Bibliometrics & Useful Resources

1. Bibliometrics & Useful Resources Becky Laing

2. The information landscape

4. Discovering resources @ Lboro and beyond...

5. Library Catalogue Plus • One-stop-shop information discovery tool http://lcp.lboro.ac.uk/ • Library Catalogue = what is in stock at Lboro • Library Catalogue Plus = for books and full-text journal articles held at Loughborough • Select databases = for searching databases of your choice • Subject guides - http://www.lboro.ac.uk/services/library/subjectguides/

6. Select databases • Databases are: • grouped by format and subject • some are cross-searchable • links to full-text or Library holdings • Some databases • need searching in own interface • may need passwords • may offer personal facilities such as save searches, alerts etc. - make use of this, it will SAVE YOU TIME!

7. Citation searching Find out who then cited this paper Find out which papers it cited Find a good paper Timeline

8. Going forwards from a key article Key article Title: Sedentary behaviorAuthor(s): Biddle, SJHSource: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE Volume: 33 Issue: 6 Pages: 502-504 Published: DEC 2007 Title: Estimated activity patterns in British 45 year olds: cross-sectional findings from the 1958 British birth cohort Author(s): Parsons TJ, Thomas C, Power CSource: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION   Volume: 63   Issue: 8   Pages: 978-985   Published: AUG 2009 Title: Use of Active Video Games to Increase Physical Activity in Children: A (Virtual) Reality? Author(s): Foley L, Maddison RSource: PEDIATRIC EXERCISE SCIENCE   Volume: 22   Issue: 1   Pages: 7-20   Published: FEB 2010 Title: Parent and child physical activity and sedentary time: Do active parents foster active children? Author(s): Jago R, Fox KR, Page AS, et al.Source: BMC PUBLIC HEALTH   Volume: 10 Article Number: 194   Published: APR 15 2010 Articles citing the key article

9. Key citation searching tools • Web of Science (Core Collection): • Science Citation Index • Social Sciences Citation Index • Arts & Humanities Citation Index • Scopus • Google Scholar

10. WOS Citation map

11. Citation data • Science Direct (links to SCOPUS data) • Some EBSCO databases, e.g. Business Source Complete • Some Proquest databases • Institute of Physics (IoP) • IEEExplore

12. Current Awareness

13. Keeping up-to-date with… events people papers

14. Papers Journal tables of contents Search results

15. Tables of contents (N.B. Works best in Chrome)

16. Search results

17. People

18. Events

19. Bibliometrics

20. Bibliometrics – the debate • Are citations a suitable indicator of research quality? • What can go wrong? • Imperfect tools • Disciplinary differences • Early career issues

21. Choosing journals

22. The h-index • h-index (Hirsch Index) • h is the number of articles greater than h that have at least h citations. • E.g. an h-index of 14 means you have 14 papers with at least 14 citations, but not yet 15 papers with at least 15 citations • Discounts papers yet to be cited and outliers with very high numbers of citations • H5 index • As above, but for most recent 5 years

23. SCOPUS h-index = 17 Web of Science h-index = 20 What is the h-index? Google Scholar h-index = 25 Publish or Perish h-index = 25

24. Google Scholar Citationshttp://scholar.google.com/citations

25. Author evaluation -Scival

26. Strengths and weaknesses Strengths Weaknesses A blunt instrument Many measures do not allow for cross-disciplinary comparisons Still little data for non-journal outputs Not effective for niche research areas Can be manipulated Different tools cover different content • An ‘impartial’, quantitative measure • Can compare with peers in similar research areas

27. Citations Image: Mervyn Chua [mervc], Numbers, www.flickr.com used under creative commons licence

28. Key bibliometric services

29. Article evaluation – Web of Science

30. Article evaluation - Scopus

31. Article evaluation - Scholar

32. Improving your visibility

33. Routes to increasing impact • High impact journals • Journals v conferences • Open access • Journals • Data • Collaboration • Visibility

34. Measures of journal impact • Impact Factor – cites per document over 2 years (JCR) • SJR – cites per document weighted by quality of journal (Scopus) • SNIP – Source Normalised Impact per Paper allowing comparison between titles from different fields (Scopus)

36. Av. Age (in yrs) of articles cited from this journal in 2013 Cites per paper during the year of publication Cites to recent articles/No. of articles published Av age (in yrs) of articles cited in 2013

37. Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) and Scopus

38. N.B. • A high impact journal is not a cure-all • Does not suit all disciplines • Does not suit all research areas • Quality papers should attract citations anyway • You have to decide which is best dissemination tool for your chosen audience

39. Other strategies • Ensure journals are indexed in databases (Check Ulrich’s and websites) • Multi-authored and esp. international collaboration papers more highly cited • Open access options • Is your publisher doing enough to publicise your work? • ScienceDirect Article Cite and Usage Report initiative

40. More strategies • Open access • Spread the word! • Google Scholar Profile • Set up your own distribution list • Discussion lists (list-serv, JISCmail) • Blog...Tweet • Academic social networking sites

41. Other courses available http://www.lboro.ac.uk/services/library/events/