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Increase your research impact

 Strategies to increase the likelihood of an article being cited,
discussed or otherwise mentioned in scientific and relevant societal
groups.

Pre-print phase

In the pre-print phase you may think about:

• Research topics with a high potential academic and/or societal
  relevance, and if a literature review is needed to prove the relevance,
  get your research proposal approved, and/or ensure research funding or
  grants.
     
• Publishing a review as an independent publication, even if it forms
  part of a planned follow up article or study. You can earn double
  credits when the follow up gets published as well.
     
• Choosing peer-reviewed journals with a high Journal Impact Factor (JIF) to increase the likelihood to get cited
  
  • Read more …. Journal Impact Factor (JIF)
       
• Alternative and/or parallel publishing channels, such as:
  
  • A pre-print service to generate feedback and interest in your publication (e.g. arXiv.org e-print service at Cornell and not peer-reviewed in the traditional sense)
  • OA journals, when institutional publishing policy demands so,
    accruing article citations more quickly or when speed of dissemination
    are of importance
  • Read more …. Alternative publishing channels
       

Optimising your articles for search-engines (SEO)

Although search engine optimisation (SEO) is usually associated with
websites and webpages, scientific articles can be optimised as well

Post-print phase

Writing and publishing your scholarly article is not the final step.
To maximise your research impact you must inform everyone in your
academic and social networks about it as well. Strategies to use in the
post-print phase:

• Use social media to discuss your article or study, focussing on special interest groups
• Share links to your abstract or publication on Academia.edu,
  LinkedIn, on your website, your academic institution’s profile page,
  Facebook, Twitter, etc.
• When publisher policy permits, post your article/study (or author version) to:

• subject repositories, (e.g. SSRN, RePEC, PubMed Central)
• Mendeley, ResearchGate, Academia.edu and elsewhere
• your institutional repository: UM Publications

• Post your datasets to platforms for registration and storage of datasets, such as the Dutch Dataverse Network (DDN) - see also Research Data Management
• Create researcher IDs on platforms such as ResearcherID, ScopusID
  and ORCID to ensure an unambiguous author identification to which
  published articles or studies are linked.

For a more complete overview - and very practical guide - on how to use these strategies and tools, see: The 30-Day Impact Challenge: the ultimate guide to raising the profile of your research. By Stacy Konkiel


A very nice ‘libguide’ about Visibility and Research Impact - although tailored to University of Utrecht - is: http://libguides.library.uu.nl/researchimpact


Tools and major data sources with which to track of your own research impact can be found in the: “Guidelines for Good Evaluation Practice with the ACUMEN Portfolio”

Journal Impact Factor - JIF

A traditional indicator to choose a journal to publish your article is the Journal Impact Factor (JIF).


A number indicating the average amount of times articles from the
journal are cited in a specified period of time. The higher the Impact
Factor of a Journal, the bigger the chance that your article will be
read and/or cited. When there is a choice between different journals to
publish in, you may choose the journal with the higher Journal Impact
Factor.


Although this reasoning seems sound, keep in mind that:

• The JIF is based on the arithmetic mean number of citations per
  paper, yet citation counts follow a Bradford distribution (i.e., a power
  law distribution). Therefore the arithmetic mean is a statistically
  inappropriate measure to express the importance of any one publication,
  and will be different from, and in most cases less than, the overall
  number
• Journal ranking lists can differ considerably from JIF-rankings when other impact measures are used, such as the ‘Eigenfactor’ score, the ‘SJR indicator’, or when based upon expert opinion
• The strength of the relationship between impact factors of journals
  and the citation rates of the papers therein is steadily decreasing
  since articles began to be available digitally
• A journal can adopt editorial policies to increase its impact factor, and
• that the JIF should not be the only factor to influence your journal choice - see Alternative publishing channels

A means to identify Journal Impact factors are the Journal Citation Reports^® (JCR); published annually by Thomsom Reuters in two editions:

• the Science Edition (about more than 8,000 journals in science and technology)
• the Social Sciences Edition (more than 2,600 journals in the social sciences)

Impact factors for journals in the Arts and Humanities are NOT available.


Learn how to use .... or go to the Journal Citation Reports®

Alternative publishing channels

Because it can take a long time before an article is published or
accrues any citations, a lot of researchers choose alternative and/or
parallel publishing channels, such as:

• Open-Access (OA) Journals, that make its articles
  available immediately upon publication, conduct peer review and allow
  authors to retain their copyright.
• Hybrid Journals - i.e. traditional,
  subscription-based journals who make articles immediately available to
  the public if the author pays an additional open-access fee.
• Open-Access archives or repositories, such as: 
  
  • A pre-print service (e.g. arXiv.org e-print service at Cornell and not peer-reviewed in the traditional sense) 
  • A subject repository (e.g. SSRN, RePEC, PubMed Central) or 
  • An institutional repository, such as UM Publications
    (a post-print service for already published articles so that this
    research becomes widely available and discoverable via tools like
    Google)

Other factors to consider – next to the speed of dissemination - when choosing a journal are:

• Institutional self-archiving policy to store and disseminate articles and other publications through the institutional repository
• The publisher’s copyright policy and business model (see below: SHERPA/RoMEO)
• The author or article processing charges of the journal (see below: SHERPA/RoMEO)

Knowing that citation databases, such as the Web of Science or
Scopus, are (and will be) used to determine research impact a lot of
researchers choose OA Journals which are also indexed in citation
databases, i.e. those established long enough to have an impact factor or otherwise qualified for inclusion.

Where to find OA Journals and publisher policies?

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Lists more than 10.000 journals available as open access.
• SHERPA/RoMEO:
  This directory lists publisher copyright and self-archiving policies.
  Listings also indicate whether or not the publisher has a "paid access"
  option with direct links to the specific publisher policies on paid
  access. See also the UM Copyright information point for some guidance on copyright issues before and after publishing.

Open access articles can also often be found with a web search, using
any general search engine or those specialised for the scholarly and
scientific literature, such as OAIster and Google Scholar.


OA Journals with a Journal Impact Factor in a specified discipline can be found by using the Web of Science.


Many funding agencies support open access. For a list of research funders' open access policies, consult SHERPA/Juliet.

Subject or institutional repositories

An easy way to maximise the exposure of published articles, books or
book chapters, and get citations, is to post them to subject or
institutional repositories. Such as:

• A pre-print service (e.g. arXiv.org e-print service at Cornell and not peer-reviewed in the traditional sense)
• A subject repository (e.g. SSRN, RePEC, PubMed Central) or
• An institutional repository, such as UM Publications
  (a post-print service for already published articles so that this
  research becomes widely available and discoverable via tools like
  Google)

By posting your publication to repositories it becomes widely
available and discoverable via tools like Google and Google Scholar.


To prevent copyright issues when uploading or posting articles to
subject or institutional repositories, or to pre-print services, check:

• Your publisher’s copyright transfer agreement or licence
• SHERPA/RoMEO:
  This directory lists publisher copyright and self-archiving policies.
  Listings also indicate whether or not the publisher has a "paid access"
  option with direct links to the specific publisher policies on paid
  access.
• The UM Copyright information point for guidance on copyright issues before and after publishing.

Optimising articles for search-engines (SEO)

Although search engine optimisation (SEO) is usually associated with
websites and webpages, scientific articles can be optimised as well
(ASEO; Academic Search Engine Optimisation).


Not only to ensure that articles are found (crawled) and indexed, but
also to influence the position where the articles are displayed in the
results list. Just like any other type of ranked search results,
articles displayed in top positions are more likely to be read and
cited.


Academic Search Engine Optimization (ASEO) differs
in some significant respects from SEO. For an older article discussing
these differences and which provides the arguments for a lot of ASEO
publisher guidelines, see: Joeran Beel, Bela Gipp, and Erik Wilde. Academic Search Engine Optimization (ASEO): Optimizing Scholarly Literature for Google Scholar and Co. Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 41 (2): 176–190, January 2010. doi: 10.3138/jsp.41.2.176. University of Toronto Press.

Publisher guidelines for optimising scientific articles

Elsevier:

• Get found. Optimize your research articles for search engines  
• Get found — optimize your research articles for search engines

Sage:

• How to Publish a Discoverable Journal Article: Tips for Writing a Paper that will Get Cited

Wiley:

• Search Engine Optimization for Authors
• Optimizing Your Article for Search Engines
• Search Engine Optimization and Your Journal Article 

For a blog, discussing the:

• ill-advice in the publisher guidelines on using Google Trends or Google Adwords to find the right keywords,
• to use keyword systems, ontologies or thesauri from your subject areas instead, and
• practical problems in need to be solved before PDFs can be optimised for search engines more effectively, see: blog

On what Google has to say about how PDFs are handled in a search, see: PDFs in Google search results.



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Does the Length of an Abstract Really Affect the Citation of a Paper? - Enago Academy

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Does the Length of an Abstract Really Affect the Citation of a Paper?

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In today’s scientific landscape, the number of times a study is
cited makes considerable difference to the significance of the study and
the reputation of authors themselves. The funds and grants given to
researchers are distributed/awarded based on their research profile, and
the success of one’s past research is measured by the quantity and
quality of one’s citations. Therefore, researchers have begun to explore
the most successful strategies for improving citation metrics.
Recently, there have been conflicting views on whether the length and
content of an abstract affects the number of citations a paper receives.


In the last year itself, two significant papers have quantitatively
explored  how an abstract’s length and writing style affects the number
of citations. However, the two papers offered contradictory results. In
this blog, we analyze these studies and explore whether abstracts really
have an impact on how often papers are cited.

Do Unique Words and Descriptions Affect Citations?

In April 2015, PLoS Computational Biology
published a study authored by a University of Chicago professor who
wanted empirical data to back up the generic writing advice he gave his
graduate students. After having conducted many workshops informing
students to keep their abstracts short, simple, and confident, Dr.
Allesina decided to test the relationship between ten abstract writing
rules and bibliometric realities.


Using one million abstracts from various scientific disciplines, Allesina et al.
tested the correlation between these rules and citation quantity. Also,
in this study, they examined the length of sentences and types of words
that were used in comparison to other articles in the same journals.


The results of the study were quite surprising, as they demonstrated,
significant correlations between long, redundant, descriptive
abstracts, and high numbers of citations, i.e., abstracts with more
adjectives, adverbs, unusual words, and “pleasant” words resulted in
studies with more subsequent citations. However, larger number of
simple, common words, and matching keywords in abstracts correlated with
lower citation numbers.


Very few rules met the expected patterns; signaling novelty and
importance correlated with strong citation across all disciplines, as
was using superlatives to demonstrate boldness.


Based on the analysis, Dr. Allesina was forced to conclude that the
rules he had taught to scientific writers that told them to be brief and
avoid jargon were in fact harming their chances of a study being cited.


The authors were quick to offer a possible explanation for their
findings, suggesting that the use of electronic databases to search for
research underpinned their results. The more unique words and
description an abstract uses, they argue, the more likely the paper is
to appear in a wider range of database searches, and thus it is more
likely to be cited. However, a short and simple abstract will appear in a
much lower number of keyword searches.

Keeping it Simple

In August 2015, the Royal Society published a study authored by Dr. Letchford
of the University of Warwick, UK, which investigated the same question:
how does length of abstract impact citation? Dr. Letchford’s focus was
on the titles of articles and he concluded that short titles drive
higher citations, which is quite obvious; however in 2016, another study
by Dr. Letchford, which was published by the Journal of Infometrics,
aimed less to explore the applicability of writing advice and more to
analyse the flow of online scientific communication, but his methods
were similar. Using 200,000 of the most highly cited papers from the Web
of Science between 1999 and 2008, Dr. Letchford used word frequency
N-diagrams to correlate language use and length with citation numbers.


The results of this analysis were precisely the opposite of Dr. Allesina’s. Letchford et al.
found a weak but significant statistical correlation between short
abstracts that re-use simple words and high numbers of citations;
moreover, the shorter the words in the abstract, the lower the chances
of citation. In fact, the addition of just one five-letter word to a
scientific abstract reduced the chances of citation in this study by
0.02%, which although does not seem significant, could have an impact.


The same can be said for Dr. Letchford’s overall conclusion, which
found that doubling the word frequency in an abstract contributed a
0.70% higher chance of citation. The authors offered their own
explanation for this result, suggesting that the rules that Dr.
Allesina’s study appeared to have undermined should in fact be
reiterated. There is a need, said Letchford “for scientists to make
their work understood” through short, simple, and repetitive language.

How Should You Write Abstracts?

So, where does this leave scientific researchers who are currently
writing their papers? Should their abstracts be short or long? Should
they be full of adverbs or simple three-letter words? Should they be
highly indexable or easily read?


Currently, the empirical data is mixed mostly because there are so
many confounding factors in citations such as impact factors, specific
writing conventions, the first language of authors, and journal styles,
all of which affect the writing of an abstract and the subsequent
citations.


Ultimately, the only factor that will truly impact one’s citations is
the quality of the research being published. A ground-breaking study
will be widely cited no matter how long or short the abstract or how
many adjectives are included.

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Does the Length of an Abstract Really Affect the Citation of a Paper? - Enago Academy

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 Source:  http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/journal/open_access.htm

WHY OPEN ACCESS?

How does open access to publications benefit researchers?

The visibility and availability of articles is in the best interests of researchers.

• Openly accessible articles can be found and
  accessed more widely than articles that are only published in journals
  available to subscribers and whose reference data may only be available
  in closed, fee-based reference databases. In other words, openly
  accessible articles are more likely to be referenced. References bring
  merit to researchers and increase their visibility, improving the impact
  of their work.

Researchers get broader access to fresh material.

• As open publishing becomes more common and publication
  repositories begin to fill up, researchers and other citizens gain
  access to an increasing number of fresh research publications. The
  availability of research data does not depend on the ability of
  researchers or the organisations backing them to pay for the constantly
  rising subscription and licence fees of research journals.

Why do universities recommend open access to research publications?

The visibility and impact of research results and researchers are
also used to measure the quality of universities in relation to one
another. If the media, SME sector and general public get easy access to
research publications, this also increases the social impact of
universities.

By supporting self-archiving and open online
publishing, universities contribute to academic communication and the
open accessibility of research results. Moreover, the greater the number
of research publications openly accessible, the easier it is to
evaluate University research.

Social benefit

Since much of the research conducted at universities is publicly
funded, it makes sense that the results of such research are openly and
publicly available.

Open access speeds up and enhances academic
communication in addition to increasing the ways in which research
results can be utilised by making them available to the media, the third
sector and the general public.

Open access to research articles also makes the
publications available to such universities and research institutions
that may not be able to afford expensive journal subscriptions. Among
other things, open access promotes the dissemination of academic
research in developing countries.

More information on open access in the University of Helsinki can be found here.

COLLeGIUM

Visibility and impact of research - For Researcher - Kirjastopalvelut at University of Lapland

 Source: http://libguides.ulapland.fi/c.php?g=480875&p=3287532

For Researcher: Visibility and impact of research

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  Research Services
  
  
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  Research methodology
  
  
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  Research data management
  
  
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  Visibility and impact of research
  
  
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  Home pages and registering publications
  
  
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  Home
  
  

Impact of your own publications

It is essential for researchers
that their scholarly publications gain high visibility. You can enhance
the visibility and accessibility of your works through publication
forums that are used extensively. Parallel publishing of commercially
published works also increases visibility.



Impact can be assessed using for example the following:

• Citation analyses depict how often a researcher’s
  articles have been cited in other articles. Sources: Web of Science,
  Scopus (not at the University of Lapland), and GoogleScholar  (Comparison of WoS, Scopus and GoogleScholar / Oulun yo)
• Researcher’s h-index, Publish or Perish and Web of Science

You may request your own citation analysis or h-index from the library: tietopal [at] ulapland.fi

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  Web of Science (ISI)
  

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  Pikaopas

Publish or Perish

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  GoogleScholar
  

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  Scholarometer
  

Guides of other universities

Research visibility, University of Oulu

Evaluation based on scientific publishing, University of Oulu

Measuring Research Impact, University of Helsinki

Researcher’s visibility

​The visibility of a researcher
decreases when the person’s name is written incorrectly or in multiple
ways and when the person changes employment. This makes it difficult to
trace the researcher’s publications in databases. It is therefore
important that you get a personal identifier covering all your
publications. This makes it easier to find your publications and to
follow how often your articles have been cited. In addition, it ensures
your visibility in databases and facilitates your networking in the
scientific community.



The Ministry of Education and Culture recommend that the researchers
should create themselves an ORCID identifier. The ResearcherID
identifier makes it easy to follow the impact of your own publications
according to the Web of Science database.

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  ORCID (Open Researcher & Contributor ID)
  
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  ResearcherID
  
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  ISNI - International Standard Name Identifier
  

Social media

The social web provides fast tools to increase the visibility of
your publications. It also enables you to network with the researcher
community, financers, and other professionals. Various disciplines and
fields of research have groups through which you can share your
publications and other data and discuss issues with other researchers.
You can use them to build new groups of collaboration and to find new
possibilities for employment. Blogs are used for discussions, for
testing your own ideas, and sometimes as part of the research process.

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  Academia.edu
  
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Altmetrics

You can use altmetrics to follow the number of times an outcome
of your research (article, book, etc.) has been cited, tweeted, liked,
shared, or bookmarked. You can also find out how many times it has been
viewed, downloaded, referred to, recommended, evaluated, or discussed.



Altmetrics has evolved because the traditional means to measure the
impact of research have been criticized by researchers of various
disciplines. In particular, citation analyses have been criticized.
International citation databases cover medicine and natural sciences
more extensively than other disciplines, basing their approach on the
publication practices. The h-index has also received criticism.



So far, the University of Lapland has not utilized the monitoring
services provided by altmetrics. The library orders monitoring services
from other university libraries when needed.

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  Impactstory
  

  an open-source website that helps researchers explore and share the the online impact of their research
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  KUDOS
  

  a
  web-based service that helps researchers and their institutions and
  funders to maximize the visibility and impact of their published
  articles
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  Microsoft Academic Search
  
  

Visibility and impact of research - For Researcher - Kirjastopalvelut at University of Lapland

Servizi Bibliotecari di Ateneo: PUBLISHING IN OA

 Source: http://www.biblio.polimi.it/en/services/publishing-in-oa/

PUBLISHING IN OA

• Open Access: What is it?
• Declarations in favour of Open Access
• Why publish in Open Access
• Why do researchers support Open Access?
• How does the Open Access economic model work?
• Where can more information be found on this topic?
• University Policy
• Publishing policies
• Materials and useful references for publication and/or auto-self-archiving in open access
• Material from conferences and seminars

Open Access: What is it?

Open
Access is a movement, born within the academic world, that promotes
free access to results from scientific research and favours the sharing
and growth of scientific knowledge.

The aim is to ensure maximum
visibility and use of documents, via open access, starting with the
basic idea that the results of publicly funded research must be
available to everyone.

There are two paths for ensuring open access:

• GREEN ROAD: self-archiving in
  archives open for public consultation that gather together the research
  work carried out by the authors, in accordance with publishing policies

• GOLD ROAD: publication in open access magazines, that guarantee peer review, that are free for the user.

Declarations in favour of Open Access

Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002), promoted by the Open Society Institute

"The
public good they make possible is the world-wide electronic
distribution of the peer-reviewed journal literature and completely free
and unrestricted access to it by all scientists, scholars, teachers,
students, and other curious minds. Removing access barriers to this
literature will accelerate research, enrich education, share the
learning of the rich with the poor and the poor with the rich, make this
literature as useful as it can be, and lay the foundation for uniting
humanity in a common intellectual conversation and quest for knowledge".

Declaration of Berlin (2003), promoted by attendees at the Conference on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities

"Our
mission to spread knowledge is incomplete if the information has not
been made widely and readily available to society. It is necessary to
support new possibilities of spreading knowledge, not just via
traditional channels but increasingly through the paradigm of open
access via the Internet. Let's define open access as an extended source
of human knowledge and cultural heritage that has been validated by the
scientific community."

Declaration of Messina
(2004), promoted by CRUI in support of open access to academic
literature. The declaration was signed by 74 Italian universities, including the Politecnico di Milano.

"...
they declare to adhere to the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to
Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities in support of open access to
scientific literature, with the hope that this gesture will constitute
an initial, important contribution by Italian universities to a broader,
more rapid diffusion of scientific knowledge."

Budapest Open Access Initiative, after 10 years (2012)

"Every
institution of higher education should have a policy assuring that
peer-reviewed versions of all future scholarly articles by faculty
members are deposited in the institution's designated repository.

Every
research funding agency, public or private, should have a policy
assuring that peer-reviewed versions of all future scholarly articles
reporting funded research are deposited in a suitable repository and
made OA as soon as practicable.

Universities with institutional repositories
should require deposit in the repository for all research articles to
be considered for promotion, tenure, or other forms of internal
assessment and review."

Position statement on open access in Public Research Bodies and the CRUI (March 2013)

"...CRUI and Italian Public Research Bodies,
aware of the benefits of open access for national research, in terms of
visibility, promotion and internationalisation, undertake to carry out
coordinated activities for the success of open access". - signatory
public bodies are: EPR - CNR, ENEA, INGV, INFN, ISS ( CRA body from 2
May 2013).

Why publish in Open Access

• advantages for researchers:
  greater
  visibility for research work filed in institutional archives and
  published in Open Access journals, which translates into greater
  visibility, more citations (up to 600% depending on the subject),
  immediate diffusion of research results, greater impact for the author.
• advantages for the institution:
  an
  international window for the production of its own
  professors/researchers and possible economies of scale on subscription
  costs.
• advantages for the scientific community:
  research
  results have greater visibility (greater dissemination), are seen
  earlier (thanks to self-archiving, there is no need to wait for material
  to be printed); thanks to greater dissemination, there is a greater
  impact and higher circulation of ideas; knowledge benefits from an
  overall increased growth and diffusion, which is also much faster; the
  free circulation of research results and data sets contributes to
  reducing the cultural divide.

Why do researchers support Open Access?

Many
supporters of OA promote free access as they are convinced that the
results of publicly-funded research must be available to all; as
citizens have paid for this research, they should be able to access it
at no additional cost.
   
Other supporters of OA promote free access also because they believe that knowledge itself, or information, is a public asset.

OA has been approved of by several forces.
The web offers new publication methods: it makes circulating research easier, broader, faster and often less expensive.
The
web offers new means and methods for sharing and using research and for
supporting teaching, creating a demand for an access model that allows
professors and universities to take full advantage of these new media
and methods, or new openings for research using institutional or subject
repositories.
By exploiting the potential offered by the internet,
the articles are made accessible free of charge to users, without the
restrictions and barriers foreseen by traditional licences. Diffusion of
information guarantees a real impact: the easier it is to download an
article, the more it is read and the more it is cited. This favours the
sharing of knowledge and therefore a faster advance of knowledge,
without barriers, worldwide.
Lastly many believe that open access
will contribute to reducing the problems of high prices and restrictive
conditions of use faced by universities who purchase licences and
traditional journals in digital format.

How does the Open Access economic model work?

Open access literature does not mean without expense.
Open
access to research results and scientific culture is not free of
charge, there are costs to be met, to make research available.

The
economic model changes: the cost is no longer a barrier to access in
subscription form. but is covered at sources, by paying for publication
costs.
For institutional repositories, the costs are part of the
body's overheads, bearing in mind the clear advantages in terms of
visibility and prestige.
Journals entail costs linked to the
publishing work flow and the guarantee of a quality peer view. About
half the journals require payment of a subscription for the publication
process. These costs can be forecast in the initial research budget, and
are often covered by the institutions they belong to: in this way the
article becomes visible to everyone, always.

The international
trend is increasingly to include the Open Access publication costs in
the initial research budget. There is an increasing number of funding
bodies that require research funded with their money to be made
available to the public in Open Access, also undertaking to pay the
publishing process costs.
The choice in Open Access is to have the
(minimum) costs fall to those producing the research rather than the
readers, to ensure maximum diffusion.
Alternative economic sustainability models are currently being studied (from the PLEIADI website: http://www.openarchives.it/pleiadi).

One of the existing models provides for a payment
when the authors files an article. This cost of publishing in open
access is usually included in the research grant funds. In 2004, and
Elsevier study revealed that the payment by the author model only
concerned 17% of Open Access journals. In a later study from 2007, Bill
Hooker carried out a survey among all known open access journals and
found that only 18% apply tariffs.
The open access publisher BioMed Central offers a comparative table of costs to the authors (table comparing such author side payments).

Other economic models have also been experimented:
for example, some new Open Access publishers, such as BioMed Central,
require payment by the author, but this is cancelled for those
institutes that have bought a subscription. In other cases, like the no
profit organisation PLoS, the subscriptions from institution libraries
reduce the publication costs for researchers considerably.

Many OA titles are subsidised by institutions or foundations.

An
Elsevier study from 2004 has verified that governments or universities
subsidise 55% of all open access journals, the largest portion. The
other open access titles (28%) that are not supported by payments from
authors were subsidised by subscription payments.

Some journals
are entirely open access: each article is available, without any
restriction. Other journals are hybrid, in the sense that they are
magazines with traditional subscriptions, but offer authors the
possibility of paying an amount to make their article freely accessible
to anyone in the world. The other articles in the journal are only
accessible via subscription.
Some publishers offer all their titles under a kind of open access policy, others have different policies for different titles.
Other research funding organisations have Open Access policies.
To monitor these policies, see:
    SHERPA's Juliet database of funder policies;
    BioMed Central's table for funding policies;
    the ROARMAP list of the largest funders and university policies.

Where can more information be found on this topic?

An excellent overview of Open Access has been written by Peter Suber from Harvard University

• in a document available using the link http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

• in a book entitled Open Access published in 2012
  http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Open_Access_(the_book)

Websites of interest:

Updated list of OA Journals:
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
List of journals with Impact Factor:
Open Access Journals with IF
List of institutional and subject repositories:
OpenDOAR: Directory of Open Access Repositories
Database that indexes the creation, location and growth of open access institutional archives and their content:
ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories)
Website for Italian Electronic Scientific Literature in Open Archives and Institutional Repositories:
PLEIADI
This
is the national platform for centralised access to the scientific
literature deposited in Italian open archives, established and managed
by universities and research bodies.

Website on Open Access that registers news and information about the national and international movement:
Wiki on Open Access in Italy
Guidelines issued by CRUI (Conference of Italian University Rectors) and developed by the national work group on Open Access:
CRUI guidelines

University Policy

The
Politecnico di Milano promotes open access to scientific literature in
compliance with what is established by its own statute and as a
signatory of the Messina Declaration. To do this, it has an Open Access
policy that applies the EU Commission Recommendations and national law 7 October 2013, n. 112.

The university policy, that has been active since
1st October 2014, states that professors, researchers, and collaborators
of the Politecnico di Milano feed the university's institutional open
access archive by self-archiving their scientific products in it.
An
institutional archive is a platform where members of the academic
community file electronic documents, the result of university teaching
and research activity. The institutional archive can be queried via
search engines on the web, and spread and enhances the value of the
university's scientific productions.  Re-Public@polimi 
is the name of the Politecnico di Milano's institutional repository,
that collects electronic documents coming from professors', researchers'
and collaborators' work at the university.

Policy_Open_Access_ENG.pdf

A University scientific literature open access work group has been established with archiving and intellectual property management technical tasks.
The group can be contacted at the email address openaccess(at)polimi.it

Publishing policies

The
rapid diffusion of University policies in favour of open access and
diffusion of institutional archives has brought most publishers to allow
the publication of articles published in institutional repositories (Green OA).

To
know more about foreign publishers' policies on auto-self-archiving in
institutional repositories or on personal websites, please refer to the
website Sherpa/RoMEO

• Green - allows the self-archiving of pre-print and post-prints
• Blue - allows the self-archiving of post-prints
• Yellow - allows the self-archiving of pre-prints
• White - does not allow any self-archiving

It is in the author's interest to know his own rights.
The recommendation is to always read the entire publishing contract carefully to see what the terms are about auto-self-archiving and add a clause (addendum)
that asks to maintain some exclusive rights for oneself (including, for
example, the one regarding self-archiving in open institutional
archives).

Materials and useful references for publication and/or auto-self-archiving in open access:

• list of publishers taken from Sherpa/RoMEO (currently being drawn up)
• Beall's List  - List of unreliable OA publishersi
• Addenda:
  • Addendum Polimi
  • SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)
    Association of university and research libraries that cooperate to create a more open scientific communication system
  • Addendum SPARC 
  • Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine - Software that allows personalisation of own Addendum
  • Communication Letter to publishers
  • Exemption letter from Politecnico Open Access Policy_ITA

Materials and useful references for publication and/or auto-self-archiving in open access

• list of publishers taken from Sherpa/RoMEO (currently being drawn up)
• Beall's List  - List of unreliable OA publishersi
• Addenda:
  • Addendum Polimi
  • SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)
    Association of university and research libraries that cooperate to create a more open scientific communication system
  • Addendum SPARC 
  • Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine - Software that allows personalisation of own Addendum
  • Communication Letter to publishers
  • Exemption letter from Politecnico Open Access Policy_ITA
• Inserting attachments in UGOV Ricerca (italian version)

Material from conferences and seminars

This section contains the stored materials that were presented during
seminars organised by the Politecnico di Milano about open access and
the materials produced during national conferences on OA.

22/09/2014 - University Policy and Publishing Strategies at the Politecnico di Milano

Servizi Bibliotecari di Ateneo: PUBLISHING IN OA

Impact of article page count and number of authors on citations in disability related fields: A systematic review article

 Source: https://www.scopus.com

Iranian Journal of Public Health

Volume 45, Issue 9, 27 September 2016, Pages 1118-1125

Open Access

Impact of article page count and number of authors on citations in disability related fields: A systematic review article  (Review)

Ahmed, A.^ab , 

Adam, M.^a, 

Ghafar, N.A.^a, 

Muham-Mad, M.^c, 

Ebrahim, N.A.^d

 

^a 
Dept. Of Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia


^b 
Dept. Of Architecture, Faculty of Earth and Environmental
Sciences, Kano University of Science and Technology Wudil, P.M.B. 3244,
Kano, Nigeria


^c 
Dept. Of International and Strategic Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Abstract

Background: Citation
metrics and total publications in a field has become the gold standard
for rating researchers and viability of a field. Hence, stimulating
demand for citation has led to a search for useful strategies to improve
performance metric index. Meanwhile, title, abstract and morphologic
qualities of the articles attract researchers to scientific
publications. Yet, there is relatively little understanding of the
citation trend in disability related fields. We aimed to provide an
insight into the factors associated with citation increase in this
field. Additionally, we tried to know at what page number an article
might appear attractive to disability researchers needs. Thus, our focus
is placed on the article page count and the number of authors
contributing to the fields per article. Methods: To this end, we
evaluated the quantitative characteristics of top cited articles in the
fields with a total citation (50) in the Web of Science (WoS) database.
Using one-way independent ANOVA, data extracted spanning a period of
1980-2015 were analyzed, while the non-parametric data analysis uses
Kruskal-Walis test. Results: Articles with 11 to 20 pages attract more
citations followed by those within the range of zero to 10. Articles
with upward 21 pages are the least cited. Surprisingly, articles with
more than two authors are significantly (P<0.05) less cited and the
citation decreases as the number of authors increased. Conclusion:
Collaborative studies enjoy wider utilization and more citation, yet
discounted merit of additional pages and limited collaborative research
in disability field is revealed in this study. © 2016 Iranian Journal of
Public Health. All rights reserved.

Author keywords

Article page count; Bibliometric; Citation counts; Disability; Number of authors

ISSN: 03044556Source Type: Journal
Original language: English

Document Type: Review

Publisher: Iranian Journal of Public Health

Funding Details

Acronym; Sponsor: UM; Universiti Malaya

Scopus - Document details

Tools and sites used for impact measurement (some preliminary results) | Innovations in Scholarly Communication

 Source: https://101innovations.wordpress.com/2015/10/08/2am-altmetrics/

Tools and sites used for impact measurement (some preliminary results)

8 October 2015 / 101 Innovations

For the 2:AM Altmetrics conference on Oct 7-8, 2015 in Amsterdam, we looked at some of our preliminary survey
results on tools and sites used for impact measurement. For this, we
did a brief non-statistical analysis of responses up until October 1
from researchers (PhD-students, postdocs and faculty, n=3481) and
librarians (n=638), comparing their answers to the following survey
question:





The percentage of respondents that selected the various tools shown
as preselected options in the survey question notably differed between
researchers and librarians. Among researchers, traditional tools like
JCR (impact factor), Web of Science and Scopus are considerably more
often used  than tools for altmetrics (Altmetric, ImpactStory and PLOS
article-level metrics). Librarians, however, selected Altmetric about as
often as the more traditional metrics tools.


It should be noted here that in the survey, respondents who support researchers (rather than actively carry out research themselves) are asked to indicate which tools they recommend (rather than actively use). This means that the results for librarians indicate endorsement, rather than active use.


The fact that librarians much more often selected altmetrics tools
like Altmetric and ImpactStory, compared to researchers,  could either
reflect a greater awareness or a greater enthousiasm for these tools.

Percentage
of respondents that indicated to use (researchers) or recommend
(librarians) the tools shown as preselected options in the survey
question

To investigate possible differences between fields in the use of
altmetrics tools, we broke down researchers’  responses according to
discipline, and looked at the share of altmetrics tools among all
metrics tools mentioned by these groups. This analysis included tools
mentioned in the ‘others’ category.


Perhaps surprisingly, these preliminary results indicate a relatively
large share of altmetrics tools mentioned by researchers in the Arts
& Humanities, compared to many other discplines. It should be noted
that sample size for this group was comparatively small, and we did not
currently do any statistical analysis. Having said that, it could be
hypothesized that because Arts & Humanities scholars traditionally
have limited use for citation databases like Scopus and Web of Science
due to the coverage of these databases and the absence of humanities
from JCR, they perhaps more readily embrace the opportunity of measuring
the impact of their research output via altmetrics, in as far as this
output can indeed be identified by altmetrics providers.


As yet we have no explanation for the observed difference between
physical and life sciences, other than perhaps the wild guess that
researchers in physical sciences still don’t consider altmetrics as
seriously yet.

Share of altmetrics tools among all tools selected or mentioned by researchers, per discipline

Finally, what other tools were mentioned by participants, in addition
to the 7 preselected tools shown above? Across disciplines, by far the
most often mentioned ‘other’ tool was Google Scholar (which was not
counted as an altmetrics tool), followed by ResearchGate (which was).
Strikingly, almost nobody mentioned using alternative journal rankings.


Disclaimer: the results shown here are based on
preliminary data, and are to be treated as such. No claims are made as
to the statistical significance of the results, or lack of bias in the
data. Our survey is running until February 2016, with many institutional partners yet to start their distribution. In addition, we are currently rolling out translations of the survey to increase participation in non-Western countries.


The poster addendum with these results, showed at the 2:AM Altmetrics conference, is also available on Figshare:

http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1572175

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5 tips for promoting your research through Facebook

Posted in
Discover the Future of Research on Jan 15, 2015 3:00:50 AM

   

Christine Thomsen
Marketing Manager, Author Marketing, Wiley

Let’s
face it; whether you love it or love to hate it, for now, Facebook is
here to stay. With 71% of online adults using Facebook, the channel
presents a real opportunity for authors and researchers like you, to
promote their work, assuming you have the bandwidth to maintain it.
However, before you jump headfirst into using Facebook as a marketing
tool, we have some tips for maximizing the potential of the channel.

1) Determine if you will post from your personal account, or create a separate Author Page

There
are several reasons why we recommend creating an Author Page. First, it
allows you to create a separate presence, this way, you can avoid
spamming your family and friends with the constant promotion of your
work, while also refraining from accidentally sharing your daily cat
video with your professional audience. Other reasons that make creating a
separate page more attractive include, access to analytics that
personal profiles do not offer, unlimited friend count and the ability
to advertise.

However, a separate page is
not for everyone. It does take time and resources to maintain and
Facebook’s algorithm typically limits the number of newsfeeds your posts
show up in to just a fraction of your fan base. So in order to really
get your content noticed, you will need to establish a large fan base,
or support your page with advertising. If you opt not to create a
separate page and use your personal page to promote your work, you can
manage the privacy settings for each post and allow Facebook users to
subscribe to your page, rather than becoming friends.

2) Present yourself visually

Facebook
gives you the option to add both a profile photo and cover photo – use
it! Don’t let your page sit blank. Choose an image of yourself, or one
that represents the research you are doing and make sure your brand and
personality shine through. This is especially important for your profile
photo, as this will be the first photo Facebook users see while
searching for you, or pages like yours. One thing to remember is that
Facebook makes frequent updates to the sizes and requirements for photos
on their channel. Be sure to monitor your page and update your photos
when necessary. The current requirements are:

Profile Photo – 180x180 (displays 160x160)

Cover Photo – 851x315

3) Create a content schedule

Before
you jump in and begin promoting your work, map out a plan for your
content, including defining your social voice. Determine how you are
going to talk to your fans and what you are going to say to them.
Consider posting content about your latest and past research
publications with links so fans can read your work, share other
publications you’re reading or using in your research, update readers on
upcoming events you’ll be attending and wherever possible, your posts
should contain interesting and engaging images and video interviews.
Once you decide on a schedule that is manageable for you, stick to it.
Consistency is key. Finally, don’t forget to monitor your page! This
includes responding to any questions or comments left on your page. You
should aim to respond within 24 hours.

4) Join groups

Facebook
groups are a great way to engage in discussions with those who have
similar interests to yours and with influencers in your particular
research community. Being active in these groups will help drive people
to your Facebook page. Remember to be genuine and helpful. Although you
want to promote your work, you do not want this to appear to be the only
reason you’ve joined the group.

5) Consistently promote, promote, promote

If
you build it, they won’t necessarily come. Make sure you are
consistently promoting your page to bring in new fans. Cross promote
your Facebook page through any of your other social media accounts, like
LinkedIn, or Twitter, ask your network to promote the page, add a link
to your page on your business cards, share it on a blog, or add it to
any marketing promotions you are doing to promote your work.

So there it is! Good luck, enjoy yourself and don’t forget to tweet us at @WileyExchanges to let us know how it’s going.

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