In order to improve the quality of systematic researches, various tools have been developed by well-known scientific institutes sporadically. Dr. Nader Ale Ebrahim has collected these sporadic tools under one roof in a collection named “Research Tool Box”. The toolbox contains over 720 tools so far, classified in 4 main categories: Literature-review, Writing a paper, Targeting suitable journals, as well as Enhancing visibility and impact factor.
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ESB Webinar "Research Tools for: Collecting, Writing, Publishing and Disseminating your Research"
When: 31/05/2022 - 31/05/2022 Where: Online
On 31 May 2022, the ESB will host a webinar to introduce
“Research Tools” to enable researchers to collect, organize, analyze,
visualize and publicize research outputs.
This webinar will provide an overview of the most important tools from
searching the literature to disseminating the researcher’s outputs.
The e-skills learned from the workshop are useful across various research disciplines and research institutions.
By the end of this webinar, attendees will learn how to:
More efficiently use the tools that are available on the Net.
Evaluate the types of literature that researchers will encounter.
Convert the information of the search for a written document.
Search and analyze the right journal to submit.
Improve their publication’s visibility and impact
The
webinar will be conducted by Dr. Nader Ale Ebrahim who is well-known as
the creator of “Research Tools” Box. Dr. Nader holds a PhD in
Technology Management from the Faculty of Engineering, University of
Malaya. Dr. Nader has collected over 700 tools that enable researchers
to follow the correct path in research and ultimately produce
high-quality research outputs with more accuracy and efficiency. Dr.
Nader currently works as a “Research Visibility and Impact” freelancer
consultant. Dr. Nader is also an adjunct lecturer at Alzahra University.
He was working as a visiting research fellow with the Institute of
Management and Research Services (IPPP), the University of Malaya from
2013 to November 2017. His current research interests are University
rankings, Open access, Research visibility, Research Tools, and
Bibliometrics. Dr. Nader provides assistance and guidance for
researchers in disseminating and promoting their research work in order
to enhance their research visibility and impact, as well as citations.
He believes that the research cycle does not end with publications
alone, thus he encourages pro-activeness in the dissemination of
research outputs.
7 Useful Research Profiling Tools Every Researcher Must Know
Here
I list 7 researcher profiling tools for the academic researchers. These
platforms make your data and scholarly publications easier to search,
access and share.
Researcher profiles not only boost author
identification but also author exposure in their domain. So, it is
important to have a good online presence as a researcher.
A
researcher profile that is administered in a successful manner assists
you to enhance the visibility and research impact of an author’s
scholarly works.
Using the tool you can maximize your research impact and visibility.
The research profiling tools allow you to measure your research impact online.
In this article, I list seven emerging research profiling tools to make your research more visible and publicly available.
Some of these researcher profiles platforms are proprietary, while others are not-for-profit organizations.
By creating a researcher profile for yourself as a researcher, you will be able to:
promote your research and teaching activities
improve your chance of being cited
find new collaborators and funding sources
increase the chance of publications getting cited
correct attribution, names and affiliations
use the same profile for a long time, even if your institution changes.
Useful Research Profiling Tools for Academic Researcher
Now, I am going to share with you the following research profiling tools:
# ORCID ID
ORCID is an open, nonprofit, community-driven effort to create and maintain an international system of researcher IDs.
ORCID iD(Open Researcher and Contributor iD) is a free, unique, persistent identifier that you own and control.
The ID is a digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher across disciplines and time.
You can integrate ORCID iD with your professional information like affiliations, publications, peer review, and more.
It also helps you to improve discoverability and recognition.
Anyone who participates in research, the scholarship can register an ORCID iD for themselves free of charge.
you can use the same iD forever even if your name changes or you move to a different organization, discipline.
# Google Scholar Profile
The Google Scholar researcher profile displays the list of publications in Google Scholar with basic metrics.
In addition to journal papers, it also includes books and reports.
Google Scholar gives you automatically reading suggestions based on your citations, once you create your account.
You can track new papers and citations (of yourself and/or others).
Besides, I demonstrated how to set up a search alert in Google Scholar in my earlier blog.
# Academia.edu
Academia.edu is one of the most important media for researchers. It was launched in 2008.
In order to share research papers easily with millions of people across the world for free, Academia plays a pivotal role.
Like
Researchgate, Academia is a large multidisciplinary academic research
social networking tool. It allows you to connect research scholars
around your topics.
Using a built-in search, you can add papers from Microsoft Academic, PubMed, and ArXiv.
Besides, you can also add full-text research articles.
Although the procedure is simple, the coverage is not as extensive as Google Scholar.
Over the course of five years, papers posted to Academia receive a 69 percent increase in citations, according to a study.
At the time of writing this post, 162,445,880 academics and researchers have joined this network.
To access academia.edu, you can sign up using your google account and Facebook account.
# Researcher ID on Publons
ResearcherID is a unique identifier for academic researchers on Publons, Web of Science.
Web
of Science ResearcherID is now on Publons. ResearcherID, which has
been migrated to Publons in April 2019, is the author identifier used in
Web of Science.
ResearcherID is the profile tool from Web of Science and the Journal Citation Reports.
It also offers a public profile. You can choose what to show publicly.
You can see your personal Researcher ID at the top-right of most pages on Publons along with your profile and private dashboard.
To
become eligible for a Web of Science ResearcherID, you just register on
publons and import your research publications from the web of science.
If you do not have any Web of Science indexed publications but require a Web of Science ResearcherID please follow this link to generate the account.
Publons
is the new environment where you can benefit from the improved Web of
Science ResearcherID, add your publications, track your citations, and
manage your Web of Science record.
The
Scopus Author ID is not a researcher profile site, but helps author
recognition and disambiguation when searching publications.
By
checking the correctness of publications assigned to your Scopus Author
ID, you will certainly help others finding your stuff.
For tracking your publications indexed in the Scopus citation database you can use Scopus author ID.
In addition to that, the Scopus author ID lets you build the metric report e.g. total citations and h-index to be accurately calculated based on Scopus data.
A Scopus Author ID is automatically generated the first time one of your publications is indexed in Scopus.
There are two ways to find your Scopus ID & locate your profile in Scopus:
i) Using a Document Search
ii) Using an author search
Many scholars are unaware that they already have a Scopus ID.
You can connect your author Id to ORCID ID. All you need to do is search for one of your publications from Scopus.
After searching, you navigate to the Author Details page and then click on ‘Add to ORCID’.
#Mendeley
A
Mendeley account lets you retrieve many of Mendeley’s features and
services online. You do not need to install any software to access these
facilities.
Using the account, you can access, update and manage your personal library of references.
Mendeley’s account allows you to build and maintain the Mendeley personal profile.
In order to find and connect with other academic researchers, you can use this account.
This tool permits you to review your publication statistics.
You can access the features of Mendeley using the web browser, you do not need to install any software.
ResearchGate is a social network for academic researchers.
The researcher profiling tool allows you to share your scholarly materials and find collaborators as well.
Using
this platform you can ask questions across disciplines and borders,
that have the same set of interests and specializations.
Researchgate lets you populate your publications list automatically or add manually.
By
using social media for academic research, you can enhance your research
visibility and its impact. In order to promote research in
universities, these platforms play a pivotal role.
Researcher profiles ensure that all of your research and publications are properly credited.
In
my earlier post, I wrote on the best emerging digital tools for
academic research every researcher needs to know ( awareness of academic
social networking sites for researchers).
It is worth mentioning
that Scopus Author ID, Researcher ID, Google Scholar profile provide
citation counts and author metrics as well, whereas ORCID does not.
In this blog post, I listed 7 useful researcher profiling tools for academic researchers.
Hopefully,
this post was useful to you! What other researcher profiling tools have
you used for enhancing your research visibility and impact?
We would love to hear from you. Please feel free to comment below.
by Brian Gray
Last Updated Jan 28, 2022
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Maximize Impact
There are three key factors that can help in increasing the research impact:
VISIBILITY - increased visibility means larger audience
write to be found: write effective titles and abstracts, assign
keywords, tags, and subjects, use synonyms, use SVG images (so there
could be indexed and retrieved)
consider publishing negative or inconclusive results
enhance your publications with supplemental materials (tables, datasets, filesets, presentations, video and audio files, etc)
retain copyright - this will allow you to maximize your options for dissemination
choose open access publishing (open access, fee-based open access, or delayed open access journals)
use social media to disseminate information on your papers and research
develop your academic profile so it will include all your academic
and social media scholarly activity (post manuscripts of publications,
conference abstracts, and supplemental materials such as images,
illustrations, slides, specimens, blogs, podcasts,etc.) and the extent of your academic network.
CONSISTENCY - ensure that all your works are collected under your name
create your unique ID - eliminate author ambiguity by creating unique identifiers for each scholar
claim wrong citations to your papers
use same author name variation
use standardized institutional affiliation
create and keep public profiles up-to-date
AVAILABILITY - ensure permanent and stable access to your work
have a data management plan
get permanent identifiers for your work (DOI, ARK, EZID)
post your publications to open access repositories
Tools for maximizing impact
VISIBILITY
Retain copyright
Negotiate with publishers before signing publisher agreements
Use Case Author Addendum to secure your non-exclusive rights.
Enhance your publications with supplemental materials
Supplemental material with your article makes it more discoverable
Supplemental materials can be cited independently, increasing the impact of your work
Ensures you meet your funder's requirements.
Select Publishers with Open-Access or Delayed Open Access Journals
To check publishers' open access policies use Sherpa/RoMEO
website. Many publishers offer a hybrid open access publishing model,
where the authors retain the copyright and the publishers are granted
publishing and distribution rights. This model requires a publication
fee from the authors. For publication fees, check the list
developed by University of California Berkeley. Other publishers offer
open access after a embargo period. See HighWire Press's list of embargo from a variety of publishers or Elsevier's list of journals with open access embargo.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
- comprehensive list of journals that publish only open access content.
Note that some of these journals may require a publication fee for
authors.
JURN directory - arts & humanities ejournals listed free, or offer significant free content.
BioMed Central - an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher of 256 peer-reviewed open access journals.
Be cautious of the dubious open access publishers!
Mendeley
- free reference manager and academic social network that can help you
organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the
latest research.
Twitter - real-time information network that connects you to the latest stories, ideas, opinions and news
YouTube - forum that allows to discover, watch and share originally-created videos
SciVee -
public website that is open for users to access and researchers to
upload videos of interest, and a distribution option for publishers and
other content providers.
SlideShare - world's largest community for sharing presentations. Supports documents, PDFs, videos and webinars
FigShare - a repository for all types of research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner.
ScienceSeeker - science news aggregator that collects science articles from sources around the world
f1000Posters - open access repository for posters and slide presentations across biology and medicine.
Scribd -
world's largest digital library where people can publish, discover, and
read books and documents of all kinds on the web or any mobile device
Establish professional profile
mantain university profile website
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) - allows you as a researcher to reliably and unambiguously connect your name with your work throughout your career
Academia.edu -
Site for scientists "to share their research, monitor deep analytics
around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics
they follow."
ResearchGate - Social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators
International Standard Name Identifier
ISNI is the ISO certified global standard number for identifying the
millions of contributors to creative works and those active in their
distribution, including researchers, inventors, writers, artists, visual
creators, performers, producers, publishers, aggregators, and more.
ISNI2ORCID tool
Tool that allows ORCID registrants to import data from their ISNI profile to their ORCID profile
Dryad
- Dryad Digital Repository is a curated resource that makes the data
underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable,
and citable.
re3data.org - registry of research data repositories
Qualitative Data Repository (QDR)
- Dedicated archive for storing and sharing digital data generated or
collected through qualitative and multi-method research in the social
sciences
OpenDOAR - Uses Google’s Custom Search Engine to search across the repositories listed in the OpenDOAR directory of repositories.
ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories ) - Developed the University of Southampton, UK.
OAIster - Developed by the library at the University of Michigan and adopted by OCLC.
BASE -
One of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for
academic open access web resources. BASE is operated by Bielefeld
University Library.
Digital Commons Network - Brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.
Overview - Improving the Citedness of your Research
These pages provide some tips and guidance from publishers,
journals, authors and others around key activities which can help to
improve the visibility and therefore the citedness of your research.
These include:
Increasing the visibility of your published research in search engines and academic databases.
Removing barriers to access, including the reading and indexing of the full text of your research.
Key factors to increasing the visibility of your research and profile.
Selecting the most appropriate journal, which will reach the broadest
and most appropriate audience for your research is essential to
ensuring the maximum potential for citation of your published research.
Academics will have differing views as to how to best select the most
appropriate journal, but here we have collected some suggestions of
things to consider.
The title and abstract you select for your article can have two
immediate affects on the discoverability of your research, and thus the
potential for your work to be found, read and cited.
Discoverability: They can affect where it appears
in results lists in search engines and academic databases, based on key
words others may use to search for research on that topic and the
keywords and structure used to aid Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).
Relevance scoping: It will often be the first (and
sometimes only) part of the article a potential reader looks at in
order to make a decision as to whether they will read the rest of the
article. The abstract will often be used by a researcher to assess if
the publication is of interest and relevance to their research question,
and thus how (and if) to read further, and potentially cite the work.
Text-mining and data-mining: Increasingly in many
disciplines, the text- and data-mining of large amounts of published
content are increasingly used as primary means of discovery and
synthesis of research literature. Ensuring the structure of titles and
abstracts are also optimised for automated discovery and interpretation
are therefore also key considerations.
Make sure that you, and your university and department, receive
appropriate credit and attribution for your publications. It is not
uncommon for publications to be incorrectly attributed to the wrong
author or institution based on incorrect or ambiguous author information
included in the original article.
Use a consistent form for you name, and consider carefully the
implications of how any change of name (such as through marriage) will
impact on the ability of readers and automated systems to correctly
identify your publications output.
Ensuring your university affiliation is included on your papers is
particularly important for ensuring your research output is correctly
identified and included in citation metric components used in University
Rankings such as the QS World Rankings.
Open access can increase the accessibility, discoverability, and visibility of
a research output. It enables researchers to more easily share their
work and promote it effectively via online media (as anyone with an
internet connection is able to link through to the full text, and won't
face a paywall barrier if they don't have subscription access).
Open access publishing can result in increased accessibility because:
Most academic outputs are supplied by publishers, and locked behind
a subscription or pay-to-view barrier for most readers. Open Access
removes that barrier, making it is easier to obtain, read and re-use an open access article
Open Access often makes use of standard re-use licences, such as Creative Commons,
making it clearer for other researchers how and when they can (or
cannot) re-use the content of the article (e.g. text- or data-mining,
providing a translation or alternative format, use in teaching and
learning activity.
The output is more visible and discoverable because it is available from a number of different sources – not just the publisher’s website.
Manuscripts in open access repositories are indexed by Google Scholar and other search engines
Tools like Unpaywall and OA Button will
allow a reader to seamlessly identify and link to an open access
version of an article at the point they hit a paywall barrier, without
having to search for multiple repositories themselves.
Whether publishing your research open access provides a citation
advantage is something that is up for debate, however – with some strong
opinions on either side of the argument.
