I M P A C T A N D V I S I B I L I T Y F O R Y O U R R E S E A R C H

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Pure

Open Access

Altmetrics

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Guus van den Brekel

Central Medical Library,

University Medical Center

Groningen

GSMS PHD Conference

June 2017

I M P A C T A N D V I S I B I L I T Y F O R Y O U R R E S E A R C H

W H Y ?

• Performance funding policy

UMCG

• The "Worldwide Race on

Ranking of Universities"

• The "Universal Battle for the

Researchers" (and their

citations)

H O W T O I M P R O V E Y O U R R E S E A R C H C I T A T I O N S : 3 0 + T I P S

• BEFORE Publishing

• AFTER Publishing

B E F O R E P U B L I S H I N G ( W H I L E W R I T I N G )

• WHAT to INCLUDE in article?

• WHAT to publish

• WHERE to publish

• HOW to publish

• WHO to publish with

WHAT to INCLUDE in article

• Use unique name ( if possible), and consistently throughout your career

• Use the standardized institutional affiliation, using no abbreviations ( "University of

Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen")

• Repeat key phrases in the abstract while writing naturally

• Assign keywords to the manuscript ( MESH, Web of Science ...)

• Use more references

• Publish a longer paper

• Papers with a larger number of "callouts" are likely to get a higher number of citations

• Avoid using a question type of title

• Get an ORCID ID, connect it to PURE and use it consistantly in all articles

B E F O R E P U B L I S H I N G ( W H I L E W R I T I N G )

http://orcid.org http://pure.rug.nl/admin http://www.rug.nl/umcg/library

Pure

http://www.rug.nl/research/portal

WHAT to publish

• Write a review paper

• Present a working paper ( before & after articles are

published)

B E F O R E P U B L I S H I N G ( W H I L E W R I T I N G )

WHERE to publish

• Publish in a journal with high impact

• Publish across disciplines

• Publish in journals everyone in your discipline reads

• Publish in a journal that is included in many

abstracting & indexing services

B E F O R E P U B L I S H I N G ( W H I L E W R I T I N G )

Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports, InCites

http://www.rug.nl/umcg/library

HOW to publish

I N C R E A S E S C I T A T I O N R A T E S

B E F O R E P U B L I S H I N G ( W H I L E W R I T I N G )

http://openaccess.umcg.nl

• The Open Access Citation Advantage Service

http://sparceurope.org/oaca/

Open Access

WHO to publish with

• publish with international authors across multiple institutions

• Team-authored articles get cited more

• Publish papers with Nobel laureates ;-)

• Collaborate with corporate sector

B E F O R E P U B L I S H I N G ( W H I L E W R I T I N G )

S C H O L A R L Y C O M M U N I C A T I O N

D O E S N O T S T O P A F T E R

P U B L I S H I N G Y O U R A R T I C L E

• Profile

• Disseminate

• Promote

• Track & engage

• Post-publication peer review

P R O F I L E

• Make a unique phrase that reflects your research interest & use

it throughout your career

• Keep your corporate & professional profile pages & publication

lists up to date

• Get an ORCID ID, connect it to PURE and use it consistantly in

all articles

• Use online CV option in PURE

• Use academic social networking sites ( ResearchGate,

Academia, Mendeley, Google Scholar, ImpactStory...

D I S S E M I N A T E

• Self-archive articles and research output

(PURE, post-print, pdf, open access repository)

• Share your research data ( open data)

• Publicize yourself ( link your latest articles to your

email signature)

P R O M O T E

• Start a blog ( Wordpress, Blogger are extremely good indexed in major

search engines

• Use Linkedin to promote

• Use SEO techniques on corporate & institute websites

• Contribute to Wikipedia

• Create a podcast, screencast or video and publish on YouTube, Vimeo

...

• Use Twitter & Other social media to share your findings

• Use DOI's in all communications

T R A C K A N D E N G A G E

• Set alerts on new citations

• Track "mentions" about your articles on the Web

(Altmetrics)

• Engage in discussions on the web and in

• Post publication peer review sites

Altmetrics

https://www.altmetric.com/details/3084793

P O S T P U B L I C A T I O N P E E R R E V I E W

• Pubmed Commons http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedcommons

• PubPeer https://pubpeer.com

• Frontiers http://www.frontiersin.org/SearchData.aspx?sq=Groningen&ht=1

• Open Review (ResearchGate)

https://www.researchgate.net/publicliterature.OpenReviewInfo.html

• publons.com https://publons.com/institution/5963/

How to get the PDF? 1/3

http://libguides.rug.nl/medicalejournals/get-the-pdf

How to get the PDF? 2/3

http://libguides.rug.nl/medicalejournals/get-the-pdf

How to get the PDF? 3/3

http://libguides.rug.nl/medicalejournals/get-the-pdf

U S E D

S O U R C E S

• The Open Access Citation Advantage

Service http://sparceurope.org/oaca/

• Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation

Frequency by Nader Ale Ebrahim

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstr

act_id=2344585

• https://library.leeds.ac.uk/researcher-citations

• 101 Innovations in scholary communications

:survey

• Elsevier "Effective strategies for increasing

citation"

http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ies.v6n11p93

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