Calculate Your Academic Footprint
This Guide
Developing
skills to determine an individual's scholarly impact is becoming
essential to advancing an academic career (Hirsch, 2007).
With the above in mind, this Calculate Your Academic Footprint guide:
skills to determine an individual's scholarly impact is becoming
essential to advancing an academic career (Hirsch, 2007).
With the above in mind, this Calculate Your Academic Footprint guide:
- Overviews a process for creating a master publication list and master citation list
- Explains how these master lists are possible through data available
in citation-tracking databases, and through the support of a
bibliographic management tool (such as RefWorks) - Provides a process for keeping your citation counts current and relatively self-sustaining over time
- Describes how you can calculate a more robust and accurate h-index
The Process
The
process offered by this guide enables authors to proactively produce an
accurate publication list (the 'master publication list') and to capture
accurate citation counts for these publications (via a 'master citation
list').
This flow chart captures the major steps of the process:
process offered by this guide enables authors to proactively produce an
accurate publication list (the 'master publication list') and to capture
accurate citation counts for these publications (via a 'master citation
list').
This flow chart captures the major steps of the process:
Reference
Hirsch, J. E. (2007). Does the h index have predictive power? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104(49), 19193-19198. doi:10.1073/pnas.0707962104
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