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Researcher Profiles: Maximize Citation Impacts

Workshop guide

This workshop is to provide space for self-curating your multiple author profiles. If you are going to applying for grants from the US Government, one of the requirements is that you create and curate an ORCID profile.

 
We will discuss:
Google Scholar Profiles
ORCID profiles

 

We might discuss:
Web of Science Author Profiles
Scopus Author Profiles

 

Measures of an Author's Impact

An author's impact on their field or discipline has traditionally been measured using the number of times their academic publications are cited by other researchers.  There are numerous algorithms that account for such things as the recency of the publication, or poorly or highly cited papers.  While citation metrics may reflect the impact of research in a field, there are many potential biases with these measurements and they should be used with care.  For a critique of author impact factors, see this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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At Texas Tech, there are also guides on the following:

Journal's H-Index

Calculating Albert's h-index

Color cartoon of a white male with white hair holding a sign that says "h-index=?"

To calculate Albert's h-index we need to:

  1. Collect all of Albert's pupblications.
  2. Put the publications in order from highest citation count to lowest count.
  3. Determine where the number of publications (h) and the citation counts meet.
    For example:
    Have I published one publication with at least one citation count? Have I published two publications with at least two citation counts? Continue to ask the question until you can't answer yes to the question.

Below are Albert's 8 scientific publications in order by citation count:

 

Publications      No. of citations

Publication 1      15
Publication 2      12
Publication 3      12
Publication 4        8
Publication 5        7
Publication 6      6
Publication 7        5
Publication 8        4

  1. Albert has a total of 8 publications; 6 publications have at least 6 citations:

Cartoon of white man with white hair and glasses with a sign that says "h-index=6"