Early Career Tactics
to Increase Scholarly Impact
Elaine Lasda Bergman
Dewey Graduate Library
iLearn Workshop

Making it in Academia
• Service
• Teaching
• Scholarship

Measuring Impact
•Measure why?
•Measure what?
•Measure how?

Some Key Resources
•Web of Science
•Scopus
•Google Scholar

Some Key Measures
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Journal Level Metrics
• Journal Impact Factor
• Eigenfactor
• SNIP
• SJR
• Google Scholar Metrics

Journal Metrics Exercise
• Split up into 3 teams. Each team search
for the Journal of Educational Psychology
in one of the following:
– Web of Science
– Scopus
– Google Scholar Metrics
• How do the results differ? Why?

Newer, Bigger Concerns with JIF
http://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2013/may/17/science-policy

Author Level Metrics
• h-Index
• Variations on h index
• Eigenfactor
• Author Identifier(s)

Author Exercise
• Elaine M. Lasda Bergman
• Elaine M. Lasda
• Elaine L. Bergman
• ORCID ID 0000-0002-9498-7074
Search in Web of Science, Scopus, and Google
Scholar Citations. Differences? Why is the ORCID
ID handy?

Article Level Metrics
• Citation metrics
• Usage metrics
• Alternative metrics

Article Exercise

Altmetric Bookmarklet

Strategies to Increase Visibility
& Maximize Impact
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Get Published in a Key Journal
•Bibliometric approach
•Reputation approach

Open Access

OA Journal Models
http://researchguides.library.vanderbilt.edu/c.php?g=144567&p=946137ck
Green OA
Traditional Open
Access Journals
• Journals established by digital commercial or nonprofit publishers for the sole purpose of publishing
open access content
• Typically utilize a Creative Commons Attribution License for publishing
• Authors usually retain their copyright.
• Different funding strategies used to support the journal:
• Advertising
• Membership fees
• Author fees (money may come from the author or more likely the author's research grant)
• Can be waived in cases of financial hardship
• Subsidies from institutions such as universities, laboratories, research centers, libraries, foundations,
museums or government agencies
Hybrid Open Access
Journals
• Journals where only some of the articles are open access
• Open access status requires the payment of a publication fee/ processing fee to the publisher
• Definition of open access may vary according to publisher
Delayed Open
Access Journals
Delayed Open Access Journals
• Traditional subscription-based journal
• Provide open access or free access after the elapse of an embargo period following the initial date of
publication
• Embargo periods vary from a few months to two or more years
• Journal subscription or individual article purchase required to view articles prior to the end of the
embargo period
• Model adopted by many scholarly society journals

Other OA Models
GOLD OA
Institutional Repository Scholars Archive
Subject/Discipline-Specific Repositories ERIC
ICPSR
OpenSky
Author's Personal Website
http://rmpruzek.com/

Scholarly Networking
• Academia.edu
• ResearchGate
• CiteULike
• Mendeley
• Faculty of 1000
• Zenodo

Collaborate, Publicity, Discoverability
• Press Releases
• Search Engine Optimization
• Database Alerts
• Disciplinary e-mail lists
• Mainstream Social Media

Other Cool Options
• Becker Model
– https://becker.wustl.edu/impact-assessment
• PeerEvaluation
– http://www.peerevaluation.org
• Kudos
– https://growkudos.com
• Hypothes.is
– https://hypothes.is/
– https://via.hypothes.is/http://libguides.library.albany.edu/citesearch

3 “Quick Hits” to Get Started
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Thank You for Coming!
Questions?
Elaine Lasda Bergman
Subject Librarian, Dewey Library
elasdabergman@albany.edu
http://slideshare.net/librarian68