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Publishing and lsquoimpactrsquo

Information Literacy PhD students

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Motives for publishing

Edge P Martin F Fao S R amp Manning N (2011) Researcher Attitudes and Behaviour Towards the ldquo Openness rdquo of Research Outputs inAgriculture and Related Fields

Motives for publishing

Choosing the right journal to publish

Many factors influence journal selection

Journal scopeIntended audience

Editorial boardstanding

Open Access

The speed of reviewing and publication

AcceptanceRejection rate

Journal circulation

Coverage in AampI databases (bibliographies)

Journal performance

Information about journals

Open Access

OA publishing eg PLoS BMC and Sage Open

Self-archiving in repositories eg Wageningen Yield (WaY)

SHERPARoMEO Publisher copyright policies amp self-archiving httpwwwsherpaacukromeo

Directory of open access journals DOAJ (currently ca 10000 journals)

Be aware of predatory OA publishers

ldquoPredatory publishersrdquo

ldquoGreenrdquo open access deposit author

versions to WaY

See httpedepotwurnl169331

Send your version of the article to waylibraywurnl

Speed of publication

PLoS One

Euphytica

Rejection acceptance rates

Sugimoto C R Lariviegravere V Ni C amp Cronin B (2013) Journal acceptance rates A cross-disciplinary analysis of

variability and relationships with journal measures Journal of Informetrics 7(4) 897ndash906 doi101016jjoi201308007

Rejection acceptance rates

Rejection acceptance rates

Journal circulation

Compare eg

ldquoAgricultural Systemsrdquo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Coverage in AampI databases

Making your publications known

networking

Networking is important

Start early make use of Social Networking tools

Facebook

LinkedIn

Social networks for scientists

Academiaedu Researchgatenet

Imagine what happens when Michael

Muumlller tweets about his latest article

Advertise yourself

Cite your previous articles

Be active at conferences

Cooperate with other peopleresearch groups

Write or expand articles in the Wikipedia refer to yourthesis

Blog or tweet about your research and thesis research

Make use of social networking tools (LinkedIn Researchgatenet Mendeley etc)

Create authorrsquos identifiers (ScopusID Researcher ID ORCID)

Claim your publications

ResearcherID (Web of Science)

Scopus Author ID (Scopus)

Google Scholar Citations

Mendeley

Enserink M (2009) Scientific Publishing Are You Ready to Become a Number Science

323(5922) 1662-1664 httpdxdoiorg101126science32359221662

ORCID

httporcidscopusfeedbackcom

Whats in a name

On the cover

Arina Schrier

First first title page

AP Schrier-Uyl

Second title page

Adriana Pia Uyl

In here own publication list

A Uyl

A Uijl

AP Schrier Uyl

This also applies to the names of groups

Environmental Policy Group Department of Social Sciences Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University and Research Centre

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen UR

Get your affiliation right

For the university

Chair group + Wageningen University

Plant Production Systems Group Wageningen University PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

For the institutes

Institute + Wageningen University amp Research Centre

Alterra Wageningen University amp Research Centre PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

Some other options to make you articles effective

Apart from doing good research and writing well that is

Collaboration with private sector effective

Kamalski J amp Aisati M h (2013) International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes Food Safety research A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL

University-industry collaboration and impact

The average scientific impact of university-

industry papers is significantly above that of

both university-only papers and industry-only

papers

Lebeau L M Laframboise M C Lariviegravere V amp Gingras Y (2008) The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications The Canadian case 1980-2005 Research Evaluation 17(3) 227-232 httpdxdoiorg103152095820208x331685

Choosing journals with High Impact

factors

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Motives for publishing

Edge P Martin F Fao S R amp Manning N (2011) Researcher Attitudes and Behaviour Towards the ldquo Openness rdquo of Research Outputs inAgriculture and Related Fields

Motives for publishing

Choosing the right journal to publish

Many factors influence journal selection

Journal scopeIntended audience

Editorial boardstanding

Open Access

The speed of reviewing and publication

AcceptanceRejection rate

Journal circulation

Coverage in AampI databases (bibliographies)

Journal performance

Information about journals

Open Access

OA publishing eg PLoS BMC and Sage Open

Self-archiving in repositories eg Wageningen Yield (WaY)

SHERPARoMEO Publisher copyright policies amp self-archiving httpwwwsherpaacukromeo

Directory of open access journals DOAJ (currently ca 10000 journals)

Be aware of predatory OA publishers

ldquoPredatory publishersrdquo

ldquoGreenrdquo open access deposit author

versions to WaY

See httpedepotwurnl169331

Send your version of the article to waylibraywurnl

Speed of publication

PLoS One

Euphytica

Rejection acceptance rates

Sugimoto C R Lariviegravere V Ni C amp Cronin B (2013) Journal acceptance rates A cross-disciplinary analysis of

variability and relationships with journal measures Journal of Informetrics 7(4) 897ndash906 doi101016jjoi201308007

Rejection acceptance rates

Rejection acceptance rates

Journal circulation

Compare eg

ldquoAgricultural Systemsrdquo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Coverage in AampI databases

Making your publications known

networking

Networking is important

Start early make use of Social Networking tools

Facebook

LinkedIn

Social networks for scientists

Academiaedu Researchgatenet

Imagine what happens when Michael

Muumlller tweets about his latest article

Advertise yourself

Cite your previous articles

Be active at conferences

Cooperate with other peopleresearch groups

Write or expand articles in the Wikipedia refer to yourthesis

Blog or tweet about your research and thesis research

Make use of social networking tools (LinkedIn Researchgatenet Mendeley etc)

Create authorrsquos identifiers (ScopusID Researcher ID ORCID)

Claim your publications

ResearcherID (Web of Science)

Scopus Author ID (Scopus)

Google Scholar Citations

Mendeley

Enserink M (2009) Scientific Publishing Are You Ready to Become a Number Science

323(5922) 1662-1664 httpdxdoiorg101126science32359221662

ORCID

httporcidscopusfeedbackcom

Whats in a name

On the cover

Arina Schrier

First first title page

AP Schrier-Uyl

Second title page

Adriana Pia Uyl

In here own publication list

A Uyl

A Uijl

AP Schrier Uyl

This also applies to the names of groups

Environmental Policy Group Department of Social Sciences Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University and Research Centre

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen UR

Get your affiliation right

For the university

Chair group + Wageningen University

Plant Production Systems Group Wageningen University PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

For the institutes

Institute + Wageningen University amp Research Centre

Alterra Wageningen University amp Research Centre PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

Some other options to make you articles effective

Apart from doing good research and writing well that is

Collaboration with private sector effective

Kamalski J amp Aisati M h (2013) International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes Food Safety research A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL

University-industry collaboration and impact

The average scientific impact of university-

industry papers is significantly above that of

both university-only papers and industry-only

papers

Lebeau L M Laframboise M C Lariviegravere V amp Gingras Y (2008) The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications The Canadian case 1980-2005 Research Evaluation 17(3) 227-232 httpdxdoiorg103152095820208x331685

Choosing journals with High Impact

factors

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Motives for publishing

Edge P Martin F Fao S R amp Manning N (2011) Researcher Attitudes and Behaviour Towards the ldquo Openness rdquo of Research Outputs inAgriculture and Related Fields

Motives for publishing

Choosing the right journal to publish

Many factors influence journal selection

Journal scopeIntended audience

Editorial boardstanding

Open Access

The speed of reviewing and publication

AcceptanceRejection rate

Journal circulation

Coverage in AampI databases (bibliographies)

Journal performance

Information about journals

Open Access

OA publishing eg PLoS BMC and Sage Open

Self-archiving in repositories eg Wageningen Yield (WaY)

SHERPARoMEO Publisher copyright policies amp self-archiving httpwwwsherpaacukromeo

Directory of open access journals DOAJ (currently ca 10000 journals)

Be aware of predatory OA publishers

ldquoPredatory publishersrdquo

ldquoGreenrdquo open access deposit author

versions to WaY

See httpedepotwurnl169331

Send your version of the article to waylibraywurnl

Speed of publication

PLoS One

Euphytica

Rejection acceptance rates

Sugimoto C R Lariviegravere V Ni C amp Cronin B (2013) Journal acceptance rates A cross-disciplinary analysis of

variability and relationships with journal measures Journal of Informetrics 7(4) 897ndash906 doi101016jjoi201308007

Rejection acceptance rates

Rejection acceptance rates

Journal circulation

Compare eg

ldquoAgricultural Systemsrdquo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Coverage in AampI databases

Making your publications known

networking

Networking is important

Start early make use of Social Networking tools

Facebook

LinkedIn

Social networks for scientists

Academiaedu Researchgatenet

Imagine what happens when Michael

Muumlller tweets about his latest article

Advertise yourself

Cite your previous articles

Be active at conferences

Cooperate with other peopleresearch groups

Write or expand articles in the Wikipedia refer to yourthesis

Blog or tweet about your research and thesis research

Make use of social networking tools (LinkedIn Researchgatenet Mendeley etc)

Create authorrsquos identifiers (ScopusID Researcher ID ORCID)

Claim your publications

ResearcherID (Web of Science)

Scopus Author ID (Scopus)

Google Scholar Citations

Mendeley

Enserink M (2009) Scientific Publishing Are You Ready to Become a Number Science

323(5922) 1662-1664 httpdxdoiorg101126science32359221662

ORCID

httporcidscopusfeedbackcom

Whats in a name

On the cover

Arina Schrier

First first title page

AP Schrier-Uyl

Second title page

Adriana Pia Uyl

In here own publication list

A Uyl

A Uijl

AP Schrier Uyl

This also applies to the names of groups

Environmental Policy Group Department of Social Sciences Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University and Research Centre

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen UR

Get your affiliation right

For the university

Chair group + Wageningen University

Plant Production Systems Group Wageningen University PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

For the institutes

Institute + Wageningen University amp Research Centre

Alterra Wageningen University amp Research Centre PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

Some other options to make you articles effective

Apart from doing good research and writing well that is

Collaboration with private sector effective

Kamalski J amp Aisati M h (2013) International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes Food Safety research A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL

University-industry collaboration and impact

The average scientific impact of university-

industry papers is significantly above that of

both university-only papers and industry-only

papers

Lebeau L M Laframboise M C Lariviegravere V amp Gingras Y (2008) The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications The Canadian case 1980-2005 Research Evaluation 17(3) 227-232 httpdxdoiorg103152095820208x331685

Choosing journals with High Impact

factors

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Motives for publishing

Edge P Martin F Fao S R amp Manning N (2011) Researcher Attitudes and Behaviour Towards the ldquo Openness rdquo of Research Outputs inAgriculture and Related Fields

Motives for publishing

Choosing the right journal to publish

Many factors influence journal selection

Journal scopeIntended audience

Editorial boardstanding

Open Access

The speed of reviewing and publication

AcceptanceRejection rate

Journal circulation

Coverage in AampI databases (bibliographies)

Journal performance

Information about journals

Open Access

OA publishing eg PLoS BMC and Sage Open

Self-archiving in repositories eg Wageningen Yield (WaY)

SHERPARoMEO Publisher copyright policies amp self-archiving httpwwwsherpaacukromeo

Directory of open access journals DOAJ (currently ca 10000 journals)

Be aware of predatory OA publishers

ldquoPredatory publishersrdquo

ldquoGreenrdquo open access deposit author

versions to WaY

See httpedepotwurnl169331

Send your version of the article to waylibraywurnl

Speed of publication

PLoS One

Euphytica

Rejection acceptance rates

Sugimoto C R Lariviegravere V Ni C amp Cronin B (2013) Journal acceptance rates A cross-disciplinary analysis of

variability and relationships with journal measures Journal of Informetrics 7(4) 897ndash906 doi101016jjoi201308007

Rejection acceptance rates

Rejection acceptance rates

Journal circulation

Compare eg

ldquoAgricultural Systemsrdquo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Coverage in AampI databases

Making your publications known

networking

Networking is important

Start early make use of Social Networking tools

Facebook

LinkedIn

Social networks for scientists

Academiaedu Researchgatenet

Imagine what happens when Michael

Muumlller tweets about his latest article

Advertise yourself

Cite your previous articles

Be active at conferences

Cooperate with other peopleresearch groups

Write or expand articles in the Wikipedia refer to yourthesis

Blog or tweet about your research and thesis research

Make use of social networking tools (LinkedIn Researchgatenet Mendeley etc)

Create authorrsquos identifiers (ScopusID Researcher ID ORCID)

Claim your publications

ResearcherID (Web of Science)

Scopus Author ID (Scopus)

Google Scholar Citations

Mendeley

Enserink M (2009) Scientific Publishing Are You Ready to Become a Number Science

323(5922) 1662-1664 httpdxdoiorg101126science32359221662

ORCID

httporcidscopusfeedbackcom

Whats in a name

On the cover

Arina Schrier

First first title page

AP Schrier-Uyl

Second title page

Adriana Pia Uyl

In here own publication list

A Uyl

A Uijl

AP Schrier Uyl

This also applies to the names of groups

Environmental Policy Group Department of Social Sciences Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University and Research Centre

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen UR

Get your affiliation right

For the university

Chair group + Wageningen University

Plant Production Systems Group Wageningen University PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

For the institutes

Institute + Wageningen University amp Research Centre

Alterra Wageningen University amp Research Centre PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

Some other options to make you articles effective

Apart from doing good research and writing well that is

Collaboration with private sector effective

Kamalski J amp Aisati M h (2013) International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes Food Safety research A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL

University-industry collaboration and impact

The average scientific impact of university-

industry papers is significantly above that of

both university-only papers and industry-only

papers

Lebeau L M Laframboise M C Lariviegravere V amp Gingras Y (2008) The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications The Canadian case 1980-2005 Research Evaluation 17(3) 227-232 httpdxdoiorg103152095820208x331685

Choosing journals with High Impact

factors

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Motives for publishing

Choosing the right journal to publish

Many factors influence journal selection

Journal scopeIntended audience

Editorial boardstanding

Open Access

The speed of reviewing and publication

AcceptanceRejection rate

Journal circulation

Coverage in AampI databases (bibliographies)

Journal performance

Information about journals

Open Access

OA publishing eg PLoS BMC and Sage Open

Self-archiving in repositories eg Wageningen Yield (WaY)

SHERPARoMEO Publisher copyright policies amp self-archiving httpwwwsherpaacukromeo

Directory of open access journals DOAJ (currently ca 10000 journals)

Be aware of predatory OA publishers

ldquoPredatory publishersrdquo

ldquoGreenrdquo open access deposit author

versions to WaY

See httpedepotwurnl169331

Send your version of the article to waylibraywurnl

Speed of publication

PLoS One

Euphytica

Rejection acceptance rates

Sugimoto C R Lariviegravere V Ni C amp Cronin B (2013) Journal acceptance rates A cross-disciplinary analysis of

variability and relationships with journal measures Journal of Informetrics 7(4) 897ndash906 doi101016jjoi201308007

Rejection acceptance rates

Rejection acceptance rates

Journal circulation

Compare eg

ldquoAgricultural Systemsrdquo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Coverage in AampI databases

Making your publications known

networking

Networking is important

Start early make use of Social Networking tools

Facebook

LinkedIn

Social networks for scientists

Academiaedu Researchgatenet

Imagine what happens when Michael

Muumlller tweets about his latest article

Advertise yourself

Cite your previous articles

Be active at conferences

Cooperate with other peopleresearch groups

Write or expand articles in the Wikipedia refer to yourthesis

Blog or tweet about your research and thesis research

Make use of social networking tools (LinkedIn Researchgatenet Mendeley etc)

Create authorrsquos identifiers (ScopusID Researcher ID ORCID)

Claim your publications

ResearcherID (Web of Science)

Scopus Author ID (Scopus)

Google Scholar Citations

Mendeley

Enserink M (2009) Scientific Publishing Are You Ready to Become a Number Science

323(5922) 1662-1664 httpdxdoiorg101126science32359221662

ORCID

httporcidscopusfeedbackcom

Whats in a name

On the cover

Arina Schrier

First first title page

AP Schrier-Uyl

Second title page

Adriana Pia Uyl

In here own publication list

A Uyl

A Uijl

AP Schrier Uyl

This also applies to the names of groups

Environmental Policy Group Department of Social Sciences Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University and Research Centre

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen UR

Get your affiliation right

For the university

Chair group + Wageningen University

Plant Production Systems Group Wageningen University PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

For the institutes

Institute + Wageningen University amp Research Centre

Alterra Wageningen University amp Research Centre PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

Some other options to make you articles effective

Apart from doing good research and writing well that is

Collaboration with private sector effective

Kamalski J amp Aisati M h (2013) International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes Food Safety research A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL

University-industry collaboration and impact

The average scientific impact of university-

industry papers is significantly above that of

both university-only papers and industry-only

papers

Lebeau L M Laframboise M C Lariviegravere V amp Gingras Y (2008) The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications The Canadian case 1980-2005 Research Evaluation 17(3) 227-232 httpdxdoiorg103152095820208x331685

Choosing journals with High Impact

factors

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Choosing the right journal to publish

Many factors influence journal selection

Journal scopeIntended audience

Editorial boardstanding

Open Access

The speed of reviewing and publication

AcceptanceRejection rate

Journal circulation

Coverage in AampI databases (bibliographies)

Journal performance

Information about journals

Open Access

OA publishing eg PLoS BMC and Sage Open

Self-archiving in repositories eg Wageningen Yield (WaY)

SHERPARoMEO Publisher copyright policies amp self-archiving httpwwwsherpaacukromeo

Directory of open access journals DOAJ (currently ca 10000 journals)

Be aware of predatory OA publishers

ldquoPredatory publishersrdquo

ldquoGreenrdquo open access deposit author

versions to WaY

See httpedepotwurnl169331

Send your version of the article to waylibraywurnl

Speed of publication

PLoS One

Euphytica

Rejection acceptance rates

Sugimoto C R Lariviegravere V Ni C amp Cronin B (2013) Journal acceptance rates A cross-disciplinary analysis of

variability and relationships with journal measures Journal of Informetrics 7(4) 897ndash906 doi101016jjoi201308007

Rejection acceptance rates

Rejection acceptance rates

Journal circulation

Compare eg

ldquoAgricultural Systemsrdquo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Coverage in AampI databases

Making your publications known

networking

Networking is important

Start early make use of Social Networking tools

Facebook

LinkedIn

Social networks for scientists

Academiaedu Researchgatenet

Imagine what happens when Michael

Muumlller tweets about his latest article

Advertise yourself

Cite your previous articles

Be active at conferences

Cooperate with other peopleresearch groups

Write or expand articles in the Wikipedia refer to yourthesis

Blog or tweet about your research and thesis research

Make use of social networking tools (LinkedIn Researchgatenet Mendeley etc)

Create authorrsquos identifiers (ScopusID Researcher ID ORCID)

Claim your publications

ResearcherID (Web of Science)

Scopus Author ID (Scopus)

Google Scholar Citations

Mendeley

Enserink M (2009) Scientific Publishing Are You Ready to Become a Number Science

323(5922) 1662-1664 httpdxdoiorg101126science32359221662

ORCID

httporcidscopusfeedbackcom

Whats in a name

On the cover

Arina Schrier

First first title page

AP Schrier-Uyl

Second title page

Adriana Pia Uyl

In here own publication list

A Uyl

A Uijl

AP Schrier Uyl

This also applies to the names of groups

Environmental Policy Group Department of Social Sciences Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University and Research Centre

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen UR

Get your affiliation right

For the university

Chair group + Wageningen University

Plant Production Systems Group Wageningen University PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

For the institutes

Institute + Wageningen University amp Research Centre

Alterra Wageningen University amp Research Centre PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

Some other options to make you articles effective

Apart from doing good research and writing well that is

Collaboration with private sector effective

Kamalski J amp Aisati M h (2013) International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes Food Safety research A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL

University-industry collaboration and impact

The average scientific impact of university-

industry papers is significantly above that of

both university-only papers and industry-only

papers

Lebeau L M Laframboise M C Lariviegravere V amp Gingras Y (2008) The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications The Canadian case 1980-2005 Research Evaluation 17(3) 227-232 httpdxdoiorg103152095820208x331685

Choosing journals with High Impact

factors

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Information about journals

Open Access

OA publishing eg PLoS BMC and Sage Open

Self-archiving in repositories eg Wageningen Yield (WaY)

SHERPARoMEO Publisher copyright policies amp self-archiving httpwwwsherpaacukromeo

Directory of open access journals DOAJ (currently ca 10000 journals)

Be aware of predatory OA publishers

ldquoPredatory publishersrdquo

ldquoGreenrdquo open access deposit author

versions to WaY

See httpedepotwurnl169331

Send your version of the article to waylibraywurnl

Speed of publication

PLoS One

Euphytica

Rejection acceptance rates

Sugimoto C R Lariviegravere V Ni C amp Cronin B (2013) Journal acceptance rates A cross-disciplinary analysis of

variability and relationships with journal measures Journal of Informetrics 7(4) 897ndash906 doi101016jjoi201308007

Rejection acceptance rates

Rejection acceptance rates

Journal circulation

Compare eg

ldquoAgricultural Systemsrdquo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Coverage in AampI databases

Making your publications known

networking

Networking is important

Start early make use of Social Networking tools

Facebook

LinkedIn

Social networks for scientists

Academiaedu Researchgatenet

Imagine what happens when Michael

Muumlller tweets about his latest article

Advertise yourself

Cite your previous articles

Be active at conferences

Cooperate with other peopleresearch groups

Write or expand articles in the Wikipedia refer to yourthesis

Blog or tweet about your research and thesis research

Make use of social networking tools (LinkedIn Researchgatenet Mendeley etc)

Create authorrsquos identifiers (ScopusID Researcher ID ORCID)

Claim your publications

ResearcherID (Web of Science)

Scopus Author ID (Scopus)

Google Scholar Citations

Mendeley

Enserink M (2009) Scientific Publishing Are You Ready to Become a Number Science

323(5922) 1662-1664 httpdxdoiorg101126science32359221662

ORCID

httporcidscopusfeedbackcom

Whats in a name

On the cover

Arina Schrier

First first title page

AP Schrier-Uyl

Second title page

Adriana Pia Uyl

In here own publication list

A Uyl

A Uijl

AP Schrier Uyl

This also applies to the names of groups

Environmental Policy Group Department of Social Sciences Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University and Research Centre

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen UR

Get your affiliation right

For the university

Chair group + Wageningen University

Plant Production Systems Group Wageningen University PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

For the institutes

Institute + Wageningen University amp Research Centre

Alterra Wageningen University amp Research Centre PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

Some other options to make you articles effective

Apart from doing good research and writing well that is

Collaboration with private sector effective

Kamalski J amp Aisati M h (2013) International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes Food Safety research A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL

University-industry collaboration and impact

The average scientific impact of university-

industry papers is significantly above that of

both university-only papers and industry-only

papers

Lebeau L M Laframboise M C Lariviegravere V amp Gingras Y (2008) The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications The Canadian case 1980-2005 Research Evaluation 17(3) 227-232 httpdxdoiorg103152095820208x331685

Choosing journals with High Impact

factors

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Open Access

OA publishing eg PLoS BMC and Sage Open

Self-archiving in repositories eg Wageningen Yield (WaY)

SHERPARoMEO Publisher copyright policies amp self-archiving httpwwwsherpaacukromeo

Directory of open access journals DOAJ (currently ca 10000 journals)

Be aware of predatory OA publishers

ldquoPredatory publishersrdquo

ldquoGreenrdquo open access deposit author

versions to WaY

See httpedepotwurnl169331

Send your version of the article to waylibraywurnl

Speed of publication

PLoS One

Euphytica

Rejection acceptance rates

Sugimoto C R Lariviegravere V Ni C amp Cronin B (2013) Journal acceptance rates A cross-disciplinary analysis of

variability and relationships with journal measures Journal of Informetrics 7(4) 897ndash906 doi101016jjoi201308007

Rejection acceptance rates

Rejection acceptance rates

Journal circulation

Compare eg

ldquoAgricultural Systemsrdquo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Coverage in AampI databases

Making your publications known

networking

Networking is important

Start early make use of Social Networking tools

Facebook

LinkedIn

Social networks for scientists

Academiaedu Researchgatenet

Imagine what happens when Michael

Muumlller tweets about his latest article

Advertise yourself

Cite your previous articles

Be active at conferences

Cooperate with other peopleresearch groups

Write or expand articles in the Wikipedia refer to yourthesis

Blog or tweet about your research and thesis research

Make use of social networking tools (LinkedIn Researchgatenet Mendeley etc)

Create authorrsquos identifiers (ScopusID Researcher ID ORCID)

Claim your publications

ResearcherID (Web of Science)

Scopus Author ID (Scopus)

Google Scholar Citations

Mendeley

Enserink M (2009) Scientific Publishing Are You Ready to Become a Number Science

323(5922) 1662-1664 httpdxdoiorg101126science32359221662

ORCID

httporcidscopusfeedbackcom

Whats in a name

On the cover

Arina Schrier

First first title page

AP Schrier-Uyl

Second title page

Adriana Pia Uyl

In here own publication list

A Uyl

A Uijl

AP Schrier Uyl

This also applies to the names of groups

Environmental Policy Group Department of Social Sciences Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University and Research Centre

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen UR

Get your affiliation right

For the university

Chair group + Wageningen University

Plant Production Systems Group Wageningen University PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

For the institutes

Institute + Wageningen University amp Research Centre

Alterra Wageningen University amp Research Centre PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

Some other options to make you articles effective

Apart from doing good research and writing well that is

Collaboration with private sector effective

Kamalski J amp Aisati M h (2013) International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes Food Safety research A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL

University-industry collaboration and impact

The average scientific impact of university-

industry papers is significantly above that of

both university-only papers and industry-only

papers

Lebeau L M Laframboise M C Lariviegravere V amp Gingras Y (2008) The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications The Canadian case 1980-2005 Research Evaluation 17(3) 227-232 httpdxdoiorg103152095820208x331685

Choosing journals with High Impact

factors

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

ldquoPredatory publishersrdquo

ldquoGreenrdquo open access deposit author

versions to WaY

See httpedepotwurnl169331

Send your version of the article to waylibraywurnl

Speed of publication

PLoS One

Euphytica

Rejection acceptance rates

Sugimoto C R Lariviegravere V Ni C amp Cronin B (2013) Journal acceptance rates A cross-disciplinary analysis of

variability and relationships with journal measures Journal of Informetrics 7(4) 897ndash906 doi101016jjoi201308007

Rejection acceptance rates

Rejection acceptance rates

Journal circulation

Compare eg

ldquoAgricultural Systemsrdquo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Coverage in AampI databases

Making your publications known

networking

Networking is important

Start early make use of Social Networking tools

Facebook

LinkedIn

Social networks for scientists

Academiaedu Researchgatenet

Imagine what happens when Michael

Muumlller tweets about his latest article

Advertise yourself

Cite your previous articles

Be active at conferences

Cooperate with other peopleresearch groups

Write or expand articles in the Wikipedia refer to yourthesis

Blog or tweet about your research and thesis research

Make use of social networking tools (LinkedIn Researchgatenet Mendeley etc)

Create authorrsquos identifiers (ScopusID Researcher ID ORCID)

Claim your publications

ResearcherID (Web of Science)

Scopus Author ID (Scopus)

Google Scholar Citations

Mendeley

Enserink M (2009) Scientific Publishing Are You Ready to Become a Number Science

323(5922) 1662-1664 httpdxdoiorg101126science32359221662

ORCID

httporcidscopusfeedbackcom

Whats in a name

On the cover

Arina Schrier

First first title page

AP Schrier-Uyl

Second title page

Adriana Pia Uyl

In here own publication list

A Uyl

A Uijl

AP Schrier Uyl

This also applies to the names of groups

Environmental Policy Group Department of Social Sciences Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University and Research Centre

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen UR

Get your affiliation right

For the university

Chair group + Wageningen University

Plant Production Systems Group Wageningen University PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

For the institutes

Institute + Wageningen University amp Research Centre

Alterra Wageningen University amp Research Centre PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

Some other options to make you articles effective

Apart from doing good research and writing well that is

Collaboration with private sector effective

Kamalski J amp Aisati M h (2013) International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes Food Safety research A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL

University-industry collaboration and impact

The average scientific impact of university-

industry papers is significantly above that of

both university-only papers and industry-only

papers

Lebeau L M Laframboise M C Lariviegravere V amp Gingras Y (2008) The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications The Canadian case 1980-2005 Research Evaluation 17(3) 227-232 httpdxdoiorg103152095820208x331685

Choosing journals with High Impact

factors

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

ldquoGreenrdquo open access deposit author

versions to WaY

See httpedepotwurnl169331

Send your version of the article to waylibraywurnl

Speed of publication

PLoS One

Euphytica

Rejection acceptance rates

Sugimoto C R Lariviegravere V Ni C amp Cronin B (2013) Journal acceptance rates A cross-disciplinary analysis of

variability and relationships with journal measures Journal of Informetrics 7(4) 897ndash906 doi101016jjoi201308007

Rejection acceptance rates

Rejection acceptance rates

Journal circulation

Compare eg

ldquoAgricultural Systemsrdquo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Coverage in AampI databases

Making your publications known

networking

Networking is important

Start early make use of Social Networking tools

Facebook

LinkedIn

Social networks for scientists

Academiaedu Researchgatenet

Imagine what happens when Michael

Muumlller tweets about his latest article

Advertise yourself

Cite your previous articles

Be active at conferences

Cooperate with other peopleresearch groups

Write or expand articles in the Wikipedia refer to yourthesis

Blog or tweet about your research and thesis research

Make use of social networking tools (LinkedIn Researchgatenet Mendeley etc)

Create authorrsquos identifiers (ScopusID Researcher ID ORCID)

Claim your publications

ResearcherID (Web of Science)

Scopus Author ID (Scopus)

Google Scholar Citations

Mendeley

Enserink M (2009) Scientific Publishing Are You Ready to Become a Number Science

323(5922) 1662-1664 httpdxdoiorg101126science32359221662

ORCID

httporcidscopusfeedbackcom

Whats in a name

On the cover

Arina Schrier

First first title page

AP Schrier-Uyl

Second title page

Adriana Pia Uyl

In here own publication list

A Uyl

A Uijl

AP Schrier Uyl

This also applies to the names of groups

Environmental Policy Group Department of Social Sciences Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University and Research Centre

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen UR

Get your affiliation right

For the university

Chair group + Wageningen University

Plant Production Systems Group Wageningen University PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

For the institutes

Institute + Wageningen University amp Research Centre

Alterra Wageningen University amp Research Centre PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

Some other options to make you articles effective

Apart from doing good research and writing well that is

Collaboration with private sector effective

Kamalski J amp Aisati M h (2013) International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes Food Safety research A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL

University-industry collaboration and impact

The average scientific impact of university-

industry papers is significantly above that of

both university-only papers and industry-only

papers

Lebeau L M Laframboise M C Lariviegravere V amp Gingras Y (2008) The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications The Canadian case 1980-2005 Research Evaluation 17(3) 227-232 httpdxdoiorg103152095820208x331685

Choosing journals with High Impact

factors

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Speed of publication

PLoS One

Euphytica

Rejection acceptance rates

Sugimoto C R Lariviegravere V Ni C amp Cronin B (2013) Journal acceptance rates A cross-disciplinary analysis of

variability and relationships with journal measures Journal of Informetrics 7(4) 897ndash906 doi101016jjoi201308007

Rejection acceptance rates

Rejection acceptance rates

Journal circulation

Compare eg

ldquoAgricultural Systemsrdquo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Coverage in AampI databases

Making your publications known

networking

Networking is important

Start early make use of Social Networking tools

Facebook

LinkedIn

Social networks for scientists

Academiaedu Researchgatenet

Imagine what happens when Michael

Muumlller tweets about his latest article

Advertise yourself

Cite your previous articles

Be active at conferences

Cooperate with other peopleresearch groups

Write or expand articles in the Wikipedia refer to yourthesis

Blog or tweet about your research and thesis research

Make use of social networking tools (LinkedIn Researchgatenet Mendeley etc)

Create authorrsquos identifiers (ScopusID Researcher ID ORCID)

Claim your publications

ResearcherID (Web of Science)

Scopus Author ID (Scopus)

Google Scholar Citations

Mendeley

Enserink M (2009) Scientific Publishing Are You Ready to Become a Number Science

323(5922) 1662-1664 httpdxdoiorg101126science32359221662

ORCID

httporcidscopusfeedbackcom

Whats in a name

On the cover

Arina Schrier

First first title page

AP Schrier-Uyl

Second title page

Adriana Pia Uyl

In here own publication list

A Uyl

A Uijl

AP Schrier Uyl

This also applies to the names of groups

Environmental Policy Group Department of Social Sciences Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University and Research Centre

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen UR

Get your affiliation right

For the university

Chair group + Wageningen University

Plant Production Systems Group Wageningen University PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

For the institutes

Institute + Wageningen University amp Research Centre

Alterra Wageningen University amp Research Centre PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

Some other options to make you articles effective

Apart from doing good research and writing well that is

Collaboration with private sector effective

Kamalski J amp Aisati M h (2013) International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes Food Safety research A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL

University-industry collaboration and impact

The average scientific impact of university-

industry papers is significantly above that of

both university-only papers and industry-only

papers

Lebeau L M Laframboise M C Lariviegravere V amp Gingras Y (2008) The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications The Canadian case 1980-2005 Research Evaluation 17(3) 227-232 httpdxdoiorg103152095820208x331685

Choosing journals with High Impact

factors

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Rejection acceptance rates

Sugimoto C R Lariviegravere V Ni C amp Cronin B (2013) Journal acceptance rates A cross-disciplinary analysis of

variability and relationships with journal measures Journal of Informetrics 7(4) 897ndash906 doi101016jjoi201308007

Rejection acceptance rates

Rejection acceptance rates

Journal circulation

Compare eg

ldquoAgricultural Systemsrdquo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Coverage in AampI databases

Making your publications known

networking

Networking is important

Start early make use of Social Networking tools

Facebook

LinkedIn

Social networks for scientists

Academiaedu Researchgatenet

Imagine what happens when Michael

Muumlller tweets about his latest article

Advertise yourself

Cite your previous articles

Be active at conferences

Cooperate with other peopleresearch groups

Write or expand articles in the Wikipedia refer to yourthesis

Blog or tweet about your research and thesis research

Make use of social networking tools (LinkedIn Researchgatenet Mendeley etc)

Create authorrsquos identifiers (ScopusID Researcher ID ORCID)

Claim your publications

ResearcherID (Web of Science)

Scopus Author ID (Scopus)

Google Scholar Citations

Mendeley

Enserink M (2009) Scientific Publishing Are You Ready to Become a Number Science

323(5922) 1662-1664 httpdxdoiorg101126science32359221662

ORCID

httporcidscopusfeedbackcom

Whats in a name

On the cover

Arina Schrier

First first title page

AP Schrier-Uyl

Second title page

Adriana Pia Uyl

In here own publication list

A Uyl

A Uijl

AP Schrier Uyl

This also applies to the names of groups

Environmental Policy Group Department of Social Sciences Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University and Research Centre

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen UR

Get your affiliation right

For the university

Chair group + Wageningen University

Plant Production Systems Group Wageningen University PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

For the institutes

Institute + Wageningen University amp Research Centre

Alterra Wageningen University amp Research Centre PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

Some other options to make you articles effective

Apart from doing good research and writing well that is

Collaboration with private sector effective

Kamalski J amp Aisati M h (2013) International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes Food Safety research A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL

University-industry collaboration and impact

The average scientific impact of university-

industry papers is significantly above that of

both university-only papers and industry-only

papers

Lebeau L M Laframboise M C Lariviegravere V amp Gingras Y (2008) The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications The Canadian case 1980-2005 Research Evaluation 17(3) 227-232 httpdxdoiorg103152095820208x331685

Choosing journals with High Impact

factors

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Rejection acceptance rates

Rejection acceptance rates

Journal circulation

Compare eg

ldquoAgricultural Systemsrdquo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Coverage in AampI databases

Making your publications known

networking

Networking is important

Start early make use of Social Networking tools

Facebook

LinkedIn

Social networks for scientists

Academiaedu Researchgatenet

Imagine what happens when Michael

Muumlller tweets about his latest article

Advertise yourself

Cite your previous articles

Be active at conferences

Cooperate with other peopleresearch groups

Write or expand articles in the Wikipedia refer to yourthesis

Blog or tweet about your research and thesis research

Make use of social networking tools (LinkedIn Researchgatenet Mendeley etc)

Create authorrsquos identifiers (ScopusID Researcher ID ORCID)

Claim your publications

ResearcherID (Web of Science)

Scopus Author ID (Scopus)

Google Scholar Citations

Mendeley

Enserink M (2009) Scientific Publishing Are You Ready to Become a Number Science

323(5922) 1662-1664 httpdxdoiorg101126science32359221662

ORCID

httporcidscopusfeedbackcom

Whats in a name

On the cover

Arina Schrier

First first title page

AP Schrier-Uyl

Second title page

Adriana Pia Uyl

In here own publication list

A Uyl

A Uijl

AP Schrier Uyl

This also applies to the names of groups

Environmental Policy Group Department of Social Sciences Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University and Research Centre

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen UR

Get your affiliation right

For the university

Chair group + Wageningen University

Plant Production Systems Group Wageningen University PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

For the institutes

Institute + Wageningen University amp Research Centre

Alterra Wageningen University amp Research Centre PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

Some other options to make you articles effective

Apart from doing good research and writing well that is

Collaboration with private sector effective

Kamalski J amp Aisati M h (2013) International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes Food Safety research A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL

University-industry collaboration and impact

The average scientific impact of university-

industry papers is significantly above that of

both university-only papers and industry-only

papers

Lebeau L M Laframboise M C Lariviegravere V amp Gingras Y (2008) The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications The Canadian case 1980-2005 Research Evaluation 17(3) 227-232 httpdxdoiorg103152095820208x331685

Choosing journals with High Impact

factors

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Rejection acceptance rates

Journal circulation

Compare eg

ldquoAgricultural Systemsrdquo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Coverage in AampI databases

Making your publications known

networking

Networking is important

Start early make use of Social Networking tools

Facebook

LinkedIn

Social networks for scientists

Academiaedu Researchgatenet

Imagine what happens when Michael

Muumlller tweets about his latest article

Advertise yourself

Cite your previous articles

Be active at conferences

Cooperate with other peopleresearch groups

Write or expand articles in the Wikipedia refer to yourthesis

Blog or tweet about your research and thesis research

Make use of social networking tools (LinkedIn Researchgatenet Mendeley etc)

Create authorrsquos identifiers (ScopusID Researcher ID ORCID)

Claim your publications

ResearcherID (Web of Science)

Scopus Author ID (Scopus)

Google Scholar Citations

Mendeley

Enserink M (2009) Scientific Publishing Are You Ready to Become a Number Science

323(5922) 1662-1664 httpdxdoiorg101126science32359221662

ORCID

httporcidscopusfeedbackcom

Whats in a name

On the cover

Arina Schrier

First first title page

AP Schrier-Uyl

Second title page

Adriana Pia Uyl

In here own publication list

A Uyl

A Uijl

AP Schrier Uyl

This also applies to the names of groups

Environmental Policy Group Department of Social Sciences Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University and Research Centre

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen UR

Get your affiliation right

For the university

Chair group + Wageningen University

Plant Production Systems Group Wageningen University PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

For the institutes

Institute + Wageningen University amp Research Centre

Alterra Wageningen University amp Research Centre PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

Some other options to make you articles effective

Apart from doing good research and writing well that is

Collaboration with private sector effective

Kamalski J amp Aisati M h (2013) International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes Food Safety research A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL

University-industry collaboration and impact

The average scientific impact of university-

industry papers is significantly above that of

both university-only papers and industry-only

papers

Lebeau L M Laframboise M C Lariviegravere V amp Gingras Y (2008) The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications The Canadian case 1980-2005 Research Evaluation 17(3) 227-232 httpdxdoiorg103152095820208x331685

Choosing journals with High Impact

factors

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Journal circulation

Compare eg

ldquoAgricultural Systemsrdquo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Coverage in AampI databases

Making your publications known

networking

Networking is important

Start early make use of Social Networking tools

Facebook

LinkedIn

Social networks for scientists

Academiaedu Researchgatenet

Imagine what happens when Michael

Muumlller tweets about his latest article

Advertise yourself

Cite your previous articles

Be active at conferences

Cooperate with other peopleresearch groups

Write or expand articles in the Wikipedia refer to yourthesis

Blog or tweet about your research and thesis research

Make use of social networking tools (LinkedIn Researchgatenet Mendeley etc)

Create authorrsquos identifiers (ScopusID Researcher ID ORCID)

Claim your publications

ResearcherID (Web of Science)

Scopus Author ID (Scopus)

Google Scholar Citations

Mendeley

Enserink M (2009) Scientific Publishing Are You Ready to Become a Number Science

323(5922) 1662-1664 httpdxdoiorg101126science32359221662

ORCID

httporcidscopusfeedbackcom

Whats in a name

On the cover

Arina Schrier

First first title page

AP Schrier-Uyl

Second title page

Adriana Pia Uyl

In here own publication list

A Uyl

A Uijl

AP Schrier Uyl

This also applies to the names of groups

Environmental Policy Group Department of Social Sciences Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University and Research Centre

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen UR

Get your affiliation right

For the university

Chair group + Wageningen University

Plant Production Systems Group Wageningen University PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

For the institutes

Institute + Wageningen University amp Research Centre

Alterra Wageningen University amp Research Centre PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

Some other options to make you articles effective

Apart from doing good research and writing well that is

Collaboration with private sector effective

Kamalski J amp Aisati M h (2013) International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes Food Safety research A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL

University-industry collaboration and impact

The average scientific impact of university-

industry papers is significantly above that of

both university-only papers and industry-only

papers

Lebeau L M Laframboise M C Lariviegravere V amp Gingras Y (2008) The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications The Canadian case 1980-2005 Research Evaluation 17(3) 227-232 httpdxdoiorg103152095820208x331685

Choosing journals with High Impact

factors

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Coverage in AampI databases

Making your publications known

networking

Networking is important

Start early make use of Social Networking tools

Facebook

LinkedIn

Social networks for scientists

Academiaedu Researchgatenet

Imagine what happens when Michael

Muumlller tweets about his latest article

Advertise yourself

Cite your previous articles

Be active at conferences

Cooperate with other peopleresearch groups

Write or expand articles in the Wikipedia refer to yourthesis

Blog or tweet about your research and thesis research

Make use of social networking tools (LinkedIn Researchgatenet Mendeley etc)

Create authorrsquos identifiers (ScopusID Researcher ID ORCID)

Claim your publications

ResearcherID (Web of Science)

Scopus Author ID (Scopus)

Google Scholar Citations

Mendeley

Enserink M (2009) Scientific Publishing Are You Ready to Become a Number Science

323(5922) 1662-1664 httpdxdoiorg101126science32359221662

ORCID

httporcidscopusfeedbackcom

Whats in a name

On the cover

Arina Schrier

First first title page

AP Schrier-Uyl

Second title page

Adriana Pia Uyl

In here own publication list

A Uyl

A Uijl

AP Schrier Uyl

This also applies to the names of groups

Environmental Policy Group Department of Social Sciences Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University and Research Centre

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen UR

Get your affiliation right

For the university

Chair group + Wageningen University

Plant Production Systems Group Wageningen University PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

For the institutes

Institute + Wageningen University amp Research Centre

Alterra Wageningen University amp Research Centre PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

Some other options to make you articles effective

Apart from doing good research and writing well that is

Collaboration with private sector effective

Kamalski J amp Aisati M h (2013) International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes Food Safety research A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL

University-industry collaboration and impact

The average scientific impact of university-

industry papers is significantly above that of

both university-only papers and industry-only

papers

Lebeau L M Laframboise M C Lariviegravere V amp Gingras Y (2008) The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications The Canadian case 1980-2005 Research Evaluation 17(3) 227-232 httpdxdoiorg103152095820208x331685

Choosing journals with High Impact

factors

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Making your publications known

networking

Networking is important

Start early make use of Social Networking tools

Facebook

LinkedIn

Social networks for scientists

Academiaedu Researchgatenet

Imagine what happens when Michael

Muumlller tweets about his latest article

Advertise yourself

Cite your previous articles

Be active at conferences

Cooperate with other peopleresearch groups

Write or expand articles in the Wikipedia refer to yourthesis

Blog or tweet about your research and thesis research

Make use of social networking tools (LinkedIn Researchgatenet Mendeley etc)

Create authorrsquos identifiers (ScopusID Researcher ID ORCID)

Claim your publications

ResearcherID (Web of Science)

Scopus Author ID (Scopus)

Google Scholar Citations

Mendeley

Enserink M (2009) Scientific Publishing Are You Ready to Become a Number Science

323(5922) 1662-1664 httpdxdoiorg101126science32359221662

ORCID

httporcidscopusfeedbackcom

Whats in a name

On the cover

Arina Schrier

First first title page

AP Schrier-Uyl

Second title page

Adriana Pia Uyl

In here own publication list

A Uyl

A Uijl

AP Schrier Uyl

This also applies to the names of groups

Environmental Policy Group Department of Social Sciences Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University and Research Centre

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen UR

Get your affiliation right

For the university

Chair group + Wageningen University

Plant Production Systems Group Wageningen University PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

For the institutes

Institute + Wageningen University amp Research Centre

Alterra Wageningen University amp Research Centre PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

Some other options to make you articles effective

Apart from doing good research and writing well that is

Collaboration with private sector effective

Kamalski J amp Aisati M h (2013) International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes Food Safety research A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL

University-industry collaboration and impact

The average scientific impact of university-

industry papers is significantly above that of

both university-only papers and industry-only

papers

Lebeau L M Laframboise M C Lariviegravere V amp Gingras Y (2008) The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications The Canadian case 1980-2005 Research Evaluation 17(3) 227-232 httpdxdoiorg103152095820208x331685

Choosing journals with High Impact

factors

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Networking is important

Start early make use of Social Networking tools

Facebook

LinkedIn

Social networks for scientists

Academiaedu Researchgatenet

Imagine what happens when Michael

Muumlller tweets about his latest article

Advertise yourself

Cite your previous articles

Be active at conferences

Cooperate with other peopleresearch groups

Write or expand articles in the Wikipedia refer to yourthesis

Blog or tweet about your research and thesis research

Make use of social networking tools (LinkedIn Researchgatenet Mendeley etc)

Create authorrsquos identifiers (ScopusID Researcher ID ORCID)

Claim your publications

ResearcherID (Web of Science)

Scopus Author ID (Scopus)

Google Scholar Citations

Mendeley

Enserink M (2009) Scientific Publishing Are You Ready to Become a Number Science

323(5922) 1662-1664 httpdxdoiorg101126science32359221662

ORCID

httporcidscopusfeedbackcom

Whats in a name

On the cover

Arina Schrier

First first title page

AP Schrier-Uyl

Second title page

Adriana Pia Uyl

In here own publication list

A Uyl

A Uijl

AP Schrier Uyl

This also applies to the names of groups

Environmental Policy Group Department of Social Sciences Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University and Research Centre

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen UR

Get your affiliation right

For the university

Chair group + Wageningen University

Plant Production Systems Group Wageningen University PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

For the institutes

Institute + Wageningen University amp Research Centre

Alterra Wageningen University amp Research Centre PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

Some other options to make you articles effective

Apart from doing good research and writing well that is

Collaboration with private sector effective

Kamalski J amp Aisati M h (2013) International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes Food Safety research A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL

University-industry collaboration and impact

The average scientific impact of university-

industry papers is significantly above that of

both university-only papers and industry-only

papers

Lebeau L M Laframboise M C Lariviegravere V amp Gingras Y (2008) The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications The Canadian case 1980-2005 Research Evaluation 17(3) 227-232 httpdxdoiorg103152095820208x331685

Choosing journals with High Impact

factors

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Imagine what happens when Michael

Muumlller tweets about his latest article

Advertise yourself

Cite your previous articles

Be active at conferences

Cooperate with other peopleresearch groups

Write or expand articles in the Wikipedia refer to yourthesis

Blog or tweet about your research and thesis research

Make use of social networking tools (LinkedIn Researchgatenet Mendeley etc)

Create authorrsquos identifiers (ScopusID Researcher ID ORCID)

Claim your publications

ResearcherID (Web of Science)

Scopus Author ID (Scopus)

Google Scholar Citations

Mendeley

Enserink M (2009) Scientific Publishing Are You Ready to Become a Number Science

323(5922) 1662-1664 httpdxdoiorg101126science32359221662

ORCID

httporcidscopusfeedbackcom

Whats in a name

On the cover

Arina Schrier

First first title page

AP Schrier-Uyl

Second title page

Adriana Pia Uyl

In here own publication list

A Uyl

A Uijl

AP Schrier Uyl

This also applies to the names of groups

Environmental Policy Group Department of Social Sciences Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University and Research Centre

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen UR

Get your affiliation right

For the university

Chair group + Wageningen University

Plant Production Systems Group Wageningen University PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

For the institutes

Institute + Wageningen University amp Research Centre

Alterra Wageningen University amp Research Centre PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

Some other options to make you articles effective

Apart from doing good research and writing well that is

Collaboration with private sector effective

Kamalski J amp Aisati M h (2013) International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes Food Safety research A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL

University-industry collaboration and impact

The average scientific impact of university-

industry papers is significantly above that of

both university-only papers and industry-only

papers

Lebeau L M Laframboise M C Lariviegravere V amp Gingras Y (2008) The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications The Canadian case 1980-2005 Research Evaluation 17(3) 227-232 httpdxdoiorg103152095820208x331685

Choosing journals with High Impact

factors

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Advertise yourself

Cite your previous articles

Be active at conferences

Cooperate with other peopleresearch groups

Write or expand articles in the Wikipedia refer to yourthesis

Blog or tweet about your research and thesis research

Make use of social networking tools (LinkedIn Researchgatenet Mendeley etc)

Create authorrsquos identifiers (ScopusID Researcher ID ORCID)

Claim your publications

ResearcherID (Web of Science)

Scopus Author ID (Scopus)

Google Scholar Citations

Mendeley

Enserink M (2009) Scientific Publishing Are You Ready to Become a Number Science

323(5922) 1662-1664 httpdxdoiorg101126science32359221662

ORCID

httporcidscopusfeedbackcom

Whats in a name

On the cover

Arina Schrier

First first title page

AP Schrier-Uyl

Second title page

Adriana Pia Uyl

In here own publication list

A Uyl

A Uijl

AP Schrier Uyl

This also applies to the names of groups

Environmental Policy Group Department of Social Sciences Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University and Research Centre

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen UR

Get your affiliation right

For the university

Chair group + Wageningen University

Plant Production Systems Group Wageningen University PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

For the institutes

Institute + Wageningen University amp Research Centre

Alterra Wageningen University amp Research Centre PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

Some other options to make you articles effective

Apart from doing good research and writing well that is

Collaboration with private sector effective

Kamalski J amp Aisati M h (2013) International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes Food Safety research A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL

University-industry collaboration and impact

The average scientific impact of university-

industry papers is significantly above that of

both university-only papers and industry-only

papers

Lebeau L M Laframboise M C Lariviegravere V amp Gingras Y (2008) The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications The Canadian case 1980-2005 Research Evaluation 17(3) 227-232 httpdxdoiorg103152095820208x331685

Choosing journals with High Impact

factors

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Claim your publications

ResearcherID (Web of Science)

Scopus Author ID (Scopus)

Google Scholar Citations

Mendeley

Enserink M (2009) Scientific Publishing Are You Ready to Become a Number Science

323(5922) 1662-1664 httpdxdoiorg101126science32359221662

ORCID

httporcidscopusfeedbackcom

Whats in a name

On the cover

Arina Schrier

First first title page

AP Schrier-Uyl

Second title page

Adriana Pia Uyl

In here own publication list

A Uyl

A Uijl

AP Schrier Uyl

This also applies to the names of groups

Environmental Policy Group Department of Social Sciences Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University and Research Centre

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen UR

Get your affiliation right

For the university

Chair group + Wageningen University

Plant Production Systems Group Wageningen University PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

For the institutes

Institute + Wageningen University amp Research Centre

Alterra Wageningen University amp Research Centre PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

Some other options to make you articles effective

Apart from doing good research and writing well that is

Collaboration with private sector effective

Kamalski J amp Aisati M h (2013) International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes Food Safety research A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL

University-industry collaboration and impact

The average scientific impact of university-

industry papers is significantly above that of

both university-only papers and industry-only

papers

Lebeau L M Laframboise M C Lariviegravere V amp Gingras Y (2008) The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications The Canadian case 1980-2005 Research Evaluation 17(3) 227-232 httpdxdoiorg103152095820208x331685

Choosing journals with High Impact

factors

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Whats in a name

On the cover

Arina Schrier

First first title page

AP Schrier-Uyl

Second title page

Adriana Pia Uyl

In here own publication list

A Uyl

A Uijl

AP Schrier Uyl

This also applies to the names of groups

Environmental Policy Group Department of Social Sciences Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University and Research Centre

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen UR

Get your affiliation right

For the university

Chair group + Wageningen University

Plant Production Systems Group Wageningen University PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

For the institutes

Institute + Wageningen University amp Research Centre

Alterra Wageningen University amp Research Centre PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

Some other options to make you articles effective

Apart from doing good research and writing well that is

Collaboration with private sector effective

Kamalski J amp Aisati M h (2013) International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes Food Safety research A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL

University-industry collaboration and impact

The average scientific impact of university-

industry papers is significantly above that of

both university-only papers and industry-only

papers

Lebeau L M Laframboise M C Lariviegravere V amp Gingras Y (2008) The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications The Canadian case 1980-2005 Research Evaluation 17(3) 227-232 httpdxdoiorg103152095820208x331685

Choosing journals with High Impact

factors

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

This also applies to the names of groups

Environmental Policy Group Department of Social Sciences Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University and Research Centre

Environmental Policy Group Wageningen UR

Get your affiliation right

For the university

Chair group + Wageningen University

Plant Production Systems Group Wageningen University PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

For the institutes

Institute + Wageningen University amp Research Centre

Alterra Wageningen University amp Research Centre PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

Some other options to make you articles effective

Apart from doing good research and writing well that is

Collaboration with private sector effective

Kamalski J amp Aisati M h (2013) International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes Food Safety research A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL

University-industry collaboration and impact

The average scientific impact of university-

industry papers is significantly above that of

both university-only papers and industry-only

papers

Lebeau L M Laframboise M C Lariviegravere V amp Gingras Y (2008) The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications The Canadian case 1980-2005 Research Evaluation 17(3) 227-232 httpdxdoiorg103152095820208x331685

Choosing journals with High Impact

factors

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Get your affiliation right

For the university

Chair group + Wageningen University

Plant Production Systems Group Wageningen University PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

For the institutes

Institute + Wageningen University amp Research Centre

Alterra Wageningen University amp Research Centre PO box 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands

Some other options to make you articles effective

Apart from doing good research and writing well that is

Collaboration with private sector effective

Kamalski J amp Aisati M h (2013) International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes Food Safety research A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL

University-industry collaboration and impact

The average scientific impact of university-

industry papers is significantly above that of

both university-only papers and industry-only

papers

Lebeau L M Laframboise M C Lariviegravere V amp Gingras Y (2008) The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications The Canadian case 1980-2005 Research Evaluation 17(3) 227-232 httpdxdoiorg103152095820208x331685

Choosing journals with High Impact

factors

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Some other options to make you articles effective

Apart from doing good research and writing well that is

Collaboration with private sector effective

Kamalski J amp Aisati M h (2013) International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes Food Safety research A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL

University-industry collaboration and impact

The average scientific impact of university-

industry papers is significantly above that of

both university-only papers and industry-only

papers

Lebeau L M Laframboise M C Lariviegravere V amp Gingras Y (2008) The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications The Canadian case 1980-2005 Research Evaluation 17(3) 227-232 httpdxdoiorg103152095820208x331685

Choosing journals with High Impact

factors

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Collaboration with private sector effective

Kamalski J amp Aisati M h (2013) International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes Food Safety research A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL

University-industry collaboration and impact

The average scientific impact of university-

industry papers is significantly above that of

both university-only papers and industry-only

papers

Lebeau L M Laframboise M C Lariviegravere V amp Gingras Y (2008) The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications The Canadian case 1980-2005 Research Evaluation 17(3) 227-232 httpdxdoiorg103152095820208x331685

Choosing journals with High Impact

factors

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

University-industry collaboration and impact

The average scientific impact of university-

industry papers is significantly above that of

both university-only papers and industry-only

papers

Lebeau L M Laframboise M C Lariviegravere V amp Gingras Y (2008) The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications The Canadian case 1980-2005 Research Evaluation 17(3) 227-232 httpdxdoiorg103152095820208x331685

Choosing journals with High Impact

factors

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Choosing journals with High Impact

factors

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

More co-authors

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

References

Recent articles N Onodera and F Yoshikane ldquoFactors affecting citation rates of

research articlesrdquo J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Jun 2014

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Self citations

The model [] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations so that we have the ldquochain reactionrdquo Larger size leads to more self-citations which lead to more external citations

1128

van Raan A F J (2008) Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10) 1631-1643

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

More articles per research project

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers

Beware of the ethical standards

Bornmann looked at total citations not to relative impact

Bornmann L amp H-D Daniel (2007) Multiple publication on a single research study Does it pay The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8) 1100-1107 httpdxdoiorg101002asi20531

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Publish your data

Henneken et al (2011) articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links

httparxivorgabs11113618

Piwowar et al (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

httpdxdoiorg101371journalpone0000308

Library assists in curating datasets

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 1

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Web of Science

Search

Articles are found based on Authors Addresses etc

For each article Times cited is presented

Cited reference search

Searches in the reference lists of records

Not all of your articles are found Non-cited articles are missing

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Beeldvullende foto met titel

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

How do we compare numbers

Scientist Z Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Years after publication

Cu

mu

lati

ve

no

c

ita

tio

ns Baseline

top 10

top 1

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Baselines for Molecular Biology

0

100

200

300

400

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

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Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Citation enhanced AampI databases

Web of Science

Based on plusmn 12000 journals

Metrics Impact factor

Baselines per lsquodisciplinersquo (ESI)

Analysis tools (Insight)

Scopus

Based on plusmn 19000 journals + other

publication types

Metrics SNIP and SJR

Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)

Google Scholar (httpscholargooglecom)

Based on unknown journals + many

other things

No baselines

There are other citation

enhanced databases

PsychInfo

SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)

ArXiv (Physics)

Spires (high energy physics)

Citeseer (ICT)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Research group metrics

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Bibliometric indicators An example

Kroes-Nijboer A Venema P Bouman J van der Linden E

(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-

Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation Food Biophysics 4(2)59-

63

Citations from WoS 11

Journal Food Biophysics

Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences

Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences

Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences

On average 547 citations top 10 14 citations top

1 34 citations

Relative Impact 11547 = 201 Values June 2013

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Analytical database covering 10 years + current year building

Comparisons between Countries Institutes Scientists and Journals

Hot papers Highly cited papers

Research fronts

Baselines

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

ESI Baselines

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Alternative to ESI Scival (Elsevier)

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Steps in a citation analysis

1 Look up the citation data (Web of Science)

2 Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields(Essential Science Indicators)

3 Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)

4 Calculate the relative impact

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 2 Number of publications and times cited

Exercise 21

Exercise 22 is optional

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 3 Citation impact and rankings (Essential Science Indicators)

Exercise 31a (31b optional)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

H-index

Balance between productivity

and citedness

To rule out the effect of one

or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors

journals research groups

compounds subjects etc

But there are some serious

doubts about robustness

Waltman L amp N J van Eck (2011) The inconsistency of the h-index Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2)406-415 httpdxdoiorg101002asi21678

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

H-index

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Omnipresent h-index

54 47

57

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Journal Performance Indicators

Journal performance indicators are based on citations to articles

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

ao standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

ao SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Also available on httpjournalmetricscom

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Reports three measures

Impact factor

Immediacy Index

Cited half life

Adapted from Amin M and Mabe M (2000) Impact factors use

and abuse Perspectives in Publishing No 1 6 pp

httpwwwelseviercomframework_editorspdfsPerspectives1pdf

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

IF in 2011 for Agricultural Systems

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Selecting journals on the basis of IF

Word of warning

Our opinion Be careful when using Journal Impact factors to judge the performance of a group or individual scientist

Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track at Wageningen UR

Opthof T (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor Cardiovascular Research 33(1) 1-7 httpdxdoiorg101016S0008-6363(96)00215-5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Exercises

Manual Chapter 98

Exercise 4 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Programme

Publishing

Metrics

Article metrics

Author metrics

Journal metrics

Research group metrics

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Journal quality and article impact 2003-

2009 for Wageningen UR

Source Wageningen Yield Feb 2012

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer

Bibliometric analysis

Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

Thank you

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Increase in share of Q1 articles at

WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

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Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

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Journal selection affects Relative Impact

2010

2011

2003

Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

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Interpretation of RI for small groups

With 10-50 publications per year

RI le 08 below world average impact

08 lt RI le 12 world average impact

12 lt RI le 20 above world average impact

20 lt RI le 30 very good average impact

RI gt 30 excellent average impact

Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

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Exercises

Exercise 5 (Group) Bibliometric analysis

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