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Measuring Your Impact Rebecca Raszewski, MS, AHIP Assistant Information Services Librarian and Assistant Professor March 28, 2012

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  1. 1. Rebecca Raszewski, MS, AHIPAssistant Information Services Librarian and AssistantProfessor March 28, 2012
  2. 2. What I Will Be Covering Today Where to Find Who Has Cited You Tools For Measuring Your Impact Factor Journal Impact Factor Related Resources Worth Knowing About
  3. 3. Where to Find Who Cited You CINAHL (EBSCOhost) PubMed Central Web of Science Google Scholar Other Databases
  4. 4. CINAHLListed after Articles Cited References Search
  5. 5. PubMed Central has over 2 million free full text articles Includes links to corresponding citations in PubMedand contains certain types of literature such as bookreviews, which are not included in PubMed
  6. 6. PubMed Central
  7. 7. PubMed
  8. 8. Web of Science
  9. 9. Google Scholar
  10. 10. Other Databases Scopus EMBASE Ovid PsycINFO (CSA Illumina or ProQuest) ScienceDirect SciFinder Scholar
  11. 11. Tools for Measuring Your ImpactFactor H-index Web of Science Google Scholar Publish or Perish (POP) Scopus
  12. 12. What is the H-Index? An index to quantify an individuals scientific researchoutput. J.E. Hirsch http://www.pnas.org/content/102/46/16569
  13. 13. What is the H-Index Continued? h if h of [his/her] Np papers have at least h citationseach, and the other (Np h) papers have at most hcitations each. an h-index of 5 would mean that an author has writtenat least 5 articles and 5 articles have been cited byothers at least 5 or more times.
  14. 14. Calculating the H-IndexArticle # ---- Times Cited 1-----87 2-----70 3-----46 A scientist has index h if h of 5-----19 [his/her] Np papers have at least h 6-----15 citations each, and the other (Np h) papers have at most h 7-----10 citations each 8 ---- 9 8 articles have been cited at least 8 9 ---- 8 or more times and the remaining 10--- 6articles have been cited 8 or less 11---- 4 12---- 1
  15. 15. Which Databases Give You the H-Index? Web of Science Google Scholar Publish or Perish Scopus
  16. 16. Web of Science
  17. 17. Web of Science
  18. 18. Web of Science
  19. 19. Google Scholar Create your own profile Use Gmail account Export your data too Firefox Plugins http://scholarometer.indiana.edu/ Universal Gadget http://code.google.com/p/citations-gadget
  20. 20. Google Scholar
  21. 21. Publish or Perish (POP) Free software program that retrieves and analyzesacademic citations Anne-Wil Harzing http://www.harzing.com/index.htm Uses Google Scholar to obtain these citations
  22. 22. What Publish or Perish Measures Total number of papers Hirschs h-index and Total number of citations related parameters Average number of Egghes g-indexcitations per paper E-index Average number of The contemporary h-indexcitations per author The age-weighted citation Average number of papersrateper author Three variations of Average number of individual h-indicescitations per year An analysis of the numberof authors per paper.
  23. 23. Publish Or Perish
  24. 24. Publish or Perish (POP) Export data to EndNote, RefWorks, Excel, etc. http://www.harzing.com/pophelp/exporting.htm
  25. 25. Publish or PerishPrint PDF
  26. 26. Scopus Indexes over 18,500 peer-reviewed journal titles in the life sciences, social sciences, health sciences and physical sciences Rush University Library owns this Can also find out who cited your publications
  27. 27. Free Scopus Author Look Up
  28. 28. Free Scopus Author Look Up
  29. 29. Journal Impact Factor ISI Journal Impact Factor Eigenfactor SCImago Journal & Country Rank
  30. 30. Journal Citation Reports the impact factor of a journal is the average number of citations to those papers that were published during the two preceding years Calculation of 2008 IF of a journal: A = the number of times articles published in 2006 and 2007 were citedby indexed journals during 2008 B = the total number of "citable items" published in 2006 and 2007. 2008 impact factor = A/B
  31. 31. Eigenfactor Intended to give a measure of how likely a journal is tobe used, and are thought to reflect how frequently anaverage researcher would access content from thatjournal (Wikipedia) Each journal has a calculated Eigenfactor (determinedby the number of articles published in a journal, withprolific journals having a high Eigenefactor Incorporates journal pricing information
  32. 32. SCImago portal that includes the journals and country scientificindicators developed from the information containedin the Scopus database (Elsevier B.V.). Over 15,000 journals from over 4,000 internationalpublishers as well as over 1000 open access journals.
  33. 33. Where to Publish? E-Journal Title List Ulrichs JANE Literature Search Search by authors or browse journals in a database
  34. 34. Related Resources Worth KnowingAbout Indigo http://indigo.lib.uic.edu:8080/dspace/ Journals@UIC http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/
  35. 35. Related Resources Worth KnowingAbout Data Management Plans NIH Public Access Policy
  36. 36. Resources for Further Information Publishing and Scholarly Communications Impact Factor (IF) and Citation Analysis
  37. 37. H-Index Research De Groote SL. Raszewski R. "The H-index in Nursing: Comparison of Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science". Presented at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2011. Poster Presentation
  38. 38. Who to Contact About H-Index,Scholarly Communications, Etc.Sandy De GrooteScholarly Communications Librarian http://researchguides.uic.edu/degroote 312-413-9494 [email protected]
  39. 39. Updates Regarding my Department
  40. 40. Services I Provide to Faculty/Staff Instruction on how your students or staff can searchdatabases, library resources, etc. Library 101 Perform literature searches Purchase a book for LHS Chicago Set up a course guide Using RefWorks/Endnote
  41. 41. Questions? Rebecca Raszewskihttp://researchguides.uic.edu/raszewski [email protected] Vacation April 6th-24th