Transcript Writing, Publishing, and Impact

PUBLISHING AND IMPACT
Heather L. Brown, MA
Head of Resource Sharing and Scholarly Communications
McGoogan Library of Medicine
Scholarly Communications Issues
• Publishing
• Where to publish / Tools
• Impact factor
• Copyright / Author rights
• Open access
• Impact
• H-index
• Alternative metrics
• Author profiles
Publishing
https://flic.kr/p/7gnPsX
Where to publish
• Scope
• Impact factors
• Indexed
• Acceptance rates
• Rights
• Open access
• Article processing charge
• Predatory publishers
Impact Factor
• Journal Citation Reports (Thomson-Reuters)
• Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)
http://www.ascb.org/dora/
• Eigenfactor http://www.eigenfactor.org/
• SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
• Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
• Rise of the Rest: The Growing Impact of Non-Elite
Journals http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.2217
Tools
• BioMed Central
• http://www.biomedcentral.com/authors/authorfaq/findout
• Elsevier Journals
• http://journalfinder.elsevier.com/
• Springer Journals
• http://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/journal-author/journalauthor-helpdesk/preparation/1276
• Wiley-Blackwell Journals
• http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/browse_subject.asp
• Journal/Author Name Estimator (JANE)
• http://biosemantics.org/jane/
• Cofactor Journal Selector Tool
• http://cofactorscience.com/journal-selector
Copyright Transfer
• Reproduce
• Distribute
• Derivative works
• Post online (http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/)
• Pre-print (submitted manuscript)
• Post-print (final draft, post-refereeing)
• Publisher version
Example: Elsevier
• Use at a conference, meeting or for teaching purposes
• Internal training by their company
• Sharing individual articles with colleagues for their
research use* (also known as 'scholarly sharing')
• Excludes systematic or organized distribution
• Use in a subsequent compilation of the author's works
• Inclusion in a thesis or dissertation
• Reuse of portions or extracts from the article in other
works
• Preparation of derivative works (other than for commercial
purposes)
http://www.elsevier.com/journal-authors/author-rights-and-responsibilities
Author Rights
http://unmc.libguides.com/authorsrights
Author Rights
• to use, reproduce, distribute and create derivative works
including update
• to perform and display publicly the Manuscript and final
publication (Article) in electronic, digital or print form in
connection with the Corresponding Author’s teaching,
conference presentations, lectures, other scholarly works and
for all of Corresponding Author’s academic and professional
activities
• to make, or authorize others to make, the Article available in
digital form over the Internet
• to grant to the Author’s employing institution the non-exclusive
right to use, reproduce, distribute, display, publicly perform, and
make copies of the Article in electronic, digital or in print form in
connection with teaching, conference presentations, lectures,
other scholarly works, and all academic and professional
activities conducted in the Author’s employing institution.
Types of Open Access
• Gold
• Hybrid
• Embargoed (Delayed)
• Green
• DigitalCommons@UNMC http://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/
• Open access articles
• Author manuscripts
• Conference posters and presentations
• Open datasets
• Unpublished materials
Pros
• Free access to all
• More readers
• More to read!
• Author often retains
copyright
• Global
Cons
• May charge Author Fee to
publish
• “Predator” journals or
spam
• Quality of journals can be
uneven.
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/11102/
APC
Cost Effectiveness for
Open Access Journals
http://www.eigenfactor.org/openaccess/
Library Support
Open Access Quality
• Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers
http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) http://doaj.org/
• Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
http://oaspa.org/
Impact
https://flic.kr/p/c84mXy
h-index
“The h-index is an index that attempts to measure both the
productivity and impact of the published work of a scientist
or scholar. The index is based on the set of the scientist's
most cited papers and the number of citations that they
have received in other publications.”
Wikipedia
“A scientist has index h if h of his/her Np papers have at
least h citations each, and the other (Np-h) papers have no
more than h citations each.”
http://www.harzing.com/pop_hindex.htm
It’s all in the indexing
Scopus
• 1996* – present
• MEDLINE
• Embase
Google Scholar
• No date restriction
• Wider indexing net
Altmetrics
“The creation and study of new metrics based on the Social
Web for analyzing, and informing scholarship.”
• http://altmetrics.org/about/
• Categories (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altmetrics)
• Viewed
• Discussed
• Saved
• Cited
• Recommended
Scopus and Altmetric.com
http://www.altmetric.com/bookmarklet.php
PLoS
Author Profiles
Benefits
• To make your research and teaching activities known
• To increase the chance of publications getting cited
• To correct attribution, names and affiliations
• To make sure that as much as possible is counted in
research assessments
• To increase the chance of new contacts for research
cooperation
Platforms
• SciVal Experts
• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• ResearchGate
• Academia.edu
• LinkedIn
Profile fatigue
ORCID
• Unique, persistent identifier for researchers & scholars
• Get an ORCID free at http://orcid.org
Is it you? Author disambiguation
ORCID and Scopus
Thank you!
Heather L. Brown
[email protected]
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6227-5147