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Raising academic profiles with online resources
Paul Gardner
May 8, 2014
Paul Gardner Raising academic profiles with online resources
Motivation: QS rankings
I March 2014 report by Warren Smart,Ministry of Education.
I Summarises the performance of NZuniversities across the ARWU, QS andTHE rankings.
I International student scholarships arelimited to top 200 universities by someagencies.
http://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/publications/tertiary education/145981
Paul Gardner Raising academic profiles with online resources
Motivation: QS rankings
I QS is the most widely used & cited rankingI Based upon arbitrary weighting of 6 metricsI Z-scores → “P-values”I High density ouside the tails of the normal distributions →
small changes can have a large impact
Paul Gardner Raising academic profiles with online resources
Motivation: QS rankings
NZ university rankings
Year
QS
wor
ld r
anki
ng
Auckland − 94
Otago − 155
Canterbury − 238
Victoria − 265
Massey − 343
Waikato: 401−410Lincoln: 481−490
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
400
300
200
100
1
2013 H−index
0 50 100
150
200
75
96
128
111
128
203
196
2013 H6−index
0 20 40 60 80 100
40
45
67
58
67
100
112
Paul Gardner Raising academic profiles with online resources
Motivation: QS rankings
Paul Gardner Raising academic profiles with online resources
Motivation: QS rankings
Paul Gardner Raising academic profiles with online resources
Motivation: UC citations
0 500 1000 1500 2000
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Number of citations per UC article (2008−2012)
Article index
Num
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of c
ites
20 cites long tail
100 cites
0 100 200 300 400 500
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Cumulative %−age contribution to UC's total cites
Number of cites
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ites
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0 ci
tes
Paul Gardner Raising academic profiles with online resources
Motivation: PBRF
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UC Subjects PBRF 06 vs 12 performances
AQS(N) 2006
AQ
S(N
) 20
12
Ag._&_Appld_Bio._Sci.
Biomedical
Chemistry
Earth_Sciences
Ecol.,_Evol._&_Behav.
Eng._&_Tech. For._Lang._&_Ling.
Human_Geography
Mol.,_Cell._&_Whole_Org._Bio.
Other_Health_StudsPhysics
Psychology
xNational average
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4.0 4.5 5.0 5.5 6.0
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
UC Department PBRF 06 vs 12 performances
AQS(N) 2006
AQ
S(N
) 20
12
Chemistry
Communication_DisordersGeography
Geological_Sciences
Physics_and_Astronomy
Psychology
Biological_Sciences
xNational average
I Performance-based research funding (cf. UK’s RAE)I Research outputs, contribution to research environment, and
peer esteem
Paul Gardner Raising academic profiles with online resources
Some strategies going forward
I High impact articlesI International collaborations (Pan, Kaski & Fortunato, 2012)I Meta-analyses (Anecdote, 2014) – see Shinichi Nakagawa
I Publicise your work! Some suggestions:I Deposit data in archives (+9%, Piwowar & Vision, 2013)I Preprint archives or publish open access (+124% to +230%,
Aman, 2013)I UC library, personal webpage, arXiv, bioRxiv, figshare, ...
I Check your articles are referenced on appropriate Wikipediaarticles
I Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia.
Paul Gardner Raising academic profiles with online resources
More PR venues
I Create a ResearchGate profile
I Create a GoogleScholar profile
I AltMetrics are used by some sources (e.g. downloads, tweets,likes, ...). ImpactStory is one venue for these.
Paul Gardner Raising academic profiles with online resources
ResearchGate
I a social networking site for scientists and researchers to sharepapers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators
I Spam!
I Undocumented “RG score”
I Can upload full-text copies of their articles (pre-prints, ormodified copyright statements)
Paul Gardner Raising academic profiles with online resources
Google Scholar
I A freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full textof scholarly literature
I Includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe andAmerica’s largest scholarly publishers, plus scholarly booksand other non-peer reviewed journals
I Import and export references in RefWorks, RefMan, EndNoteand BibTeX formats
I Individual’s total citation count, h-index, and i10-index
I Top citations in a field of interest can also be accessed
I Alerts!
Paul Gardner Raising academic profiles with online resources
More input is welcome...
I There are a variety of UC groups looking at these issues...I College/SBS Research Committees (incl. Wendy Lawson,
Ximena Nelson, Emily Parker, ...)I Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research Steve Weaver and Dean of
Postgraduate Research Lucy Johnston
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2010
2012
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2020
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Paul Gardner Raising academic profiles with online resources
Some ideas
I Research funding in exchange for recruiting internationalstudents?
I Subsidise trips home for our internationational staff inexchange for UC ambassador activities?
I Raise entry requirements? Provisional enrolments? Entranceexams?
I Hire more staff?
I Increase the PG to UG ratios?
Paul Gardner Raising academic profiles with online resources
Conclusion
I UC is a world class university with world class staff andstudents
Paul Gardner Raising academic profiles with online resources