This document provides information on publishing and impact for PhD students. It discusses motives for publishing, choosing appropriate journals, peer review processes, open access options, and metrics for measuring impact such as citations, journal impact factors, and the H-index. It emphasizes developing a publishing strategy, choosing high quality journals, building networks through collaboration, and promoting one's work to increase citations and impact.
3. Motives for publishing
Edge, P., Martin, F., Fao, S. R., & Manning, N. (2011).
Researcher Attitudes and Behaviour Towards the “ Openness ” of Research Outputs in
Agriculture and Related Fields.
5. Where to publish?
Reports
Conference proceedings
Books/book chapters
Journals
● Professional journals
● Scholarly journals
6. (Scientific journals) Peer review
Peer review is the corner stone of scholarly quality
control
● Publications
● Research proposals/grants
● Research institutions/universities
More info
● http://www.rin.ac.uk/peer-review-guide
● Course on Peer Review organized by WGS
7. Choosing the right journal to publish
Many factors influence journal selection
● Journal scope/Intended audience
● Editorial board/standing
● Open Access
● The speed of reviewing and publication
● Acceptance/Rejection rate
● Journal circulation
● Coverage in A&I databases (bibliographies)
● Journal performance
9. Open Access
OA publishing e.g. PLoS, BMC and Sage Open
Self-archiving in repositories e.g. Wageningen Yield
(WaY)
SHERPA/RoMEO: Publisher copyright policies & self-
archiving http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
Directory of open access journals DOAJ (currently ca.
10,000 journals)
Be aware of predatory OA publishers
13. Rejection / acceptance rates
Sugimoto, C. R., Larivière, V., Ni, C., & Cronin, B. (2013). Journal acceptance rates: A cross-disciplinary analysis of
variability and relationships with journal measures. Journal of Informetrics, 7(4), 897–906. doi:10.1016/j.joi.2013.08.007
19. Citation enhanced A&I databases
Web of Science
● Based on ± 12000 journals
● Metrics: Impact factor
● Baselines per ‘discipline’ (ESI)
● Analysis tools (Insight)
Scopus
● Based on ± 19000 journals + other
publication types
● Metrics: SNIP and SJR
● Baselines + analysis tool (Scival)
Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com)
● Based on unknown journals + many
other things
● No baselines
There are other citation
enhanced databases:
PsychInfo,
SciFinder (Chemical abstracts)
ArXiv (Physics)
Spires (high energy physics)
Citeseer (ICT)
20. Exercises
Manual Chapter 9.8
● Exercise 2: Number of publications and times cited
● Exercise 2.1
● Exercise 2.2 is optional
21. Web of Science
Search:
● Articles are found based on Authors, Addresses,
etc.
● For each article Times cited is presented
Cited reference search:
● Searches in the reference lists of records
● Not all of your articles are found. Non-cited articles
are missing
23. How do we compare numbers
Scientist Z. Math has a publication from 2003 with 17
citations
Scientist M. Biology has a publication from 2009 with 24
citations
25. Baselines for Molecular Biology
0
100
200
300
400
0 2 4 6 8 10 12
Years after publication
Cumulative
no.
citations
Baseline
top 10%
top 1%
26. Bibliometric indicators: An example
Kroes-Nijboer, A; Venema, P; Bouman, J; van der Linden, E
(2009) The Critical Aggregation Concentration of beta-
Lactoglobulin-Based Fibril Formation. Food Biophysics 4(2):59-
63.
● Citations from WoS: 11
Journal: Food Biophysics
● Categorised by ESI in Agricultural Sciences
Baseline data for Agricultural Sciences.
● Article from 2009 in Agricultural Sciences:
● On average: 5.47 citations; top 10%: 14 citations; top
1%: 34 citations
Relative Impact: 11/5.47 = 2.01 Values June 2013
27. Essential Science Indicators (ESI)
Analytical database, covering 10 years + current year
building
Comparisons between Countries, Institutes, Scientists
and Journals
Hot papers / Highly cited papers
Research fronts
Baselines
31. Steps in a citation analysis
1. Look up the citation data (Web of Science)
2. Matching Journal(s) with appropriate research fields
(Essential Science Indicators)
3. Collect baseline data (Essential Science Indicators)
4. Calculate the relative impact
32. Interpretation of RI for small groups
With 10-50 publications per year
RI ≤ 0.8 : below world average impact
0.8 < RI ≤ 1.2 : world average impact
1.2 < RI ≤ 2.0 : above world average impact
2.0 < RI ≤ 3.0 : very good average impact
RI > 3.0 : excellent average impact
33. Exercises
Manual Chapter 9.8
● Exercise 3: Citation impact and rankings (Essential
Science Indicators)
● Exercise 3.1a and 3.3
● Exercise 3.1b and 3.2 are optional
34. 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
39. Journal Performance Indicators
Journal performance indicators are based on citations to
articles
Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
● a.o. standard Journal Impact Factors and 5-year
Impact Factors
Scopus Journal Analyzer (SJA)
● a.o. SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source
Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
● Also available on http://journalmetrics.com/
40. Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
Reports three measures
Impact factor
Immediacy Index
Cited half life
Adapted from: Amin, M and Mabe, M. (2000) Impact factors: use
and abuse. Perspectives in Publishing, No. 1, 6 pp.
http://www.elsevier.com/framework_editors/pdfs/Perspectives1.pdf
42. Exercises
Manual Chapter 9.8
● Exercise 4: Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
● Exercise 5 and 6 are optional
43. Selecting journals on the basis of IF
Word of warning
● Our opinion: Be careful when using Journal Impact
factors to judge the performance of a group or
individual scientist
● Used for NWO grant applications and Tenure track
at Wageningen UR
Opthof, T. (1997) Sense and nonsense about he impact factor. Cardiovascular Research,
33(1): 1-7 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0008-6363(96)00215-5
50. Cooperation is effective
WTI2 report 2011
UNIV.
Single Author
address
National
copublication
International
copublication
EUR 1.16 1.23 1.92
RUG 1.15 1.19 1.62
RUN 1.14 1.18 1.81
TUD 1.27 1.12 1.36
TUE 1.27 1.30 1.49
LEI 1.18 1.26 1.72
MAA 0.91 1.19 1.51
TUT 1.20 1.32 1.42
UU 1.83 1.28 1.74
UVA 0.98 1.20 1.67
TIU 1.09 0.98 1.19
VU 1.21 1.26 1.66
WUR 1.19 1.43 1.49
Avg 1.20 1.23 1.58
51. 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
53. Advertise yourself
Cite your previous articles!
Be active at conferences
Cooperate with other people/research groups
Write, or expand, articles in the Wikipedia, refer to your
thesis.
Blog or tweet about your research and thesis research
Make use of social networking tools (LinkedIn,
Researchgate.net, Mendeley etc.)
Create author’s identifiers (ScopusID, Researcher ID,
ORCID)
54. What's in a name
On the cover:
● Arina Schrier
First first title page:
● A.P. Schrier-Uyl
Second title page:
● Adriana Pia Uyl
In here own publication list
● A. Uyl
● A. Uijl
● A.P. Schrier Uyl
55. This also applies to the names of groups
Environmental Policy Group, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University
Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University
Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University and Research Centre
Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen UR
56. Get your affiliation right
For the university:
Chair group + Wageningen University
Plant Production Systems Group, Wageningen University,
P.O. box ..., 6700 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands
For the institutes:
Institute + Wageningen University & Research Centre
Alterra, Wageningen University & Research Centre, P.O.
box ..., 6700 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands
57. What we covered this afternoon
Publishing
Citations
Impact
Journal impact
Publishing strategy