Raising the Impact of Your Author Profile

A Practical Workshop

As part of the Institute for Business, Social Sciences and Public Policy’s ongoing capability building in supporting the visibility of your research we are offering a series of practical sessions to help you raise the impact of your author profile.

The norm used to be that the number of items you published was the definitive measure of your success. However, the introduction of multidisciplinary citation indices has made bibliometrics an important method of assessing the performance of researchers. Based on the presumption that work of higher quality will be cited more often than works of lesser quality, citation counts are increasingly being used to evaluate the impact of published research output. This practical workshop will enable you to implement a couple of simple measures to maximize the exposure of your publications, which will increase the opportunities for others to read, and hopefully cite you.

To derive maximum benefit from participation:
1. Please ensure you have logged onto IRIS so that you are familiar with your staff profile
2. Bring along postprints of your published journal articles on a USB stick (fulltext final versions of your manuscripts that has been accepted for publication, incorporating any peer-review revisions)
3. If you are bringing your laptop, install the free PoP software available from http://www.harzing.com/pop.htm

Workshop Outline

• Why Bother? The importance of making your publications findable

• Checking your publications and making them as accessible as possible in 3 sources

The Institutional Research Information Service – IRIS
o Capturing and editing your profile and publication list
o Adding fulltext post prints to the institutional repository

Fergus Fahey, Institutional Repository Librarian will be available to assist and answer any questions you might have about the University’s open access institutional repository

Scopus
o Checking your Author profile and sending feedback to Scopus

Web of Science
o Checking your publications and creating a citation report for your publication set

• Comparing your publication profile in Scopus, Web of Science and Publish or Perish and retrieving your H index

Benefits of attending

This is an opportunity to update your IRIS profile and discuss and resolve any problems that have been experienced by others

You will understand how you can influence the visibility of your work in Google Scholar, making it more accessible to others

Duration: 1.5 – 2 hours

This workshop is a practical opportunity for you to get your profile up to date and the time you will need to spend on it will depend on the amount of work it requires.

All Institute members welcome