This material was presented in front of staffs from Faculty of Economy UNISBA Bandung. Revision will be posted shortly.

1. Scientific communication
Dasapta Erwin Irawan
Institut Teknologi Bandung
FE-Unisba, 31/03/2016
0000-0002-1526-0863
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2. introduction
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3. lisensi CC-BY
• This slide can be copied, distributed, re-
used, for commercial and non-commercial
purposes as long as it is properly cited.
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4. a glimpse about me
• Edu: S1 - S2 - S3:Teknik Geologi ITB
• Research interest:
• hydrogeology, hydrochemistry
• data analysis
• scientific profile:
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5. books
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Hidrogeologi Umum
(2015), Penerbit Ombak
Yogyakarta
Menulis (ilmiah) itu
menyenangkan (2016),
Penerbit ITB, Bandung
Belajar statistika dengan R
(2016), Penerbit USU,
Medan

6. paper written vs cited
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7. rapid growth of papers
Bornmann and
Mutz (2014), url
http://arxiv.org/
abs/1402.4578
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8. publication delays
(time spent in editors + reviewers)
http://blog.dhimmel.com/plos-and-publishing-delays/
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9. number of papers (in English):
language drawback?
www.carbonbrief.org
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10. scientific paper karma
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11. scientific
communication
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12. how scientists
communicate
• through scientific papers and seminars/
conferences
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13. how scientists
communicate
• based on data and reproducible analyses
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14. how scientists
communicate
• objectives
• based on facts
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15. how scientists
communicate
• open and transparent
• peer-review
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16. academic cycle
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17. expected output
• formal:
• research reports
• papers:
• in journals
• in proceedings
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18. problems with formal outputs
• research reports (closed distribution)
• papers in journals and proceedings (openly
distributed, but yet still for limited number
of people)
• in journals (no online version)
• in proceedings (limited circulation)
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19. the impact
is very low
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20. how we increase the impact
by increasing scientific communication
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21. how we increase the impact
by increasing effort to engage with
community
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22. how we increase the impact
by using as many tools to make our
work easily found
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23. how we increase the impact
by exploiting scientific community, eg:
Researchgate, Mendeley, etc
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24. expected output
• non-formal:
• blogs
• websites
• twitter, FB, G+
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25. expected impact: add more audience
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26. expected impact: add more citation
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27. expected impact:
reduce citation delay
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28. take home message
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29. recommended efforts
• write in English
• international language leads to more
audience
• hire a translator if necessary
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30. recommended efforts
• submit to open access journal
• conventional journal offers open access
option
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31. recommended efforts
• use widely accepted index
• don’t use a single exclusive index (eg
Scopus)
• use other indexes endorsed by open
science community (Crossref,Altmetrics,
etc)
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32. recommended efforts
• use social media
• promote your work
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33. recommended efforts
• setup Google Scholar or ORCID profile
• university should facilitate this to promote
its staffs
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