SPEC Kit 346: Scholarly Output Assessment Activities  · 163
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Scholarly Metrics
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the same name throughout your career
as well as the name of your affiliated
insitution. Using common "official"
names will allow for consistency and
easy retrieval of your work by author or
affiliation.
Bring Colleagues on Board: team-
authored articles are cited more
frequently, as does publishing with
international authors. Working cross-or
inter-disciplinarily helps as well.
Beef Up That Paper: use more
references, publish a longer paper.
Also papers which are published
elsewhere after having been rejected
are cited more frequently.
Beyond Peer-Reviewed Original
Research: Write a review paper.
Present a working paper. Write and
disseminate web-based tutorials on
your topic.
Search Optimization: use keywords in
the abstract and assign them to the
manuscript. Use descriptive titles that
utilize the obvious terms searchers
would use to look for your topic,
avoiding questions in the title. Select a
journal that is indexed in the key library
databases for your field.
Market Yourself: create a key phrase
that describes your research career
and use it. Update your professional
web page and publication lists
frequently. Link to your latest and
greatest article in your professional
email signature file.
Utliize Social Media: Use author
profiles such as ResearcherID and
ORCID. Contribute to Wikipedia, start a
blog and/or podcast, join academic
social media sites.
From: Ebrahim, N.A., et al. (2013). Effective
strategies for increasing citation frequency.
International Education Studies, 6(11):93-99.
DOI.5539/ies.v6n11p93
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Quality Factors & Caveats
Journal Prestige: There are
basically two approaches to
assessing journal prestige: (1)
Perception/ranking of the journals
by experts in the field, and (2)
Journal ranking metrics providing
analysis of citation rates. Other
factors, such as journal submission
and acceptance rates are also
sometimes considered. Consult
your Subject Librarian for
assistance in this area.
"Good" Metric Scores (citation
count, h-index, journal impact
factor, journal ranking, etc.): Due
to the varying citation rates from
discipline to discipline, and even
from specialty to specialty within a
discipline, it is not possible to give
a blanket statement regarding
"good" metrics.
Caveats: There are many reasons why
an author will cite previous research in
his or her paper, and not all are an
endorsement of the previous research.
Self-citation, disagreeing or
contradicting previous findings, and
other motvations may not accurately
reflect the influence of that work. This
holds true for altmetrics counts as well.
For more information see: Leydesdorv, L.
(2007) Caveats for the use of citation
indicators in research and journal evaluations.
Journal of the Association for Information
Science and Technology, 59(2): 278-
287. DOI: 10.1002/asi.20743
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