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How Auto-Googling Can Help You
Or:Citation Metrics for Self-
Advancement
Why Should You Want To?• NRF rating panels now make use of h-indices
calculated via both ISI Web of Science AND Scopus• Ad Hominem Promotions Committees at UCT look at
publication numbers and citations• Knowing relative impacts in a field can be useful in
rating other people objectively• Departmental / Unit / Group reviews can be
informed wrt numbers of papers, impacts• Patents are an important part of your publications
and achievements for assessment – and UCT keeps careful track of these
First stop: eResearch Pages
Clicking on
Takes you to this resource page – with a serious variety of tools to choose from
Autogoogling: needs some setting up
Autogoogling 2
To start with:• Need a Gmail address for sign-in• Need to train GSC as to which are your papersWhat you can do:• Immediately see your Hirsch or h-index* (which is usually
significantly higher than the Scopus or ISI measure)• See your 5-year h-index&, which is a good measure or
your (or other person's) recent impact
*h-index is the largest number h such that h publications have at least h citations& largest number h such that h publications have at least h new citations in the last 5 years.
Useful Google Scholar tricks
Thanks AJ Cann!
Harzing’s P or P
Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses Google Scholar to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these for:• Total number of papers• Total number of citations• Average number of citations per paper• Average number of citations per author• Average number of papers per author• Average number of citations per year• Hirsch's h-index and related parameters• Egghe's g-index• The contemporary h-index• The age-weighted citation rate• Two variations of individual h-indices• An analysis of the number of authors per paper.The results are available on-screen and can also be copied to the Windows clipboard (for pasting into other applications) or saved Training resourcesA 15-minute audio & slide presentation on citation analysis and Publish or Perish can be found on Slideshare.
Google Scholar / H or H might be best for:• Business, Administration,
Finance & Economics;• Engineering, Computer
Science & Mathematics;• Social Sciences, Arts &
Humanities.
ISI Web of Kn owledge / Web of Science
Elsevier's Scopus
Getting in with Scopus
Note: VERY useful for future searches
Scopus correspondswith Google Scholar citations for papers
UCT patent info from RCIPS
Sample of printout from database kept by RCIPS foreach UCT inventor
Patent records
Concise listing of inventors, claims, etc
Patent records
Full list of countries where filed, status, grant numbers and vital dates
Further analysis of impact
• Deeper analysis of citations is possible using proprietary software. This allows:– Identification of multi/trans disciplinary groups
publishing on a common theme– Assessment of impact of this work in terms of
leadership of the field internationally or at UCT– Quick identification of international and local
collaborators (see http://www.slideshare.net/edrybicki/uct-collaboration-2006-2010-res-indaba)
UCT now has Spotlight!
UCT Competencies: size is proportional to number of publications; position and colours of lines indicate multidisciplinarity (more towards middle)
…so what does it do?
Top Competencies:
Pick a Competency: a circle is outlined and in information window pops up
This one happens to be me and mine…
Click for more info: opens up an analysis page
Drill down – see how the competency rates
Click into Rank Lists – see where you are in the world
…and where you are in your own institution
…and where your institution ranks
How to use this for the NRF / Faculty
• NRF Assessment Biographical info (last 8 yrs):“My publishing impact has increased significantly since 2003: I now have 137 ISI-listed publications, a h-index of 25 and over 2200 citations, compared to a h-factor of 17, 70 publications and 783 citations in 2002.” My research group leads the world in a Distinctive Competency identified by SciVal Spotlight…
• NRF Publications info: best research outputsMotivation :This article established that, unlike previous investigations, it was possible to get high-level expression of HPV-16 L1 protein via transient expression in plants, that it assembled into VLPs, and that it elicited neutralising antibodies in mice. It has been cited 34 times…
• HR174 promotion / assessment infoMy research group leads the world in a Distinctive Competency identified by SciVal Spotlight…because of my group, UCT is top in the field of geminivirus diversity / Jane Austen / bullfrogs….
How to do an institutional searchInstitutional / Unit / Department Review
Limit to last 5 years
Modify search query with advanced tools
Get all IIDMM publications for last 5 yrs
Look at most cited
How to use this for reviews
• Institutional address searches via Scopus (NOT ISI!) allow easy retrieval of papers over a given time period by people who would otherwise have been missed (or forgotten)
• The impact of the publications can very simply be assessed
• Cognate searches done on other Depts / institutes can be done as easily for comparative purposes: eg “we score as highly as the Universities of Sydney / Auckland / Hyderabad…”