;
• Present a working paper;
Read more: Ale Ebrahim, N., Salehi, H., Embi, M. A., Habibi Tanha, F., Gholizadeh, H., Motahar, S. M., & Ordi, A. (2013). Effective
Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency. International Education Studies, 6(11), 93-99. doi: 10.5539/ies.v6n11p93
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1. We strongly advice to use normalized (official) name
of the university in the affiliation and the
INSTITUTIONAL email address. We are using the
domain of the email addresses for filtering the profiles
and data in GS Citations. When institutional profiles get
updated and enlarged we will use them instead, so it is
important to standardize names and affiliations for the
future.
Top Universities by...
TRANSPARENT RANKING:
Top Universities by
Citations in Top Google
Scholar profiles
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Make sure you have a
SEO-friendly
manuscript, then
submit.
Credit: Atena Ale Ebrahim
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Make sure your paper doesn’t get lost in the crowd. Get your
paper Optimized for Search Engines.
When writing a paper title, think about
the visibility and consider the search
terms people may use to locate
information about your topic and include
these words.
When submitting an article for publication, authors should
consider how easily discoverable their research will be to
their audience and enhance opportunities for citation.
Source: http://guides.library.ucla.edu/seo
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Research Visibility and Impact Center-(RVnIC) ©2019-2021 Dr.
Nader Ale Ebrahim
Ale Ebrahim, Nader, Optimize Your Article for Search Engine (December 23, 2014). University of Malaya Research Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 1, 23,
December 2014. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2588209
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Well-Optimized Abstract:
Source: http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/seo.asp
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Poorly Optimized Abstract:
Source: http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/seo.asp
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Example of Well-Optimized Abstrac
©2019-2021 Dr. Nader Ale EbrahimSource: http://media.wiley.com/assets/7158/18/SEO_For_Authors.pdf
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Example of Well-Optimized Abstract
Top Downloaded Article from Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Source: www.wiley.com/legacy/wileyblackwell/pdf/SEOforAuthorsLINKSrev.pdf
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Tips
• Write a good and short title for your article. If you can use one or more keywords in the
title while accurately describing the content of your article, then do it. Keep in mind the
audience of your article and any academic keywords specific to your field to inform which
keywords may be best to use.
• In addition to the keywords tool from Google, check out Google Insights and Google
Trends. With the latter two, you can see the popularity of keywords over a period of time
and by geographic location, which may or may not be relevant for you and to your article.
Until now, Google offers the most tools for SEO.
• Don’t go overboard with using numerous top keywords in every location of your article.
You want to tastefully optimize your article without compromising the relevance and
quality of your writing and research.
• Using the most popular keyword tool may not always be best for you and your article.
After all, it is the most popular for a reason, partly because it is frequently used in
documents by others. You can test this by doing your own search of the keyword and
seeing how many search results are found. If it is an exorbitant amount of articles, you
may want to choose another keyword that is also very relevant to your research topic.
Source: https://www.elsevier.com/connect/get-found-optimize-your-research-articles-for-search-engines
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Published online 13 October 2010 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2010.539
News
To be the best, cite the best
Citation analysis picks out new truth in Newton's aphorism that science 'stands on the shoulders of giants'.
The mass of medium-level
research is less important for
inspiring influential breakthroughs
than the most highly-cited papers,
a citation study argues.
Source: Corbyn, Z. (2010). To be the best, cite the best. Nature 539.
doi: doi:10.1038/news.2010.539
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Preparing for Publication – Collaboration &
Journal Selection
• Publish with international authors;
• Publish papers with a Nobel laureates;
• Publish your article in one of the journals everyone in
your discipline reads
• Open Access (OA) has a positive impact on growth of
citations;
• Publish your work in a journal with the highest
number of indexing
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Abstracted/indexed in
1. ABI/INFORM
2. Association of Business Schools' (ABI) Academic Journal Quality Guide (www.the-abs.org.uk)
3. Australian Business Deans' Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List
4. Australian Research Council ERA Ranked Journal List
5. Compendex
6. Computer Abstracts International Database
7. Current Contents / Engineering, Computing & Technology
8. Current Contents / Social & Behavioural Sciences
9. Emerald Management Reviews (EMR)
10. INSPEC Abstracts
11. International Abstracts in Operations Research
12. OR/MS Index and Annual Comprehensive Index
13. Science Citation Index
14. Social Science Citation Index
15. SCOPUS
16. Zentralblatt MATH
• Source: Journal of the Operational Research Society
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Dissemination 1/2
• Self-archive articles
• Keep your professional web pages and published lists
up to date
• Make your research easy to find, especially for online
searchers
• Deposit paper in Open Access repository
• Contribute to Wikipedia
• Start blogging
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Contribute to Wikipedia
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http://johnrturnerhptresource.blogspot.com/2013/06/new-article-acceptance-multiagent.html
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Why should you share links to your published work online?
According to Dr Melissa Terras from
the University College London
Centre for Digital Humanities, “If
you tell people about your
research, they look at it. Your
research will get looked at more
than papers which are not
promoted via social media” (2012).
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Dissemination 2/2
• Join academic social networking sites
• link your latest published article to your email
signature
• Create a podcast describing the research project and
submit the podcast to YouTube or Vimeo
• Make an online CV.
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Nader Ale Ebrahim
Nader Ale Ebrahim’s Linkedin Map
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AudioSlides presentations
Source: http://www.elsevier.com/about/content-innovation/audioslides-author-presentations-for-journal-articles
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Position Associate Professor
Faculty Faculty of Humanities
School School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts
Department Department of Film and Television
Campus Bentley Campus
Location 208.312D/Level 3
Email Artur.Lugmayr@curtin.edu.au
Twitter twitter.com/lartur
Website www.artur-lugmayr.com
Linked In linkedin.com/in/lugmayr
ORCID orcid.org/orcid.org/0000-0001-6994-4470
ResearcherID www.researcherid.com/rid/G-4357-2014
Google Scholar scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=KLpGmngAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Scopus Author Identifier www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=35071658200
Staff Profile
Dr Artur Lugmayr
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Adapted from : MIyairi, N. (2016). ORCID: Connecting research & researchers. Paper presented at the Asia Open Access Summit 2016, INTEKMA Resort & Convention
Centre, Shah Alam.
ORCID provides a
persistent digital
identifier that
distinguishes researchers
from each other
… and MORE

ResearcherID gives author disambiguation a good name,
enhancing discoverability and ensuring credit where credit is
due
Source: http://stateofinnovation.thomsonreuters.com/author-disambiguation-whats-in-a-name
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Things to do when a paper comes out: a checklist
• Write a blog-post on SV-POW!
• Create a new page about paper in the SV-POW! sidebar.
• Add the full-resolution figures to the sidebar page.
• Update my online publications list.
• Update my University of Bristol IR page.
• Update my ORCID page.
• Update my LinkedIn page.
• Mendeley, if you do it (I don’t).
• ResearchGate, if you do it (I don’t).
• Academia.edu, if you do it (I don’t).
• Keep an eye on the new taxon’s Wikipedia page (once it exists).
• Add the paper to the Paleobiology Database (or ask someone to do it for you if you’re not authorised). [Credit: Jon Tennant]
• Tweet about it! [Credit: Matt Hodgkinson]
• Update Google Scholar, if it doesn’t pick up on the publication on its own [Credit: Christopher Taylor]
• Post on Facebook [Credit: Andy Farke]
• Send PDF to the institution that hosts the material [Credit: Andy Farke]
• Email colleagues who might be interested [Credit: Andy Farke]
• Write short popular language account for your institution if applicable [Credit: Andy Farke]
• Submit any silhouettes to PhyloPic [Credit: Mike Keesey]
Source: https://svpow.com/2015/06/04/things-to-do-when-a-paper-comes-out-a-checklist/
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Source: https://artifacts.ai/
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Source: https://artifacts.ai/
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Thank you!
Nader Ale Ebrahim
E-mail: aleebrahim@Gmail.com
Twitter: @aleebrahim
https://publons.com/researcher/19626
http://scholar.google.com/citations
All of my presentations are available online at:
https://figshare.com/authors/Nader_Ale_Ebrahim/100797
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References1. Ale Ebrahim, Nader and Salehi, Hadi and Embi, Mohamed Amin and Habibi, Farid and Gholizadeh, Hossein and Motahar, Seyed Mohammad and Ordi, Ali,
Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency (October 23, 2013). International Education Studies, Vol. 6, No. 11, pp. 93-99, 2013. Available at
SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2344585
2. Martín-Martín, A., Orduna-Malea, E., Ayllón, J. M., & López-Cózar, E. D. (2016). The counting house, measuring those who count: Presence of
Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Informetrics, Webometrics and Altmetrics in Google Scholar Citations, ResearcherID, ResearchGate, Mendeley, & Twitter.
EC3 Reseach Group: Evaluación de la Ciencia y de la Comunicación Científica Universidad de Granada and Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain), In
Progress,. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.4814.4402
3. Das, A.-K. (2015). Research Evaluation Metrics. 7, place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris 07 SP, France: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization.
4. Aghaei Chadegani, Arezoo and Salehi, Hadi and Yunus, Melor Md and Farhadi, Hadi and Fooladi, Masood and Farhadi, Maryam and Ale Ebrahim, Nader, A
Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases (April 7, 2013). Asian Social Science, Vol. 9, No. 5,
pp. 18-26, April 27, 2013. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2257540
5. Ebrahimy, S., Mehrad, J., Setareh, F., & Hosseinchari, M. (2016). Path analysis of the relationship between visibility and citation: the mediating roles of
save, discussion, and recommendation metrics. Scientometrics 1-14. doi:10.1007/s11192-016-2130-z
6. Ale Ebrahim, Nader, Optimize Your Article for Search Engine (December 23, 2014). University of Malaya Research Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 1, 23, December
2014. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2588209
7. Corbyn, Z. (2010). To be the best, cite the best. Nature 539. doi: doi:10.1038/news.2010.539
My recent publication:
1. Ale Ebrahim, S., Ashtari, A., Pedram, M. Z., & Ale Ebrahim, N. (2019). Publication Trends in Drug Delivery and Magnetic Nanoparticles. Nanoscale Research Letters, 14(59). doi:
https://doi.org/10.1186/s11671-019-2994-y
2. Parnianifard, A., Azfanizam, A., Ariffin, M., Ismail, M., & Ale Ebrahim, N. (2019). Recent developments in metamodel based robust black-box simulation optimization: An overview. Decision Science
Letters, 8(1), 17-44. doi:10.5267/j.dsl.2018.5.004. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3192794
3. Elaish, M. M., Shuib, L., Ghani, N. A., Mujtaba, G., & Ale Ebrahim, N. (2019). A Bibliometric Analysis of M-Learning from Topic Inception to 2015. International Journal of Mobile Learning and
Organisation, 13(1), 91-112. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMLO.2019.096470
4. Nordin, N., Samsudin, M.-A., Abdul-Khalid, S.-N., & Ale Ebrahim, N. (2019). Firms’ sustainable practice research in developing countries: Mapping the cited literature by Bibliometric analysis approach.
International Journal of Sustainable Strategic Management, 7(1/2). doi:. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSSM.2019.099036
5. Hussein, M. H., Ow, S. H., Loh, S. C., Thong, M.-K., & Ale Ebrahim, N. (2019). Effects of Digital Game-Based Learning on Elementary Science Learning: A Systematic Review. IEEE Access, 7(1), 62465-62478.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2916324
My recent presentations:
1. Ale Ebrahim, Nader (2018): Publishing Procedure and Strategies to Improve Research Visibility and Impact. figshare. Presentation. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7475036.v1
2. Ale Ebrahim, Nader (2018): Scientific Misconduct. figshare. Presentation. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7471988.v1
3. Ale Ebrahim, Nader (2018): Collecting, Writing, and Publishing via “Research Tools”. figshare. Presentation. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7472273.v1
4. Ale Ebrahim, Nader (2018): New Tools for Measuring Research Impact. figshare. Presentation. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7441403.v1
5. Ale Ebrahim, Nader (2018): Research Tools for Collecting, Writing, Publishing and Disseminating your Research. figshare. Presentation. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5877934.v1
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