Publishing for impact

Wouter Gerritsma

Wageningen UR Library

Contents

Introduction Citation analysis Journal Impact Publication strategy

My article has been cited 22 times!

But was does it mean?

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How do we compare numbers?

Scientist Z. Math has a publication from 1999 with 17 citations

Scientist M. Biology has a publication from 2006 with 24 citations

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Bibliometric indicators: An example

Frewer, L.J.; Hunt, S.; Brennan, M.; Kuznesof, S.; Ness, M.; Ritson, C. (2003) The views of scientific experts on how the public conceptualize uncertainty. Journal of Risk Research 6 (1):75 - 85. Times cited: 57 times

Journal of Risk Research (from journals menu ESI) Social Science, General

Baseline data (from ESI) Article from 2003 in Social Science, general: Average: 7.04 citations,

10%: 18 citations, 1%: 56 citations RI= 57 / 7.04 = 8.1

Advanced bibliometric indicators

Follow van Raan (1996) as closely as possible; but..... Web of Science is used for citation data

We can’t make corrections for self citations Essential Science Indicators for baseline data (World

average, Top 10% and Top 1%) Limited number of research fields (22) Same baseline data used for selected document types

• (articles, reviews, notes and letters (and selected proceedings))

We can determine the representativeness of the citation analysis

Data aggregation in Wageningen Yield

“Crown Indicator” like“MNCS” like

WASS SEP table

WASS SEP table 2002-2008

2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Avg

In refereed journals 155 153 158 186 212 293 319 326 225

WoS 64 83 87 98 113 158 221 212 130

%WoS 41% 54% 55% 53% 53% 54% 69% 65% 57%

LEI SEP table 2002-2008

Pub year 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 TotalPeer rev. Articles 19 30 15 17 31 40 55 207Covered by WoS 13 16 8 13 16 24 32 125

% 68% 53% 53% 76% 52% 60% 58% 60%

WASS impact by category

WASS impact by year

Journal selection and article impact

Journal selection and article impact

JIF and article impact

# Articles RI st.dev.

Quartile 1 320 2.00 2.66

Quartile 2 320 1.27 1.70

Quartile 3 255 0.85 1.03

Quartile 4 107 0.61 0.35

Average 1002 1.32 1.95

Quartile 1 journals in Social Sciences general JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES 2.818

HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH 2.713

GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS 2.564

HEALTH EDUCATION RESEARCH 2.31

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH 2.176

LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING 2.029

ENERGY POLICY 1.901

ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A 1.834

RISK ANALYSIS 1.831

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SCIENCE 1.822

JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN PUBLIC POLICY 1.806

PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING 1.778

TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE 1.761

SOCIOLOGIA RURALIS 1.617

LAND USE POLICY 1.581

MARINE POLICY 1.525

SOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 1.464

LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION 1.435

DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW 1.409

WORLD DEVELOPMENT 1.392

JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES 1.39

JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 1.338

HUMAN ECOLOGY 1.253

SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & HUMAN VALUES 1.231

AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES 1.186

GENDER PLACE AND CULTURE 1.165

AFRICAN AFFAIRS 1.098

POLICY SCIENCES 1.091

SOCIETY & NATURAL RESOURCES 1.064

Quartile 1 journals RESEARCH POLICY 2.655

JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC GROWTH 2.542

AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW 2.285

ENERGY ECONOMICS 2.248

ORGANIZATION STUDIES 2.042

MARKETING SCIENCE 1.938

JCMS-JOURNAL OF COMMON MARKET STUDIES 1.837

ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS 1.549

ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 1.521

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 1.468

JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT 1.438

JOURNAL OF AGRARIAN CHANGE 1.375

HUMAN RELATIONS 1.372

JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS 1.323

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN MARKETING 1.28

TOURISM MANAGEMENT 1.274

JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 1.271

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 1.196

CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW 1.154

ENVIRONMENTAL & RESOURCE ECONOMICS 1.079

RESOURCE AND ENERGY ECONOMICS 1.051

MANAGEMENT LEARNING 1.02

FUTURES 1.014

JOURNAL OF BANKING & FINANCE 0.997

JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECONOMETRICS 0.978

EUROPEAN REVIEW OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 0.977

FOOD POLICY 0.942

JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS 0.938

PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW 0.93

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL 0.929

ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS 0.811

Journal selection and impact of Dutch Univ.

NOWT (2008). Wetenschaps- en Technologie- Indicatoren 2008. Maastricht, Nederlands Observatorium van Wetenschap en Technologie (NOWT).

Other journal quality information

Essential Science Indicators (WoK platform) ScimagoJR (based on Scopus) Journalmetrics.com (based on Scopus)

Final word on Journal quality

It is better to publish one paper in a quality journal than multiple papers in lesser journals. [...]. Try to publish in journals that have high impact factors; chances are your paper will have high impact, too, if accepted.

Bourne, P. E. (2005). Ten Simple Rules for Getting Published.

PLoS Comput Biol 1(5): e57.

Networks

Internal cooperation

NOWT (2008). Wetenschaps- en Technologie- Indicatoren 2008. Maastricht, Nederlands Observatorium van Wetenschap en Technologie (NOWT).

Cooperation is rewarding

NOWT (2010). Wetenschaps- en Technologie- Indicatoren 2010. Maastricht, Nederlands Observatorium van Wetenschap en Technologie (NOWT).

Cooperation...

Wuchty, S., B. F. Jones, et al. (2007). The increasing dominance of teams in production of knowledge. Science 316(5827): 1036-1039.

Teams increasingly dominate solo authors in the production of knowledge. Research is increasingly done in teams across nearly all fields.

Teams typically produce more frequently cited research than individuals do, and this advantage has been increasing over time.

Teams now also produce the exceptionally high-impact research, even where that distinction was once the domain of solo authors.

Social networking for Scientists

LinkedIn Facebook Social networks for scientists

Academics.edu, Nature networks, Labmeeting Repec

Self citations

Self citations

The model [...] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations, so that we have the “chain reaction:” Larger size leads to more self-citations, which lead to more external citations.

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van Raan, A. F. J. (2008). Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10): 1631-1643.

More on references

Articles that cite more references are in turn cited more themselves

Webster, G. D., P. K. Jonason, et al. (2009). Hot Topics and Popular Papers in Evolutionary Psychology: Analyses of Title Words and Citation Counts in Evolution and Human Behavior, 1979 – 2008. Evolutionary Psychology 7(3): 348-362.

Citing across disciplines, risky but rewardingShi, X., J. Leskovec, et al. (2010). Citing for high impact. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries. p.49-58

Make your pubications OA available Be aware of the copyrights agreement at the

moment of publishing Golden Road

PloS Journals, BMC, etc Green Road

Self archived copies RePec, Wageningen Yield etc.

Open Choice Hybrid system, author pays and library pays Springer journals are a favourable exception

Is there a citation advantage for OA?

Evidence is not entirely convincing But van Raan has started to self archive his preprints

OA is important for developing countriesEvans, J.A., Reimer, J., 2009. Open access and global participation in science.

Science. 323, 1025. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1154562

Increased impact? Advertise yourself Self-citations Write review articles Generalize your research findings Submit prepints/postprints to digital Open Archives (Metis) Use professional social networking tools Include publications on personal webpages Make use of ResearchID and ScopusID to highlight your

publication list Write or expand articles in the Wikipedia and refer to your

publications Blog/tweet about your research

Downloads from wikipedia

What’s in a name?

Most common address used for LEI

Most common address used for LEI

Without Wageningen University & Research

WUR-LEI

In Dutch?

LEI in Leystad another LEI?

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