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Disseminating your research
Scientific profiles and tools
Nicolás Robinson-García
@nrobinsongarcia
2nd IMPRESS Workshop, March 2, 2016
THEORY
o Databases and scientific visibility
o Open Access and online visibility
o Digital identity and reputation
DEMOS
o How-to guide: tools for disseminating scientific papers (repositories, Google Scholar & reference managers)
Agenda
Databases and scientific visibility
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o Scientific names o Scientific profiles – ORCID & ResearcherID o Web of Science and Scopus – Indicators o Google Scholar Citations Profiles
Sign your papers consistently
This means avoiding name variants and making it easy for others to find you
Especially relevant if you have more than one surname
Scientific names
Recommendations
o Always sign in the same format
o Use your full given name, no need for initials!
o Use hyphens if you have two surnames
o If you can choose between different scientific names, use the most uncommon one
o Correct any error you may find in a database
Scientific name
Scientific profiles Identifying researchers uniquely is a big issue for researchers, funding agencies, publishers
and universities
How much does it cost others to find your work?
Scientific visibility
How much does it cost others to find your work?
Scientific visibility
How much does it cost others to find your work?
Scientific visibility
Even if we hate them we should learn about bibliometric indicators to know their meaning and limitations as we will be asked to provide them at
some point.
Bibliometric indicators
H-Index
An author has an h index when h of their papers has at least h citations
Journal Impact Factor
The Journal Impact Factor is not a good proxy of the expected impact of papers published in such journal
Total number of citations received in year X by papers published in a journal in years X-1 and X-2
Total number of paper published in a journal in years X-1 and X-2
Web of Science Citations and usage
Citations reports
Web of Science
Article level
Scopus
Scopus Researcher profile
Google Scholar Citations
Indicators Fields Alerts References Citations
Open Access and online visibility
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o Main milestones of the OA movement o The roads to Open Access o Some reflections on Open Access and
Scholarly Communication
A few publishers control an increasingly higher share of
‘elite’ journals
The problem THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE PUBLISHING SYSTEM…
Which they sell to academic institutions through a ‘big deal’
strategy
o Publishers impose their own collections o Abusive increases on pricing, up to 20% o Libraries acquire journals that are never used
The problem
… ALL OF THIS LEADS TO THE BEGINNING OF THE OPEN ACCESS
Government funds research
Researchers publish their results
in peer reviewed scientific journals
Publishers edit these papers and sell them back to them
through libraries
Researchers access their papers through
suscription
The paradox
1991 - Paul Ginsparg launches ARXIV
The alternative
2002 - Budapest Open Access Initiative
2002 - Doris Lessig develops the Creative Commons licenses
Government funds research
Researchers publish their results
in peer reviewed scientific journals
Publishers edit these papers and sell them back to them
through libraries
THIS ARE OFFERED IN
OPEN ACCESS GRATIS
Researchers access their papers through
suscription
Researchers publish their papers in
journals or repositories
The alternative
The revolution
The key to all these issues is the right of authors to achieve easily-accessible distribution of their work. If you would like to declare publicly that you will not support any Elsevier journal unless they
radically change how they operate…
THE COST OF KNOWLEDGE 2013
The revolution
We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open Acces
Swartz † 1986-2013
Robin Hoods of Science
Robin Hoods of Science
Alexandra Elbakyan
Recommendation on access to and preservation of scientific information
States that “Policies on open access to scientific research results should apply to all research that receives public funds.
EU Open Access policy
Implementing OA
GREEN
ROAD
GOLD
ROAD
The Roads to OA
Self-archiving Journals
The Roads to OA
The author is responsible of ensuring open and free universal
to its work WEBSITE REPOSITORY
A repository, deposit or archive is a centralized place where digital information is stored and preserved, normally databases or digital files
• Institutional • Thematic
• Articles • Data
The Roads to OA
The Roads to OA Benefits of repositories
o They ensure universal and permanent access
o They use metadata to describe content and make it easier for research engines to find it
o They use permanent URLs that ensure sustainability of hyperlinks.
Peer Review
Accepted for publication
Published version
PRE PRINT
POST PRINT
PUBLISHER VERSION
SUBMIT TO
JOURNAL
The Roads to OA
Personal Website Repository +
The Roads to OA My advice:
The Roads to OA
OPEN ACCESS HYBRID MODEL
FULL OPEN
ACCESS
OPEN ACCESS AUTHOR
PAYS
Models of Open Access journals
Author pays model JOURNAL Euros per article Articles 2010 Benefits 2010
Genome Biology (BMC) 1.800 € 155 279.000 €
Breast Cancer Res. (BMC) 1.345 € 138 185.610 €
PLoS One 987 € 6.690 6.603.030 €
PLoS Medicine 2.120 € 85 180.200 €
Hybrid Model: British Medical Journal>2.500 €
The Roads to OA
The Roads to OA
Who’s Afraid of Peer Review? Bohannon, Science, 2014
Some reflections BEWARE!
OA journals ≠ Predatory journals
The Google scholar experiment Delgado, Robinson & Torres-Salinas, JASIST, 2014
Some reflections BEWARE!
Things are not always what they look like
Digital identity and reputation
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o From scientific to digital reputation o Reputation and misconduct o Building a digital identity
Going digital
The two worlds
Going digital
The two audiences
The web as a
scholarly
communication
tool
Publishing as a
scientific
communication
tool
The world The scientists
Going digital
Reasons for disseminating research
o Social outreach
o Influencing public opinion
o Self-presentation
HOWEVER…
One cannot have a digital scientific reputation if they have no previous
scientific reputation
Going digital
Going digital
Digital reputation
A Digital
Identity
B What they say about
us
C
Positioning
Going digital Digital Identity What they say about us Positioning
Our on-line reputation is build upon our off-line scientific reputation
Internet does not forget, science does not forgive
Build first your scientific reputation with papers acknowledged by
your community, then you can start to work on your on-line reputation
Do not try to earn an on-line reputation dishonestly
or with strategies from other sectors
IT IS YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO SCIENCE THE STORY YOU HAVE TO TELL THROUGH THE INTERNET
Reputation & misconduct
WHO DO YOU WANT TO BE?
Building a digital identity
Type of profile Speaker
Researcher
Innovative
Miscellaneous
Channel Web
Blogs
Networks …there are hundreds of tools…
Style Formal vs Informal
Scientific vs
Personal
Misc.
WHO DO YOU WANT TO BE?
Building a digital identity
Audience Audience – ej. journalists
Community – ej. country
Contacts – ej. selective
Objective Dissemination of publications
Discuss results
Alert
Share resources
Paco Herrera Science communication
Selective audience Facebook
Informal style
Ismael Rafols Science communication International audience
Institutional blogs Formal style
Daniel Torres Professional + Sci comm
National audience Twitter
Informal style
Some examples…
Some examples…
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/01/25/how-to-write-a-blogpost-from-your-journal-article/
Demos: How-to guides
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o Depositing a paper in a repository o Dealing with complementary material and
data sets o Making your research visible o Managing scientific information
Depositing a paper
1) Analyze the OA policy of your journal
2) Choose a repository
3) Prepare the post-print: elements
4) Deposit!!
Depositing a paper
OA journals’ policies Journal’s website
Sherpa/Romeo - Dulcinea
Repository
Institutional - Thematic
Post-print Elements
1) Analyze the journal’s policy
2) What do you want to share?
data vs. material
3) Choose a repository
4) Deposit!!
Complementary material
Data policy of a journal
Journal’s website
Complementary material vs. datasets
Material – Data set
Where do I deposit the data
Repository - Databank
Complementary material
1) Deposit in a repository
2) Link from your website
3) Tweet, blog, spread the word
Visible research
1) Create a profile in Google Scholar
2) Add new publications
3) Manage your publications
4) Create citation alerts
Managing sci information
o Open-source reference manager
o Easy to import records from the website
o Nice citation options
o Powerful syncing
Managing sci information
o Free reference manager
o Easy and powerful reading tool
o It is also social network
o Collaborating options available
Managing sci information
BASIC TOOLS
1) OA policies-> Sherpa/Romeo – Dulcinea
2) Repositories -> ArXiV – Digibug
3) Data -> Figshare
4) Managing scientific data-> Google Scholar, Zotero and Mendeley
Wrapping up
Acknowledgements Much of the content and ideas included in this presentation are not my own, but are borrowed from other talks given in collaboration with Daniel Torres-Salinas.
@nrobinsongarcia
2nd IMPRESS Workshop, March 2, 2016
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Disseminating your research
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