Publishing for impact

Wouter Gerritsma, Wageningen UR Library

Elements for a publication strategy

Publishing tips about:

Roadmap

Introduction

Why publish?

Where to publish?

Citation impact

Publishing tips

Introducing myself

http://wowter.nethttp://twitter.com/wowterhttp://nl.linkedin.com/in/wowter wouter.gerritsma@wur.nl

Why do scientists publish?

Source: Philippe MAB Terheggen. How to Publish Your Manuscript From title to references From submission to revision, Wageningen University and Research Center, 26 October 2010

What do scientists publish

Reports

Conference proceedings

Journal articles

●Scholarly journals (peer reviewed)

●Trade journals

Books

●Book chapters

Peer review

Editorial peer review

Single blind peer review

Double blind peer review

Open peer review

Not only for publications, but also for funding or grant applications and above all research assessments exercises. Peer review is one of the corner stones of scientific progress.

http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/peer-review-guide-researchers

Where to publish?

Appropriate target journal?

●Journal scope

●Intended audience

●The speed of reviewing and publication

Where to publish?

A valued journal?

●Editorial board

●Acceptance rate

●Time to publication

●Journal circulation

●Visibility

●Journal performance

Journal performance measures (indicators)

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

●a.o. standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year Impact Factors

Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)

●Scimago Journal Rank (SJR)

prestige metric based on the idea that ‘all citations are not created equal’

●Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Measures contextual citation impact by ‘normalizing’ citation values

IF in 2010 for Agricultural Systems

50% of articles generate 90% of all cites

Seglen, P. O. (1997). Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research. BMJ 314(7079): 497-502. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/314/7079/497

Database Coverage WoS/JCR/ESI

Excellent Good Moderate

Molecular biology & Biochemistry

Applied physics & Chemistry

Other Social Sciences

Biological Sciences related to humans

Biological Sciences related to plants & animals

Humanities

Clinical medicine Psychology & psychiatry

Physics & Astronomy Social sciences related to medicine & health

Mathematics / Engineering / Economics

Source: Moed (2005)

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How are we able to compare numbers?

Scientist Z. Math has a publication from 2003 with 17 citations

Scientist M. Biology has a publication from 2009 with 32 citations

Baselines for Mathematics

Baselines for Molecular Biology

Bibliometric indicators: An example

Zee, F.P.v.d., G. Lettinga & J.A. Field (2001) Azo dye decolourisation by anaerobic granular sludge. Chemosphere 44:1169-1176.

●Citations from WoS: 94

Journal: Chemosphere

●Categorised by ESI in Environment/Ecology

Baseline data for Environment/Ecology.

●Article from 2001 in Environment/ecology:

●On average: 19.36 citations; top 10%: 44 citations; top1%: 141 citations

Relative Impact: 94 / 19.36 = 4.9

Baseline data to normalize citation data?

Citations data source Baselines

Web of Science ESI or InCites

Scopus SciVal Strata

Google Scholar none

Propriatary A&I database none

H-index

Balance between productivity and citedness

To rule out the effect of one or two highly cited papers

Applicable to authors, journals, research groups, compounds, subjects etc…

But there are some serious doubts about robustness

Waltman, L. & N. J. van Eck (2011). The inconsistency of the h-index. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(2):406-415 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.21678

Omnipresent h-index

In practice

Bibliometric reports

The actual publications and their impact are provided

Publications VLAG (Wageningen)

VLAG WoS publications 2007-2013

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013Refereed articles390 367 402 446 513 530 593WoS 369 345 385 424 489 501 552

95% 94% 96% 95% 95% 95% 93%

After excellent research, where should you publish?

Document type and article impact 2003-2009, for Wageningen UR

Document type Pubs RI T10(%T10) T1(%T1)

Article 11212 1.62 2777(25%) 437( 4%)

Review 705 4.45 418 (59%) 145(21%)

Aggregate 11917 1.79 3195(27%) 582(5%)

Source: Wageningen Yield, Feb. 2012

Journal selection and impact universities globally

Journal selection and impact universities globally

Increase in share of Q1 articles at WageningenUR

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

Journal selection affects Relative Impact

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2011

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Trends for VLAG (WUR)

Py N %Q1 RI %T10 (T10)2003 343 60% 1.7 18% (59)2004 334 64% 1.63 16% (52)2005 360 59% 1.61 23% (80)2006 355 60% 1.59 18% (63)2007 390 57% 1.85 26% (97)2008 367 61% 1.72 22% (77)2009 402 67% 2.24 30% (117)2010 446 67% 2.68 30% (126)2011 513 64% 2.6 28% (141)2012 530 70% 2.89 35% (175)2013 593 69%

Journal selection VLAG 2007-2012

Top journals for VLAG 2002-2009Journal IMPACT CountNEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 34.833 4CELL 31.253 1SCIENCE 29.162 2NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY 22.672 2JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 21.455 7ENDOCRINE REVIEWS 18.562 1LANCET 18.316 11CELL METABOLISM 16.107 1ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE 15.516 2TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES 14.273 2JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION 14.204 2NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY 13.989 2GASTROENTEROLOGY 12.591 3CIRCULATION 11.632 3ARCHIVES OF GENERAL PSYCHIATRY 11.207 1ANNUAL REVIEW OF MICROBIOLOGY 10.902 1EMBO JOURNAL 10.492 1PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 10.272 9

More journals at: http://edepot.wur.nl/163565

The impact factor Matthew effect

The journal in which papers are published have a strong influence on their citation rates, as duplicate papers published in high-impact journals obtain, on average, twice as many citations as their identical counterparts published in journals with lower impact factors..

Larivière, V. and Y. Gingras (2010). The impact factor's Matthew Effect: A natural experiment in bibliometrics. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 61(2): 424-427. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.21232

Where you publish matters most

"Where you publish is the primary

determinant of how many citations your work

will receive in the future"

Peng, T.-Q. & J.J.H. Zhu (2012). Where you publish matters most: A multilevel analysis of factors affecting citations of internet studies. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63(9): 1789-1803 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.22649

Final word on journal quality

It is better to publish one paper in a quality journal than multiple papers in lesser journals. [...]. Try to publish in journals that have high impact factors; chances are your paper will have high impact, too, if accepted.

Bourne, P. E. (2005). Ten Simple Rules for Getting Published. PLoS Computational Biology 1(5): e57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0010057

Networking

Cooperation is effective

WTI2 report 2011

UNIV.Single Author

addressNational

copublicationInternational copublication

EUR 1.16 1.23 1.92RUG 1.15 1.19 1.62RUN 1.14 1.18 1.81TUD 1.27 1.12 1.36TUE 1.27 1.30 1.49LEI 1.18 1.26 1.72MAA 0.91 1.19 1.51TUT 1.20 1.32 1.42UU 1.83 1.28 1.74UVA 0.98 1.20 1.67TIU 1.09 0.98 1.19VU 1.21 1.26 1.66WUR 1.19 1.43 1.49Avg 1.20 1.23 1.58

Research collaboration in Europe & USA

Kamalski, J., & Plume, A. (2013). Comparative Benchmarking of European and US Research Collaboration and Researcher Mobility. Amsterdam: Elsevier B.V. http://info.scival.com/research-initiatives/science-europe

Collaboration with corporate very effective

Kamalski, J., & Aisati, M. h. (2013). International comparative benchmark of Dutch research performance in TKI themes: Food Safety research. A report prepared by Elsevier for Agentschap NL.

Cooperation...

Teams increasingly dominate solo authors in the production of knowledge. Research is increasingly done in teams across nearly all fields.

Teams typically produce more frequently cited research than individuals do, and this advantage has been increasing over time.

Teams now also produce the exceptionally high-impact research, even where that distinction was once the domain of solo authors.

Wuchty, S., B. F. Jones, et al. (2007). The increasing dominance of teams in production of knowledge. Science 316(5827): 1036-1039. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1136099

University-industry collaboration and impact

"The average scientific impact of university-

industry papers is significantly above that of

both university-only papers and industry-only

papers"

Lebeau, L. M., Laframboise, M. C., Larivière, V., & Gingras, Y. (2008). The effect of university-industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications: The Canadian case, 1980-2005. Research Evaluation, 17(3), 227-232. http://dx.doi.org/10.3152/095820208x331685

Collaboration leads to more authors per paper

King, C. (2012). Multiauthor Papers: Onward and Upward. ScienceWatch Newsletter, July 2012. http://archive.sciencewatch.com/newsletter/2012/201207/multiauthor_papers/

Increasing no. of authors per publication

Wageningen Graduate Schools

Authors

Networking is important

Start early, make use of Social Networking tools

●Facebook

●LinkedIn

●Social networks for scientists

●Academia.edu, Researchgate.net

Imagine what happens when Michael Müller tweets about his latest article

On using social media

Melissa Terras' Blog

Consider the Wikipedia

For better or worse, people are guided to Wikipedia when searching the Web for biomedical information. So there is an increasing need for the scientific community to engage with Wikipedia to ensure that the information it contains is accurate and current.

Logan, D.W., M. Sandal, P.P. Gardner, M. Manske & A. Bateman (2010). Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia. PLoS Comput Biol, 6(9): e1000941 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000941

Self citations and more

Self citations

The model [...] implies that external citations are enhanced by self-citations, so that we have the “chain reaction:” Larger size leads to more self-citations, which lead to more external citations.

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van Raan, A. F. J. (2008). Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(10): 1631-1643.

More on references

Articles that cite more references are in turn cited more themselves

Webster, G. D., P. K. Jonason, et al. (2009). Hot Topics and Popular Papers in Evolutionary Psychology: Analyses of Title Words and Citation Counts in Evolution and Human Behavior, 1979 – 2008. Evolutionary Psychology 7(3): 348-362. http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/ep07348362.pdf

To be the best, cite the bestBorrowed from: Corbyn, Z. (2010). "To be the best, cite the best." Nature News, 13 October 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.539 Reporting on the publication of Bornmann, L., F. de Moya Anegón, et al. (2010). Do Scientific Advancements Lean on the Shoulders of Giants? A Bibliometric Investigation of the Ortega Hypothesis. PLoS ONE 5(10): e13327 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0013327.

More articles per research project?

Publishing more articles results in higher citation counts if the articles provide sufficient substantive content to other researchers.

●Beware of the ethical standards

●Bornmann looked at total citations, not to relative impact

Bornmann, L. & H.-D. Daniel (2007). Multiple publication on a single research study: Does it pay? The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(8): 1100-1107 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.20531

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What do PhD theses mean for Open Access at Wageningen UR

VLAG PhD students set out to publish 5.5 article per thesis

Finally 4.5 article per thesis gets published

This represent

Preprints of 4.5 * 200 = 900 articles/year

ca. 36% of all peer reviewed Wageningen UR articles

Open Access publishing

Golden Road e.g. PLoS, BMC, SpringerOpen, Sage Open

●Directory of open access journals DOAJ (currently 9957 journals)

●Often author pays model; many society publishers for free

Delayed OA publishing

●Cambridge UP, Highwire press, many society publishers

Green Road : self-archiving in repositories e.g. Wageningen Yield (WaY)

Green Road: Deposit author versions to WaY

See: http://edepot.wur.nl/169331

Send your final version of the article to: way.libray@wur.nl

Open Access Publishing

Open Access leads to more citations!

●Open access increases societal relevance

●Vital for Wageningen's international collaborators

Be aware of predatory publishers!

●Have a look at Beall's list

Publish your data!

Henneken et al. (2011) "articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links"

http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.3618

Piwowar et al. (2007) "Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate

http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000308

Also relevant in the view of the latest developments

(KNAW)

Library assists in curating datasets

Wageningen UR Data Management Proof

Why is data management important

Good data management improves thinking and writing up your results

Data should be reproducible 5 years after publication (code of conduct)

It facilitates sharing of data with other researchers

Why is data management important

Good data management improves thinking and writing up your results

Data should be reproducible 5 years after publication (code of conduct)

It facilitates sharing of data with other researchers

As of April 2014, a Data Management Plan is mandatory for new PhD students

Sharing data increases impact

"Publicly available data was significantly associated with a

69% increase in citations, independently of journal impact

factor, date of publication, and author country of origin"

Piwowar, H. A., Day, R. S., & Fridsma, D. B. (2007). Sharing Detailed Research Data Is Associated with Increased Citation Rate. PLoS ONE, 2(3), e308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000308

More info on Data Management Plan

http://www.wageningenur.nl/library/dmp

Template for DMP

What is in a name?

Advertise yourself!

Omnipresent h-index

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They are all different!

Claim your publications

ResearcherID (Web of Science)

Scopus Author ID (Scopus)

Google Scholar Citations

Mendeley

Enserink, M. (2009). Scientific Publishing: Are You Ready to Become a Number? Science,

323(5922): 1662-1664 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.323.5922.1662

ORCID

●http://orcid.scopusfeedback.com/

Who is the author of this thesis?

On the inside

On her own publication list

Notable examples

A. Voragen, A.G. Voragen, A.G.J. Voragen, F.G.J. Voragen, F.G. Voragen

B.M.L. van Kemenade L. van Kemenade B.M.L. Verburg van Kemenade L. Verburg van Kemenade

Use maximally 2 institutional names!

Science groups are not of interest

Get your affiliation right

For the university:Chair group + Wageningen UniversityPlant Production Systems Group, Wageningen University, P.O. box ..., 6700 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands

For the institutes:Institute + Wageningen University & Research CentreAlterra, Wageningen University & Research Centre, P.O. box ..., 6700 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands

Thank you!

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http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/wouter-gerritsma

http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wouter_Gerritsma

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3iDBE-MAAAAJ

http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author/34373815

http://www.narcis.nl/person/info:eu-repo/dai/nl/33714253X

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http://www.slideshare.net/Wowter/publishing-for-impact-vlag-phd-week-oct-2011