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A guide to library services and resources available for post-graduate students and researchers at UTAS.
Last update: Oct 29th, 2009 URL: http://utas.libguides.com/researchers  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Increase your impact

  • Publish in an open-access repository (OAR), starting with UTAS ePrints. Learn more about OARs.

  • Submit articles for publication in high-impact or peer-reviewed sources.

  • Aim to publish in sources that are esteemed within your discipline, according to the Publication Reference Types e.g. A1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal or B1. Authored Book - research. See Publication Entry System (PES), Reference Material (Section 3) for more reference types.

      
     
     

    Number of times cited or downloaded

    We subscribe to a number of databases that provide quality citation data about individual papers. They show whom has cited an original paper, when and where, providing an opportunity to learn about other researchers within or related to a discipline as well as illustrating "impact" of that paper.

    • UTAS ePrints  
      Our institutional repository can identify "downloads" for individual items it contains and show the breadth of countries where these have occurred - an indicator of a researcher's impact on peers and broader community, with content searchable via Google
    • Web of Science  
      A multi-discipline index of peer-reviewed, high-impact journals and key source of citation data, enabling authors of a cited article to analyse the impact of their research.
    • Scopus  
      This indexes multi-discipline peer-reviewed sources, including journal articles, conference proceedings and trade publications. Citation data may be downloaded and analysed for individual authors using Citation Tracker.
    • Google Scholar  
      Freely gives citation data and offers a convenient way for following up the citing articles.
     

    H-Index, G-Index, HC-Index and others

    Analysis of citation data, rather than just its collection, has become a value-added service of some databases now.

    h-index

    • Measures impact / research contribution of individual or group of researchers
    • h-index of 15, for example, means that there are 15 items that have been cited 15 or more times
    • Value will only increase over period of researcher's career
    • Can only compare h-indices of researchers in same field
    • Through its Citation Tracker, Scopus will calculate and graphically represent the h-index for individual authors, where papers have been published since 1995.
    • In Web of Science, the Citation Report includes the h-index
    • More information about the h-index

    g-index

    • Introduced as an improvement of the h-index which "is insensitive to one or several outstandingly highly cited papers" (Egghe, 2006, p.132)
    • Measures the global citation performance of set of articles
    • If set is 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 g2citations.
    • A set of papers has a g-index of g if g is the highest rank, such that the top g papers have, together, at least g2citations
    • More information about g-index

     

    Contemporary h-index (hc-index)

    • Based on the h-index, with an age-related weighting to each cited article
    • More information about hc-index

     

    Publish or Perish, is a computer program that analyses data from Google Scholar to derive the h-index, g-index and average numbers of citations per author, paper, year etc. Compare these data with those for the same author(s), found in Scopus and Web of Science.

     

    Keep up-to-date with new or alternate measures of impact, via your Liaison Librarian.

        
       
       

      Google Scholar

      Search Google Scholar to find current articles about measuring impact.


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