publish be cited, or perish
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Publish be cited, or perish
Towards a publication strategy
Wouter Gerritsma, Wageningen UR Library
At the beginning it all starts with good research
After you've completed your excellent research
you should consider your options carefully
when it comes to publishing
Outline
Citations and impact
h-index
Journal selection
Collaboration
Open Access
Some publishing tips
Data Management
What's in a name
How do we compare numbers
Scientist Z. Math has a publication from 2002 with 17 citations
Scientist M. Biology has a publication from 2008 with 24 citations
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Bibliometric indicators: An example
Kroes-Nijboer, A; Venema, P; Bouman, J; van der Linden, E (2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation. Food Biophysics 4(2):59-63.
●Citations from WoS: 11
Journal: Food Biophysics
●Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences
Baseline data for Agricultural Science.
●Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences:
●On average: 6.12 citations; top 10%: 16 citations; top1%: 38 citations
Relative Impact: 11/6.12 = 1.80 Values Oct. 2013
We are not the only ones doing these calculations
http://www.wti2.nl/
We are not the only ones doing these calculations
http://www.wti2.nl/
http://www.science-metrix.com
We are not the only ones doing these calculations
http://www.wti2.nl/
http://www.science-metrix.com
http://www.scienceeurope.org
Sooner or later, you will be subject of such an analysis!
What about the h-index?
H-index
H-index
Omnipresent h-index
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They are all different!
What are properties of impactful papers?
Document type and Relative Impact 2003-2009, for Wageningen UR
Document type Pubs RI T10(%T10) T1(%T1)
Article 11212 1.62 2777(25%) 437( 4%)
Review 705 4.45 418 (59%) 145(21%)
Aggregate 11917 1.79 3195(27%) 582(5%)
Source: Wageningen Yield, Feb. 2012
Another take at the Impact Factor
Journal selection and impact universities globally
Journal selection and impact universities globally
Increase in share of Q1 articles at WageningenUR
Journal selection affects Relative Impact
Journal selection affects Relative Impact
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The impact factor Matthew effect
"The journal in which papers are published have a
strong influence on their citation rates, as duplicate
papers published in high-impact journals obtain, on
average, twice as many citations as their identical
counterparts published in journals with lower impact
factors"
Larivière, V. and Y. Gingras (2010). The impact factor's Matthew Effect: A natural experiment in bibliometrics. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 61(2): 424-427. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.21232
Where you publish matters most
"Where you publish is the primary
determinant of how many citations your work
will receive in the future"
Peng, T.-Q. & J.J.H. Zhu (2012). Where you publish matters most: A multilevel analysis of factors affecting citations of internet studies. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63(9): 1789-1803 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.22649
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 Computational Biology 1(5): e57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0010057
Cooperation is effective
WTI2 report 2011
UNIV.Single Author
addressNational
copublicationInternational copublication
EUR 1.16 1.23 1.92RUG 1.15 1.19 1.62RUN 1.14 1.18 1.81TUD 1.27 1.12 1.36TUE 1.27 1.30 1.49LEI 1.18 1.26 1.72MAA 0.91 1.19 1.51TUT 1.20 1.32 1.42UU 1.83 1.28 1.74UVA 0.98 1.20 1.67TIU 1.09 0.98 1.19VU 1.21 1.26 1.66WUR 1.19 1.43 1.49Avg 1.20 1.23 1.58
Research collaboration in Europe & USA
Kamalski, J., & Plume, A. (2013). Comparative Benchmarking of European and US Research Collaboration and Researcher Mobility. Amsterdam: Elsevier B.V. http://info.scival.com/research-initiatives/science-europe
Collaboration with corporate very effective
Kamalski, J., & Aisati, M. h. (2013). International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes: Food Safety research. A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL.
University-industry collaboration and impact
"The average scientific impact of university-
industry papers is significantly above that of
both university-only papers and industry-only
papers"
Lebeau, L. M., Laframboise, M. C., Larivière, V., & Gingras, Y. (2008). The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications: The Canadian case, 1980-2005. Research Evaluation, 17(3), 227-232. http://dx.doi.org/10.3152/095820208x331685
Collaboration leads to more authors per paper
King, C. (2012). Multiauthor Papers: Onward and Upward. ScienceWatch Newsletter, July 2012. http://archive.sciencewatch.com/newsletter/2012/201207/multiauthor_papers/
Increasing no. of authors per publication
Wageningen Graduate Schools
Authors
Start networking early!
Who is your neighbour in this audience?
Be active at conferences
Make use of social media
Use the social network tools
●Next to LinkedIn and Facebook
●Mendeley, Researchgate.net or Academia.edu
Start networking early!
Who is your neighbour in this audience?
Be active at conferences
Make use of social media
Use the social network tools
●Next to LinkedIn and Facebook
●Mendeley, Researchgate.net or Academia.edu
#awpc
Wageningen's most active tweep
More on Open Access
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What do PhD theses mean for Open Access at Wageningen UR
VLAG PhD students set out to publish 5.5 article per thesis
Finally 4.5 article per thesis gets published
This represent
Preprints of 4.5 * 200 = 900 articles/year
ca. 36% of all peer reviewed Wageningen UR articles
After your thesis publication what are your options for Open Access publishing?
Open Access publishing
Golden Road e.g. PLoS, BMC, SpringerOpen, Sage Open
●Directory of open access journals DOAJ (currently 9957 journals)
●Often author pays model; many society publishers for free
Delayed OA publishing
●Cambridge UP, Highwire press, many society publishers
Green Road : self-archiving in repositories e.g. Wageningen Yield (WaY)
Green Road: Deposit author versions to WaY
See: http://edepot.wur.nl/169331
Send your final version of the article to: [email protected]
Open Access Publishing
Open Access leads to more citations!
●Open access increases societal relevance
●Vital for Wageningen's international collaborators
Be aware of predatory publishers!
●Have a look at Beall's list
You are what you cite
Increased impact? Advertise yourself!
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. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.20868
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. http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/ep07348362.pdf
To be the best, cite the bestBorrowed from: Corbyn, Z. (2010). "To be the best, cite the best." Nature News, 13 October 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.539 Reporting on the publication of Bornmann, L., F. de Moya Anegón, et al. (2010). Do Scientific Advancements Lean on the Shoulders of Giants? A Bibliometric Investigation of the Ortega Hypothesis. PLoS ONE 5(10): e13327 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0013327.
More articles per research project?
Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers.
●Beware of the ethical standards
●Bornmann looked at total citations, not to relative impact
Bornmann, L. & H.-D. Daniel (2007). Multiple publication on a single research study: Does it pay? The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(8): 1100-1107 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.20531
Where to publish interdisciplinary research
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Social Sciences Clinical Medicine
Larivière, V. & Y. Gingras (2010). On the relationship between interdisciplinarity and scientific impact. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(1): 126-131 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.21226
If a picture is worth a 1000 words
How many citations is a graph worth?
Tartanus, M. et al. (2013). Graphs and prestige in agricultural journals. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 64(9), 1946-1950. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.22868
Wageningen UR Data Management Proof
Why is data management important
Good data management improves thinking and writing up your results
Data should be reproducible 5 years after publication (code of conduct)
It facilitates sharing of data with other researchers
Why is data management important
Good data management improves thinking and writing up your results
Data should be reproducible 5 years after publication (code of conduct)
It facilitates sharing of data with other researchers
As of April 2014, a Data Management Plan becomes mandatory for new PhD students
Sharing data increases impact
"Publicly available data was significantly associated with a
69% increase in citations, independently of journal impact
factor, date of publication, and author country of origin"
Piwowar, H. A., Day, R. S., & Fridsma, D. B. (2007). Sharing Detailed Research Data Is Associated with Increased Citation Rate. PLoS ONE, 2(3), e308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000308
What's in a name
On the cover:
●Arina Schrier
First first title page:
●A.P. Schrier-Uyl
Second title page:
●Adriana Pia Uyl
In here own publication list
●A. Uyl
●A. Uijl
●A.P. Schrier Uyl
You should repair the damage
Make your
1. Google Scholar Citations profile publically available
2. Make a researcherID (in Web of Science)
3. Check your Scopus profile
4. Couple 2 & 3 to ORCiD
Additionally
●Mendeley, Researchgate.net and Acdemia.edu
This also applies to the names of groups
This also applies to the names of groups
Environmental Policy Group, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University
This also applies to the names of groups
Environmental Policy Group, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University
Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University
This also applies to the names of groups
Environmental Policy Group, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University
Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University
Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University and Research Centre
This also applies to the names of groups
Environmental Policy Group, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University
Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University
Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University and Research Centre
Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen UR
Get your affiliation right
For the university:
Chair group + Wageningen University
Plant Production Systems Group, Wageningen University, P.O. box ..., 6700 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands
For the institutes:
Institute + Wageningen University & Research Centre
Alterra, Wageningen University & Research Centre, P.O. box ..., 6700 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands
Conclusions
It all starts with good research
Think about where you publish
Science is a team effort
Consider Open Access publishing
Your data will become as important as publications
Be careful with your name and affiliation
Thank you!
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