SPEC Kit 346: Scholarly Output Assessment Activities · 69
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
Determining Your Scholarly Impact
4/24/15
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Pre-‐publishing
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Determining Where to Publish
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Determining the Impact of Journals
Post Publishing
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Determining the Impact of Specific ArAcles and Researchers
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(and maybe determining the impact of journals at this point,
too)
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Ulrich’s advanced search screen
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Jane -‐ hLp://www.biosemanAcs.org/jane/
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Database searching
◦ Impact Factor
◦ Eigenfactor
◦ Open Access
◦ Indexing
A quantitative measure of the frequency with which
the "average article" published in a given scholarly
journal has been cited in a particular year or period;
this is used in citation analysis
(
http://www.library.tudelft.nl/tulib/glossary/index.htm#I)
Utilizes data from ISI’s Journal Citation Reports.
Contains two numbers:
◦ Eigenfactor – Determines journal’s total importance to
the scientiPic community. Based partially on the size of
the number of articles published by a journal.
◦ Article InPluence – Average inPluence of each of article
over it’s Pirst Pive years after publication. Similar to
impact factor.