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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer
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 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
Thank you
httpwwwslidesharenethugobesemer
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