University of Malaya From the SelectedWorks of Nader Ale Ebrahim February 23, 2017 Research Impact Measurement Nader Ale Ebrahim This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CC_BY-NC-SA International License. Available at: https://works.bepress.com/aleebrahim/189/ Research Impact Measurement Nader Ale Ebrahim, PhD Visiting Research Fellow Centre for Research Services Institute of Management and Research Services University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia [email protected] @aleebrahim www.researcherid.com/rid/C-2414-2009 http://scholar.google.com/citations 23rd February 2017 All of my presentations are available online at: https://figshare.com/authors/Nader_Ale_Ebrahim/100797 Link to this presentation: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4681345.v1 TRAIN-THE TRAINERS WORKSHOP SERIES ON: Strategies to Enhance Research Visibility, Impact & Citations Nader Ale Ebrahim, PhD Part 1: Research impact measurement ===================================== Centre for Research Services Institute of Management and Research Services University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia www.researcherid.com/rid/C-2414-2009 http://scholar.google.com/citations Read more: Ale Ebrahim, N., Salehi, H., Embi, M. A., Habibi Tanha, F., Gholizadeh, H., Motahar, S. M., & Ordi, A. (2013). Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency. International Education Studies, 6(11), 93-99. doi: 10.5539/ies.v6n11p93 Abstract Abstract: Do you know “Over 43% of ISI papers have never ever received any citations?” (nature.com/top100, 2014). Publishing a high quality paper in scientific journals is only halfway towards receiving citation in the future. The rest of the journey is dependent on disseminating the publications via proper utilization of the “Research Tools”. Proper tools allow the researchers to increase the research impact and citations for their publications. This workshop series will provide you various techniques on how you can increase the visibility and hence the impact of your research work. Keywords: H-index, Increase citations, Research tools, Research visibility, Research impact ©2016-2017 Nader Ale Ebrahim Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency Journal Reputation and Impact: publishing a paper in a journal based on disciplinary reputatation or with a high impact factor is the most well known way of getting your paper cited. But there are many other things a scholar can do to promote his or her work and make it easy for others to find. Utilize Open Access Tools: Open Access journals tend to be cited more than non open access. Deposit your paper in a repository such as Scholars Archive here on campus or a disciplinary repository. Share your detailed research data in a repository. Standarize Identifying Info: try to use the same name throughout your career as well as the name of your affiliated insitution. Using common "official" names will allow for consistency and easy retrieval of your work by author or affiliation. Bring Colleagues on Board: team-authored articles are cited more frequently, as does publishing with international authors. Working cross-or inter-disciplinarily helps as well. Beef Up That Paper: use more references, publish a longer paper. Also papers which are published elsewhere after having been rejected are cited more frequently. Beyond Peer-Reviewed Original Research: Write a review paper. Present a working paper. Write and disseminate web-based tutorials on your topic. Search Optimization: use keywords in the abstract and assign them to the manuscript. Use descriptive titles that utilize the obvious terms searchers would use to look for your topic, avoiding questions in the title. Select a journal that is indexed in the key library databases for your field. Market Yourself: create a key phrase that describes your research career and use it. Update your professional web page and publication lists frequently. Link to your latest and greatest article in your professional email signature file. Utliize Social Media: Use author profiles such as ResearcherID and ORCID. Contribute to Wikipedia, start a blog and/or podcast, join academic social media sites. From: Ebrahim, N.A., et al. (2013). Effective strategies for increasing citation frequency. International Education Studies, 6(11), 93-99. doi:10.5539/ies.v6n11p93 ©2016-2017 Nader Ale Ebrahim Top 10 authors with the highest Reads counts on ResearchGate Source: Martín-Martín, A., Orduna-Malea, E., Ayllón, J. M., & López-Cózar, E. D. (2016). The counting house, measuring those who count: Presence of Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Informetrics, Webometrics and Altmetrics in Google Scholar Citations, ResearcherID, ResearchGate, Mendeley, & Twitter. EC3 Reseach Group: Evaluación de la Ciencia y de la Comunicación Científica Universidad de Granada and Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain), In Progress,. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.4814.4402 ©2017-2018 Nader Ale Ebrahim 5 Benefits of assessing and improving your online presence Source: http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/images/5/5d/Online_Visibility_Guidelines.pdf ©2016-2017 Nader Ale Ebrahim Why maximize the impact of your research? Source: Jaslyn Tan, (2014), Maximizing the impact of your research paper, WILEY ©2016-2017 Nader Ale Ebrahim Source: R. Van Noorden, B. Maher, and R. Nuzzo, “The top 100 papers,” Nature, vol. 514, 2014. ©2016-2017 Nader Ale Ebrahim Why citation is important? ©2016-2017 Nader Ale Ebrahim QS World University Rankings Citations per faculty (20%) This indicator aims to assess universities’ research impact. A ‘citation’ means a piece of research being cited (referred to) within another piece of research. Generally, the more often a piece of research is cited, the more influential it is. So the more highly cited research papers a university publishes, the stronger its research output is considered. QS collects this information using Scopus, the world’s largest database of research abstracts and citations. The latest five complete years of data are used, and the total citation count is assessed in relation to the number of academic faculty members at the university, so that larger institutions do not have an unfair advantage. For the 2016-17 rankings, QS analyzed 10.3 million research papers and 66.3 million citations. For the 2015-16 edition of the QS World University Rankings, several refinements were introduced to the way this indicator is assessed, with the aim of providing a more balanced reflection of research impact across different faculty areas. You can find out more about these refinements here. ©2016-2017 Nader Ale Ebrahim Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) Source: http://engineering.ucsb.edu/news/785 ©2016-2017 Nader Ale Ebrahim Indicators and Weights for ARWU Criteria Indicator Code Weight Quality of Alumni of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Alumni 10% Education Fields Medals Staff of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Award 20% Quality of Fields Medals Faculty Highly cited researchers in 21 broad subject HiCi 20% categories Papers published in Nature and Science* N&S 20% Research Papers indexed in Science Citation Index-expanded Output PUB 20% and Social Science Citation Index Per Capita Per capita academic performance of an institution PCP 10% Performance Total 100% ©2016-2017 Nader Ale Ebrahim * For institutions specialized in humanities and social sciences such as London School of Economics, N&S is not considered, and the weight of N&S is relocated to other indicators. The Best Global Universities Ranking - 2016 Ranking indicator Weight Global research reputation 12.5% Regional research reputation 12.5% Publications 10% Books 2.5% Conferences 2.5% Normalized citation impact 10% Total citations 7.5% Number of publications that are among the 10 12.5% percent most cited Percentage of total publications that are among 10% the 10 percent most cited International collaboration 10% ©2016-2017 Nader Ale Ebrahim National Taiwan University Ranking (NTU Ranking) Methodology Source: http://nturanking.lis.ntu.edu.tw/BackgroundMethodology/Methodology-enus.aspx#2 ©2016-2017 Nader Ale Ebrahim http://roundranking.com/ • Round University Ranking (RUR) is a world university ranking, measuring performance of 750 leading world universities on 20 across 4 key missions: teaching, research, international diversity, financial sustainability. • The ranking is published by RUR Rankings Agency based in Moscow. ©2016-2017 Nader Ale Ebrahim Round University Ranking Methodology Round University Ranking Methodology Teaching 40% 1 Academic staff per students 8% 2 Academic staff per bachelor degrees 8% 3 Doctoral degrees per academic staff 8% 4 Doctoral degrees per bachelor degrees 8% 5 Teaching reputation 8% Research 40% 6 Citations per academic and research staff 8% 7 Doctoral degrees per admitted PhD 8% 8 Normalized citation impact 8% 9 Papers per academic and research staff 8% 10 Research reputation 8% International Diversity 10% 11 International academic staff 2% 12 International students 2% 13 International co-authored papers 2% 14 International teaching reputation 2% 15 International bachelors 2% Financial Sustainability 10% 16 Institutional income per academic staff 2% 17 Institutional income per students 2% 18 Papers per research income 2% 19 Research income per academic staff 2% ©2016-2017 Nader Ale Ebrahim 20 Research income per institutional income 2% Malaysia’s No. of Documents 1996 – 2015 Published in 2017 ©2016-2017 Nader Ale Ebrahim Malaysia’s No. of Citations 1996 – 2015 Published in 2017 ©2016-2017 Nader Ale Ebrahim Webometrics Ranking Webometrics is the largest academic ranking