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Participants will become familiar with different multi-faceted citation analysis using a variety of metrics and their
implications. Content on assessment of scholarly output is also included in other workshops or instruction sessions, e.g.,
a session might contain information on how to find an h-index or how to find out who has cited your own work.
Traditional and alternative metrics, author disambiguation, author profiles and author identification, development of
training for the use of MyNCBI tool sciENcv
Training is provided by subject specialists and scholarly communication librarian via one-on-one and small
group sessions.
Training sessions are generally one-on-one with faculty, grad students, or administrators who have requested it.
Training sessions offered on an ad hoc basis and are not centrally coordinated; for example, the Health Sciences Library
offers drop-in sessions on calculating the h-index.
Use of JCR, SCImago, h-index
Varies by user group
We don’t offer formal training workshops, but librarians have one-on-one conversations with faculty about assessment
of scholarly output.
We have a workshop on citation tracking geared toward graduate students.
We have offered a workshop to Early Career Researchers on using Open Access and freely available services to increase
research exposure and impact.
We offer this in one-on-one consultations.
We offer workshops on Web of Science, Google Scholar, and Altmetrics.
We offered a class entitled: “Impact Factors & Journal Publishing.” We invited journal editors on campus.
We run “Expanding Horizons” sessions to grad students and some departmental training.
We’ve offered a series of “increasing the visibility of your scholarship” workshops to faculty and grad students, focusing
on the humanists but inviting all, for example; very successful in the last two years.
Workshop on managing your research impact
Workshops are given on citation measures with JCR and Web of Science.
Workshops on citation analysis, citation management, ORCID, Scopus and such databases as Symplectic (demo) and
Mendeley, altmetrics
Workshops on how to access and use and interpret many of the above sources, especially as they are integrated into our
faculty profiles system and open access deposit workflow.
Workshops: Journal Impact Factors and Citation Analysis, Keeping Current with Literature, Measuring Your Scholarly
Impact, Library Tools for the Publication Cycle—humanities and social sciences and also one for the sciences—some of
these are done for particular departments and other are aimed a more general audience.
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Courses on “Article Level Metrics” and “Building Your Academic Profile” are currently offered (marketed to
graduate students).
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