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Nader Ale Ebrahim
Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture,
Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
Email: aleebrahim@perdana.um.edu.myAbstract
Abstract:
Publishing a high quality paper in scientific journals is a halfway of
receiving citation in the future. The rest of the way is advertising and
disseminating the publications by using the proper ―Research Tools‖.
Familiarity with the tools allows the researcher to increase his/her
h-index in the short time. H-index shows the academicians
influences in the specified field of research. Therefore, a person with
higher level of h-index has more high quality publications with high
amount of citations. This presentation, covers the following topics:
Why publish and increase h-index?, Definition of h-index and gindex, Importance of h-index, How to use ―Research Tools‖ Mind
Map, Paper title preparation, Selecting keywords, Select the proper
journal, Advertise published article, and finally Trace published
article citation.
Keywords: h-index, Increase citations, Research tools
©2011 Nader Ale EbrahimThe scenarios
• ―I have written an article, and I do not know how
to select the title and keywords for receiving high
citation?‖
• ―I have published a high quality paper, how can I
receive high citation rate in the shortest possible
time?‖
• "I want to increase the citation of my papers,
how do I do?"
©2011 Nader Ale EbrahimObjectives
• To improve the quality of the article title and keywords
• To evaluate Journal measuring factors (like: Journal Impact Factor,
Immediacy Index, Cited Half Life, five Year Journal Impact Factor) before article
submission.
• To search and analyze the right journal to submit.
• To identify journals to publish in or which journals are the best in a
particular discipline.
• To disseminate the publications by using ―Research Tools‖ in order
to increase citation
• To trace the citation
©2011 Nader Ale EbrahimOutline
• Why publish and increase h-index?
• Definition of h-index and g-index
• Importance of h-index
• How to use ―Research Tools‖ Mind Map
• Paper title preparation, Selecting keywords
• Select the proper journal
• Advertise published article
• Trace published article citation
©2011 Nader Ale Ebrahim©2011 Nader Ale EbrahimGetting published
Why publish?
Apart from the final thesis, you should also consider
publishing your work as you go along. There are
various reasons for this:
– publications assist in final preparation of your thesis
disseminating your knowledge and experience,
– it gives you an academic profile and raises the profile of
your institution,
– research publications generate income for the University,
– publications enhance your CV and may help in gaining
employment, and
– you may even become rich and famous - but don't count
on it!
©2011 Nader Ale EbrahimWhy citation is important?
• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings system Citations — research
influence (worth 32.5 per cent).
• Citations are widely recognised as a strong indicator of the significance and relevance — that is, the impact — of a
piece of research.
• However, citation data must be used with care as citation rates can vary between subjects and time periods.
• For example, papers in the life sciences tend to be cited more frequently than those published in the social
sciences.
• The rankings this year use normalised citation impact, where the citations to each paper are compared with the
average number of citations received by all papers published in the same field and year. So a paper with a relative
citation impact of 2.0 is cited twice as frequently as the average for similar papers.
• The data were extracted from the Thomson Reuters resource known as Web of Science, the largest and most
comprehensive database of research citations available.
• Its authoritative and multidisciplinary content covers more than 11,600 of the highest-impact journals worldwide.
The benchmarking exercise is carried out on an exact level across 251 subject areas for each year in the period
2004 to 2008.
• For institutions that produce few papers, the relative citation impact may be significantly influenced by one or two
highly cited papers and therefore it does not accurately reflect their typical performance. However, institutions
publishing fewer than 50 papers a year have been excluded from the rankings.
• There are occasions where a groundbreaking academic paper is so influential as to drive the citation counts to
extreme levels — receiving thousands of citations. An institution that contributes to one of these papers will
receive a significant and noticeable boost to its citation impact, and this reflects such institutions' contribution to
globally significant research projects.
• Source: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2010-2011/analysis-methodology.html
©2011 Nader Ale Ebrahimh-index (Jorge E. Hirsch)
• A scientist has index
h if h of [his/her]
Np papers have at
least h citations
each, and the other
(Np − h) papers
have no more than h
citations each.
H-index from a plot of decreasing citations for numbered papers
©2011 Nader Ale Ebrahimg-index (Leo Egghe (2006))
• In order to give more weight to highly-cited articles Leo
Egghe (2006) proposed the g-index. The g-index is
defined as follows: [Given a set of articles] ranked in
decreasing order of the number of citations that they
received, the g-index is the (unique) largest number
such that the top g articles received (together) at
least g2 citations. Although the g-index has not yet
attracted much attention or empirical verification, it would
seem to be a very useful complement to the h-index.
©2011 Nader Ale EbrahimThe Many and Variable Uses of Publish or Perish
(PoP)- By: Anne-Wil Harzing –‖ Your guide to effective and responsible citation analysis‖
Academics that need to make their case for tenure or promotion will find PoP useful to
create reference groups and show their citation record to its best advantage. When
evaluating other academics, PoP can be used as a 5-minute preparation before
meeting someone you don’t know, to evaluate editorial board members or
prospective PhD supervisors, to write up tributes (or laudations) and eulogies, to
decide on publication awards and to pre-pare for a job interview. Deans and other
academic administrators will find PoP useful to evaluate tenure or promotion cases in
a fair and equitable way.
PoP can also be used to assist when you are uncertain which journal to submit it
to. You can use it to get ideas of the types of journals that publish articles on
the topic you are writing on and to compare a set of journals in terms of their
citation impact. Once you have decided on the target journal, it can also help
you to double-check that you haven’t missed any prior work from the journal in
question.
PoP can help you to do a quick literature review to identify the most cited articles and/or
scholars in a particular field. It can be used to identify whether any research has been
done in a particular area at all (useful for grant applications) or to evaluate the
development of the literature in a particular topic over time. Finally, PoP is very well
suited for doing bibliometric research on both authors and journals.
©2011 Nader Ale Ebrahim©2011 Nader Ale Ebrahim©2011 Nader Ale EbrahimSelecting keywords
©2011 Nader Ale EbrahimImproving Readership of Your Articles
Appearing at the top of the list of search results, and having a
useful description of your work, greatly improve the likelihood
that a reader will find and download your document.
• Abstracts should include keywords that potential readers are
likely to use in searches. It is especially valuable to modify and
reuse words that appear in the document's title and full text to
improve the article's rank when readers search for those words.
• The first sentence of the abstract is all that is likely to be
displayed in the search page results, so make your first sentence
one that will encourage readers to click the link.
©2011 Nader Ale EbrahimKeywords
Selecting keywords lead to get more
citation.
Web of Science
©2011 Nader Ale Ebrahim©2011 Nader Ale EbrahimGoogle Wonder wheel
Save time by exploring relevant results
related to the original keyword you search
for. Whether it’s for a research you are
doing, a term paper or just about anything
else consuming your time, Google wonder
wheel can tell you what you are missing or
need to search and save you that precious
research time.
©2011 Nader Ale Ebrahim©2011 Nader Ale EbrahimKeyWords Plus
Hi there! This issue, we are going to explain how KeyWords Plus
broadens your search. KeyWords Plus is the result of our Thomson
Reuters editorial expertise in Science.
What our editors do is to review the titles of all references and
highlight additional relevant but overlooked keywords that were not
listed by the author or publisher. With KeyWords Plus, you can now
uncover more papers that may not have appeared in your search
due to changes in scientific keywords over time.
Thanks and keep your feedback and questions coming!
Smiles,
Lim Khee Hiang
Ph.D., Principal Consultant
©2011 Nader Ale EbrahimKeyWords Plus- Example
• New Product Development in Virtual
Environment (ISI Indexed)
• Author Keywords: New product Development;
Virtual teams; Concurrent Collaboration; Review
paper
• KeyWords Plus: DEVELOPMENT TEAMS;
PERFORMANCE; TECHNOLOGY;
KNOWLEDGE; COMMUNICATION;
PERSPECTIVE; INTEGRATION; INNOVATION;
NETWORK; WORKING
©2011 Nader Ale EbrahimTarget Suitable JournalWhy target a suitable journal is important?
1. Journal selection is vital for quick
publication.
2. Finding a suitable journal can lead to easy
publication; more citation and visibility to
your published article.
3. Choosing an irrelevant journal can lead to
slow publication, unkind reviewer comments
and finally rejection.
©2011 Nader Ale EbrahimStrategies to increase citations
• Target a journal with a high impact factor, or, in fact, with any impact factor
at all!
• Choose a new, rapidly growing field of research. Articles on hot topics tend
to cite much more recent references than those in more traditional fields.
• Target journals in rapidly growing research fields because they tend to
publish papers with a short time interval from submission to acceptance.
• Write research articles, technical notes and reviews. For the purposes of
calculating citations, these are considered ―citable‖ items. Editorials, letters,
news items and meeting abstracts are ―non-citable items‖.
• Write reviews in addition to research papers. Reviews are more likely to be
cited than original research papers.
• Write at length. Longer articles are cited more often.
©2011 Nader Ale EbrahimStrategies to increase citations
• Make it easy for others to access your work. Online availability of articles
clearly increases citations (and therefore, the journal’s impact factor). It
helps if researchers can find relevant articles and access them instantly,
rather than working their way through barriers of passwords and
technicalities. This effect will increase with the availability of search engines
like Google Scholar.
– Target ―open access‖ journals (especially if they have an impact factor).
– Make your work available via the Google searches/ResearcherID.
– Put the address for your ResearcherID page into your email signature as a
clickable link.
• Don’t write as a member of a consortium. It’s better to be one in a list of
individual authors. Some evidence shows citations to articles written by
consortia have been undercounted.
• Find quick publication Journals
©2011 Nader Ale EbrahimOpen Access Journal
One key request of researchers across the world
is unrestricted access to research publications.
Open access gives a worldwide audience larger
than that of any subscription-based journal and
thus increases the visibility and impact of
published works. It also enhances indexing,
retrieval power and eliminates the need for
permissions to reproduce and distribute content.
©2011 Nader Ale EbrahimSelf Citation
―Self-citation refers to a paper being submitted to a specific
journal in which papers that have been published during
the previous 2 years in that same journal are cited in the
reference list. While self-citation of relevant papers is
legitimate, excessive self-citation can indicate a
manipulation.
Thomson Reuters resource known as Web of Science, the
company which now lists journal impact actors,
considers self-citation to be acceptable up to a rate of
20%, anything over that is considered suspect‖ (Diana
Epstein, 2007).
• Source: Diana Epstein, Impact factor manipulation, The Journal of the European Medical Writers
Association, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2007 ©2011 Nader Ale EbrahimThere are inherent differences between different fields with regards to
citation behavior. For some fields such as Mathematics or Economics it
takes longer to reach the peak of citation activity.
Citation Behavior, variance among disciplines:
0%
2%
4%
6%
8%
10%
12%
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
Mathematics Genetics & Heredity
Economics
©2011 Nader Ale EbrahimCitation trends for different types of publications
©2011 Nader Ale EbrahimWhere should I submit my publication?
©2011 Nader Ale EbrahimThe Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)
• The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) was founded by Eugene
Garfield in 1960. It was acquired by Thomson Scientific & Healthcare in
1992, became known as Thomson ISI and now is part of the Healthcare &
Science business of the multi-billion dollar Thomson Reuters Corporation.
• ISI offered bibliographic database services. Its speciality: citation indexing
and analysis, a field pioneered by Garfield. It maintains citation databases
covering thousands of academic journals, including a continuation of its long
time print-based indexing service the Science Citation Index (SCI), as well
as the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and the Arts and Humanities
Citation Index (AHCI). All of these are available via ISI's Web of Knowledge
database service.
©2011 Nader Ale EbrahimThe Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)
• The ISI also publishes annual Journal Citation Reports which list an impact
factor for each of the journals that it tracks. Within the scientific community,
journal impact factors play a large but controversial role in determining the
kudos attached to a scientist's published research record.
©2011 Nader Ale EbrahimWeb of Science Coverage Expansion
by ThomsonReuters on 04-27-2010 01:42 PM
In recent years, we have witnessed an explosion in the production and
availability of scholarly research results. This growth is reflected in the
gradual expansion of journal coverage in the Web of Science.
Journal coverage in Web of Science consists of three major indexes,
namely the (Science Citation Index Expanded, the Social Sciences
Citation Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. In addition,
the Conference Proceedings Citation Index (formerly ISI Proceedings)
became an edition of Web of Science in October) 2008.
In 2000 journal coverage in Web of Science totaled 8,684 titles. In 2005,
Web of Science covered 9,467 journals, an increase of 9%. As of April 1,
2010 11,519 journals are covered in Web of Science, and increase of
22%.
©2011 Nader Ale EbrahimImpact Factor
• The most commonly used measure of
journal quality is Impact Factor. This is a
number which attempts to measure the
impact of a journal in terms of its influence
on the academic community. Impact
Factors are published by Thomson-ISI
©2011 Nader Ale EbrahimImpact Factor-Journal Ranking
• Relative impact factors are often a better guide to the
importance of a journal than raw numbers. JCR allows you to
compare the impact factors of different journals in the same
subject area
• The Economic History Review has an impact factor of 1.051.
At first glance, it would appear that this journal is relatively
unimportant. In fact, it is arguably the premier Englishlanguage journal in its field (its major competitor, the Journal
of Economic History Review, has an even lower impact factor:
a mere 0.529!). Far more illuminating is the journal's relatively
high impact factor compared to other journals in the history of
the social sciences. Economic History Review ranks first out
of 15 journals in the Thomson-ISI's list of journals in this subdiscipline.
©2011 Nader Ale Ebrahim©2011 Nader Ale EbrahimCites in 2008 to
items published in: 2007 = 144 Number of items
published in: 2007 = 278
2006 = 280 2006 = 270
Sum: 424 Sum: 548
Calculation: Cites to recent items 424 = 0.774
Number of recent items 548
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH
Impact Factor in 2008©2011 Nader Ale Ebrahim©2011 Nader Ale Ebrahim©2011 Nader Ale Ebrahim©2011 Nader Ale EbrahimTotal Cites
©2011 Nader Ale Ebrahim©2011 Nader Ale EbrahimNumber of references
©2011 Nader Ale Ebrahim
Journal Source Data (JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY- IF= 1009)
Citable items
Articles Reviews Combined Other items
Number in JCR year 2009 (A) 176 6 182 32
Number of references (B) 5200 839 6039 123.00
Ratio (B/A) 29.5 139.8 33.2 3.8Disseminate Your Results
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Nader Ale Ebrahim
Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture,
Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
Email: aleebrahim@perdana.um.edu.my
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