April 10, 2023

Challenge the future

DelftUniversity ofTechnology

Library support on writing a world class paperNicole Will, Product Manager, TU Delft Library

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Orientation

Where do you start searching information?

• Ask colleagues• Google• Google Scholar• Scopus• Web of Science• Other subject specific sources (Scifinder, ABI-inform,

Jstor…)• Library collection

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The TU Delft Library collection

2 locations: • Central library building• One Faculty library

Collections:• books• e-books (approx. 26.000)• print journals• e-journals (approx. 15.000)• databases (approx. 80)• repository of TU Delft publications

The collections of the TU Delft Library are available via the library website.

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Exploration

• Who: top researchers, institutions…• Where: top countries, top journals• When: time period• What: which sub-topics

And combination of these questions:• Change of interest over time, Upcoming topics, Collaborations

Citations• Quantification of the impact of publications• Quantification of the recognition of authors

A. Porter, et al. (2002). `Research profiling: Improving the literature review'. Scientometrics 53(3):351-370.

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Scopus

Citation report Web of Science

IEEE XploreScifinder

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Publish or Perish (google Scholar)

Harzing, A.W. (2007) Publish or Perish, available from http://www.harzing.com/pop.htm

VantagePoint

Special software

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Literature search

You do not want to miss that ONE paper

• Make a search plan• Use subject specific resources (more than 80 subscription

from the library)• Know the coverage of the resources • Don’t limit your search to one resource• Don’t limit your search on direct full text availability• Keep track of your search

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Processing

• Manage the retrieved information• Prepare citations and reference list• Tools (EndNote, CiteUlike, Zotero, Mendeley…)

• Be aware of new publications• Set up alerts (e-mail, RSS, i-Google, mobile….)

Keeping up-to-date

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Publish

Results•Chose the right journal or conference (audience, scope etc...)•Check the impact factors and other indicators•Open access or “traditional”

Data•Reproducible research

Check the impact•Check citations to your publications•Compare the results from different sources

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Identify conferences for your next lecture in Web of Science and ISI proceedings

Analyse results

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Journal citation report

Category

Journal

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Comparing results of one author

Results in PoP, WoS and Scopus for one author

 Publish or Perish*(Google Scholar)

Scopus Web of Science

number of publications 545 432 408

number of citations 12456 15249 13819

h-index 59 66 62number of citations of the most cited publication 510 397 416       

Article with 510 citations in PoP   383315 in WoS459 in WoK

* Results without deduplication

These figures don’t mean anything if you do not have figures from the research field to compare

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Learn more

• TUlib• Blackboard courses:

- Information literacy 1, 2 and 3• Workshops:

- Get the most out of your research information- Manage your information with EndNote

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Any questions?

• Contact Ask Your Library: http://askyourlibrary.tudelft.nl/