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This session will focus on understanding different contexts of impact measurement, traditional academic realms of impact evaluation, citation analysis, and scholarly communication processes. Participants will learn how to document their search instances and utilize citation analysis to determine influence and relationships between works. Join us for an insightful discussion on evolving methods of measuring impact in academic and research settings.

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  1. announcements • Literature search lab on Wednesday (focus on your project) • Keep track of your searching to document on the search log…for each search instance: • what database you use • what subject terms you identify • what search strings you formulate • what results (# and how relevant) • if/how you modify your search Search template spreadsheet on website

  2. today’s lineup… • How do we measure impact in different contexts/fields? How do we rank people and things? How do we determine expertise? • How do we traditionally look at “impact” in science and academic realms? (bibliometrics and citation analysis) • Are traditional methods of measuring impact changing? If so, how? • Evaluating information sources

  3. how do we rank things & people?

  4. Forbes Most Powerful People • power over lots of people • control large financial resources • powerful in multiple spheres • actively use their power

  5. How do we traditionally look at “impact” in science and academic realms?

  6. METRICS BIBLIO Books Publications Bibliography Count Measurement Math / Statistical Analysis

  7. Alan Pritchard 1969 Coined the term "bibliometrics" "the application of mathematics and statistical methods to books and other media of communication“ Journal of Documentation (1969) 25(4):348-349

  8. Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 64, No. 3. (Aug., 1983), pp. 387-396.

  9. CITED CITING

  10. seminal work

  11. co-citation these two articles are likely related • author • institution • topic • country • language • journal

  12. what is citation analysis? • utilizes quantitative analysis and statistics to describe patterns of publication within a given field or body of literature

  13. what do you do with citation analysis? • researchers may use bibliometric methods of evaluation to determine the influence of a single writer, for example, or to describe the relationship between two or more writers or works • production and productivity • impact • co-publication patterns • connections between subject areas

  14. useful to you…right now • Articles that cite the article you found –some databases include info/links • Google Scholar offers this feature

  15. useful to you…right now • Articles that cite the article you found –some databases include info/links • Google Scholar offers this feature

  16. useful to you…right now • Articles that cite the article you found –some databases include info/links • Google Scholar offers this feature

  17. Index of Citations

  18. Institute for Scientific Information Building, Philadelphia Architect: Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Completed 1977 http://www.vsba.com/projects/fla_archive/190.html

  19. JCR

  20. Arts & Humanities Citation Index authors co-cited most often with…WHITMAN-W Author Co-Citation

  21. 80’s

  22. 90’s

  23. 00’s

  24. Science Citation Index

  25. Social Sciences Citation Index

  26. Social Sciences Citation Index

  27. Scholarly communication process Traditional example

  28. Scholarly communication process What’s captured traditionally

  29. How is scholarly communication changing? • Think of scholarly communication as continuous process instead of single product (journal publication). • Capture significant changes/versions of a work. • Include all criticisms and comments about work (all stages). • Support normal scholarly discourse, including authors responses as well as others’ comments. • Add reviewer’s quantitative rating of material to allow better filtering based on absolute quality metric during retrieval. • Add machine (automated) reviews. • Include other forms of information (audio, pictures, video, graphs, datasets, statistics)

  30. Now scholars have the ability to share their research data in repositories on the Web. Information is expanding by orders of magnitude; ideas are being formulated through open-access blogs and social media sites such as Twitter. Editors [expert peer-reviewers] are no longer employed as proxy community assessors but are now represented by collective judgments of communities on the Web itself. -Benny

  31. Provocative Questions for Discussion • What/why do you(and scholars cite? • What do you infer from a reference list? • Are all citations equal?

  32. points to take away • Cite sources you use • Supports your case/research • Avoid plagiarism • Places your work within scholarly dialogue • Use reference lists to find additional/relevant material • Look for material that cites your source – will be more recent • Web of Science can also be used as a regular lit database

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