Slides from presentation at BCN Brain Pincipal Investigators (PI's) Meeting September 29th 2017 at Kasteel in Groningen

1. H O W T O
I M P R O V E
Y O U R
R E S E A R C H
I M P A C T ?
W H O I S
T A L K I N G
A B O U T
Y O U R
R E S E A R C H
?
30+ tips to use befóre,
whíle and áfter writing
Altmetric UMCG Dashboard
“Societal Impact” BCN?

2. I M P A C T A N D V I S I B I L I T Y
F O R Y O U R R E S E A R C H
0:00 45:00 min
Pure
Open Access
Altmetrics BCN
3 0 + T I P S
ORCID

3. H O W T O
I M P R O V E
Y O U R
R E S E A R C H
I M P A C T ?
30+ tips to use befóre,
whíle and áfter writing

4. PROMOTEFORIMPACT!
Guus van den Brekel
Central Medical Library,
University Medical Center
Groningen
BCN PI Meeting P
September 2017
H O W T O I M P R O V E Y O U R R E S E A R C H
I M P A C T ?

5. W H Y ?
• Performance funding policy
UMCG
• The "Worldwide Race on
Ranking of Universities"
• The "Universal Battle for the
Researchers" (and their
citations)

6. H O W T O I M P R O V E Y O U R R E S E A R C H I M P A C T :
3 0 + T I P S
• BEFORE Publishing
• AFTER Publishing

7. B E F O R E P U B L I S H I N G ( W H I L E
W R I T I N G )
• WHAT to INCLUDE in article?
• WHAT to publish
• WHERE to publish
• HOW to publish
• WHO to publish with

8. WHAT to INCLUDE in article
• Use unique name ( if possible), and consistently throughout your career
• Use the standardized institutional affiliation, using no abbreviations ( "University of
Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen")
• Repeat key phrases in the abstract while writing naturally
• Assign keywords to the manuscript ( MESH, Web of Science ...)
• Use more references
• Publish a longer paper
• Papers with a larger number of "callouts" are likely to get a higher number of citations
• Avoid using a question type of title
B E F O R E P U B L I S H I N G ( W H I L E W R I T I N G )

9. WHAT to INCLUDE in article
• Get an ORCID ID, connect it to PURE and use it consistantly in all articles
B E F O R E P U B L I S H I N G ( W H I L E W R I T I N G )
http://orcid.org
http://pure.rug.nl/admin
http://www.umcg.nl/cmb or www.rug.nl/cmb
ORCID
• Already 765 researchers UMCG registered
• 68 within BCN
• Total at RUG: 1145

10. Pure
http://www.rug.nl/research/portal

11. Pure
http://www.rug.nl/research/portal

12. Pure
http://www.rug.nl/research/portal

13. Pure

14. WHAT to publish
• Write a review paper
• Present a working paper ( before & after articles are
published)
B E F O R E P U B L I S H I N G ( W H I L E
W R I T I N G )

15. WHERE to publish
• Publish in a journal with high impact
• Publish across disciplines
• Publish in journals everyone in your discipline reads
• Publish in a journal that is included in many
abstracting & indexing services
B E F O R E P U B L I S H I N G ( W H I L E W R I T I N G )
Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports, InCites
http://www.rug.nl/umcg/library

16. HOW to publish
I N C R E A S E S C I T A T I O N R A T E S
B E F O R E P U B L I S H I N G ( W H I L E
W R I T I N G )
openaccess.umcg.nl
• The Open Access Citation Advantage Service
http://sparceurope.org/oaca/
Open Access

17. O P E N
A C C E S
S
D E A L S
N L &
R U G
openaccess.umcg.nl

18. O P E N
A C C E S S
B R O W S E R
N L & R U G
openaccess.umcg.nl

19. • Only corresponding authors are eligible for the openaccess deals
• Use your umcg-computer & email for submitting
• Use correct affiliation detail and order: University of Groningen,
University medical center groningen, Dept.......
• During submission it is important to choose the correct route.
Details on submission process per publisher at openaccess.nl
• If you do NOT choose for open access, please send us your “final
author version” The library will make it GREEN in Pure
• For all info & support : openaccess@umcg.nl
O P E N A C C E S S G O L D E N T I P S
openaccess.umcg.nl

20. WHO to publish with
• publish with international authors across multiple institutions
• Team-authored articles get cited more
• Publish papers with Nobel laureates ;-)
• Collaborate with corporate sector
B E F O R E P U B L I S H I N G ( W H I L E
W R I T I N G )

21. S C H O L A R L Y C O M M U N I C A T I O N
D O E S N O T S T O P A F T E R
P U B L I S H I N G Y O U R A R T I C L E

22. • Profile
• Disseminate
• Promote
• Post-publication peer review
• Track & engage

23. P R O F I L E
• Make a unique phrase that reflects your research interest & use
it throughout your career
• Keep your corporate & professional profile pages & publication
lists up to date
• Get an ORCID ID, connect it to PURE and use it consistantly in
all articles
• Use online CV option in PURE
• Use academic social networking sites ( ResearchGate,
Academia, Mendeley, Google Scholar, ImpactStory...

24. D I S S E M I N A T E
• Self-archive articles and research output
(PURE, post-print, pdf, open access repository)
• Share your research data ( open data)
• Publicize yourself ( link your latest articles to your
email signature)

25. P R O M O T E
• Start a blog ( Wordpress, Blogger are extremely good indexed in major
search engines
• Use Linkedin to promote
• Use SEO techniques on corporate & institute websites
• Contribute to Wikipedia
• Create a podcast, screencast or video and publish on YouTube, Vimeo
...
• Use Twitter & Other social media to share your findings
• Use DOI's in all communications

26. T R A C K A N D E N G A G E
• Set alerts on new citations
• Engage in discussions on the web and in
• Post publication peer review sites
• ...

27. P O S T P U B L I C A T I O N P E E R R E V I E W
• Pubmed Commons http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedcommons
• PubPeer https://pubpeer.com
• Frontiers http://www.frontiersin.org/SearchData.aspx?sq=Groningen&ht=1
• Open Review (ResearchGate)
https://www.researchgate.net/publicliterature.OpenReviewInfo.html
• publons.com https://publons.com/institution/5963/

28. T R A C K A N D E N G A G E
• Track "mentions" about your articles on the Web
(Altmetrics)

29. W H O I S
T A L K I N G
A B O U T
Y O U R
R E S E A R C H
?
Altmetric UMCG Dashboard
“Societal Impact” BCN?
UMCG

30. A L T M E T R I C S V S
B I B L I O M E T R I C S
and

31. W H Y ?
W E W A N T T O
• E X P L O R E T H E B E N E F I T S O F I M P L E M E N T I N G
A L T M E T R I C D A T A I N T H E H O S P I T A L ,
• M A P A L L S T A K E H O L D E R S A N D I N T E R E S T E D P A R T I E S
• I N C R E A S E A W A R E N E S S O F A D D I T I O N A L M E T H O D S
O F M E A S U R I N G I M P A C T T O O L S ,
• I N C R E A S E A W A R E N E S S O F T O O L S T O I N F L U E N C E
V I S I B I L I T Y O F T H E U M C G R E S E A R C H & I T ' S O U T P U T
• D I S C U S S C U R R E N T U S E O F B I B L I O M E T R I C S I N
E V A L U A T I O N S I N C L U D I N G T H E G R O W I N G I N T E R E S T
I N M E A S U R I N G / V I S U A L I S I N G T H E " S O C I E T A L
I M P A C T " O F S C I E N T I F I C R E S E A R C H .

32. W H A T ?
• O N E D A S H B O A R D T O T R A C K A N D M O N I T O R A L L A C T I V I T I E S
A R O U N D A L L S C I E N T I F I C P U B L I C A T I O N O F T H E U M C G
• A C C E S S F O R E V E R Y A U T H O R / R E S E A R C H E R F O R A P E R S O N A L
T R A C K I N G A N D A L E R T I N G
• O V E R V I E W S O N U M C G , R E S E A R C H I N S T I T U T E S A N D
P R O G R A M M E L E V E L
• I N T E G R A T I O N W I T H P U R E , A S S O U R C E F O R D O I ' S A N D T H E
R E S E A R C H S T R U C T U R E
• I N C L U D I N G T H E " D O N U T S " O N T H E R E S E A R C H D A T A B A S E
P O R T A L A N D U M C G . N L
• E X P L O R E T H E A L T M E T R I C A P I A N D P O S S I B L E A P P L I E D U S E
I N R U G . N L , U M C G . N L A N D R E L A T E D W E B S I T E S ,
H E R E ’ S T H E L I N K T O A S H A R E D P R E S E N T A T I O N :
H T T P S : / / W W W . I C L O U D . C O M/ K E Y N O TE / 0 0 0 _ T 8 X 3 B H J J D D J HW 1 B G Y S S 3 Q # C U S T O M - G R O N I N G E N B E N M -
2 4 S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 5

33. https://www.altmetric.com/details/3084793

34. http://www.rug.nl/cmb/publishing/altmetric

43. U S E D
S O U R C E S
• The Open Access Citation Advantage
Service http://sparceurope.org/oaca/
• Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation
Frequency by Nader Ale Ebrahim
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstr
act_id=2344585
• https://library.leeds.ac.uk/researcher-citations
• 101 Innovations in scholary communications
:survey
• Elsevier "Effective strategies for increasing
citation"
http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ies.v6n11p93

44. I F Y O U W A N T T O B E S E E N A S A N E X P E R T . . .
. . . T H E N Y O U R E X P E R T I S E H A S T O B E S E E N
L O R C A N D E M P S E Y H T T P : / / W W W . S L I D E S H A R E . N E T / L I S L D / T H E - I N S I D E - O U T - L I B R A R Y

45. http://about.me/digicmb