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Transcript of Research IMPACT: Tools & Technologies
Liane Taylor
Interim Head Acquisitions Librarian
Texas State University
14 November 2014
TECHNOLOGY CHANGES
GOALS DON’T
1.Promotion & Tenure2.Build Research Network3.Increase Citation Counts4.Reputation Management5.Promotion & Tenure
• Impact Factor (Thomson Reuters JCR/Web of Science)
• Eigenfactor (public but based on Thomson Reuters JCR)
• SCImago Journal Rank Indicator (SJR) (Elsevier Scopus)
• Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) (Scopus)
• Google Journal Metrics (Google Scholar)
• European Reference Indicator for the Humanities (ERIH)
Journal Influence & Ranking
NO MEASURE FITS ALL DISCIPLINES: IDENTIFY MEASURES & CRITERIA THAT
ARE COMPATIBLE WITH YOUR FIELD
xkcd Comic: http://xkcd.com/927/
NO SINGLE TOOL PROVIDES A COMPLETE CITATION COUNT
CITATION COUNTS VARY ACROSS DISCIPLINES
Author & Publication Influence & Impact
Citations of a book in Bar-Ilan, J. (2010) Citations to the “Introduction to informetrics” indexed by WOS, Scopus and Google Scholar. Scientometrics, 82(3), p.504
• Times Cited / Citation Counts
• Web of Science Citation Databases
• SCOPUS
• Google Scholar
• Core Disciplinary Database (IEEE, MathSciNet, psycINFO)
• H-Index
• Database relative (h-Index in Scopus vs Web of Science)
• Publish or Perish
• Software for analyzing impact within Google Scholar
Author & Publication Influence & Impact
Altmetrics
Institutional Research Analytics Tools
Elsevier Thomson Reuters
Author Disambiguation
Author Identifier
Networking & Research Profiles
A Word of Caution…
Citation Analysis & Journal Impact Factor
http://libguides.txstate.edu/citation-analysis
Copyright (Author’s Rights and more…)
http://libguides.txstate.edu/copyright
Faculty Toolkit: Altmetrics & Academic Social Media
http://libguides.txstate.edu/academicsocialmedia
Faculty Toolkit: Measuring Scholarly Impact
http://libguides.txstate.edu/impact
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