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Tips for improving citations

Tips for improving citations. 2 nd Bibliometrics in Libraries Meeting Clari Gosling, 12 th Sept 2013. Questions to start with. What is a citation? Why do authors cite?. Why are things cited?. Justification of a statement/strengthen an argument A void plagiarism

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Tips for improving citations

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  1. Tips for improving citations 2nd Bibliometrics in Libraries Meeting Clari Gosling, 12th Sept 2013

  2. Questions to start with • What is a citation? • Why do authors cite?

  3. Why are things cited? • Justification of a statement/strengthen an argument • Avoid plagiarism • Show idea development/build on previous work • Provide further information • Provide counter argument – controversy • Provide historical overview of subject • Establish trust/credibility • Literature review is the accepted way of working • They’re what everyone else cites/key papers • Cite “out of area” to demonstrate inter-disciplinarity • To get into “citation ring”/encourage citations of you • The author cited you previously • Requested by reviewer/editor for publication

  4. In Summary • Authors cite a work because: • It is relevant (in some way) to what they’re writing • They know it exists

  5. Information overload • Updated daily, Scopus covers 50 million abstracts of over 20,500 peer-reviewed titles from more than 5,000 publishers • The average time a researcher spends browsing and reading literature in 9.3 hours per week

  6. Is this relevant?

  7. Findability • Your article needs to show up in search results • Title • Abstract • Keywords • Then it has to hook them in • Introduction • Conclusions • Figures & graphs

  8. Search Engine Optimisation • Headings • Links • Image & table captions • Author information • Increasingly takes account of social media mentions too

  9. Where to publish • Think about journal rankings • Inclusion in Scopus and Web of Science • Terms and conditions of publishing - do you need to publish Open Access as a requirement of your funder? • Green and gold OA • Author pays model • Cost effectiveness of OA http://www.eigenfactor.org/openaccess/ • Reputation – some OA journals are considered predatory http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/

  10. Self-citations • Often excluded from citation statistics • But show how your work is developing • Has been studies that show that the more you cite yourself, the more others cite you • “Controlling for numerous sources of variation in cumulative citations from others, our models suggest that each additional self-citation increases the number of citations from others by about one after one year, and by about three after five years. ” • Fowler, J. & Aksnes, D. Does self-citation pay? Scientometrics, September 2007, Volume 72, Issue 3, pp 427-437

  11. International collaborations

  12. Author profiles • Why? • Claim your research • Add extra information (website, photo, keywords) • Allow readers to browse your work easily • Where? • ORCID • Scopus • ResearcherID • Google Scholar

  13. ORCID • Registry of researchers linking to their outputs • Publisher Independent • Embedding your ORCID in published papers allows readers to find you even if you’ve moved institution • Links to Scopus & ResearcherID so don’t have to enter all your details multiple times http://orcid.org/

  14. Academic social networking sites • Allow you to network with your peers and share your research • Some have the ability to ask and answer research related questions, create groups or share references • Often rank highly in Google and other search engines • Can make your publications available to download (where allowed within t&c of publication) • Talk to colleagues and find out what they’re using • Examples: • Academia.edu; ResearchGate; Mendeley

  15. Social Media • “If you tell people about your research, they look at it. Your research will get looked at more than papers which are not promoted via social media” • Michelle Terras at UCL blogged and tweeted about already published research and saw an increase in downloads from their institutional repository • http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2012/04/19/blog-tweeting-papers-worth-it/

  16. Useful intro to using social media in academia • Bik HM, Goldstein MC (2013) An Introduction to Social Media for Scientists. PLoSBiol 11(4): e1001535. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001535 • http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001535

  17. Things to do • Step 1 publish your research & think about people finding it • Step 2 claim your research & create a profile • ORCID • ResearcherID • Scopus Author Profile • Google Scholar • Step 2b • Profile on an “academic social networking site” egResearchGate, Academia.edu, Mendeley • Step 3 engage & publicise • Create your own website • Blog • Twitter • Google+ • Facebook groups • Wikipedia links • Slideshare • Youtube • LinkedIn • Publisher community sites

  18. The Open University LibraryWalton HallMilton KeynesMK7 6AA www.open.ac.uk/library clari.gosling@open.ac.uk

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