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Early Career Tactics to Increase Scholarly Impact
Elaine Lasda BergmanDewey Graduate Library
Workshop for Educational Psychology Ph.D. StudentsMarch 3, 2016
Making it in Academia
• Service• Teaching• Scholarship
Measuring Impact
•Measure why? •Measure what?•Measure how?
Some Key Resources
•Web of Science•Scopus•Google Scholar
Some Key Measures
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Journal Level Metrics
• Journal Impact Factor• Eigenfactor• SNIP• SJR• Google Scholar Metrics
Journal Metrics Exercise
• Split up into 3 teams. Each team search for the Journal of Educational Psychology in one of the following: – Web of Science– Scopus– Google Scholar Metrics
• How do the results differ? Why?
Newer, Bigger Concerns with JIF
http://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2013/may/17/science-policy
Author Level Metrics
• h-Index• Variations on h index• Eigenfactor• Author Identifier(s)
Author Exercise
• Elaine M. Lasda Bergman• Elaine M. Lasda• Elaine L. Bergman• ORCID ID 0000-0002-9498-7074
Search in Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar Citations. Differences? Why is the ORCID ID handy?
Article Level Metrics
• Citation metrics• Usage metrics• Alternative metrics
Article Exercise
Altmetric Bookmarklet
Strategies to Increase Visibility& Maximize Impact
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Get Published in a Key Journal
•Bibliometric approach•Reputation approach
Open Access
OA Journal Models
http://researchguides.library.vanderbilt.edu/c.php?g=144567&p=946137ck
Green OA
Traditional Open Access Journals
• Journals established by digital commercial or nonprofit publishers for the sole purpose of publishing open access content
• Typically utilize a Creative Commons Attribution License for publishing• Authors usually retain their copyright.• Different funding strategies used to support the journal:• Advertising• Membership fees• Author fees (money may come from the author or more likely the author's research grant)• Can be waived in cases of financial hardship• Subsidies from institutions such as universities, laboratories, research centers, libraries, foundations,
museums or government agencies
Hybrid Open Access Journals
• Journals where only some of the articles are open access• Open access status requires the payment of a publication fee/ processing fee to the publisher• Definition of open access may vary according to publisher
Delayed Open Access Journals
Delayed Open Access Journals• Traditional subscription-based journal• Provide open access or free access after the elapse of an embargo period following the initial date of
publication• Embargo periods vary from a few months to two or more years• Journal subscription or individual article purchase required to view articles prior to the end of the
embargo period• Model adopted by many scholarly society journals
Other OA ModelsGOLD OA
Institutional Repository Scholars Archive
Subject/Discipline-Specific Repositories ERIC https://eric.ed.gov
Author's Personal Websitehttp://rmpruzek.com/
Scholarly Networking
• Academia.edu• ResearchGate• CiteULike• Mendeley• Faculty of 1000• Zenodo
Collaborate, Publicity, Discoverability
• Press Releases• Search Engine Optimization• Database Alerts• Disciplinary e-mail lists• Mainstream Social Media
3 “Quick Hits” to Get Started
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Create Profiles http://orcid.org Author
Identifier
https://www.researchgate.net/ Academic Networking and Sharing
http://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/
Institutional Repository
Other Cool Options• Becker Model
– https://becker.wustl.edu/impact-assessment
• PeerEvaluation – http://www.peerevaluation.org
• Kudos – https://growkudos.com
• Hypothes.is – https://hypothes.is/– https://via.hypothes.is/http://libguides.library.albany.edu/citesearch
Help at UAlbany Libraries
• http://libguides.library.albany.edu/scholcomm
• http://libguides.library.albany.edu/citesearch
• http://libguides.library.albany.edu/faculty
• http://libguides.library.albany.edu/graduatestudents
Thank You for Coming! Questions?
Elaine Lasda BergmanSubject Librarian, Dewey Library
[email protected]://slideshare.net/librarian68