LibGuides: Increasing your research impact : how to guide: Key books, e-books and journal articles

Featured books and e-books

Increasing the Impact of Your Research by Jenny Grant Rankin
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Publication Date: 2020
This important resource helps researchers in all disciplines share their findings, knowledge, and ideas effectively and beyond their own field. By pursuing the practical recommendations in this book, researchers can increase the exposure of their ideas, connect with wider audiences in powerful ways, and ensure their work has a true impact.
Research Impact and the Early Career Researcher by Kieran Fenby-Hulse (Editor); Emma Heywood (Editor); Kate Walker (Editor)
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Publication Date: 2019
Research Impact and the Early Career Researcher documents experiences and perspectives on the emerging concept of research impact from a range of disciplines and places them within an analytical and critical discursive framework.
Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation by Yves Gingras
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Publication Date: 2016
Why bibliometrics is useful for understanding the global dynamics of science but generate perverse effects when applied inappropriately in research evaluation and university rankings. The research evaluation market is booming. "Ranking," "metrics," "h-index," and "impact factors" are reigning buzzwords.
Altmetrics by Andy Tattersall (Editor)
Call Number: Menzies Z669.7 .A48 2016
Publication Date: 2016
This book gives an overview of altmetrics, its tools and how to implement them successfully to boost and measure research outputs. New methods of scholarly communication and dissemination of information are having a huge impact on how academics and researchers build profiles and share research.
Altmetrics for Information Professionals by Kim Johan Holmberg
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Publication Date: 2015
The goal of any research assessment is to evaluate the value or quality of the research in comparison to other research. As quality is highly subjective and difficult to measure, citations are used as a proxy. Citations are an important part of scholarly communication and a significant component of research evaluation.

Featured journal articles

As a starting point use the following search in SuperSearch accessed from ANU Library's homepage.

(bibliometrics OR "journal impact" OR metrics) AND research

Here are a few featured articles.

Bibliometrics: tracking research impact by selecting the appropriate metrics

Agarwal, Ashok ; Durairajanayagam, Damayanthi ; Tatagari, Sindhuja ; et al. Asian Journal of Andrology, 2016-03, Vol.18 (2), p.296--309, Article 296.

Current concepts on bibliometrics: a brief review about impact factor, Eigenfactor score, CiteScore, SCImago Journal Rank, Source-Normalised Impact per Paper, H-index, and alternative metrics

Roldan-Valadez, Ernesto ; Salazar-Ruiz, Shirley Yoselin ; Ibarra-Contreras, Rafael ; et al. Irish journal of medical science, 2019-08, Vol.188 (3), p.939-951, Article 939-951.

A standardized citation metrics author database annotated for scientific field

Ioannidis, John P A ; Baas, Jeroen ; Klavans, Richard ; Boyack, Kevin W PLOS Biology, 2019-08, Vol.17 (8), p.e3-e3000384

Over-optimization of academic publishing metrics: observing Goodhart’s Law in action

Fire, Michael ; Guestrin, Carlos GigaScience, 2019-06, Vol.8 (6), p.giz053-.