Workshop by Guus van den Brekel of the Central Medical Library

1. H O W T O
I M P R O V E
Y O U R
R E S E A R C H
I M P A C T ?
W H O I S
T A L K I N G
A B O U T
Y O U R
R E S E A R C H
?
30+ tips to use befóre,
whíle and áfter writing
Altmetric UMCG Dashboard
“Societal Relevance”

2. IMPACT AND VISIBILITY
FOR YOUR RESEARCH
0:00 90:00 min
Pure
Open Access
Altmetrics
3 0 + T I P S
ORCID

3. 30+ tips to use befóre,
whíle and áfter writing
H O W T O
I M P R O V E
Y O U R
R E S E A R C H
I M P A C T ?

4. PROMOTEFORIMPACT!
HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR RESEARCH IMPACT?
Guus van den Brekel
Central Medical Library,
University Medical Center
Groningen
Spetember 2018

5. W H Y ?
• Performance funding policy
UMCG
• The "Worldwide Race on
Ranking of Universities"
• The "Universal Battle for the
Researchers" (and their
citations)

6. HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR RESEARCH IMPACT:
30+ TIPS
• BEFORE Publishing
• AFTER Publishing

7. B E F O R E P U B L I S H I N G ( W H I L E
W R I T I N G )
• WHAT to INCLUDE in article?
• WHAT to publish
• WHERE to publish
• HOW to publish
• WHO to publish with

8. WHAT to INCLUDE in article
• Use unique name ( if possible), and consistently throughout your career
• Use the standardized institutional affiliation, using no abbreviations ( "University of
Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen")
• Repeat key phrases in the abstract while writing naturally
• Assign keywords to the manuscript ( MESH, Web of Science ...)
• Use more references
• Publish a longer paper
• Papers with a larger number of "callouts" are likely to get a higher number of citations
• Avoid using a question type of title
BEFORE PUBLISHING (WHILE WRITING)

9. WHAT to INCLUDE in article
• Get an ORCID ID, connect it to PURE and use it consistantly in all articles
BEFORE PUBLISHING (WHILE WRITING)
http://orcid.org
http://pure.rug.nl/admin
http://www.umcg.nl/cmb or www.rug.nl/cmb
ORCID
• Already 868 researchers UMCG registered
• Total at RUG: 1486

10. Pure
http://www.rug.nl/research/portal

11. Research database on portal University of Groningen
https://www.rug.nl/research/portal/

12. Personal & Research profile

13. Visibility
and
Findability

14. Visibility and Findability

15. BCN-Brain Overview in Pure (using filters)

16. ReportsinPure

17. AnalyticswithPure
(andScival)

18. Analytics with Pure
(and Scival)

19. Measuring impact is generally based on past performance, but
with new tools and new indicators it is possible to measure it
sooner and –very interesting- even look in future & predict
(Trends-module Scival, Elsevier)

20. WHAT to publish
• Write a review paper
• Present a working paper ( before & after articles are
published)
B E F O R E P U B L I S H I N G ( W H I L E
W R I T I N G )

21. WHERE to publish
• Publish in a journal with high impact
• Publish across disciplines
• Publish in journals everyone in your discipline reads
• Publish in a journal that is included in many
abstracting & indexing services
B E F O R E P U B L I S H I N G ( W H I L E W R I T I N G )
Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports, InCites (Clarivate)
Scopus, CiteScore, Scival (Elsevier)
http://www.rug.nl/umcg/library

22. HOW to publish
I N C R E A S E S C I T A T I O N R A T E S
B E F O R E P U B L I S H I N G ( W H I L E
W R I T I N G )
openaccess.umcg.nl
The Open Access Citation Advantage Service
http://sparceurope.org/oaca/
Open Access

23. OPEN
ACCES
S
DEALS
NL &
RUG
openaccess.umcg.nl

24. OPEN ACCESS
BROWSER
NL & RUG
openaccess.umcg.nl

25. • Only corresponding authors are eligible for the openaccess deals
• Use your umcg-computer & email for submitting
• Use correct affiliation detail and order:
University of Groningen, University medical center groningen,
Dept.......
• During submission it is important to choose the correct route.
Details on submission process per publisher at openaccess.nl
• If you do NOT choose for open access, please send us your “final
author version” The library will make it GREEN in Pure
• For all info & support : openaccess@umcg.nl
O P E N A C C E S S G O L D E N T I P S
openaccess.umcg.nl

26. WHO to publish with
• publish with international authors across multiple institutions
• Team-authored articles get cited more
• Publish papers with Nobel laureates ;-)
• Collaborate with corporate sector
B E F O R E P U B L I S H I N G ( W H I L E
W R I T I N G )

27. S C H O L A R L Y C O M M U N I C A T I O N
D O E S N O T S T O P A F T E R
P U B L I S H I N G Y O U R A R T I C L E

28. • Profile
• Disseminate
• Promote
• Post-publication peer review
• Track & engage

29. P R O F I L E
• Make a unique phrase that reflects your research interest & use it
throughout your career
• Keep your corporate & professional profile pages & publication
lists up to date
• Get an ORCID ID, connect it to PURE and use it consistantly in all
articles
• Use online CV option in PURE
• Use academic social networking sites ( ResearchGate, Academia,
Mendeley, Google Scholar, ImpactStory...

30. D I S S E M I N A T E
• Self-archive articles and research output
(PURE, post-print, pdf, open access repository)
• Share your research data ( open data)
• Publicize yourself ( link your latest articles to your
email signature)

31. P R O M O T E
• Start a blog ( Wordpress, Blogger are extremely good indexed in major
search engines
• Use Linkedin to promote
• Use SEO techniques on corporate & institute websites
• Contribute to Wikipedia
• Create a podcast, screencast or video and publish on YouTube, Vimeo ...
• Use Twitter & Other social media to share your findings
• Use DOI's in all communications

32. T R A C K A N D E N G A G E
• Set alerts on new citations
• Engage in discussions on the web and in
• Post publication peer review sites
• Use research analytic tools to monitor …

33. P O S T P U B L I C A T I O N P E E R R E V I E W
• Publons
• PubPeer
• Frontiers
• Open Review (ResearchGate)
https://publons.com/institution/5963/
https://pubpeer.com
http://www.frontiersin.org/SearchData.aspx?sq=Groningen&ht=1
https://www.researchgate.net/publicliterature.OpenReviewInfo.html

34. T R A C K A N D E N G A G E
• Track "mentions" about your articles on the Web
(Altmetrics)

35. Altmetric UMCG Dashboard
“Societal Relevance?”
UMCG
W H O I S
T A L K I N G
A B O U T
Y O U R
R E S E A R C H
?

36. A L T M E T R I C S V S B I B L I O M E T R I C S
and

37. WHY?
W E W A N T T O
• E X P L O R E T H E B E N E F I T S O F I M P L E M E N T I N G
A L T M E T R I C D A T A I N T H E H O S P I T A L ,
• M A P A L L S T A K E H O L D E R S A N D I N T E R E S T E D P A R T I E S
• I N C R E A S E A W A R E N E S S O F A D D I T I O N A L M E T H O D S
O F M E A S U R I N G I M P A C T T O O L S ,
• I N C R E A S E A W A R E N E S S O F T O O L S T O I N F L U E N C E
V I S I B I L I T Y O F T H E U M C G R E S E A R C H & I T ' S O U T P U T
• D I S C U S S C U R R E N T U S E O F B I B L I O M E T R I C S I N
E V A L U A T I O N S I N C L U D I N G T H E G R O W I N G I N T E R E S T
I N M E A S U R I N G / V I S U A L I S I N G T H E " S O C I E T A L
I M P A C T " O F S C I E N T I F I C R E S E A R C H .

38. W H A T ?
• ONE DASHBOARD TO TRACK AND MONITOR ALL ACTIVITIES
AROUND ALL SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION OF THE UMCG
• ACCESS FOR EVERY AUTHOR/RESEARCHER FOR A PERSONAL
TRACKING AND ALERTING
• OVERVIEWS ON UMCG, RESEARCH INSTITUTES AND
PROGRAMME LEVEL
• INTEGRATION WITH PURE, AS SOURCE FOR DOI'S AND THE
RESEARCH STRUCTURE
• INCLUDING THE "DONUTS" ON THE RESEARCH DATABASE
PORTAL AND UMCG.NL
• EXPLORE THE ALTMETRIC API AND POSSIBLE APPLIED USE IN
RUG.NL, UMCG.NL AND RELATED WEBSITES,

39. https://www.altmetric.com/details/3084793

40. http://www.rug.nl/cmb/publishing/altmetric

49. USED
SOURCES
• The Open Access Citation Advantage Service
http://sparceurope.org/oaca/
• Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation
Frequency by Nader Ale Ebrahim
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstra
ct_id=2344585
• https://library.leeds.ac.uk/researcher-citations
• 101 Innovations in scholary communications
:survey
• Elsevier "Effective strategies for increasing
citation"
http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ies.v6n11p93

50. I F Y O U W A N T T O B E S E E N A S A N E X P E R T . . .
. . . T H E N Y O U R E X P E R T I S E H A S T O B E S E E N
L O R C A N D E M P S E Y H T T P : / / W W W . S L I D E S H A R E . N E T / L I S L D / T H E - I N S I D E - O U T - L I B R A R Y

51. http://about.me/digicmb