Wednesday, 30 November 2016

Evaluating the academic trend of RFID technology based on SCI and SSCI publications from 2001 to 2014 | SpringerLink


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Tuesday, 29 November 2016

Increase your research exposure - UM Library - Maastricht University

Source: http://library.maastrichtuniversity.nl/researcher/increase-research-exposure/

Increase your research impact

In the academic world research impact is very important.
Research impact is taken into
account when research groups are being evaluated formally by the
Standard Evaluation Protocols (SEP), but also when your own your
academic work or career is being evaluated for funding, promotion or
appointments. 
Researchers use different
strategies to improve their (potential) research impact in all phases of
the publishing process. They may be applied during the pre-print phase
(while planning, writing and choosing journals to publish in), but also
in the post-print phase (after the article or study is published), and
both are important.




 

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
  • 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pre-print service to generate feedback and interest in your publication (e.g. arXiv.org e-print service at Cornell and not peer-reviewed in the traditional sense)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:
  • 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:


Sage:


Wiley:


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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Visibility and Research Impact, 22.09.2016, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Munich | Universitätsbibliothek der TUM

 Source: https://www.ub.tum.de/en/date/sichtbarkeit-und-impact-von-forschung-22092016-900-1300-muenchen


Visibility and Research Impact, 22.09.2016, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Munich


 



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Kudos: Improving the Reachability and Research Impact





Kudos: Improving the Reachability and Research Impact

29.11.2016, 13:41 byNader Ale Ebrahim
You
need tools to disseminate the research findings and publications and
make sure that the high quality work of your research, reaches to the
widest possible audience outside of your academic research discipline.
Kudos is one of the service that provides tools for researchers to
maximize the visibility and reach of their published papers. Kudos
provides a new way for authors to use social media to engage the digital
community with their research. By creating 'profiles' for their
published articles and adding short titles, lay summaries, impact
statements and supplementary content, authors can make their articles
more engaging for a digital readership.

References



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Friday, 25 November 2016

RVP Newsletter Issue 5

 Source: http://library.hkbu.edu.hk/researchvisibility/pastnewsletters/issue5/



The RVP team is pleased to announce that we have partnered with


Kudos
This Web-based service helps researchers maximize the visibility
and impact of their published articles. The Kudos platform allows
you to make your work more accessible and discoverable, and
provides tools to measure the effect of your impact enhancement
activities.


Kudos features an ORCID integration ,
so importing
your publications into Kudos is quick and easy.




To find out more and get started using the Kudos toolkit to increase the impact of your research, check out our :

*** Kudos Guide ***

Over 70% of HKBU Researchers

Now Connected to ORCID




Since HKBU’s launch of the institutional adoption of ORCID at the beginning of 2015, more than two-thirds of our faculty have shown their support by signing up and connecting their ORCID to our online system.






With more publishers and research services making use of ORCID iDs,
our faculty will be well-placed to take advantage. Furthermore, they can
enjoy
the benefits of the ORCID Update Service provided by the RVP team.





New publication information submitted to the Graduate School will be
automatically passed to the RVP team for addition to your ORCID
account.




If you have not yet signed up for ORCID, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us !



MORE INFORMATION
Our Guide to ORCID


Get more details about ORCID and how the RVP team can help you get the most out of it



BEYOND ORCID
Research Visibility Website
 
Learn more about our other initiatives to support research visibility at HKBU







Research Visibility Team


Phone:   3411-5553




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Strategies to improve visibility and impact through social media | Social Media for Learning

 Source: https://socialmediaforlearning.com/2013/10/19/strategies-to-improve-visibility-and-impact-through-social-media/

Strategies to improve visibility and impact through social media

Posted on October 19, 2013 by
visibility


As a blogger, author of a book, chapter or article; it should come as
no surprise that we look to find ways to increase readership. This
morning whilst researching for a project I am working on, I came across
an article by Professor Christine Pascale
who provides a list of tips for researchers and authors to improve
research visibility and impact. Whilst this focuses on research, many of
the tips can easily be applied to any form of writing you wish to
share. It could be your blog about poetry or a book you have written.


In the list below I have added in red some additional suggestions of my own and hyperlinked the social media sites that are suggested.


Christine’s top tips for researchers and authors


  • Publicise yourself and your research; for example, put a message and hyperlink to the article in your Email signature box.
Include a link to your blog or Amazon listing.
  • Write a review, reviews are more likely to be cited than original research papers.
Consider writing a review of another author’s work in your own blog.
  • Promote and present your work at conferences, with colleagues and
    through your student body. Persuade the organizers of a meeting or
    conference to make publicly available the presentations made at
    meetings; not just the published abstracts.
Include links to your work on the final slide. Upload your presentation to Slideshare, which is an excellent space for people to share, like and comment upon your work.
  • Set up a web site devoted to your work and research projects and
    post links to manuscripts of publications, conference abstracts, and
    supplemental materials such as images, illustrations, slides, specimens,
    and progress reports on the site.
Tools like WordPress and Blogger make
this very easy and can be set up at static pages just like a website.
Including visible sharing buttons on your site enables readers to share
what they have read with others. 
  • Ideas travel through networks and relationships. Build on these and be opportunistic.
Developing online networks on LinkedIn, Mendeley and ResearchGate
  • Use your Facebook account, blogs, and social networks. Start a blog devoted to the research project.
This is an excellent way to
receive feedback. Include questions in your posts to encourage readers
to answer these using the comments.
  • Consider communicating information about your research via Twitter.
    Twitter provides an efficient platform for communicating and consuming
    science.
You may want to include #hashtags for
keywords that relate to your work. For example blogging about social
media in higher education, I might include #HigherEd #socialmedia.
  • Take advantage of SEO (search engine optimization) tips to enhance
    retrieval of your research project web site by search engines. Work with
    your webmaster to make sure your web page titles describe the content
    of the web page and include the name of your research project. Include
    meta tags in the page header section that include appropriate keywords
    to describe the content of the page. Search engines look at this
    “hidden” content and use it to determine search results page rankings.
When writing a blog post
think about the title and consider the search terms people may use to
locate information about your topic or specialism and include these
words.
  • Research is not just text and figures. Create a podcast describing the research project and submit the podcast to YouTube or Vimeo.
You may also want to consider AudioBoo or SoundCloud which are social sites for sharing audio.
  • Sign up for other social networking sites to increase your visibility and connect with colleagues. Some useful sites are ResearcherID or LinkedIn. Sites such as Nature Network
    allow and encourage interaction between users. Social network tools
    provide a forum for disseminating your research, promoting discussion of
    your work, sharing scientific information, and forming new
    collaborations.
Consider joining groups or setting up your own in LinkedIn to discuss your own subject specialisms. Cloudworks is a space to share, find and discuss learning and teaching ideas and experiences. Scribd and Issuu are digital documents libraries that allow users to publish, discover and discuss original writings and documents. 
For further ideas on how to develop
the use of social media you may wish to look at a presentation I gave at
the University of Roehampton on Social Media and the Digital Scholar which is available on Slideshare.


Social Media and the Digital Scholar


References

Professor Dr Christine Pascal OBE

Source: http://www.educationarena.com/expertPanel/panel2013/pascal.asp



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Create Discovery Metadata to improve research visibility | London School of Hygiene

 Source: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/researchdataman/describe/discovery_metadata.html

Create
Discovery Metadata to improve research visibility - See more at:
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/researchdataman/describe/discovery_metadata.html#sthash.n7XyiveZ.dpuf

Create Discovery Metadata to improve research visibility

Publishing
information that describes the content of your research can enhance its
visibility within the academic community, making it easier for others
to learn about, cite, and use. This page explains how discovery metadata
may be used in your research.

What is discovery metadata?

At a basic level, metadata is data about data - information
associated with a resource that describes one or more attributes.
Discovery metadata refers to the subset of information that is necessary
to help researchers to locate data of relevance using a search engine
or online catalogue.



What type of resource should it be applied to?

Metadata can be associated with any type of data. However, in the
context of research datasets, three types of resource are relevant.







What metadata should be created?

When documenting data, it is useful to consider the question, “What information would I need to be able to find, understand, and use this data in 5 years?”. Relevant information includes the following:



  • Title: The title of the work
  • Grant Number: The grant no. for the project
  • Description: A paragraph that describes the content. This may be the same as the abstract
  • Creator: One or more people responsible for the data’s creation
  • Contributors: Other people who contributed to the data’s development
  • Completion date: The date of finalisation/last update
  • Rights: Ownership and other rights associated with the data
  • Access Restrictions: Restrictions or other controls that must be imposed upon the data, e.g. academic use only.
  • Temporal coverage: The start and end date of the data collection or other activity
  • Spatial coverage: The geographic region in which data
    collection or other activities was  performed. This may be referenced as
    a geographic region or using an spatial reference system.

Practical Support and guidance

Further Information:

- See more at: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/researchdataman/describe/discovery_metadata.html#sthash.n7XyiveZ.dpuf






Create Discovery Metadata to improve research visibility

Publishing information that describes the content of your
research can enhance its visibility within the academic community, making it
easier for others to learn about, cite, and use. This page explains how
discovery metadata may be used in your research.

What is discovery metadata?

At a basic level, metadata is data about data - information associated with
a resource that describes one or more attributes. Discovery metadata refers to
the subset of information that is necessary to help researchers to locate data
of relevance using a search engine or online catalogue.



What type of resource should it be applied to?

Metadata can be associated with any type of data. However, in the context of
research datasets, three types of resource are relevant.



http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/researchdataman/describe/md_levels.gif



What metadata should be created?

When documenting data, it is useful to consider the question, “What
information would I need to be able to find, understand, and use this data in 5
years?”. Relevant information includes the following:



  • Title: The title of
    the work
  • Grant Number: The
    grant no. for the project
  • Description: A
    paragraph that describes the content. This may be the same as the abstract
  • Creator: One or more
    people responsible for the data’s creation
  • Contributors: Other
    people who contributed to the data’s development
  • Completion date: The
    date of finalisation/last update
  • Rights: Ownership and
    other rights associated with the data
  • Access Restrictions:
    Restrictions or other controls that must be imposed upon the data, e.g.
    academic use only.
  • Temporal coverage: The
    start and end date of the data collection or other activity
  • Spatial coverage: The
    geographic region in which data collection or other activities was 
    performed. This may be referenced as a geographic region or using an
    spatial reference system.

Practical Support and guidance

Further Information:

- See more at:
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/researchdataman/describe/discovery_metadata.html#sthash.n7XyiveZ.dpuf




Create Discovery Metadata to improve research visibility

Publishing
information that describes the content of your research can enhance its
visibility within the academic community, making it easier for others
to learn about, cite, and use. This page explains how discovery metadata
may be used in your research.

What is discovery metadata?

At a basic level, metadata is data about data - information
associated with a resource that describes one or more attributes.
Discovery metadata refers to the subset of information that is necessary
to help researchers to locate data of relevance using a search engine
or online catalogue.



What type of resource should it be applied to?

Metadata can be associated with any type of data. However, in the
context of research datasets, three types of resource are relevant.







What metadata should be created?

When documenting data, it is useful to consider the question, “What information would I need to be able to find, understand, and use this data in 5 years?”. Relevant information includes the following:



  • Title: The title of the work
  • Grant Number: The grant no. for the project
  • Description: A paragraph that describes the content. This may be the same as the abstract
  • Creator: One or more people responsible for the data’s creation
  • Contributors: Other people who contributed to the data’s development
  • Completion date: The date of finalisation/last update
  • Rights: Ownership and other rights associated with the data
  • Access Restrictions: Restrictions or other controls that must be imposed upon the data, e.g. academic use only.
  • Temporal coverage: The start and end date of the data collection or other activity
  • Spatial coverage: The geographic region in which data
    collection or other activities was  performed. This may be referenced as
    a geographic region or using an spatial reference system.

Practical Support and guidance

Further Information:

- See more at: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/researchdataman/describe/discovery_metadata.html#sthash.n7XyiveZ.dpuf
Create
Discovery Metadata to improve research visibility - See more at:
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/researchdataman/describe/discovery_metadata.html#sthash.n7XyiveZ.dpuf
Create
Discovery Metadata to improve research visibility - See more at:
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/researchdataman/describe/discovery_metadata.html#sthash.n7XyiveZ.dpuf
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Thursday, 24 November 2016

Impactstory: Nader Ale Ebrahim

 Source: https://impactstory.org/u/0000-0001-7091-4439

Publications

view all


A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases


2013

Asian Social Science



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Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency


2013

International Education Studies



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Ethical and Unethical Methods of Plagiarism Prevention in Academic Writing


2014

International Education Studies


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Impactstory: Discover the online impact of your research

 Source: https://impactstory.org/u/0000-0001-7091-4439/p/DDvszfuPKa

A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases

Aghaei Chadegani, Arezoo, Hadi Salehi, Melor Md Yunus,
Hadi Farhadi, Masood Fooladi, Maryam Farhadi, Ale Ebrahim, Nader
2013

Asian Social Science







Free fulltext available




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Impactstory: Nader Ale Ebrahim

 Source: https://impactstory.org/u/0000-0001-7091-4439/achievements



8

achievements





Open Access






Top 10%


98% of your research is free to read online.
This level of availability puts you in the top 4% of researchers.


Even
better, 52% of your papers are published under a fully Open license
like CC-BY, making them available for a wide range of reuse (not just
reading). Learn more about why this is important at HowOpenIsIt.







Global Reach





Top 25%



Your research has been saved and shared in 40 countries.
That's high: only 11% of researchers get that much international attention.


Countries include


Argentina,

Australia,

Belgium


and 37 more.








Hot Streak






Top 10%


People keep talking about your research. Someone has shared your research online every month for the last 11 months.
That's a sharing streak matched by only 2% of scholars.







Greatest Hit





Top 25%



Your top publication has been saved and shared 192 times.
Only 18% of researchers get this much attention on a publication.


Your greatest hit online is A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections


Web of Science and Scopus Databases.









Global South






Top 10%


Of people who save and share your research, 60% are in the Global South.
That's a high proportion: only 2% of researchers publish work that inspires this level of engagement from the developing world.


Countries include


Argentina,

Brazil,

India


and 13 more.








Follower Frenzy





Top 25%



Someone with over 28.984 thousand followers has tweeted your research.
Only 23% of scholars have been tweeted by someone with this many followers.


Thanks, @figshare.







All Readers Welcome





Your writing has a reading level that is easily understood at grade 9 and above, based on its abstracts and titles.
That's great — it helps lay people and practitioners use your research. It also puts you in the top 3% in readability.







Big in Japan





Your work was saved or shared by someone in Japan!
Only half of researchers can claim this honor.







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