publishing for impact, vlag phd week
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Publishing for impact
Wouter Gerritsma, Wageningen UR Library
Elements for a publication strategy
Publishing tips about:
Roadmap
Introduction
Why publish?
Where to publish?
Citation impact
Publishing tips
Introducing myself
http://wowter.nethttp://twitter.com/wowterhttp://nl.linkedin.com/in/wowter [email protected]
Why do scientists publish?
Source: Philippe MAB Terheggen. How to Publish Your Manuscript From title to references From submission to revision, Wageningen University and Research Center, 26 October 2010
What do scientists publish
Reports
Conference proceedings
Journal articles
●Scholarly journals (peer reviewed)
●Trade journals
Books
●Book chapters
Peer review
Editorial peer review
Single blind peer review
Double blind peer review
Open peer review
Not only for publications, but also for funding or grant applications and above all research assessments exercises. Peer review is one of the corner stones of scientific progress.
http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/peer-review-guide-researchers
Where to publish?
Appropriate target journal?
●Journal scope
●Intended audience
●The speed of reviewing and publication
Where to publish?
A valued journal?
●Editorial board
●Acceptance rate
●Time to publication
●Journal circulation
●Visibility
●Journal performance
Journal performance measures (indicators)
Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
●a.o. standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors
Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)
●Scimago Journal Rank (SJR)
prestige metric based on the idea that ‘all citations are not created equal’
●Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
Measures contextual citation impact by ‘normalizing’ citation values
IF in 2010 for Agricultural Systems
50% of articles generate 90% of all cites
Seglen, P. O. (1997). Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research. BMJ 314(7079): 497-502. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/314/7079/497
Database Coverage WoS/JCR/ESI
Excellent Good Moderate
Molecular biology & Biochemistry
Applied physics & Chemistry
Other Social Sciences
Biological Sciences related to humans
Biological Sciences related to plants & animals
Humanities
Clinical medicine Psychology & psychiatry
Physics & Astronomy Social sciences related to medicine & health
Mathematics / Engineering / Economics
Source: Moed (2005)
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How are we able to compare numbers?
Scientist Z. Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations
Scientist M. Biology has a publication from 2009 with 32 citations
Baselines for Mathematics
Baselines for Molecular Biology
Bibliometric indicators: An example
Zee, F.P.v.d., G. Lettinga & J.A. Field (2001) Azo dye decolourisation by anaerobic granular sludge. Chemosphere 44:1169-1176.
●Citations from WoS: 94
Journal: Chemosphere
●Categorised by ESI in Environment/Ecology
Baseline data for Environment/Ecology.
●Article from 2001 in Environment/ecology:
●On average: 19.36 citations; top 10%: 44 citations; top1%: 141 citations
Relative Impact: 94 / 19.36 = 4.9
Baseline data to normalize citation data?
Citations data source Baselines
Web of Science ESI or InCites
Scopus SciVal Strata
Google Scholar none
Propriatary A&I database none
H-index
Balance between productivity and citedness
To rule out the effect of one or two highly cited papers
Applicable to authors, journals, research groups, compounds, subjects etc…
But there are some serious doubts about robustness
Waltman, L. & N. J. van Eck (2011). The inconsistency of the h-index. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2):406-415 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.21678
Omnipresent h-index
In practice
Bibliometric reports
The actual publications and their impact are provided
Publications VLAG (Wageningen)
VLAG WoS publications 2007-2013
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013Refereed articles390 367 402 446 513 530 593WoS 369 345 385 424 489 501 552
95% 94% 96% 95% 95% 95% 93%
After excellent research, where should you publish?
Document type and article 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
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
2010
2011
2003
Trends for VLAG (WUR)
Py N %Q1 RI %T10 (T10)2003 343 60% 1.7 18% (59)2004 334 64% 1.63 16% (52)2005 360 59% 1.61 23% (80)2006 355 60% 1.59 18% (63)2007 390 57% 1.85 26% (97)2008 367 61% 1.72 22% (77)2009 402 67% 2.24 30% (117)2010 446 67% 2.68 30% (126)2011 513 64% 2.6 28% (141)2012 530 70% 2.89 35% (175)2013 593 69%
Journal selection VLAG 2007-2012
Top journals for VLAG 2002-2009Journal IMPACT CountNEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 34.833 4CELL 31.253 1SCIENCE 29.162 2NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY 22.672 2JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 21.455 7ENDOCRINE REVIEWS 18.562 1LANCET 18.316 11CELL METABOLISM 16.107 1ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE 15.516 2TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES 14.273 2JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION 14.204 2NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY 13.989 2GASTROENTEROLOGY 12.591 3CIRCULATION 11.632 3ARCHIVES OF GENERAL PSYCHIATRY 11.207 1ANNUAL REVIEW OF MICROBIOLOGY 10.902 1EMBO JOURNAL 10.492 1PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 10.272 9
More journals at: http://edepot.wur.nl/163565
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
Networking
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.
Cooperation...
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.
Wuchty, S., B. F. Jones, et al. (2007). The increasing dominance of teams in production of knowledge. Science 316(5827): 1036-1039. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1136099
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
Networking is important
Start early, make use of Social Networking tools
●Social networks for scientists
●Academia.edu, Researchgate.net
Imagine what happens when Michael Müller tweets about his latest article
On using social media
Melissa Terras' Blog
Consider the Wikipedia
For better or worse, people are guided to Wikipedia when searching the Web for biomedical information. So there is an increasing need for the scientific community to engage with Wikipedia to ensure that the information it contains is accurate and current.
Logan, D.W., M. Sandal, P.P. Gardner, M. Manske & A. Bateman (2010). Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia. PLoS Comput Biol, 6(9): e1000941 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000941
Self citations and more
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. 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
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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
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
Publish your data!
Henneken et al. (2011) "articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links"
http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.3618
Piwowar et al. (2007) "Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000308
Also relevant in the view of the latest developments
(KNAW)
Library assists in curating datasets
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 is 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
More info on Data Management Plan
http://www.wageningenur.nl/library/dmp
Template for DMP
What is in a name?
Advertise yourself!
Omnipresent h-index
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They are all different!
Claim your publications
ResearcherID (Web of Science)
Scopus Author ID (Scopus)
Google Scholar Citations
Mendeley
Enserink, M. (2009). Scientific Publishing: Are You Ready to Become a Number? Science,
323(5922): 1662-1664 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.323.5922.1662
ORCID
●http://orcid.scopusfeedback.com/
Who is the author of this thesis?
On the inside
On her own publication list
Notable examples
A. Voragen, A.G. Voragen, A.G.J. Voragen, F.G.J. Voragen, F.G. Voragen
B.M.L. van Kemenade L. van Kemenade B.M.L. Verburg van Kemenade L. Verburg van Kemenade
Use maximally 2 institutional names!
Science groups are not of interest
Get your affiliation right
For the university:Chair group + Wageningen UniversityPlant Production Systems Group, Wageningen University, P.O. box ..., 6700 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands
For the institutes:Institute + Wageningen University & Research CentreAlterra, Wageningen University & Research Centre, P.O. box ..., 6700 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands
Thank you!
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