I discuss five key topics:
* Brief historical overview of “citizen bibliometrics”, i.e. use of bibliometrics by non-experts
* How Publish or Perish and Google Scholar have democratised citation analysis
* Publish or Perish users: who are they and how do they use PoP?
* Publish or Perish version 5: key new features
* What’s next for citizen bibliometrics?
Citation metrics across disciplines - Google Scholar, Scopus, and the Web of ...Anne-Wil Harzing
Key conclusions:
1. Will the use of citation metrics disadvantage the Social Sciences and Humanities?
* Not, if you use a database that includes publications important in those disciplines (e.g. books, national journals)
* Not, if you correct for differences in co-authorships
2. Is peer review better than metrics for the Social Sciences and Humanities?
* Yes, in a way…. The ideal version of peer review (informed, dedicated, and unbiased experts) is better than a reductionist version of metrics
* However, an inclusive version of metrics is probably better than the likely reality of peer review (hurried semi-experts, potentially influenced by journal outlet and affiliation)
Citation metrics versus peer review: Google Scholar, Scopus and the Web of Sc...Anne-Wil Harzing
This presentations reports on a systematic and comprehensive comparison of the coverage of the three major bibliometric databases: Google Scholar, Scopus and the Web of Science. Based on a sample of 146 senior academics in five broad disciplinary areas, we therefore provide both a longitudinal and a cross-disciplinary comparison of the three databases.
Our longitudinal comparison of eight data points between 2013 and 2015 shows a consistent and reasonably stable quarterly growth for both publications and citations across the three databases. This suggests that all three databases provide sufficient stability of coverage to be used for more detailed cross-disciplinary comparisons.
Our cross-disciplinary comparison of the three databases includes four key research metrics (publications, citations, h-index, and hI,annual, an annualised individual h-index) and five major disciplines (Humanities, Social Sciences, Engineering, Sciences and Life Sciences). We show that both the data source and the specific metrics used change the conclusions that can be drawn from cross-disciplinary comparisons.
Practice with PoP: How to use Publish or Perish EffectivelyAnne-Wil Harzing
Covers four key ways in which Publish or Perish can be used:
1. Search for an individual's citation metrics
2. Do a literature review
3. Prepare your case for tenure or promotion
4. Prepare for a meeting with your "academic hero"
Also covers the why's of citation analysis, different metrics and diffferent databases and shows how to use PoP's multi-query center.
Building your academic brand through engagement with social mediaAnne-Wil Harzing
What constitutes social media in an academic context?
Why do you (not) use social media?
Five key types of social media with different functions
Brief overview of key purpose and functionality
Look at a real-life example
Recommendations for how to use social media
Presentation on the usefulness of benchmarking for Research Deans - part of a course on Research Leadership by the European Foundation for Management Development
This presentation first outlines five different aspects of impact. I then look at what we can learn from the measurement of academic impact, usually operationalised as citations. I show that four key recommendations for academic impact (multiple sources, multiple metrics, cross-disciplinary focus, and long term perspective) can be applied to non-academic impact as well. In addition, I argue that the four C's of citation impact (competence, communication, collaboration, and care) also apply to non-academic impact.
Presented by Dom Mitchell, Community Manager for DOAJ to 35th Conference of International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries (IATUL).
A presentation exploring how DOAJ is using crowdsourcing to evaluate the ~9700 journals currently in DOAJ. Using a network of volunteers, every journals will be reassessed and evaluated based on the new criteria.
This version contains a handful of extra slides that were originally removed due to time restrictions.
Citation metrics across disciplines - Google Scholar, Scopus, and the Web of ...Anne-Wil Harzing
Key conclusions:
1. Will the use of citation metrics disadvantage the Social Sciences and Humanities?
* Not, if you use a database that includes publications important in those disciplines (e.g. books, national journals)
* Not, if you correct for differences in co-authorships
2. Is peer review better than metrics for the Social Sciences and Humanities?
* Yes, in a way…. The ideal version of peer review (informed, dedicated, and unbiased experts) is better than a reductionist version of metrics
* However, an inclusive version of metrics is probably better than the likely reality of peer review (hurried semi-experts, potentially influenced by journal outlet and affiliation)
Citation metrics versus peer review: Google Scholar, Scopus and the Web of Sc...Anne-Wil Harzing
This presentations reports on a systematic and comprehensive comparison of the coverage of the three major bibliometric databases: Google Scholar, Scopus and the Web of Science. Based on a sample of 146 senior academics in five broad disciplinary areas, we therefore provide both a longitudinal and a cross-disciplinary comparison of the three databases.
Our longitudinal comparison of eight data points between 2013 and 2015 shows a consistent and reasonably stable quarterly growth for both publications and citations across the three databases. This suggests that all three databases provide sufficient stability of coverage to be used for more detailed cross-disciplinary comparisons.
Our cross-disciplinary comparison of the three databases includes four key research metrics (publications, citations, h-index, and hI,annual, an annualised individual h-index) and five major disciplines (Humanities, Social Sciences, Engineering, Sciences and Life Sciences). We show that both the data source and the specific metrics used change the conclusions that can be drawn from cross-disciplinary comparisons.
Practice with PoP: How to use Publish or Perish EffectivelyAnne-Wil Harzing
Covers four key ways in which Publish or Perish can be used:
1. Search for an individual's citation metrics
2. Do a literature review
3. Prepare your case for tenure or promotion
4. Prepare for a meeting with your "academic hero"
Also covers the why's of citation analysis, different metrics and diffferent databases and shows how to use PoP's multi-query center.
Building your academic brand through engagement with social mediaAnne-Wil Harzing
What constitutes social media in an academic context?
Why do you (not) use social media?
Five key types of social media with different functions
Brief overview of key purpose and functionality
Look at a real-life example
Recommendations for how to use social media
Presentation on the usefulness of benchmarking for Research Deans - part of a course on Research Leadership by the European Foundation for Management Development
This presentation first outlines five different aspects of impact. I then look at what we can learn from the measurement of academic impact, usually operationalised as citations. I show that four key recommendations for academic impact (multiple sources, multiple metrics, cross-disciplinary focus, and long term perspective) can be applied to non-academic impact as well. In addition, I argue that the four C's of citation impact (competence, communication, collaboration, and care) also apply to non-academic impact.
Presented by Dom Mitchell, Community Manager for DOAJ to 35th Conference of International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries (IATUL).
A presentation exploring how DOAJ is using crowdsourcing to evaluate the ~9700 journals currently in DOAJ. Using a network of volunteers, every journals will be reassessed and evaluated based on the new criteria.
This version contains a handful of extra slides that were originally removed due to time restrictions.
This presentation I first discusses PoP's history, its philosophy, as well as recent new features and data sources, before sharing some survey data on what people use Publish or Perish for and what their background is.
The major part of the presentation focused on specific use cases for Publish or Perish. In the presentation you will learn how to track your citations in different data sources, how to make your case for tenure or promotion, how to clean your Google Scholar Profile, and how to export both bibliographic details and query results or metrics.
Increasingly, many aspects of scholarly communication—particularly publication, research data, and peer review—undergo scrutiny by researchers and scholars. Many of these practitioners are engaging in a variety of ways with Alternative Metrics (#altmetrics in the Twitterverse). Alternative Metrics take many forms but often focus on efforts to move beyond proprietary bibliometrics and traditional forms of peer referencing in assessing the quality and scholarly impact of published work. Join NISO for a webinar that will present several emerging aspects of Alternative Metrics.
Joining the ‘buzz’ : the role of social media in raising research visibilityEileen Shepherd
Traditional bibliometric methods of evaluating academic research, such as journal impact factors and article citations, have been supplemented in the past 5-10 years by the development of altmetrics (alternative metrics or article level metrics). Altmetrics measures impact of research, data and publications, such as references in data and knowledge bases, article views, downloads and mentions in social media and news media. This presentation gives a brief background to altmetrics and demonstrates how Rhodes University librarians are using social media to raise the visibility of the research output of their institution. (Rhodes University is in Grahamstown, South Africa)
Beyond the Journal Impact Factor: Altmetrics; New Ways of Measuring Impactsbeas1
A powerpoint presentation given at Portland State University Library as part of the Library's workshop series for faculty. Download the file to see the notes for each slide.
Scholarly blogs help researchers to establish expertise, forge new intellectual bonds in their discipline, and give them a place to test out new ideas and promote their research. Blog services provide your research seen by more non-academics than your peer reviewed papers will ever be. The importance of this is not to be dismissed. Blogs are a vital tool for academics to publicly communicate about research developments and findings. Academics can also gain feedback from other peers, as well as expand their networks and enhance research visibility. This presentation will provide guidelines on blogging as a tool for increasing the article visibility and citations. Increased visibility online helps your offline recognition.
Analysis of Bibliometrics information for selecting the best field of studyNader Ale Ebrahim
Bibliometrics can be defined as the statistical analysis of publications. Bibliometrics has focused on the quantitative analysis of citations and citation counts which is complex. It is so complex and specialized that personal knowledge and experience are insufficient tools for understanding trends for making decisions. We need tools for analysis of Bibliometrics information for select the best field of study with promising enough attention. This presentation will provide tools to discover the new trends in our field of study in order to select an area for research and publication which promising the highest research impact.
Introduction to the “Research Tools” for Research Methodology courseNader Ale Ebrahim
“Research Tools” can be defined as vehicles that broadly facilitate research and related activities. “Research Tools” enable researchers to collect, organize, analyze, visualize and publicized research outputs. Dr. Nader has collected over 800 tools that enable students to follow the correct path in research and to ultimately produce high-quality research outputs with more accuracy and efficiency. It is assembled as an interactive Web-based mind map, titled “Research Tools”, which is updated periodically. “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.
Prepare a pre/post print of your documents for advertisementNader Ale Ebrahim
With overwhelming thousands of online journals daily, many scholarly articles simply never reach their intended audience and consequently fail to generate the impact they deserve. Traditionally, scholarly publishers ensured the visibility of an authors’ work by circulating print journals to targeted readers. But fewer people are reading print journals anymore and as content continues to migrate from print to online — how can researchers optimize electronic distribution of content? This presentation, lead you to prepare a pre/post print of your documents for online presence and advertisement.
Congratulation, you published a paper. Has anyone read it? or Cited it? Citation tracking is used to discover how many times a particular article has been cited by other articles. Citation counts are not perfect. They are influenced by a number of factors. Review articles are sometimes more often cited than their quality would warrant. Poor quality papers can be cited while being criticized or refuted. In this workshop, I will explain about the advantages of "Citation Tracking" and introduced some “Research Tools” for improving the research impact and citations by “Tracking Citations”.
Previous studies have found that papers with publicly available datasets receive a higher number of citations than similar studies without available data. In addition, new research has found that by putting your research data online, you’ll become up to 30% more highly cited than if you kept your data hidden. In this workshop I will elaborate the advantages of sharing research data and introduce some relevant “Research Tools” for increasing datasets visibility.
Academic social networking allows you to connect with other researchers in your field, share your publications and datasets, get feedback on your non-peer-reviewed work, and to stay current with news and events in your field of interest. It gives you another place to establish your name and research and perhaps even collaborate with others. The academic, social networking, making your work more widely discoverable and easily available. LinkedIn (launched in 2003) is currently the third most popular social network in terms of unique monthly visitors, right behind Facebook and Twitter. The LinkedIn is primarily centered around careers, and it enables users to connect and share content with other professionals. In addition, it is an online CV and as a place to share your publications.
Wouter Haak's presentation on open science and research data management from the Elsevier Library Connect Event 2016 "Navigating the new publishing & open science terrain: what librarians need to know." Wouter is Elsevier's Vice President of Research Data Management Solutions.
Introduction to “Research Tools”: Tools for Collecting, Writing, Publishing, ...Nader Ale Ebrahim
“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.
It is not new to say that the scholarly communication system is sick. One way to put it is that the publishers have built a paywall around the papers written by our faculty and make us librarians pay for it.
For years, Open Access via the green and gold route have been touted as a joint solution. To this end, as academic librarians, we focused on building institutional repositories and getting open access mandates. However, recently, many prominent members of the open access community have begun to express doubts about the viability of institutional repositories as a solution given the lack of success.
Some, like Stevan Harnad self-dubbed “Open Access Archivangelist” for Green Open access, claim to have given up, while others, like Eric Van de Velde, suggest that we rethink other ways to accomplish Green Open access beyond just institutional repositories. In this webinar, we will summarise all the arguments and attempt to give a librarian’s point of view about the future of IRs.
Metrics vs peer review: Why metrics can (and should?) be applied in the Socia...Anne-Wil Harzing
Review the debates on metrics vs peer review and suggests that we are comparing the idealised version of peer review to the reductionist version of metrics. Instead we should compare the reality of peer review with the inclusive version of metrics.
This presentation I first discusses PoP's history, its philosophy, as well as recent new features and data sources, before sharing some survey data on what people use Publish or Perish for and what their background is.
The major part of the presentation focused on specific use cases for Publish or Perish. In the presentation you will learn how to track your citations in different data sources, how to make your case for tenure or promotion, how to clean your Google Scholar Profile, and how to export both bibliographic details and query results or metrics.
Increasingly, many aspects of scholarly communication—particularly publication, research data, and peer review—undergo scrutiny by researchers and scholars. Many of these practitioners are engaging in a variety of ways with Alternative Metrics (#altmetrics in the Twitterverse). Alternative Metrics take many forms but often focus on efforts to move beyond proprietary bibliometrics and traditional forms of peer referencing in assessing the quality and scholarly impact of published work. Join NISO for a webinar that will present several emerging aspects of Alternative Metrics.
Joining the ‘buzz’ : the role of social media in raising research visibilityEileen Shepherd
Traditional bibliometric methods of evaluating academic research, such as journal impact factors and article citations, have been supplemented in the past 5-10 years by the development of altmetrics (alternative metrics or article level metrics). Altmetrics measures impact of research, data and publications, such as references in data and knowledge bases, article views, downloads and mentions in social media and news media. This presentation gives a brief background to altmetrics and demonstrates how Rhodes University librarians are using social media to raise the visibility of the research output of their institution. (Rhodes University is in Grahamstown, South Africa)
Beyond the Journal Impact Factor: Altmetrics; New Ways of Measuring Impactsbeas1
A powerpoint presentation given at Portland State University Library as part of the Library's workshop series for faculty. Download the file to see the notes for each slide.
Scholarly blogs help researchers to establish expertise, forge new intellectual bonds in their discipline, and give them a place to test out new ideas and promote their research. Blog services provide your research seen by more non-academics than your peer reviewed papers will ever be. The importance of this is not to be dismissed. Blogs are a vital tool for academics to publicly communicate about research developments and findings. Academics can also gain feedback from other peers, as well as expand their networks and enhance research visibility. This presentation will provide guidelines on blogging as a tool for increasing the article visibility and citations. Increased visibility online helps your offline recognition.
Analysis of Bibliometrics information for selecting the best field of studyNader Ale Ebrahim
Bibliometrics can be defined as the statistical analysis of publications. Bibliometrics has focused on the quantitative analysis of citations and citation counts which is complex. It is so complex and specialized that personal knowledge and experience are insufficient tools for understanding trends for making decisions. We need tools for analysis of Bibliometrics information for select the best field of study with promising enough attention. This presentation will provide tools to discover the new trends in our field of study in order to select an area for research and publication which promising the highest research impact.
Introduction to the “Research Tools” for Research Methodology courseNader Ale Ebrahim
“Research Tools” can be defined as vehicles that broadly facilitate research and related activities. “Research Tools” enable researchers to collect, organize, analyze, visualize and publicized research outputs. Dr. Nader has collected over 800 tools that enable students to follow the correct path in research and to ultimately produce high-quality research outputs with more accuracy and efficiency. It is assembled as an interactive Web-based mind map, titled “Research Tools”, which is updated periodically. “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.
Prepare a pre/post print of your documents for advertisementNader Ale Ebrahim
With overwhelming thousands of online journals daily, many scholarly articles simply never reach their intended audience and consequently fail to generate the impact they deserve. Traditionally, scholarly publishers ensured the visibility of an authors’ work by circulating print journals to targeted readers. But fewer people are reading print journals anymore and as content continues to migrate from print to online — how can researchers optimize electronic distribution of content? This presentation, lead you to prepare a pre/post print of your documents for online presence and advertisement.
Congratulation, you published a paper. Has anyone read it? or Cited it? Citation tracking is used to discover how many times a particular article has been cited by other articles. Citation counts are not perfect. They are influenced by a number of factors. Review articles are sometimes more often cited than their quality would warrant. Poor quality papers can be cited while being criticized or refuted. In this workshop, I will explain about the advantages of "Citation Tracking" and introduced some “Research Tools” for improving the research impact and citations by “Tracking Citations”.
Previous studies have found that papers with publicly available datasets receive a higher number of citations than similar studies without available data. In addition, new research has found that by putting your research data online, you’ll become up to 30% more highly cited than if you kept your data hidden. In this workshop I will elaborate the advantages of sharing research data and introduce some relevant “Research Tools” for increasing datasets visibility.
Academic social networking allows you to connect with other researchers in your field, share your publications and datasets, get feedback on your non-peer-reviewed work, and to stay current with news and events in your field of interest. It gives you another place to establish your name and research and perhaps even collaborate with others. The academic, social networking, making your work more widely discoverable and easily available. LinkedIn (launched in 2003) is currently the third most popular social network in terms of unique monthly visitors, right behind Facebook and Twitter. The LinkedIn is primarily centered around careers, and it enables users to connect and share content with other professionals. In addition, it is an online CV and as a place to share your publications.
Wouter Haak's presentation on open science and research data management from the Elsevier Library Connect Event 2016 "Navigating the new publishing & open science terrain: what librarians need to know." Wouter is Elsevier's Vice President of Research Data Management Solutions.
Introduction to “Research Tools”: Tools for Collecting, Writing, Publishing, ...Nader Ale Ebrahim
“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.
It is not new to say that the scholarly communication system is sick. One way to put it is that the publishers have built a paywall around the papers written by our faculty and make us librarians pay for it.
For years, Open Access via the green and gold route have been touted as a joint solution. To this end, as academic librarians, we focused on building institutional repositories and getting open access mandates. However, recently, many prominent members of the open access community have begun to express doubts about the viability of institutional repositories as a solution given the lack of success.
Some, like Stevan Harnad self-dubbed “Open Access Archivangelist” for Green Open access, claim to have given up, while others, like Eric Van de Velde, suggest that we rethink other ways to accomplish Green Open access beyond just institutional repositories. In this webinar, we will summarise all the arguments and attempt to give a librarian’s point of view about the future of IRs.
Metrics vs peer review: Why metrics can (and should?) be applied in the Socia...Anne-Wil Harzing
Review the debates on metrics vs peer review and suggests that we are comparing the idealised version of peer review to the reductionist version of metrics. Instead we should compare the reality of peer review with the inclusive version of metrics.
Open access for researchers, policy makers and research managers - Short ver...Iryna Kuchma
Presented at Open Access: Maximising Research Impact, April 23 2009, New Bulgarian University Library, Sofia. Open access for researchers: enlarged audience, citation impact, tenure and promotion. Open access for policy makers and research managers:
new tools to manage a university’s image and impact. How to maximize the visibility of research publications, improve the impact and influence of the work, disseminate the results of the research, showcase the quality of the research in the Universities and research institutions, better measure and manage the research in the institution, collect and curate the digital outputs, generate new knowledge from existing findings, enable and encourage collaboration, bring savings to the higher education sector and better return on investment. What are the key functions for research libraries?
Research impact metrics for librarians: calculation & contextLibrary_Connect
Slides from the May 19, 2016, Library Connect webinar "Research impact metrics for librarians: calculation & context" with Jenny Delasalle and Andrew Plume.
Watch the webinar at: https://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/library-connect-webinars?commid=199783
Analysis of Bibliometrics information for select the best field of studyNader Ale Ebrahim
Bibliometrics can be defined as the statistical analysis of publications. Bibliometrics has focused on the quantitative analysis of citations and citation counts which is complex. It is so complex and specialized that personal knowledge and experience are insufficient tools for understanding trends for making decisions. We need tools for analysis of Bibliometrics information for select the best field of study with promising enough attention. This presentation will provide tools to discover the new trends in our field of study in order to select an area for research and publication which promising the highest research impact.
The two faces of Google Scholar
Opening the academic Pandora’s Box
Why do we call it a big data bibliometric tool?
Drawbacks Google Scholar, Google Scholar Citations, Google Scholar Metrics
Joining the ‘buzz’ : the role of social media in raising research visibility ...Eileen Shepherd
[This presentation is based on my previous presentation, of the same title, at the LIASA 2014 conference. It was presented as a webinar for LIASA Higher Education Libraries Interest Group on 6/11/2014]
Traditional bibliometric methods of evaluating academic research, such as journal impact factors and article citations, have been supplemented in the past 5-10 years by the development of altmetrics (alternative metrics or article level metrics). Altmetrics measures impact of research, data and publications, such as references in data and knowledge bases, article views, downloads and mentions in social media and news media. This presentation gives a brief background to altmetrics and demonstrates how Rhodes University librarians are using social media to raise the visibility of the research output of their institution. (Rhodes University is in Grahamstown, South Africa)
Joining the ‘buzz’ : the role of social media in raising research visibility at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa - HELIG Webinar presented by Eileen Shepherd
WEBINAR: Joining the "buzz": the role of social media in raising research vi...HELIGLIASA
Joining the ‘buzz’ : the role of social media in raising research visibility: Traditional bibliometric methods of evaluating academic research, such as journal impact factors and article citations, have been supplemented in the past 5-10 years by the development of altmetrics (alternative metrics/article level metrics). Altmetrics measures aspects of the impact of a work, such as references in data and knowledge bases, article views, downloads and mentions in social media and news media.
This webinar (based on a presentation of the same name at the LIASA conference on 24th September 2014) gives a brief background to altmetrics and demonstrates how Rhodes University, Grahamstown, librarians are using social media to raise the visibility of the research output of their institution.
Presented by Eileen Shepherd, Principal Librarian, Science & Pharmacy, Rhodes University Library
Open Access: Improving scholarly communicationIryna Kuchma
Presented at the workshop “Open Access: How to improve accessibility, visibility and impact of your research outputs”, December 22, 2008,
Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
There is an abundance of free online tools accessible to scientists and others that can be used for online networking, data sharing and measuring research impact. Despite this, few scientists know how these tools can be used or fail to take advantage of using them as an integrated pipeline to raise awareness of their research outputs. In this article, the authors describe their experiences with these tools and how they can make best use of them to make their scientific research generally more accessible, extending its reach beyond their own direct networks, and communicating their ideas to new audiences. These efforts have the potential to drive science by sparking new collaborations and interdisciplinary research projects that may lead to future publications, funding and commercial opportunities. The intent of this article is to: describe some of these freely accessible networking tools and affiliated products; demonstrate from our own experiences how they can be utilized effectively; and, inspire their adoption by new users for the benefit of science.
Research-Open Access-Social Media: a winning combination, presented by Eileen Shepherd at the Open Access Symposium on 21 October 2014 - Rhodes University Library
Ideas that seem obvious today, at one point were obscure facts known only to a select few. The health benefits of washing hands, wearing a seatbelt while in a car - none of these ideas and practices were accepted immediately. In addition to needing time to incubate, new ideas also need to be accessible so that they can be tested, debated, and built upon. This presentation, which is based on my previous research and personal experiences, will highlight the importance and connection between open access publishing and the role of social media in promotion and dissemination of scholarly research.
Analysis of Bibliometrics information for selecting the best field of studyNader Ale Ebrahim
Bibliometrics can be defined as the statistical analysis of publications. Bibliometrics has focused on the quantitative analysis of citations and citation counts which is complex. It is so complex and specialized that personal knowledge and experience are insufficient tools for understanding trends for making decisions. We need tools for analysis of Bibliometrics information for select the best field of study with promising enough attention. This presentation will provide tools to discover the new trends in our field of study in order to select an area for research and publication which promising the highest research impact
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Predatory Open Access Journals: Academic Beware!Anne-Wil Harzing
Provides an overview of my research into predatory open access journals, discussing their key characteristics and providing recommendations for academics to avoid them.
Makes the case that we should let metrics do the "heavy lifting" in the UK REF [Research Excellence Framework]. I show that a university-level ranking based on metrics (Microsoft Academic citations for all papers published with the university's affiliation between 2008-2013) correlates at 0.97 with the The REF power rating taken from Research Fortnight’s calculation. Using metrics to distribute research-related funding would free up a staggering amount of time and money and would allow us to come up with more creative and meaningful ways to build in a research quality component in the REF.
In the presentation I applied my research in three different areas to the role of English as a Lingua Franca in academia.
1. Language in International Business, dealing with country-of-origin effects, bridge individuals, power, and power/authority distortion.
2.The impact of foreign language use on thoughts, feelings, and behaviour, discussing the impact of English language use on questionnaire responses, feelings about key business concepts, and competitive behaviour.
3.Bibliometrics research, illustrating how Google Scholar promotes the diffusion of multilingual scholarship.
It is sooo unfair: internal vs external promotion in academiaAnne-Wil Harzing
In this presentation I covered the following topics:
* Why is promotion so central to our academic discourse and identity?
* Internal vs external promotion
- General reflections
- Seven reasons why external promotion is generally easier to achieve
* The gender context: yes bias does play some role
* Seven advantages of internal promotion
* Tips for promotion applications
Some personal reflections
Keynote speech at the Eureopan Academy of Management at a panel on the future of business schools. Discusses the case for and against becoming more relevant.
The case for:
Engagement leads to better research
Ranking-mania leads us astray
Engagement through new media is easy
The case against:
Has the quest for relevance gone too far?
Are we asking too much of (junior) academics?
Let’s not create opposing “camps”
Describes how focusing on a new research context can lead to the discovery of new phenomena, new theories and concepts and new methodological challenges
Babel in Business: The role of language in international businessAnne-Wil Harzing
Inaugural lecture 13 April 2016, Middlesex University.
Language in HQ-subsidiary relationships
* The language barrier
* Problems affecting:
--1st language speakers
--2nd language speakers
--their relationship
* Thirteen solutions for managing language problems
* A close-up on the use of a corporate language
Moving to the individual level, the impact of foreign language use on:
* Thoughts: does foreign language use influence the way people respond to questionnaires?
* Feelings: does foreign language use influence feelings about key business concepts?
* Behaviour: does foreign language influence the level of competitive vs. cooperative behaviour?
Current and future research agenda
This presentation explores a brief idea about the structural and functional attributes of nucleotides, the structure and function of genetic materials along with the impact of UV rays and pH upon them.
THE IMPORTANCE OF MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE SAMPLE RETURN.Sérgio Sacani
The return of a sample of near-surface atmosphere from Mars would facilitate answers to several first-order science questions surrounding the formation and evolution of the planet. One of the important aspects of terrestrial planet formation in general is the role that primary atmospheres played in influencing the chemistry and structure of the planets and their antecedents. Studies of the martian atmosphere can be used to investigate the role of a primary atmosphere in its history. Atmosphere samples would also inform our understanding of the near-surface chemistry of the planet, and ultimately the prospects for life. High-precision isotopic analyses of constituent gases are needed to address these questions, requiring that the analyses are made on returned samples rather than in situ.
A brief information about the SCOP protein database used in bioinformatics.
The Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) database is a comprehensive and authoritative resource for the structural and evolutionary relationships of proteins. It provides a detailed and curated classification of protein structures, grouping them into families, superfamilies, and folds based on their structural and sequence similarities.
(May 29th, 2024) Advancements in Intravital Microscopy- Insights for Preclini...Scintica Instrumentation
Intravital microscopy (IVM) is a powerful tool utilized to study cellular behavior over time and space in vivo. Much of our understanding of cell biology has been accomplished using various in vitro and ex vivo methods; however, these studies do not necessarily reflect the natural dynamics of biological processes. Unlike traditional cell culture or fixed tissue imaging, IVM allows for the ultra-fast high-resolution imaging of cellular processes over time and space and were studied in its natural environment. Real-time visualization of biological processes in the context of an intact organism helps maintain physiological relevance and provide insights into the progression of disease, response to treatments or developmental processes.
In this webinar we give an overview of advanced applications of the IVM system in preclinical research. IVIM technology is a provider of all-in-one intravital microscopy systems and solutions optimized for in vivo imaging of live animal models at sub-micron resolution. The system’s unique features and user-friendly software enables researchers to probe fast dynamic biological processes such as immune cell tracking, cell-cell interaction as well as vascularization and tumor metastasis with exceptional detail. This webinar will also give an overview of IVM being utilized in drug development, offering a view into the intricate interaction between drugs/nanoparticles and tissues in vivo and allows for the evaluation of therapeutic intervention in a variety of tissues and organs. This interdisciplinary collaboration continues to drive the advancements of novel therapeutic strategies.
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Since the loophole-free Bell experiments of 2020 and the Nobel prizes in physics of 2022, critics of Bell's work have retreated to the fortress of super-determinism. Now, super-determinism is a derogatory word - it just means "determinism". Palmer, Hance and Hossenfelder argue that quantum mechanics and determinism are not incompatible, using a sophisticated mathematical construction based on a subtle thinning of allowed states and measurements in quantum mechanics, such that what is left appears to make Bell's argument fail, without altering the empirical predictions of quantum mechanics. I think however that it is a smoke screen, and the slogan "lost in math" comes to my mind. I will discuss some other recent disproofs of Bell's theorem using the language of causality based on causal graphs. Causal thinking is also central to law and justice. I will mention surprising connections to my work on serial killer nurse cases, in particular the Dutch case of Lucia de Berk and the current UK case of Lucy Letby.
Slide 1: Title Slide
Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Slide 2: Introduction to Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Definition: Extrachromosomal inheritance refers to the transmission of genetic material that is not found within the nucleus.
Key Components: Involves genes located in mitochondria, chloroplasts, and plasmids.
Slide 3: Mitochondrial Inheritance
Mitochondria: Organelles responsible for energy production.
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA): Circular DNA molecule found in mitochondria.
Inheritance Pattern: Maternally inherited, meaning it is passed from mothers to all their offspring.
Diseases: Examples include Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) and mitochondrial myopathy.
Slide 4: Chloroplast Inheritance
Chloroplasts: Organelles responsible for photosynthesis in plants.
Chloroplast DNA (cpDNA): Circular DNA molecule found in chloroplasts.
Inheritance Pattern: Often maternally inherited in most plants, but can vary in some species.
Examples: Variegation in plants, where leaf color patterns are determined by chloroplast DNA.
Slide 5: Plasmid Inheritance
Plasmids: Small, circular DNA molecules found in bacteria and some eukaryotes.
Features: Can carry antibiotic resistance genes and can be transferred between cells through processes like conjugation.
Significance: Important in biotechnology for gene cloning and genetic engineering.
Slide 6: Mechanisms of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Non-Mendelian Patterns: Do not follow Mendel’s laws of inheritance.
Cytoplasmic Segregation: During cell division, organelles like mitochondria and chloroplasts are randomly distributed to daughter cells.
Heteroplasmy: Presence of more than one type of organellar genome within a cell, leading to variation in expression.
Slide 7: Examples of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Four O’clock Plant (Mirabilis jalapa): Shows variegated leaves due to different cpDNA in leaf cells.
Petite Mutants in Yeast: Result from mutations in mitochondrial DNA affecting respiration.
Slide 8: Importance of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Evolution: Provides insight into the evolution of eukaryotic cells.
Medicine: Understanding mitochondrial inheritance helps in diagnosing and treating mitochondrial diseases.
Agriculture: Chloroplast inheritance can be used in plant breeding and genetic modification.
Slide 9: Recent Research and Advances
Gene Editing: Techniques like CRISPR-Cas9 are being used to edit mitochondrial and chloroplast DNA.
Therapies: Development of mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT) for preventing mitochondrial diseases.
Slide 10: Conclusion
Summary: Extrachromosomal inheritance involves the transmission of genetic material outside the nucleus and plays a crucial role in genetics, medicine, and biotechnology.
Future Directions: Continued research and technological advancements hold promise for new treatments and applications.
Slide 11: Questions and Discussion
Invite Audience: Open the floor for any questions or further discussion on the topic.
Publish or Perish - Realising Google Scholar's potential to democratise citation analysis
1. Publish or Perish:
Realising Google Scholar’s
potential to democratise citation
analysis
Professor Anne-Wil Harzing
Middlesex University
Dr. David Adams
Tarma Software Research
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2. Presentation outline
1. Brief historical overview of “citizen bibliometrics”, i.e.
use of bibliometrics by non-experts
2. How Publish or Perish and Google Scholar have
democratised citation analysis
3. Publish or Perish users: who are they and how do
they use PoP?
4. Publish or Perish version 5: key new features
5. What’s next for citizen bibliometrics?
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3. 1. A potted history
of citizen
bibliometrics
[with no pretence at completeness]
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4. In the dark old days
[before 2004], we had…
As a data source
The Thomson Reuters Web of Science
The Thomson Reuters Web of Science
The Thomson Reuters Web of Science
As metrics
The Thomson Reuters Journal Impact Factor
The Thomson Reuters Journal Impact Factor
The Thomson Reuters Journal Impact Factor
Academia in the grip of a commercial monopoly
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5. So why was this so bad?
Data source: Thomson Reuters grew from a Western (Life) Sciences
based paradigm and until recently did not make sufficient efforts to
adapt to the changing academic landscape
Harzing, A.W. (2013) Document categories in the ISI Web of Knowledge:
Misunderstanding the Social Sciences?, Scientometrics, 93(1): 23-34.
Harzing, A.W. (2015) Health warning: Might contain multiple
personalities. The problem of homonyms in Thomson Reuters
Essential Science Indicators, Scientometrics,105(3): 2259-2270.
Metrics: Journal Impact Factor is designed for journals not individual
articles or academics
The average # cites/paper in a journal says very little about an individual
article in that journal [promise over proof]
JIF 2-year timeframe is much too short for most disciplines outside the Life
Sciences
JIF is easy to manipulate by unscrupulous editors, manipulation became
increasingly common
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6. 2004: The start of the age of
enlightenment?
Enter… Scopus by Elsevier
Better coverage in Engineering, Social Science &
Humanities than WoS
Much more modern technology base (e.g. allows search for
non-Western scripts, better disambiguation)
More sophisticated journal metric indicators (SNIP, SJR)
BUT: (like WoS) huge subscription fees [and provided by
“big bad” Elsevier]
Enter… Google Scholar
Much broader coverage in all disciplines
Free: accessible to anyone with internet access
BUT: interface rather cumbersome to use
AND: doesn’t calculate any metrics beyond citations
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7. 2005-2011: I can see more
clearly now?
2005: Jorge Hirsch introduces the h-index, which takes the
academic world by storm
2006: Publish or Perish 1.0 is released
Initially used mainly as a tool to calculate an academic’s
h-index based on Google Scholar data
2007: Publish or Perish 2.0 is released
Many additional features expanding its use cases
2007: Anne-Wil starts her systematic research on Google Scholar
(Harzing, 2007a/b; Harzing & van der Wal, 2008, 2009)
2009 paper compares Web of Science JIF with GS h-5 nearly 5 years
before the metric was even introduced by Google Scholar
2008: EC3 group in Granada starts studying Google Scholar
2010: Publish or Perish 3.0 with multi-query center is released
2010: Publish or Perish book is published
2011: Publish or Perish book re-published in 3 parts
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8. 2012-2016: Free bibliometrics
is becoming mainstream
2012: Google Scholar introduces GS Profiles with h-index and h5 index
2013: Publish or Perish v4 is released with streamlined interface and Microsoft Academic
Search (MAS version 1) support
2013-current Anne-Wil continues research on:
Web of Science (Harzing, 2013a/2015): Problematic categorization & disambiguation
Google Scholar (Harzing 2013b/2014): Coverage is improving for all disciplines
Alternative metrics (Harzing, Alakangas & Adams, 2014): hIa: individual, annual h-index
Google Scholar vs WoS/Scopus (Harzing & Mijnhardt, 2015; Harzing & Alakangas, 2016): GS
performs better than WoS/Scopus in all disciplines
Microsoft Academic (Harzing, 2016, 2017): Serious alternative to GS, WoS and Scopus
2014: Google Scholar digest blog started by EC3 Research Group
2016: Publish or Perish v5 is released (200th or so public release)
New: GS Profile Search and Microsoft Academic (version 2) Search
New: Exporting full reference formats + heuristic classification of publication types
Publish or Perish tutorial published, helpfile completely overhauled and extended
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9. 2. How PoP & GS
have democratised
citation analysis
[Some examples and illustrations]
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10. GS democratises access to
research materials
Anurag Acharya at Association of Learned and
Professional Society Publishers Sept 2015
Articles/publications stand on their own rather than be
part of a journal; this benefits:
Older articles
Regional articles
Publications in non-elite journals
Non journal publications such as dissertations, book
chapters
Spread of attention outside elite group of journals
Good ideas can come from anywhere
Insight is not limited to the well-funded …
… or to the well-published
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11. PoP & GS democratise access
to citation data (1)
Wide user base: PoP used by academics, librarians,
governments, grant agencies, and research laboratories
Approximately half a million individual academic users
Thousands of libraries worldwide list the software as a free alternative to
Scopus and the Web of Science
Government [departments]: e.g. US EPA, US Agency for International
Development, Colciencias (Columbia), Poland, France
Grant giving agencies: e.g. SSHRC in Canada, CNRS in France
Research laboratories: e.g. Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, IBM
Wide geographical base: PoP used in more than 100 countries
Prestigious Western universities: e.g. Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Oxford,
Cambridge, INSEAD
Very popular in Italy, Poland, France, Germany, and Greece for its broader
coverage and as a tool to expose nepotism in academic appointments
But also… used in under-resourced universities in countries such as
Armenia, Botswana, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Mongolia, Paraguay, Tajikistan,
Ukraine, and Uruguay
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12. PoP & GS: Let’s hear the PoP
users speak
The more I work with GS the more I appreciate the gate those guys opened for us. PoP enhances
GS and if I were working for Google, I would consider developing it further to become the
equivalent of Google Earth.
We have benefitted from the use of Harzing’s Publish or Perish software. We have been fans of
your work for some time now and have used your tools to inform our own benchmarking here at
Harvard Business School.
A close colleague of mine told me an amusing anecdote last month about a social sciences
meeting for upgrading Oxford University academics to professor, at which 17 department heads
presented cases for members of their staff - all but one of whom used Harzing (PoP) statistics.
I’ve referred people to your software more times than I can count, it’s recognized as the single most
effective tool for calculating personal H-indices. I do not doubt that PoP is in large part responsible
for the broadening interest in bibliometrics. Giving academics a tool by which to compare
themselves to their peers has had a tremendous impact globally.
As I am sure you realize, being able to demonstrate the influence of research by the Worldbank is
enormously important to supporting and expanding that research. [...] I have found your software
Publish or Perish to be the single most useful tool available for these purposes.
It was a great pleasure to meet someone who has contributed so much, completely free of charge,
to the development of the social sciences. Academic altruists are rare indeed, and your PoP
programme is a huge advance.
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13. PoP & GS democratise access
to citation data (2)
Wide language base: PoP used to cover non-
English language publications
Web of Science and Scopus have very limited coverage
of LOTE publications
Until recently the Web of Science didn’t allow searches in
non-Western scripts
Wide disciplinary base: PoP used for bibliometric
research in the Social Sciences and Humanities
Thousands of published papers using Publish or Perish to
analyze Google Scholar data
Bibliometrics can now be used in these disciplines with
appropriate metrics and databases
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14. PoP & GS make non-Anglo
scholars visible
For details see:http://www.harzing.com/publications/white-papers/do-google-
scholar-scopus-and-the-web-of-science-speak-your-language
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H-index GS H-index Scopus H-index WoS
Anglophone scholars
Non-Anglophone scholars
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15. PoP & GS make Engineering &
SSH disciplines visible
See also: http://www.harzing.com/blog/2016/09/citation-analysis-for-the-social-sciences-metrics-and-datasources
Web of Science Scopus Google Scholar
Humanities 61 100 871
Social Sciences 591 782 2604
Engineering 897 1132 1964
Sciences 2612 2558 3984
Life Sciences 3139 3313 4699
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16. PoP & GS reduce bias in
academic rankings
Harzing, A.W.; Mijnhardt, W. (2015) Proof over promise:
Towards a more inclusive ranking of Dutch academics in
Economics & Business, Scientometrics, 102(1): 727-749.
New top-40 using GS/PoP individual annual h-index, rather
than Thomson Reuters JIF
Reduction of traditional dominance of: Economics over Business,
older over younger academic, male over female academics, and
academics from prestigious institutions
7 out of the academics originally in the top-10 drop out of the top-40
completely when using the hIa and Google Scholar
Resulting ranking is more democratic
removal of disciplinary, age, gender, and institutional biases
verdict based on entire academic community
transparent and easy to replicate for anyone
more dynamic with better chances for younger academics
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17. 3. Publish or Perish
users:
who are they
and how
do they use PoP?
[Some survey data and blog posts]
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21. What do you use PoP for
[multiple answers possible]?
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22. PoP helps with dozens of daily
academic tasks
Making your case for impact
Looking for John Smith: disambiguate authors in Google Scholar
Preparing a case for tenure or promotion
Deciding where to submit your next paper
Having a meeting with your academic hero?
Impressing your academic interview panel
Doing a literature review
Evaluating your research group/department/school
And many many more… [PoP: a Swiss army knife]
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23. 4. PoP version 5:
key new features
[A very brief selection]
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24. PoP Version 5: Clean out your
Google Scholar Profile
Originally bulk import of over 300 publications in my profile
Getting an overview of the “dross” is hard in the GS Profile interface; you can only see a dozen or
so publications on screen at the same time and cannot sort by journal or author
PoP allows me to easily spot strays [which can then be merged in GSP] and incomplete
references [which can then be completed in GSP], resulting in a (now) very clean profile
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25. PoP Version 5: Spotting dirty
profiles easily
Tsinghua University for example has many dirty profiles, but the extent only becomes
clear when displaying them in PoP. Here is a junior academic with publications
several decades before he was born
Misappropriation of Geim’s graphene article
First fifteen publications seem to refer to at least 10 different people in different disciplines
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26. PoP V5: Easily compare your
record across 4 data-sources
PoP allows easy importing of Scopus and WoS data
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27. PoP Version 5: Export full
bibliographic details
Export one, many or all results into any format!
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28. The result? A neat list of
references in a few clicks
Harzing, AW (2002). Acquisitions versus greenfield investments: International strategy and management of entry modes. Strategic Management Journal, 23(3), 211-227.
Adler, NJ, & Harzing, AW (2009). When knowledge wins: Transcending the sense and nonsense of academic rankings. The Academy of Management Learning and Education, 8(1), 72-95.
Harzing, AW, & Wal, R van der (2008). Google Scholar as a new source for citation analysis?. Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 8(1), 61-73.
Harzing, AW (2000). An empirical analysis and extension of the Bartlett and Ghoshal typology of multinational companies. Journal of International Business Studies, 31(1), 101-120.
Harzing, AW (1999). Managing the multinationals: An international study of control mechanisms. Edward Elgar.
Harzing, AW (2001). Of bears, bumble-bees, and spiders: The role of expatriates in controlling foreign subsidiaries. Journal of World Business, 36(4), 366-379.
Harzing, AW (1995). The persistent myth of high expatriate failure rates. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 6(2), 457-474.
Harzing, AW, & Pinnington, A (2004). International Human Resource Management. Sage Publications.
Harzing, AW (1997). Response rates in international mail surveys: results of a 22-country study. International Business Review, 6(6), 641-665.
Harzing, AW (2006). Response styles in cross-national survey research: A 26-country Study. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 6(2), 243-266.
Harzing, AW, & Sorge, A (2003). The relative impact of country of origin and universal contingencies on internationalization strategies and corporate control in multinational enterprises:
worldwide and European perspectives. Organization Studies, 24(2), 187-214.
Harzing, AW (2001). Who's in charge? An empirical study of executive staffing practices in foreign subsidiaries. Human Resource Management, 40(2), 139-158.
Feely, AJ, & Harzing, AW (2003). Language management in multinational companies. Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal, 10(2), 37-52.
Noorderhaven, N, & Harzing, AW (2009). Knowledge-sharing and social interaction within MNEs. Journal of International Business Studies, 40(5), 719-741.
Pudelko, M, & Harzing, AW (2007). Country‐of‐origin, localization, or dominance effect? An empirical investigation of HRM practices in foreign subsidiaries. Human Resource Management,
46(4), 535-559.
Harzing, AW, & Wal, R van der (2009). A Google Scholar h‐index for journals: An alternative metric to measure journal impact in Economics and Business. JASIST, 60(1), 41-46.
Harzing, AW, & Feely, AJ (2008). The language barrier and its implications for HQ-subsidiary relationships. Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal, 15(1), 49-61.
Harzing, AW (2003). The role of culture in entry-mode studies: from neglect to myopia?. Advances in International Management, 15(1), 75-127.
Harzing, AW (2000). Cross-national industrial mail surveys: Why do response rates differ between countries?. Industrial Marketing Management, 29(3), 243-254.
Harzing, AW (2010). The publish or perish book. Tarma Software Research.
Harzing, AW (2002). Are our referencing errors undermining our scholarship and credibility? The case of expatriate failure rates. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 23(1), 127-148.
Hocking, JB, Brown, M, & Harzing, AW (2004). A knowledge transfer perspective of strategic assignment purposes and their path-dependent outcomes. The International Journal of Human
Resource Management, 15(3), 565-586.
Harzing, AW (2001). An analysis of the functions of international transfer of managers in MNCs. Employee Relations, 23(6), 581-598.
Harzing, AW, & Noorderhaven, N (2006). Knowledge flows in MNCs: An empirical test and extension of Gupta and Govindarajan's typology of subsidiary roles. International Business
Review, 15(3), 195-214.
Harzing, AW, & Christensen, C (2004). Expatriate failure: time to abandon the concept?. Career Development International, 9(7), 616-626.
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30. The result: A neat list of data
for further analysis
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31. Want more information?
PoP tutorial (80 tips: book &online)
What the heck are all these metrics?
Present your case: Find the pearls in your record
Meeting an academic visitor
Preparing for a job interview
Tips for Deans and other administrators
Where to submit your paper?
Identifying key authors, journals & publications in a field
Bibliometric research with Google Scholar
Finding reviewers, examiners, keynote speakers, referees
Tracking a forgotten conference contact
And many many more…
Publications on research evaluation
http://www.harzing.com/research/quality-and-impact-of-
academic-research
Many white papers and presentations on
PoP & Google Scholar
http://www.harzing.com/publications/white-papers
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32. 5. What is next for
citizen bibliometrics?
[Will the landscape change further?]
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33. Commercial providers:
increasingly distracted?
Oct 2016: Thomson Reuters sells Intellectual Property & Science
Business (incl. WoS)
Sold to Onex Private Equity (Canada) Barings Private Equity Asia (China),
establishing independent company Clarivate Analytics
Mission is “enabling customers to discover, protect and commercialize
new ideas, faster”
What does this mean for commitment to providing bibliometric data to
academics?
1 Jan 2017: German & Taiwanese universities boycot Elsevier
journals; Peruvian government stops funding Elsevier jnls
Will other countries follow [2016: threats in Netherlands & Finland]?
Will the boycot by individual academics (currently signed by nearly 17,000
individuals) be strengthened?
How committed is Elsevier to individual users, their emphasis appears to
be on Scival institutional use
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34. Will the free alternatives
prevail?
Microsoft Academic (MA v2): Is the Phoenix getting wings?
Early signs (Harzing, 2016, Harzing & Alakangas, 2017) show
excellent coverage and accuracy
For details see:http://www.harzing.com/blog/2016/06/microsoft-
academic-search-a-phoenix-arisen-from-the-ashes
MS Research is very responsive to user feedback, is actively
addressing problems, as well as developing new features, incl. self-
managed academic profiles (I have beta-tested them)
What is happening to Google Scholar?
After the very interesting 10-year anniversary articles in 2014 very little
has been added to their blog and to GS functionality
Only 2 posts in 2015, 4 in 2016, last post half a year old
No significant recent news coverage on Google Scholar apart from
a Nature article on the launch of Microsoft Academic “aiming to
outdo Google Scholar”
So hopefully we’ll learn more in the next presentation!
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