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Be e-Visible or Vanish:Increase your research visibility with Google Scholar Profiles
Zine Sapula (Research Librarian)
Anriette Pretorius (Librarian: Natural sciences library)28 October 2016
Open Access Week 24-30 October 2016
e-Visible
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…e-Visible
Create, Track, Trace, AND Monitor your research footprints in a digital
platform.
Professional gain
Collaboration
Research financial support
Knowing who is citing you
How many times you have been
cited
Accuracy of all your publication
Or Vanish..
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Evolution of Bibliometrics
Over 50 YEARS ago
(1962) Eugene Garfield
The first citation index for papers published in
academic journals.
Aim:
A statistical approach to master the growing flood of
scientific information and to analyse it. (Glanzel,2009)
To assess the impact of scientific work that articles,
journals and institution.
Provide bibliographic information and cited references.
Science Citation index (1963)
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1975)
Social Sciences Citation index (1965)
Thelwall, M. 2007 Bibliometrics to Webometrics. Journal of Information Science, 34(4)1-18.Glänzel, W. 2009 "History of bibliometric and its present-day tasks in research evaluation." Ankara, March.
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Easy access (subscription or Open
Access).
Faster dissemination
More people have access to
publications.
Increase usage
Print to digital publishing ,online resources
Technology development
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index
…Print to digital publishing ,online resources
H- Index was suggested in 2005
Jorge E. Hirsch
“to measure both the productivity and citation
impact of the publications of a scientist or
scholar” Wikipedia
Bibliometrics today
2002
(available via Library subscription)
Provides citation counts for articles indexed
within WoS
2004
(available via Library subscription)
Provides citation counts for articles
indexed within WoS
NRF-recommends
2004
(Free on the web)
NRF- in the process to acknowledge
Citations- H-index
Which h-index?
Google scholar
Allows researchers to create a
Google account and Google
citations profile for free.
Allows researchers to find out
about the impact of their research
and keep track of citations at no
cost.
H-Index and i-10 index
i10-Index = the number of
publications with at least 10
citations
Option to make the profile public:
Transparency
Visibility: funders, collaborators,
reviewers can gain free access to the
list of the researcher’s publications.
Free promotion of the researcher’s
scientific results.
Google Scholar & Open Access
Open science movement principle: “Open Access”
“To make scientific research, data and dissemination accessible to all… and communicate scientific
results.
…scientists should publicly share resources with each other so that they could collectively
do their work” (Wikipedia).
“The advantage of Google Scholar is
its availability and open access.”
(Glanzel,2009)
Glänzel, Wolfgang.2009. History of bibliometrics and its present-day tasks in research evaluation. Ankara, March.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science Date of access 25 October 2016
Benefits…
Option to add groups of related articles,
articles manually.
Options: for automatic updates or
manually update your publications.
You may export bibliographic
information to ORCID or to any reference
management.
Easily identify author with google
profiles, author names are underlined on
google scholar search results.
Webometrics: University ranked by its
scholarly visibility and presences on the
web.
https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/citations.html Date of access: 21 October 2016
Alerts
Follow other researchers and they
follow you.
Receive alerts when your new
publication has been added to the
profile.
Receive alerts when someone cites
you.
Scope:
Scope: conference papers, study guides, websites,
social media, news, documents, datasets, slide
présentations, posters etc.
Webometrics: Ranking of World Universities
NWU scientists ranked based on their performance according to Google Scholar
Citations public profiles
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Testimony
Newman, L. 2013. Be Visible Online or Vanish…Using the Internet to Increase Your Research Impact
https://www.flinders.edu.au/ehl/fms/educationalfutures/general/Newman_Visible%20or%20Vanish_Sept%202013.pdf Date of access: 20 October 2016.
NWU researchers with Google scholar public
profiles
Total no = 390
Top cited researcher has been cited 12719
Search to view the list
https://scholar.google.co.za/citations?mauthors=north-west+universty&hl=en&view_op=search_authors
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NWU journals with Google scholar profiles
Data retrieved 23 October 2016
1981
On 12 August 2016 PER has reached its limit for 2016
http://journals.assaf.org.za/per/index
Create a Google citations profile
Step 1
Log on to http://scholar.google.com:
with an existing Google account OR create one.
Step 2
Set up Google Profile: Click the “My Citations” link at the top of the page.
Step 3:
Add your photo + provide keywords to your profile about
your research
Step 4
Click on + Add publications
Step 6
Make it public
If your profile is private, it won’t appear on search results.
Step 5: Verify if all
Verify if all articles are your
publications
Step 7
: Edit your profile anytime
Remember:
Verify the spelling of your name
Enter your affiliation (North-West university)
Enter university email for verification and
Constantly check your profile for duplicates and errors.
My Citations
Add articles
Add manually
Edit the record
Export to ORCID
Make the profile Public
Google Scholar public profile search
Public profile view
Graph citations view
Thank you