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Scholarly Publishing USF Tampa Library Graduate Dissertation Forum

Scholarly Publishing USF Tampa Library Graduate Dissertation Forum. July 19, 2012. Contact Information. Matt Torrence torrence@usf.edu. Defining Impact. Determining the value of faculty research for purposes of retention, promotion, tenure decisions

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Scholarly Publishing USF Tampa Library Graduate Dissertation Forum

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  1. Scholarly PublishingUSF Tampa Library Graduate Dissertation Forum July 19, 2012 Impact Factors & Journal Rankings

  2. Contact Information Matt Torrence torrence@usf.edu Impact Factors & Journal Rankings

  3. Defining Impact Determining the value of faculty research for purposes of retention, promotion, tenure decisions Impact is “research visibility that enhances institutional stature among peers” (Alpert, 1985) Impact Factors & Journal Rankings

  4. Impact Measures May Include Cited references to an author’s work (who is citing that author as an authority) Journal rankings and quantitative data about journals (Impact Factor, SCOPUS, and others) Impact Factors & Journal Rankings

  5. Getting to the Resources Under “Guides” on the library home page click on “Other Research Guides.” Next, click on “Library and Information Resources Related to Promotion and Tenure.” http://guides.lib.usf.edu/promotion-tenure Impact Factors & Journal Rankings

  6. The ISI Suite of Resources Web of Knowledge Social Sciences Citation Index Science Citation Index Arts & Humanities Citation Index Impact Factors & Journal Rankings

  7. ISI’s Web of Science (aka Web of Knowledge) A combination of resources and resource types A database that does more than just “find” articles Tracking the articles that cite other articles… Links to articles contained in these bibliographies (some are outside the ISI “universe”) Impact Factors & Journal Rankings

  8. Citation Mapping After locating an author’s work, the Web of Science database also allows for visual representation of each article’s relationship to other works in the same field You have the option of seeing this relationship in either direction (forward, or backward) Let’s take a look at an example! Impact Factors & Journal Rankings

  9. Citation Mapping Here’s a look at one article by Andre Ariew… Impact Factors & Journal Rankings

  10. Journal Citation Reports (JCR) JCR distills citation trend data for over 10,000 journals from more than 25 million cited references indexed every year Science Edition and Social Science Edition released annually (summer) No Arts and Humanities edition All journals in JCR appear in Web of Science Impact Factors & Journal Rankings

  11. Caveats: Underrepresentation of Humanities and Social Sciences Emphasis on sciences Of the 1669 titles in the database America: History & Life, 615 (37%) are indexed by ISI’s Web of Science database It’s even worse for other fields, like business…there are 3335 journals in the database ABI/Inform Global and only 959 (29%) are included in the Web of Science computations In contrast, Biosis Previews, a primary resource for biology researchers, indexes 4459 journals, 2950 of which are indexed in ISI’s Web of Science (66%) Impact Factors & Journal Rankings

  12. Differences in Cited References by Discipline Here's a sample from an ISI-based data set for citations of Canadian-authored articles published between 1981 and 2000. The number for each discipline is the average number of citations per published article (both article and citations in ISI-listed journals). Posted by: Tom Hurka | December 06, 2007 at 10:26 AM from the Leiter Report Philosophy: 1.11Literature: 0.33Oncology: 26.73Economics: 6.74Biochemistry: 23.54Art and Architecture: 0.35Neuroscience: 21.41 Impact Factors & Journal Rankings

  13. Other Journal and Scholar Rankings Resources Eigenfactor ERIH (European Reference Index for the Humanities) Scopus/SciVerseSCOPUS is not owned by the USF Libraries, but is still part of the equation h-index g-index Impact Factors & Journal Rankings

  14. Verifying Web Sources of “Impact” The journal: Reviews in Environmental Science & Biotechnology “Cites per doc” vs. Impact Factor Impact Factors & Journal Rankings

  15. Charting the Numbers The journal: Reviews in Environmental Science & Biotechnology Indicators by year: Impact Factors & Journal Rankings

  16. ISI/SCOPUS: Not the only Games in Town Google Scholar now a great competitor (examples) “My Citations”Sign up here Publish or Perish Impact Factors & Journal Rankings

  17. Ranking/Researching Journals Finding out about: Acceptance rates Status in academe (scholarly, trade, popular) Abstracting & indexing Readership Impact Factors & Journal Rankings

  18. Assessing “Non-Ranked” Journals Cabell’s & Ulrich’s offer journal profiles Acceptance rates Status in academe (scholarly, trade, popular) Abstracting & indexing Readership Creating faculty publication lists WorldCat holdings Impact Factors & Journal Rankings

  19. Importance of Monographs From the report Communicating Knowledge: How and Why UK Researchers Publish and Disseminate Their Findings: Impact Factors & Journal Rankings

  20. Books & Book Chapters WorldCat Identities Google Book Search Google Scholarcited references included for articles Publish or Perish analysis Impact Factors & Journal Rankings

  21. Thank you! Questions?? Impact Factors & Journal Rankings

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