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Basics Conducting Your Search Cited Reference Analytics Altmetrics Author Profiles
Tracking Cited References
Cited references are the articles,
books, and other resources listed in
a bibliography, a "Works Cited" list,
or in a "References" list. Cited
references are useful for finding
additional articles and books on a
topic, for identifying the top
researchers in a field, and for
promotion and tenure decisions.
Databases tracking cited references
make it possible to follow the
instances where an author has
been cited. This technique may be
useful to:
Track the research of an
individual
Track the history of a
research idea
Locate current research
based on earlier research
Find out how many times
and where a publication is
being cited
Find out who is citing a
particular source
Find out how a particular
research topic is being used
to support other research
and to analyze its impact
Effective Strategies for
Increasing Citation Frequency
Journal Reputation and Impact:
publishing a paper in a journal based
on disciplinary reputatation or with a
high impact factor is the most well
known way of getting your paper cited.
But there are many other things a
scholar can do to promote his or her
work and make it easy for others to
find.
Utilize Open Access Tools: Open
Access journals tend to be cited more
than non open access. Deposit your
paper in a repository such as Scholars
Archive here on campus or a
disciplinary repository. Share your
detailed research data in a repository.
Standarize Identifying Info: try to use
Take the iLearn Workshop!
Come to one of our iLearn sessions for faculty and graduate students on Maximizing
your Research Impact.
Academics who publish (or hope to publish) scholarly research find measuring the impact
and influence of their work helps others understand its value within one’s department,
institution, even throughout the discipline. In this workshop, learn how to generate unique
author identifiers using ORCID and Researcher ID, and how they are used. Discover
indicators such as the Journal Impact Factor, the h-index, and altmetrics, and their
significance. We will also discuss issues like choosing the best journal for your research,
and scholarly networking through tools such as Mendeley. The workshop length is 1 hour.
The workshop is held in LI B14. See the iLearn registration page for details.
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Essential Concepts of Scholarly
Metrics
Altmetrics: a new form of measuring
scholarly impact based on web-based
and social media sources which can
show influence and impact.
Bibliometrics: The variety of metrics
available based on cited reference data
to measure scholarly output, impact,
relevance and ranking. Analytics
include citation count, impact factor,
SNIP, h-index, e-index, and a wide
variety of related measurements.
Citation Analysis: the process of
tracing various patterns of scholarly
behavior through analyzing the cited
and/or citing references of a body of
work. This could be done on an
individual article, author, journal,
institution, or other group.
Citation Count: The number of times
an article, author, journal, institution,
etc. has been cited. It is very difficult to
locate every single time something or
someone has been cited. Commonly
accepted citation counts come from
Web of Science. Each source which
provides citation counts draws from a
different base of resources and
therefore the results may differ
between Web of Science and Google
Scholar, for example.
Citation Evaluation: Simply identifying
the number of times someone or
something has been cited does not
account for certain citation patterns.
For example, an author may have one
or two articles early in his or her career
that have very high citation counts, but
later articles have substantially fewer.
Another author may have a relatively
steady number of citations for each
article throughout his or her career.
Journal Ranking: There are a number
of metrics that seek to measure the
influence of a journal based on how it
is being cited in other works. One such
metric is the Journal Impact Factor. It
should be emphasized that the ranking
of a journal is not necessarily a
reflection of a single specific article
within the journal.
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What is the h index?
The h index was proposed by J.E. Hirsch in 2005 and published in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences of the United States of America:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1283832/. The h index is a quantitative metric based on
analysis of publication data using publications and citations to provide “an estimate of the importance,
significance, and broad impact of a scientist’s cumulative research contributions.” According to Hirsch,
the h index is defined as: "A scientist has index h if h of his or her Np papers have at least h citations each
and the other (Np – h) papers have ≤h citations each.”
As an example, an h index of 10 means that among all publications by one author, 10 of these
publications have received at least 10 citations each.
For Younger Investigators:
An alternative metric to consider is the m value.
The m value is a correction of the h index for time with y = number of years since the first publication:
(m = h/y). According to Hirsch, m is an “indicator of the successfulness of a scientist” and can be used to
compare scientists of different seniority. The m value can be seen as an indicator for “scientific quality”
with the advantage (as compared to the h index) that the m value is corrected for age.
Note that the h index calculation from Scopus only uses documents published after 1995.
The h index varies among resources including Google Scholar depending on the publication and
citation data included in the calculation of the h index.

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