How to use Bibliometrics in your Career

1. How to use Bibliometrics in your Career The MyRI Project Team

2. Measuring your Research Impact By measuring your own research impact you can establish : Your total number of publications Your total number of citations per publication Your personal impact : what is your h-index? Your journal impact: where should you publish?

3. Measuring your Research Impact You can do this by using certain tools such as Web of Science, SCOPUS or Publish or Perish. They will tell you : - top cited work - what journals they have published in - who is citing them their H-index Please see presentation Main Metrics used in Bibliometrics for more detail on these products

4. Personal Impact - What is my H Index The h-index has become the most popular metric for assessing the output of individuals since it was developed by Hirsch in 2005. The h-index of an individual is the number of their papers that have been cited at least h times e.g. a researcher has a h-index of 25 if 25 of their papers have been cited at least 25 times.

5. Measuring your Research Impact What you can do to maximise your profile : Use a precise name and stick to it e.g. John J. Walsh, not John Walsh and/or J. Walsh Send corrections to ISI and Scopus: Actively manage your lists of publications Use all ways to increase exposure to your publications, e.g.: Institutional Repositories Research Profile Directories

6. Strengths and Limitations Outputs Key data sources for many disciplines not included in key metrics Monographs, conference papers, architectural designs, non-English, Irish/local… Disciplines Therefore some disciplines poorly served Humanities, applied technologies/engineering, computer science… Geographical spread U.S. orientation in ISI

7. Strengths and Limitations - Discipline Specific Medicine: easy to track – nearly all citations are between journals Engineering: more difficult – need to track citations in journals, patents, standards, conferences etc. Humanities: very difficult – track books, monographs, journals, conferences, movies, newspapers, TV, works of art etc.

8. Strengths and Limitations Measuring value High no. of citations doesn’t necessarily mean high value How do we capture value for outputs that are not picked up by the standard tools? How do we measure or value (e.g.) industry hits? Measuring use Use hinges on publication and citation counts How can other use (e.g. downloads) be measured in a way that feeds into value? Who is using what output, how and why?

9. Strengths and Limitations Manipulation lf-citation Multiple authorship Splitting outputs into many articles Editorial policies Journals may publish a larger % of review articles which are generally cited more than research reports Journal editors may suggest to authors that they should refer to papers published previously in that journal Standardisation Lack of name authority Institutions Personal

10. Strengths and Limitations – Bibliometrics don’t measure everything! “…We publish in books & monographs and in peer-reviewed journals. However, we have a range of real requirements that include official reporting to state agencies and authorities; public archaeology and communication in regional and local journals and in interdisciplinary publication across several journals, that most bibliometrics are incapable of measuring” UCD Academic

11. Diagram of Research Impact: Case Study of Airports * Rationale is that Academic Quality, Wider Readership and Impact runs from left to right.