Your NRF CV

Dr Cheryl Tosh

cheryl.tosh@up.ac.za

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• Why?

• Filling in your NRF CV

– Section by section

• Thompson H-index

• Scopus H-index

• Google Scholar Profile

• Google Citation Profile

• ORCID for a complete list of your publications

• Resources:

http://www.up.ac.za/en/faculty-of-health-sciences-

research/article/2137603/nrf-become-a-rated-researcher

Why?

• Deadline

– 16 November 2016

• Access to funding

• Recognition

• Planning exercise

• Present the necessary evidence in a manner that will allow

reviewers to make fair judgement

• Complete picture

• Research is original investigation undertaken to gain knowledge

and/or enhance understanding

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Qualifications

• Add all your qualifications

• Masters level = M.Sc

• Postdoctoral fellowships are not qualifications

– They belong in career profile

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Research expertise

Student supervision record

• Add all the students you have ever supervised

Career profile

• List ALL the positions you have held in the past, including non-academic

positions

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Personal profile

• Not bulleted

• Provide information not given elsewhere in the application

• Overview of where you have come from and where you are now

• Awards and prizes, memberships of editorial boards, memberships of

international committees

• Number of citations, highlight your highest cited paper, the highest

impact factor, name journals (IF) you have reviewed for

• Overseas visits and conferences (Dates and places NB!)

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My research career has followed a largely academic route, completing my PhD studies 2010 at the University of Pretoria and

being employed as a postdoctoral researcher within the Marion Island Marine Mammal Programme (MIMMP) (Mammal

Research Institute, University of Pretoria) since then. Undergraduate studies (BSc Ecology, 2000) and subsequent

postgraduate studies (BSc (Hons) and MSc (Zoology)) allowed for the development of research skills including geographic

information systems for data analysis, remote sensing, the use and handling of large data sets, statistical analysis using R

software and the process of publishing articles and presenting at conferences. During this time I successfully completed two

training courses in the use of ArcView and ArcGIS software. My PhD research (supervisor: Prof. MN Bester) examined the

characteristics of ocean habitats which are utilised by southern elephant seals (SES). Analysis of animal tracks and finding

patterns of movement and describing the relationships with the physical environment became the focus of my research. As

part of the MIMMP my research has formed the basis for understanding how SES at Marion Island (MI) interact with their

ocean environment in the southern Indian Ocean. SES from MI tend to forage due west of the island, in close conjunction

with the frontal zones formed by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Whilst these broad patterns hold true, much fine scale

variation is evident in their behaviour, with individuals spending time at the edges of sea-surface height anomalies, frontal

areas characterised by sharp sea-surface temperature gradients or bathymetric features. My research ties in with broad and

multi-faceted MIMMP which is aimed at understanding top predator ecology at MI. Understanding the movements, and

subsequent foraging behaviours of southern elephant seals, on a broad and individual level, enables other researchers within

the group to identify factors that affect the population dynamics of SES at MI, in conjunction with other factors such as killer

whale predation and competition from the numerous fur seals residing on MI. My involvement in the MIMMP has included

several research trips to MI including a 13 month overwintering expedition as a field assistant and seal biologist

(2006/2007). I have assisted with SES immobilisations and the deployment of satellite relay data loggers on these animals.

My experience on Marion Island provided a the opportunity to gain first hand knowledge of elephant seal ecology and

provides a reference point for my research. I visited the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany (2005) as part of

an on-going research collaboration that has resulted in publications related to elephant seal movement ecology. I received the

departmental (Zoology & Entomology) award for the best PhD oral presentation in 2007. I have been invited to review

manuscripts for Ecography (IF=4.207), Wildlife Biology (IF=0.77), African Zoology (IF=1.018), Marine Mammal Science

(IF=1.82) and Polar Biology (IF=2.071). I have published several scientific articles (n=26) and presented extensively at

conferences. Despite my publications being relatively recently published (2004 onwards), they are being cited by the

scientific community (h-score = 11 Scopus & Thompson ISI; h = 12 Google Scholar). As part of the MIMMP, I have assisted

with various student projects and continue to supervise students at the honours level providing important opportunities for

skills transfer and development of future researchers. My GIS skills and knowledge of animal tracking is currently extending

into the analysis of terrestrial data sets. I am collaborating with Mr P Beytell at the Namibian Ministry of Environment and

Tourism, analysing a multispecies tracking dataset in relation to water resources and fire patterns in arid environments.

Writing your personal profile

• Use short sentences

• Use the active voice

– My research….

– I have supervised….

– My skills….

– I have visited….

– I attended….

– I presented…

– I am a member of….

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Absence from research

• Only in the NRF CV, not needed for the rating application

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Research outputs

• Primary

• Patents

• Secondary

Primary outputs

• NRF CV = ALL books, ALL articles, ALL conferences

• Consult your ORCID, Thompson and Scopus reports to make sure you

have all your accredited outputs

• Make sure that your CV entries correspond to the author, title and

publication details on the relevant outputs

• Format for authors:

– Monteiro, D.S., Olivier, J.I. and Basson, A.

• Rating application = you will be asked to select 5 outputs from the last 8

years as your best

– 2009 - 2016

• Rating application = you will be asked to select the 10 best prior to 2009

• Rating application = you will be asked to select your best student outputs

• Be selective, de-select outputs that may detract from your rating

application

– Golden thread is important here.

– Each of your highlighted outputs needs to be discussed and put into

context

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Primary outputs

• Do not duplicate (same input as a journal and a conference proceeding).

• Books

– Do not add twice

• Chapters in books

– Do not add twice

• Refereed/Peer-reviewed conference proceedings

– Work presented at a conference and printed later as a full article

– A full article is submitted to the conference for consideration

• Articles in refereed/peer-reviewed journals

– ISI or Scopus = international recognition and citations

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Patents

• ALL past and current patents

• Only granted patents will show in the rating application

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Secondary outputs

• 2 750 character, description

• Accessible to reviewers and supporting your primary research outputs

• Keynote/Plenary addresses

– Appropriate descriptions of high level international conferences and

symposia

– Not high school lectures or lectures at local/foreign institutions

• Articles in non-refereed/non peer-reviewed journals

– Those that enhance your research status, accessible to reviewers

• Other significant conference outputs

– Peer reviewed abstracts, international conferences

– Non-peer reviewed proceedings

Secondary outputs

• Technical/Policy reports

– Enhancing your research status

– WHO reports or local government reports

• Books/Chapter in books edited by Applicant

– Edited works – not substantial original research, introductions or

editorial commentary

• Products – a commodity, a play, a creation, an invention

• Artefacts – films, documentaries

• Prototypes – an original model on which something is patterned

• Other recognised research outputs – databases, bibliographies,

catalogues, software, vaccines

– Give brief but comprehensive descriptions

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Web of Science h-index

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Scopus h-index

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Google Scholar Profile

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Google Citation Profile

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Website address/link to your CV to view complete list of research

outputs

ADDITIONAL DETAILS/INFORMATION

• http://www.library.up.ac.za/eresources/eresourcesaz_on.htm

• Web of Science (ScieSearch, SocSearch, ArtSearch)

• Scopus

• Google Scholar

Web of Science

• Basic author search

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Web of Science

• Create citation report

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Web of Science

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Scopus

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Scopus

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Google Scholar

Open researcher and contributor ID

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