Recommendations according to the criteria of international university ranking organizations and the sources they use such as Google Scholar and open online research repositories.
Raising your Academic Profile with Google Scholar (JALT 2013)Steve McCarty
While Google Scholar is useful to find reliable research sources, it is increasingly used also to evaluate the academic output of individuals and higher education institutions. For an article published in 2013, the author investigated the criteria utilized by eight prominent higher education ranking organizations. Online factors, providing data that are convenient and economical to gather, such as the number of pages found by Google in a university’s domain on the open Web, were found to play an increasing role in the ranking criteria. When institutions, particularly in Japan, punch below their weight in national and international rankings, they could benefit from optimization strategies to align their Web presence with the algorithms by which their academic output is measured. Moreover, Google Scholar has the added dimension of data on individual authors who can, in the aggregate, contribute to the ranking of their institutions. Citations in particular, the gold standard of peer recognition, are utilized in rankings as counted by Google Scholar, but its automatic algorithms may find only a fraction of the citations to individuals’ publications. To remedy what individuals can affect, certain online formats and campus research repositories are recommended, while each individual author can develop a Google Scholar Profile for fuller recognition. The presenter has observed how new additions to a campus repository soon result in an uptick of citations found by Google Scholar. Participants will thus learn how to customize Google Scholar Profiles and other optimization strategies to raise their academic profile and that of their institutions.
Increasing visibility and enhancing impact of researchNader Ale Ebrahim
Publication is the beginning of research impact and visibility, thus dissemination of research publications have to be proactive. Researchers can promote their research work in three stages: (1) manuscript preparation and submission; (2) post-publication promoting; and (3) after receiving mentions/citations (monitoring).
Raising your Academic Profile with Google Scholar (JALT 2013)Steve McCarty
While Google Scholar is useful to find reliable research sources, it is increasingly used also to evaluate the academic output of individuals and higher education institutions. For an article published in 2013, the author investigated the criteria utilized by eight prominent higher education ranking organizations. Online factors, providing data that are convenient and economical to gather, such as the number of pages found by Google in a university’s domain on the open Web, were found to play an increasing role in the ranking criteria. When institutions, particularly in Japan, punch below their weight in national and international rankings, they could benefit from optimization strategies to align their Web presence with the algorithms by which their academic output is measured. Moreover, Google Scholar has the added dimension of data on individual authors who can, in the aggregate, contribute to the ranking of their institutions. Citations in particular, the gold standard of peer recognition, are utilized in rankings as counted by Google Scholar, but its automatic algorithms may find only a fraction of the citations to individuals’ publications. To remedy what individuals can affect, certain online formats and campus research repositories are recommended, while each individual author can develop a Google Scholar Profile for fuller recognition. The presenter has observed how new additions to a campus repository soon result in an uptick of citations found by Google Scholar. Participants will thus learn how to customize Google Scholar Profiles and other optimization strategies to raise their academic profile and that of their institutions.
Increasing visibility and enhancing impact of researchNader Ale Ebrahim
Publication is the beginning of research impact and visibility, thus dissemination of research publications have to be proactive. Researchers can promote their research work in three stages: (1) manuscript preparation and submission; (2) post-publication promoting; and (3) after receiving mentions/citations (monitoring).
Improving University Rankings through Google Scholar ProfilesSteve McCarty
Presentation at the (Foreign Language Education) FLExICT Conference at the Ritsumeikan University Osaka Ibaraki Campus on September 9, 2016. It shows how optimizing Google Scholar Profiles can enhance the academic recognition of individual researchers while contributing to improving the international rankings of their university.
99 scholars - increase your online research visibility99Scholars
This is the powerpoint of the talk given in the Sydney University Inspire Postgraduate event. In this talk I have briefly describe how to use social media (Google Scholar, Academia, Reseasrchgate, LinkedIn, Twitter, Quora etc.) to increase researchers' online presence. I have also explain a few tips on how to do search engine optimization for researchers' academic website so that they can be ranked higher for their research keywords.
CTLE workshop: Blogging in the Classroom. The first hour I discussed what blogging is and how it works, while in the second hour, I walked participants through how to set up their own blogs using Blogger, a blogging tool built by Google.
Now, under the canopy of ''Dileep''; ''choppingboard.in'' brings to you an array of dining and kitchenware products maintaining the international design standards now available nationwide via the webstore. ''Dileep'' with its team of international designers, have been embellishing homes all around the world for over 25 years. An efficient team of more than 4000 people, including skilled craftsmen, some of them with their third generation working have helped ''Dileep'' to bag prestigious awards like ''The President’s Award'' and ''Highest export of wooden and ceramic handicrafts''.
This PPT presented at State Level FDP on "How to Create Academic & Research Identity" organized by Rishi Bankim Library in collaboration with IQAC of Rishi Bankim Chandra Evening College, Naihati, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India on 06th April, 2022.
Relationship of Google Scholar Versions and Paper CitationsNader Ale Ebrahim
The number of citations that a paper has received is the most commonly used indicator to measure the quality of research. Researchers, journals, and universities want to receive more citations for their scholarly publications to increase their h-index, impact factor, and ranking respectively. In this paper, we tried to analyses the effect of the number of available Google Scholar versions of a paper on citations count. We analyzed 10,162 papers which are published in Scopus database in year 2010 by Malaysian top five universities. Then we developed a software to collect the number of citations and versions of each paper from Google Scholar automatically. The result of spearman correlation coefficient revealed that there is positive significant association between the number of Google Scholar versions of a paper and the number of times a paper has been cited.
This is presented at State Level Seminar on "Development of Academic & Research Identity" organized by IQAC in collaboration with College Level Research and Publication of Bathuadahari College, Bathuadahari, Nikashi Para, Nadia, West Bengal, India on 30th April, 2022
Getting Found - Using Social Media To Build Your Research Profile: Research N...Natacha Suttor
Have you thought about your online profile? There are so many options that will help you to get found and network with others (e.g. LinkedIn, Academia.edu, ResearchGate and more). But where do you start? Do you know what option(s) will be the right fit for you, your objectives and your research? This presentation will prime you to make informed decisions about building your profile on social/research networking sites and discuss the benefits for researchers in having an online presence.
This was co-presentation ECU's Senior Research Services Librarian and I planned to deliver for a Research Network Series, expanding and updating our original presentation during ECU's Research Week 2013. Change management intervened and with the new Research Services Librarian only in place for a couple I weeks, I ended up delivering it solo with her blessing.
Publication Strategy: Helping Academics to Increase the Impact of their Res...Fintan Bracken
This presentation was given at the CONUL / ANLTC Seminar "Supporting the activities of your research community – issues and initiatives" Royal Irish Academy, Dublin in December 2014.The talk looked at methods of helping researchers to improve the impact of their research.
Importance of Becoming a Global Citizen
Prepare
:
Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read the
A Model of Global Citizenship: Antecedents and Outcomes
article and watch the
Globalization at a Crossroads
(Links to an external site.)
video. Go to the Ashford University Library and locate one additional source on global citizenship that will help support your viewpoint, or you may choose one of the following articles found in the Week 1 Required Resources:
From Globalism to Globalization: The Politics of Resistance
Globalization, Globalism and Cosmopolitanism as an Educational Ideal
Transnationalism and Anti-Globalism
Reflect:
Please take some time to reflect on how the concept of global citizenship has shaped your identity and think about how being a global citizen has made you a better person in your community.
Write:
Use the
Week 1 Example Assignment Guide
when addressing the following prompts:
Describe and explain a clear distinction between “globalism” and “globalization” after viewing the video and reading the article.
Describe how being a global citizen in the world of advanced technology can be beneficial to your success in meeting your personal, academic, and professional goals.
Explain why there has been disagreement between theorists about the definition of global citizenship and develop your own definition of global citizenship after reading the article by Reysen and Katzarska-Miller.
Choose two of the six outcomes of global citizenship from the article (i.e., intergroup empathy, valuing diversity, social justice, environmental sustainability, intergroup helping, and the level of responsibility to act for the betterment of this world).
Explain why those two outcomes are the most important in becoming a global citizen compared to the others.
Describe at least two personal examples or events in your life that illustrate the development of global citizenship based on the two outcomes you chose.
Identify two specific general education courses.
Explain how each course influenced you to become a global citizen.
The Importance of Becoming a Global Citizen
Must be 750 words in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s
APA Style resource. (Links to an external site.)
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to
APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.)
.
Must utilize academic voice. See the
Academic Voice (Links to an external site.)
resource for additional guidance.
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
For assistance on writing
Introductions & Conclusions (Links to.
Importance of Becoming a Global Citizen
Prepare
:
Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read the
A Model of Global Citizenship: Antecedents and Outcomes
article and watch the
Globalization at a Crossroads
(Links to an external site.)
video. Go to the Ashford University Library and locate one additional source on global citizenship that will help support your viewpoint, or you may choose one of the following articles found in the Week 1 Required Resources:
From Globalism to Globalization: The Politics of Resistance
Globalization, Globalism and Cosmopolitanism as an Educational Ideal
Transnationalism and Anti-Globalism
Reflect:
Please take some time to reflect on how the concept of global citizenship has shaped your identity and think about how being a global citizen has made you a better person in your community.
Write:
Use the
Week 1 Example Assignment Guide
when addressing the following prompts:
Describe and explain a clear distinction between “globalism” and “globalization” after viewing the video and reading the article.
Describe how being a global citizen in the world of advanced technology can be beneficial to your success in meeting your personal, academic, and professional goals.
Explain why there has been disagreement between theorists about the definition of global citizenship and develop your own definition of global citizenship after reading the article by Reysen and Katzarska-Miller.
Choose two of the six outcomes of global citizenship from the article (i.e., intergroup empathy, valuing diversity, social justice, environmental sustainability, intergroup helping, and the level of responsibility to act for the betterment of this world).
Explain why those two outcomes are the most important in becoming a global citizen compared to the others.
Describe at least two personal examples or events in your life that illustrate the development of global citizenship based on the two outcomes you chose.
Identify two specific general education courses.
Explain how each course influenced you to become a global citizen.
The Importance of Becoming a Global Citizen
Must be 750 to 1,000 words in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s
APA Style resource. (Links to an external site.)
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to
APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.)
.
Must utilize academic voice. See the
Academic Voice (Links to an external site.)
resource for additional guidance.
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
For assistance on writing
Introductions & Conclusions .
Improve Research Visibility by Establishing an Academic BlogNader Ale Ebrahim
Academic 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 Academic Blog 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 and impact. This presentation will provide guidelines on Academic Blogging as a tool for increasing the article visibility and citations. Increased visibility online helps your offline recognition as well.
Improving University Rankings through Google Scholar ProfilesSteve McCarty
Presentation at the (Foreign Language Education) FLExICT Conference at the Ritsumeikan University Osaka Ibaraki Campus on September 9, 2016. It shows how optimizing Google Scholar Profiles can enhance the academic recognition of individual researchers while contributing to improving the international rankings of their university.
99 scholars - increase your online research visibility99Scholars
This is the powerpoint of the talk given in the Sydney University Inspire Postgraduate event. In this talk I have briefly describe how to use social media (Google Scholar, Academia, Reseasrchgate, LinkedIn, Twitter, Quora etc.) to increase researchers' online presence. I have also explain a few tips on how to do search engine optimization for researchers' academic website so that they can be ranked higher for their research keywords.
CTLE workshop: Blogging in the Classroom. The first hour I discussed what blogging is and how it works, while in the second hour, I walked participants through how to set up their own blogs using Blogger, a blogging tool built by Google.
Now, under the canopy of ''Dileep''; ''choppingboard.in'' brings to you an array of dining and kitchenware products maintaining the international design standards now available nationwide via the webstore. ''Dileep'' with its team of international designers, have been embellishing homes all around the world for over 25 years. An efficient team of more than 4000 people, including skilled craftsmen, some of them with their third generation working have helped ''Dileep'' to bag prestigious awards like ''The President’s Award'' and ''Highest export of wooden and ceramic handicrafts''.
This PPT presented at State Level FDP on "How to Create Academic & Research Identity" organized by Rishi Bankim Library in collaboration with IQAC of Rishi Bankim Chandra Evening College, Naihati, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India on 06th April, 2022.
Relationship of Google Scholar Versions and Paper CitationsNader Ale Ebrahim
The number of citations that a paper has received is the most commonly used indicator to measure the quality of research. Researchers, journals, and universities want to receive more citations for their scholarly publications to increase their h-index, impact factor, and ranking respectively. In this paper, we tried to analyses the effect of the number of available Google Scholar versions of a paper on citations count. We analyzed 10,162 papers which are published in Scopus database in year 2010 by Malaysian top five universities. Then we developed a software to collect the number of citations and versions of each paper from Google Scholar automatically. The result of spearman correlation coefficient revealed that there is positive significant association between the number of Google Scholar versions of a paper and the number of times a paper has been cited.
This is presented at State Level Seminar on "Development of Academic & Research Identity" organized by IQAC in collaboration with College Level Research and Publication of Bathuadahari College, Bathuadahari, Nikashi Para, Nadia, West Bengal, India on 30th April, 2022
Getting Found - Using Social Media To Build Your Research Profile: Research N...Natacha Suttor
Have you thought about your online profile? There are so many options that will help you to get found and network with others (e.g. LinkedIn, Academia.edu, ResearchGate and more). But where do you start? Do you know what option(s) will be the right fit for you, your objectives and your research? This presentation will prime you to make informed decisions about building your profile on social/research networking sites and discuss the benefits for researchers in having an online presence.
This was co-presentation ECU's Senior Research Services Librarian and I planned to deliver for a Research Network Series, expanding and updating our original presentation during ECU's Research Week 2013. Change management intervened and with the new Research Services Librarian only in place for a couple I weeks, I ended up delivering it solo with her blessing.
Publication Strategy: Helping Academics to Increase the Impact of their Res...Fintan Bracken
This presentation was given at the CONUL / ANLTC Seminar "Supporting the activities of your research community – issues and initiatives" Royal Irish Academy, Dublin in December 2014.The talk looked at methods of helping researchers to improve the impact of their research.
Importance of Becoming a Global Citizen
Prepare
:
Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read the
A Model of Global Citizenship: Antecedents and Outcomes
article and watch the
Globalization at a Crossroads
(Links to an external site.)
video. Go to the Ashford University Library and locate one additional source on global citizenship that will help support your viewpoint, or you may choose one of the following articles found in the Week 1 Required Resources:
From Globalism to Globalization: The Politics of Resistance
Globalization, Globalism and Cosmopolitanism as an Educational Ideal
Transnationalism and Anti-Globalism
Reflect:
Please take some time to reflect on how the concept of global citizenship has shaped your identity and think about how being a global citizen has made you a better person in your community.
Write:
Use the
Week 1 Example Assignment Guide
when addressing the following prompts:
Describe and explain a clear distinction between “globalism” and “globalization” after viewing the video and reading the article.
Describe how being a global citizen in the world of advanced technology can be beneficial to your success in meeting your personal, academic, and professional goals.
Explain why there has been disagreement between theorists about the definition of global citizenship and develop your own definition of global citizenship after reading the article by Reysen and Katzarska-Miller.
Choose two of the six outcomes of global citizenship from the article (i.e., intergroup empathy, valuing diversity, social justice, environmental sustainability, intergroup helping, and the level of responsibility to act for the betterment of this world).
Explain why those two outcomes are the most important in becoming a global citizen compared to the others.
Describe at least two personal examples or events in your life that illustrate the development of global citizenship based on the two outcomes you chose.
Identify two specific general education courses.
Explain how each course influenced you to become a global citizen.
The Importance of Becoming a Global Citizen
Must be 750 words in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s
APA Style resource. (Links to an external site.)
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to
APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.)
.
Must utilize academic voice. See the
Academic Voice (Links to an external site.)
resource for additional guidance.
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
For assistance on writing
Introductions & Conclusions (Links to.
Importance of Becoming a Global Citizen
Prepare
:
Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read the
A Model of Global Citizenship: Antecedents and Outcomes
article and watch the
Globalization at a Crossroads
(Links to an external site.)
video. Go to the Ashford University Library and locate one additional source on global citizenship that will help support your viewpoint, or you may choose one of the following articles found in the Week 1 Required Resources:
From Globalism to Globalization: The Politics of Resistance
Globalization, Globalism and Cosmopolitanism as an Educational Ideal
Transnationalism and Anti-Globalism
Reflect:
Please take some time to reflect on how the concept of global citizenship has shaped your identity and think about how being a global citizen has made you a better person in your community.
Write:
Use the
Week 1 Example Assignment Guide
when addressing the following prompts:
Describe and explain a clear distinction between “globalism” and “globalization” after viewing the video and reading the article.
Describe how being a global citizen in the world of advanced technology can be beneficial to your success in meeting your personal, academic, and professional goals.
Explain why there has been disagreement between theorists about the definition of global citizenship and develop your own definition of global citizenship after reading the article by Reysen and Katzarska-Miller.
Choose two of the six outcomes of global citizenship from the article (i.e., intergroup empathy, valuing diversity, social justice, environmental sustainability, intergroup helping, and the level of responsibility to act for the betterment of this world).
Explain why those two outcomes are the most important in becoming a global citizen compared to the others.
Describe at least two personal examples or events in your life that illustrate the development of global citizenship based on the two outcomes you chose.
Identify two specific general education courses.
Explain how each course influenced you to become a global citizen.
The Importance of Becoming a Global Citizen
Must be 750 to 1,000 words in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s
APA Style resource. (Links to an external site.)
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to
APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.)
.
Must utilize academic voice. See the
Academic Voice (Links to an external site.)
resource for additional guidance.
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
For assistance on writing
Introductions & Conclusions .
Improve Research Visibility by Establishing an Academic BlogNader Ale Ebrahim
Academic 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 Academic Blog 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 and impact. This presentation will provide guidelines on Academic Blogging as a tool for increasing the article visibility and citations. Increased visibility online helps your offline recognition as well.
This series of PPTs provide the details of how to start your research work and what are the tools available to help your research and publish papers in high impact journals.
In this first part details of Mendeley Reference manager is provided
You can view the video in You Tube
Tools to Enhance Your Research Part-1 https://youtu.be/XbiQgsvgeT8
Open Access: Identifying Quality Journals & Avoiding Predatory Publishersciakov
Slideshow for presentation on open access. Topics include defining Gold OA (APCs, business models, subsidies), OA citation advantage, predatory publishers, whitelists/blacklists.
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Final Project Phase 1: Business-Related Research Premise
Aaron Bryant
Shorter University
Final Project Phase 1: Business-Related Research Premise
Background
Executive compensation is the financial and non-financial awards given to executives and other high ranking officials with in corporations. These awards typical come in the form of base salary, annual incentives, and long-term incentives, and perquisites such as personal use of corporate aircraft, company cars, and business expense accounts (Cormany, 2017). Compensation for executives has steadily increased over the years but there has been dramatic jumps in pay since the 1970s. The latest dramatic increase was in 2010, when executive compensation increased 11% (Cormany, 2017).
The board of directors are legally and morally responsible for monitoring and awarding executives and company leaders. In many cases they help decide what compensation is given to executives. To help with the contract decisions about executive pay, a compensation consultant firm may be hired.
Managerial Relevance
Many corporations use compensation consultants to help figure out how much to compensate there executives. If a consultant firm helps an executive increase his/her compensation, they can be later hired for more billable hours as compensation in return. So intern, does the hiring of compensation firms increase executive compensation.
Theoretical Framework
The hiring of compensation consultants and the increase in compensation of executives are related
Research Methodology and Design
A non-contrived case study using minimal interference will be used in this study.
References
Cormany, D. L. . P. candidate. (2017). Executive Compensation. Salem Press Encyclopedia. Retrieved from http://proxygsu-sho1.galileo.usg.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ers&AN=89550569&site=eds-live&scope=site
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Business Analytics and Research
Methods
Online Syllabus
Shorter University
Instructor Information
See link in Canvas.
Course Information
• Course: Business Analytics and Research Methods
• Course Number: BUS 5250
• Credit Hours: 3
• Prerequisites: Undergraduate Statistics Course
Course Description
Today’s business environment requires managers to be able to make decisions based on data
and draw inferences through the use of software and other analytical tools. This Business
Analytics and Research Methods course will introduce the students to business research
methodology and the analytical tools used to collect and assess different types of data. This
course will include a review of the basics .
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We could be Heroes: Optimize your University for Global Rankings
1.
2. Introduction: international university rankings
Education Ministry (MEXT) on how to rise in the rankings
Kansai universities’ reputation vs. international rankings
Online factors that academics can optimize
Open Web presence and impact of the university site
Online research repositories for faculty publications
Surprising uses of Google Scholar
Used by ranking organizations to evaluate universities
It finds and links publications, and it counts citations
It can be used to optimize faculty academic recognition
How to set up and customize Google Scholar Profiles
Conclusion: faculty-university mutual commitment
3. The Education Ministry aims
for top Japanese universities
to rise high in global rankings
Yahoo News (2013, July 29). Daigaku sekai ranku iri shien,
10-ko 100-oku-en hojo [¥10 billion to support the inclusion of
10 universities in world rankings]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved from:
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20130729-00000620-yom-soci
4. MEXT: “In order to rise in rankings, it is necessary for
researchers attached to universities to do original studies,
through which, among other things, their published papers
will be cited by other researchers” (author’s translation).
5. 4ICU
Japan
QS Asia
300
WM
Japan
WM
World
SIR
Japan
SIR
Asia
SIR
World
Average
Japan
Kwansei
Gakuin
49 251-
300
82 1,850 151 667 2,018 94 (5)
Kansai 21 43 1,285 104 441 1,467 56 (4)
Doshi-
sha
22 201-
250
39 1,210 86 367 1,257 49 (3)
Ritsu-
meikan
44 181-
190
15 649 57 259 974 39 (2)
Kyoto
Sangyo
38 111 2,191 215 936 2,524 121 (7)
Kinki 41 181-
190
31 1,080 38 176 738 37 (1)
Konan 130 128 2,499 189 836 2,340 149 (8)
Ryu-
koku
28 71 1,690 187 828 2,327 95 (6)
6. Sources, author’s translations and notes
“KAN-KAN-DO-RITS 関関同立(Kwansei Gakuin University, Kansai University,
Doshisha University, and Ritsumeikan University) is the abbreviation that many
people refer to when talking about the four leading private universities in the
region (of 20 million people…” from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritsumeikan_University
「これら各大学は、関西・西日本における難関私立大学として知られている」
from http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/関関同立
[It means that KanKanDoRits are known as competitive-entry private universities
in the Kansai region and Western Japan]
「西日本、関西圏における中堅私立大学として知られている」
from http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/産近甲龍
[It means that SanKinKoRyu are known as mainstay private universities in Kansai]
University ranking organizations
4ICU = 4 International Colleges & Universities, Japan from http://www.4icu.org/jp
QS = Quacquarelli Symonds [biased to large public universities?], Asia top 300,
from http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/asian-university-rankings/2013
WM = Webometrics [impact is 50% and means backlinks to the university’s official
Web domain], Japan & World from http://www.webometrics.info/en/Asia/Japan
SIR = SCImago [includes government & corporate research institutes], Japan, Asia,
& World from http://www.scimagoir.com/pdf/SIR%20Global%20JPN%202013%20O.pdf
7. 95 (6)95 (6)
Have the reputations of these well-known
Kansai universities fossilized in Japan?
Are some universities punching
above or below their weight
in international rankings?
Other explanations?
Note: Ranking organizations have
made their methods, criteria and
weighting clear, in terms of which
their rankings are accurate, so it is
important to know how universities
are evaluated, and then to optimize
Web presence for academic recognition.
8. How universities are evaluated by international ranking organizations
What university people can affect – optimization
Open Web publishing for impact and links (next slide)
online campus research repositories (later slides)
Google Scholar (Citation) Profiles (later slides)
See the handout later for details
McCarty, S. (2013). Web presence and higher education rankings.
Online Education Insights, 5 (1). Retrieved from
http://www.waoe.org/WP/?page_id=183
9. According to criteria of ranking organizations and Google Scholar:
Publish more content of all kinds
on the open Web, not password-protected
in the main campus domain, e.g.,
www.xyz.ac.jp/subdomain/article.pdf
Have versions of publications in English and other languages
Interlink all Web content
Standardize spellings of individuals and university names
Format articles to match Google Scholar algorithms
Have bilingual or multilingual abstracts and keywords
Format online publications and presentations in PDF / rich files
See the handout later for details
10. Reprint faculty papers on the open Web
Need permission to reprint closed publications
Affect the size of the university’s measured academic output
Attract links and citations, which can raise the university’s ranking
Use open-source research repository software (next slides)
Are interoperable with Google Scholar, CiNii in Japan, etc.
Such data are also used by university ranking organizations
Increase exposure, backlinks (a measure of impact)
Citations tend to be more numerous to open access publications
Also interoperable are repositories
such as http://www.getcited.org
and http://www.academia.edu
11.
12. A justifiable reprinting on the open Web of articles published
13. Some items are simply listed,
while this item offers the file,
a presentation in PDF format,
not available elsewhere as such.
Citations in such PDF files may be
found/counted by Google Scholar.
14.
15. The usual use of Google Scholar is to find reliable sources for research.
One might see a syntactically ill-formed phrase and wonder if scholars,
perhaps in educational technology, find it acceptable and descriptive.
From http://scholar.google.com/schhp?hl=en
16. 447 results appear with the exact phrase, and the writers seem to be
English native speakers. Be that as it may, similar phrases can also be
discerned, so the disciplinary context of the phrase comes into view.
17. What may be surprising is that Google Scholar data on the publications
and citations of faculty members, which are selectively and incompletely
counted online, are used by ranking organizations to evaluate university
academic output, and this is a factor that can be affected by individual
efforts. The chief recommendation therefore is for all faculty members
who publish to set up and customize their own Google Scholar Profile.
Webometrics 2012 global
university ranking criteria
18. Example Google Scholar Profile: The focus is on citations. It handles various
languages. A verifiable academic e-mail address is necessary. Articles can be
sorted by most cited (the default) or in reverse chronological order (click on
“Year”). Customization includes specializations, co-authors (invited by e-
mail), and manually adding publications that Google Scholar does not find.
19. Start at http://scholar.google.com or http://scholar.google.co.jp (日本語で)
Click on Sign in, log into your Google account if necessary, and apply to
set up a Google Scholar Profile using your main academic e-mail address,
such as User_ID@xyz.ac.jp
To customize, click on links or choose among “Actions” from the drop-
down menu on your profile page.
Your Profile, which is indexed with a high weight in Google search results,
can serve as an online list of publications, updated automatically and
manually throughout your career.
See the handout later for step-by-step directions
20. Example of a Google Scholar Profile sorted in reverse chronological order
21. After clicking on the title of a publication in the profile, fuller details appear.
In the profiles only the first initials of authors are used. “Scholar articles” are
versions found automatically, while the above sections were added manually.
22. After clicking on “Edit” (previous slide) or “Add” and then “Add article
manually” from the Profile page, fill in the text boxes to make changes
or to add new publications (above example of an online article).
23. Citations
Gold standard of peer review.
Average number of citations is about 1.5 per publication in databases.
Google Scholar cannot find all the citations to a scholarly publication.
Authors who cite one’s publications may be helpful for one’s research.
Open access publications tend to be found and cited more than more
prestigious publications that are strictly kept offline. This may eventually
tilt the field toward openness.
Rory McGreal (UNESCO/COL OER Chair): “if you have to pay, it is a scam”
From http://landing.athabascau.ca/blog/view/359416/scam-open-access-journals
24. Conclusions and Recommendations
Many Japanese universities are punching below their weight due to a lack of
citations (MEXT, 2013) and rich content including English on their Website, so be a
faculty hero by helping optimize academic accomplishments for fuller recognition.
Universities hurt their rankings by high teacher turnover and part-time hiring.
Attractiveness to foreign students (reputation) is affected by rankings abroad.
Have an open source online campus research repository of faculty publications.
Have all affiliated scholars who publish maintain a Google Scholar Profile.
Optimize as well as maximize Web presence.
Have all campus Website pages interlinked, and encourage links from other
domains by providing faculty homepages and useful community services.
Show abundance and openness rather than scarcity and exclusiveness.
See the handout for details
25.
26. 4 International Colleges & Universities (4ICU Web Ranking)
Ranks over 11,000 colleges and universities in the world, so most of Japan’s
should be included. Criteria (4ICU does not claim that they are academic):
Google Page Rank, Alexa Traffic Rank, Majestic Seo Referring Domains, Majestic
Seo Citation Flow, and Majestic Seo Trust Flow
From http://www.4icu.org/menu/about.htm
(SEO ordinarily means search engine optimization. Referring domains are other
sites that make links to the university domain, i.e., number of backlink sites)
University Ranking Organizations and their Criteria
supporting the optimization recommendations in this presentation
27. Times Higher Education World University Rankings: Top 400 universities
worldwide, by region, and by subject. “The performance indicators *are+
teaching, research, citations, international outlook and interaction with industry”
- Asian universities catching up [Editorial] (2012, October 17). Japan Times.
Retrieved from http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/ed20121017a2.html
US News & World Report Asian Rankings (2012, based on QS, cited in slide #6,
which was designed to help international students planning to study abroad.
The Japanese universities ranked in Asia seem to be large and public ones).
Criteria: Asian Academic Reputation, Employer Review, Faculty-Student Ratio,
International Faculty, International Students, and Citations per Paper
(Japanese universities have relatively low scores on international criteria). From:
http://www.usnews.com/education/worlds-best-universities-rankings/best-universities-in-asia
SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) uses “Scopus as the largest publication and
citation database of research literature, mainly (but not exclusively) composed of
scholarly journals and conference proceedings. Titles included must conform to
academic quality norms, specifically peer-review. Scopus covers titles from all
geographical regions containing the largest collection of non-English titles.”
From http://www.scimagoir.com/methodology.php?page=data_source
28. Webometrics – Ranking Web of World Universities ranks the Web presence and
performance of over 20,000 universities worldwide, regionally, and by country.
Size means the output of Web pages. Webometrics and other university ranking
organizations claim that on-campus survey data would not be reliable, and that
institutions will rapidly lose ground if they do not work on their online presence.
The original aim of the Ranking is to promote academic web presence, supporting
the Open Access initiatives for increasing significantly the transfer of scientific and
cultural knowledge generated by the universities to the whole Society. [Today] the
Web is key for the future of all the university missions, as it is already the most
important scholarly communication tool, the future channel for the off-campus
distance learning, the open forum for the community engagement and the universal
showcase for attracting talent, funding and resources. … Webometrics uses link
analysis for quality evaluation [and] [r]esearch output … including not only formal
(e-journals, repositories) publications but also informal scholarly communication.
Web publication [can] reach much larger potential audiences, offering access to
scientific knowledge to researchers and institutions located in developing countries
and also to third parties (economic, industrial, political or cultural stakeholders) in
their local community. ... If the web performance of an institution is below the
expected position according to their academic excellence, university authorities
should reconsider their web policy, promoting substantial increases of the volume
and quality of their electronic publications.
From http://www.webometrics.info/en/Methodology
29. Webometrics – weighting of criteria: Visibility (50%) = IMPACT = “counting all
the external inlinks (and the number of domains originating those backlinks)
that the University webdomain receives from third parties. Those links are
recognizing the institutional prestige, the academic performance, the value of
the information, and the usefulness of the services” … Activity (50%) =
PRESENCE (1/3) =
The total number of webpages hosted in the main webdomain (including all the
subdomains and directories) of the university as indexed by the largest
commercial search engine (Google). … It is not possible to have a strong presence
without the contribution of everybody in the organization as the top contenders
are already able to publish millions of webpages. Having additional domains or
alternative central ones for foreign languages or marketing purposes penalizes in
this indicator and it is also very confusing for external users. OPENNESS (1/3). The
global effort to set up institutional research repositories is explicitly recognized in
this indicator that takes into account the number of rich files (pdf, doc, docx, ppt)
published in dedicated websites according to the academic search engine Google
Scholar… EXCELLENCE (1/3). The academic papers published in high impact
international journals …
(Latest 2013 criteria). From http://www.webometrics.info/en/Methodology
Optimization recommendations: http://www.webometrics.info/en/Best_Practices