UTEP Library Research Guides: Open Access Week 2018: Increasing and Monitoring Scholarly Impact

Tuesday, 10/23/18 | Increasing and Monitoring Scholarly Impact | Library 204B | 2pm-3pm

Learn about strategies and tips for promoting your scholarly output, and the best ways to monitor and increase your citations and visibility. You’ll also learn how to: understand popular journal metrics, use certain scholarly networking tools, choose reputable open access journals and publishing options, and participate in open access article funding opportunities.

Welcome to our workshop

Workshop Agenda

What does OA have to do with scholarly impact?

Impact Factor

Journal Citation Reports This link opens in a new window
Unique journal evaluation tool that provides statistical information based on citation data drawn from a wide range of international scholarly and technical journals tracked in Web of Science. Subject coverage includes virtually all subdisciplines in the areas of science, technology, and the social sciences. Statistical data provided includes impact factor (relative importance to others in the same field), immediacy (citation frequency), article counts, cited half-life (benchmarking by age of cited articles), and source data (review articles versus original research articles).
https://jcr.clarivate.com

SJR

Scimago Journal Rank
The SCImago Journal & Country Rank calculates journal influence by looking at both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance of the journal where the citation was published. The SJR indicator is similar to Google Analytic’s PageRank algorithm. This algorithm weights citations from journals according to how highly cited the journal itself is, which differs from the JCR (Journal Citation Reports + Impact Factor) which weights all articles identically, regardless of their source. SCImago uses data from SCOPUS, a product similar to the Web of Science (where Impact Factor data comes from), but which covers over 14,000 journal titles (more than Impact Factor's pool of journals).

[According to data from Gavel, Y., & Iselid, L. (2008). Web of Science and Scopus: A journal title overlap study. Online Information Review, 32(1), 8–21. doi: 10.1108/14684520810865958]

Make Yourself Visible

Create Your Google Scholar Profile
Google Scholar offers a popular way to create a profile that showcases your own papers and the citations they’ve received, complete with links to the publication itself, when available. Plus! Add the link to your Scholar Profile to your Profile in UTEP's Expertise Connector!
See this helpful blog post for step-by-step instructions on how to create your Scholar Profile.

Expert Gallery of Selected Works @ UTEP
A Selected Works profile allows researchers to manage a public record of Any materials that are important important to their career, including:
>A photo
>A description of your work and research specialties
>One's CV
>Links to personal websites and blogs
>Areas of research
>Articles (either full-text or with links to the full-text)
>Book contributions
>Records for books
>Conference presentations
>Other materials, such as book reviews, links to editorials, or dissertations
Create a Selected Works profile here.
Learn how to customize your profile here.