Overview of the many, many tools for maximizing the influence and impact of scholarly productivity, for faculty and graduate students at the University at Albany.

1. Maximizing the Influence and
Impact of Your Scholarly Research
iLearn Workshop
University Libraries
Elaine Lasda Bergman, MLS,
CAS

2. Your Research: Get it Out There!
• Sharing knowledge
• Influence and Impact
• Grant applications/Funding requirements
• Promotion and Tenure

3. MEASURES OF IMPACT

4. Author Identifiers
• ORCID: http://orcid.org
• ResearcherID: http://www.researcherid.com
• Google Scholar Citations:
http://scholar.google.com/intl/en-
US/scholar/citations.html
• NISO?

5. Why Not Just Use My Name?
• Name disambiguation
• Name change
• Institution change
• Cited references misspelled

6. Bibliometrics and Altmetrics
• Scholarly Metrics LibGuide
http://libguides.albany.edu/citesearch

7. Bibliometric Tools
• Web of Science/Web of Knowledge
• Science Citation Index/Social Science Citation Index
• Book Citation Index
• Data Citation Index
• Journal Citation Reports
• Scopus
• Google Scholar (Publish or Perish)
• DataCite

8. Bibliometric Measures of Influence
• Journal Impact Factor
• Eigenfactor
• Citation Count
• H-index
• SNIP
• SJR
• Google Trends
http://libguides.library.albany.edu/citesearch

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NumberofCitations
Article Number
H-index
Scholar A
Scholar B
H-index Example
Scholar A Scholar B
10 27
10 12
9 5
8 4
7 4
6 2
6 2
56 citations 56 citations
6 h-index 4 h-index

10. What About Books?
• Book Citation Index – through Web of
Science
• Google Books
– http://books.google.com
– Search for snippets that have your reference
cited
• WorldCat Identities
– http://experimental.worldcat.org/idnetwork/
– Like an author profile for books

11. Altmetrics Tools
• Altmetric.com (bookmarklet)
http://www.altmetric.com/
• Microsoft Academic (author, institution
profiles)
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Default
.aspx
• ImpactStory –scholar/user subscription
https://impactstory.org

12. Becker Model
• https://becker.wustl.edu/impact-
assessment

13. WAYS TO INCREASE IMPACT

14. Choosing a Journal
• Many factors go into choosing journal
– Relevance
– Prestige
– Who will accept my article?
– Visibility

15. Identifying Key Journals
• Two basic approaches:
– Reputation approach
– Bibliometric approach
• Your subject librarian knows resources for
locating key journals in your field
– (eg., An Author’s Guide to Social Work Journals)

16. Scholarly Networking
• Mendeley https://www.mendeley.com/
• Faculty Row (invitation only)
http://facultyrow.com/
• Academia.edu https://www.academia.edu/
• CiteULike http://www.citeulike.org/

17. Scholarly Networking
• Faculty of 1000 http://f1000.com/
• Figshare http://figshare.com/
• Zenodo http://zenodo.org/
• ResearchGate
https://www.researchgate.net/home

18. Other Scholarly (?) Output
• SlideShare
• GitHub
• Video Abstracts (Vimeo, YouTube)

19. Regular Social Media
• Blogs
• Twitter
• Facebook
• LinkedIN

20. New Tools:
• VIVO http://www.vivoweb.org/
• PeerEvaluation
http://www.peerevaluation.org/
• Kudos https://www.growkudos.com/

21. Collaborate, Publicity, Discoverability
• Press Releases
• Search Engine Optimization
• Alerts
• Hypothes.is https://hypothes.is/
• Listservs
• http://libguides.library.albany.edu/faculty

22. Open Access
• Greater visibility – no paywall
• “Google-able”
• Intellectual freedom
• Dissemination of research
• Government grant requirements
• http://libguides.library.albany.edu/scholcom
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23. Scholars’ Archive
• Easily shareable “portfolio” of your
research in one place
• Showcase research productivity of
individuals, departments, and the
institution
• Preserve and capture research activity of
individuals, departments and the institution
• Now with Altmetric Donut!
http://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/

24. Other Repositories
• Arxiv
• ICPSR
• SSRN eLibrary
http://www.ssrn.com/update/all/CiteReader
.html
• DRYAD
• Dataverse

25. Resource
• 30 Day Impact Challenge by Konkiel
• http://blog.impactstory.org/research-
impact-challenge-ebook/

26. Help at UAlbany Libraries
• http://libguides.library.albany.edu/scholcomm
• Hittp://libguides.library.albany.edu/citesearch
• http://libguides.library.albany.edu/faculty
• http://libguides.library.albany.edu/graduatestudents
Elaine Lasda Bergman
Subject Librarian, Dewey Library
elasdabergman@albany.edu
http://slideshare.net/librarian68