Presented as part of The National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning Seminar Series, Maynooth University, 27th Nov 2014

1. Using Bibliometric
Tools to Increase
the visibility of your
publications
Ciarán Quinn, Research
Support Librarian,
Maynooth University

2. “Emergent Scholarship to
Academic Conversations:
Increasing the visibility of
your Scholarship”
National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

3. “Using Bibliometrics Tools to Increase
the visibility of your publications”
Ciarán Quinn
Research Support Librarian
Maynooth University

4. Outline
 Strategies to improve the impact/visibility of your
research
 Using Keywords
 Author Identities
 What are Bibliometrics?
 Your Academic Footprint
 Citation Tracking
 Identifying the top ranked Journals
 Academic Collaboration
 Altmetrics

5. Strategies to increase the Impact of
your Research (1)
 Make yourself discoverable ! If you can’t be found you
won’t be cited
 Use Keywords throughout your paper (Title, Abstract) & use
Subject terminology from various classification schemes (MESH,
CINAHL, EMTREE, Library of Congress)
 Search them to see if you find results that relate to your research area
 If you are logged into Google the search will be influenced by
how you like to search so Log Off
 Check out how Google Scholar/PubMed searches/collates
material (What Journals, Repositories etc) and make
yourself findable.
 Web Crawlers are used e.g. “Googlebot”. Check out Google
Scholar inclusion Guidelines & coverage
http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/metrics.html#coverag
e
 Make sure the WebCrawler can access them and they are not
behind a paywall or behind a login screen such as that of
Blackboard, or Moodle or Peer Network (e.g. Research Gate)
 Checkout how Google Rankings works

6. Strategies to increase the Impact
of your Research (2)
 Choose Journal Titles that are highly cited and indexed by a number of
different databases
 Use Journal Citation Reports (Web of Science) & Compare Journal (Scopus)
 Check what’s getting traction in your research area
 Top cited articles or check out top downloaded articles e.g. Science Direct Top
25 Hottest Articles, Where are the top authors publishing?
 Consistency:
 Author Identity (if a common name use initials) & Add Corporate Author (Dept,
Research Group etc.)
 Set up a Researcher ID (RIS, Orcid, Scopus, WoS, Peer Networks, Google
Citations, PubMed) to avoid ambiguous author names
 Use Affiliation Identity correctly
 Title of study (+ use it in the title of your work)
 Keep the title concise
 Be clear and descriptive

7. Strategies to increase the Impact of
your Research(3)
 Publish thought-provoking, critical pieces or literature reviews
 these traditionally have higher citation rates
 Use the Libraries resources to do your searching/Lit Reviews (Google Scholar or
PubMed is not enough)
 Communicate & Disseminate your Research
 Get recognition from peers/collaborators, current & potential funders
 Repositories, Open Access,
 Posters, Conferences, Media
 Deposit your research in open access repositories
 Institutional or a Subject Repository/Disciplinary such as AgEcon search,
arXiv.org (Cornell Sciences), RePEc (Economics), SSRN (Social Science
Research network), Europe PubMed Central http://europepmc.org/
 Share Data (Research Data Management) to increase visibility, share
your research & increase citations
 Internal institutional Repository or external e.g. PLOS (Public Library of Science)
One http://www.plosone.org/ which uses article level metrics (as opposed to
journal title) to make their assessment (increases Citation rates)

8. Strategies to increase the Impact
of your Research (4)
 Rise of the PrePrint (not yet Peer Reviewed): Blogs, Repositories e.g.
arXiv (physics,maths,Comp Sci), bioRxiv, Nature precedings, PeerJ,
SSRN (Social Sciences)
 Create a Personal Website Profile or Blog and have links to your papers
(get others to link to your papers from their websites) & publications list/
add links to your reading list
 Use Mendeley (manage & share research papers) Cite U Like (bookmark
& share citations you like) and Zotero to share your work
 Circulate links to free access (e.g. eprints (50 copies) in Francis & Taylor
or Share Link(50 days free access in Elsevier)
 Use Social Media: Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Slideshare, YouTube
 Publish a secondary paper on your findings (for a different audience!
maybe in a different language !) Not a duplicate paper !
http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/publishing-and-editorial-
issues/overlapping-publications.html

9. Strategies to increase the Impact of
your Research (5)
 Do presentations of your findings & share (Figshare, Slideshare)
 Audience: Who are they?
 Select an appropriate Journal so you’ll be read & cited
 Peer Reviewed/Scholarly Journals vs Professional/Peer Journals/public policy
papers/seminars/conferences
 Career progression = H Index Vs Academic Freedom
 Collaboration increases publication numbers & citations
 Find current & potential collaborations
 Collaborate: More articles & more visibility = more citations
 Lead Author (get your name in first if possible ! Don’t be the “et al”)
 Track your research: use Bibliometrics, Altmetrics
 Who/Where are you being Cited/Viewed/Downloaded
 Set up Alerts for your citations in WoS, Scopus, Google Scholar

11. Keywords
 Mesh MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) is the NLM controlled
vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing articles for PubMed
 CINAHL (Cumulative Index of Nursing & Allied Health)
 Emtree: Elsevier Life Science thesaurus
 Library of Congress : Subject Headings
 Database Thesauri e.g. EBSCO (Cinahl, PsychInfo, Academic
Search Complete), Proquest: (ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences),
Sociological Abstracts, ERIC (Educational Resources Information
Centre) )uses Current Index of Journals in Education and
Resources in Education Index).
 Understand the terminology of your discipline !

12. Author Identities
 Web of Science: Researcher ID
 Scopus: Author Identifier
 Orcid: persistent digital identifier
 Google Scholar Citations
 Institutional
 Research Information System (RIS) at MU (Profile/Research
expertise/Publications/Research Grant Applications
 Pure (Elsevier)Aggregates organisational research
information. Includes Pure Experts Portal to promote your
work.

13. Researcher ID (Web Of Science)
Unique Author identity

15. Scopus Author Identifier

16. Orcid
http://orcid.org/

21. Google Scholar Citations

23. Researcher Social Networking
(Afternoon Session)
 Research Gate
 Academia.edu
 Mendeley
 Social Sciences Research Network
 LinkedIn

24. Research Information System (RIS)
 The Maynooth University Research Information System
(RIS) is a workbench of tools that allows you (Maynooth
University academic and research staff ) to manage your
individual research profile (including research theme/cluster
affiliation), to record your research achievements (grants
awarded, papers published, invited lectures etc) and to
track the progress of your submitted research proposals. It
is important to keep your RIS profile up to date because it
is used as a database for much of the Maynooth University
web content. If it is used correctly RIS is a more powerful
and accurate way to capture the impact and diversity of our
research, when compared to commercial Bibliometrics data
services. The University frequently uses RIS information to
identify research opportunities for individuals.
 https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/research-development-
office/ris-guide

25. Pure

26. How well are you doing?
Your Current Footprint !
 H Index:
 The h-index of a publication is the largest number h such that
at least h articles in that publication were cited at least h times
e.g. H Index of 20 means you have 20 articles that have been
cited at least 20 times.
 Productivity & Impact of Researcher
 Need to measure like with like: Subject Area & Career stage
 Does not reflect much larger citations numbers for individual
articles
 Find Your Citations & Create a Master List
 Find your publications and find out how they rank
 Set up Alerts on your Articles
 Use Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar Citations,
Publish or Perish

27. Citation Tracking
 Web of Science: Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences & Science Citation Indexes
 Scopus: Citation Overview/ Tracker, Analyze Results, Author Evaluator
 Publish or Perish
 Google Scholar Citations
 EBSCO: Find Citing Articles (Cited by EBSCO)
 IEEE Xplore (Electrical Eng & Computer Science)Cited by IEEE
 ACM Digital Library (Cited by)
 JSTOR: (Items citing this item)
 Anthro Source
 SciFinder (Get References & Get Citing Options)
 Cite Seer http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/index
 Computer & Information Science
 MathsSciNet: Author & Publications Citations
 Altmetics: Looks at non traditional metrics at article level

34. Publish or Perish
http://www.harzing.com/pop.htm

35. Journal Impact Factors
Where should I publish?
 Web of Science (JCR)Journal Citation Reports
 Scopus (Compare Journals: SNIP & SJR)
 SciMago Journal & Country Rank: SJR Scientific Journal
Rankings (uses Scopus Data)
 Impact Factor Search (JCR 2014 Data)
 http://www.impactfactorsearch.com/
 Publish or Perish: Google Scholar Dataset
 Law: http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ/
 Washington & Lee University School of Law: Journal
Rankings
 Heine Online (Scholar Check)
 EBSCO : Citations but only from EBSCO Host

36. Journal Citation Reports
“Authors can identify the most appropriate, influential journals in which to publish,
as well as confirm the status of journals in which they have published. “
 Journal Citation Reports allows you to evaluate and
compare journals using citation data drawn from
approximately 12,000 scholarly and technical journals
and conference proceedings from more than 3,300
publishers in over 60 countries. It includes the areas of
science, technology, and social sciences.
 Compare Journals in your Research Area
 Journals also ranked by category
 Comparing like with like !
 Top Journal in a specific research area

42. Scopus Compare Journals

46. SciMago
http://www.scimagojr.com/
 Freely available on the web & via Scopus
 Uses Scopus dataset & Google PageRank™ algorithm
 Coverage is wider than Web of Science / JCR
 SJR gives higher weight to citations from high impact
journals
 Calculated over a 3 year period

48. Identifying Collaborations
(Current & Potential)
 Research Online (Potential Collaborators & Funding
Bodies)Websites (e.g. EU Research Partners Database & EU
funding) & Email Lists
 Attend Conferences
 Network (formal & informal)
 Or you could use:
 Scopus (Co-Authors)
 Scival: Elsevier(to identify international current & potential
collaborations at a institutional level)
 Web of Science (Co Authors)
 Incites: Thomson Reuters (Institutional Level & Individual
level)
 Use Altmetrics to see who is citing you, downloading you,
viewing you etc.

52. SciVal and Incites
Bibliometrics
 What else can they do?
 Overviews of your Institution
 Showcasing your Research strengths
 Benchmarking

53. Altmetrics
 Non Traditional Metrics (Article level metrics)
 Social Media (Fb, Twitter,Google+)
 Downloads/Saved (Mendeley, Cite U Like)
 Cited (Impact Story)
 Article
 Views/discussed/mentioned/saved/cited/recommended
 Not just articles ! people, journals, books, data sets,
presentations, videos, source code repositories, web pages etc
 Controversial !
 Lack of Standards, Practices
 Gaming pages to increase views, downloads & social media shares
 Does measure/flags scholarly conversation outside traditional
impact measures

54. Impact Story
https://impactstory.org/

55. Altmetrics.Com

56. Altmetrics Mainstream Usage
 Elsevier bought & use Mendeley readership statistics
statistics with Scopus
 EBSCO bought PlumX Analytics and intend to integrate it
in the future. (Plum X is now partnering with Orcid !)
 http://www.plumanalytics.com/metrics.html

57. Finish
 Questions?
 Research Support Librarian Blog
 http://ciarnthelibrarian.blogspot.ie/