Performance Behavior Patterns in Author-Level Metrics: A Disciplinary Comparison of Google Scholar Citations, ResearchGate, and ImpactStory

Orduña-Malea, Enrique; López-Cózar, Emilio Delgado

doi:10.3389/frma.2017.00014

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“…Research communities, such as ResearchGate and Academia, are also popular and allow users to follow other researchers of interest to share and discuss full‐text articles; however, archiving rules are journal specific . Storytelling services, such as Kudos and ImpactStory, are another option that allow authors to increase the visibility of their work and measure its impact in a format that is more user‐friendly to the media and lay public . Although the impact of such services on citation counts remains in question, one study did find that Kudos actions were associated with a 23.1% increase in full‐text downloads .…”

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“…15,16 Storytelling services, such as Kudos and ImpactStory, are another option that allow authors to increase the visibility of their work and measure its impact in a format that is more user-friendly to the media and lay public. 17,18 Although the impact of such services on citation counts remains in question, one study did find that Kudos actions were associated with a 23.1% increase in full-text downloads. 18 Thus, it seems that sharing interesting articles via social media may help increase the visibility of published work.…”

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To tweet or not to tweet? A primer on social media for pharmacists

Reed

2019

J Am Coll Clin Pharm

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Social media has evolved considerably since its humble beginnings in the late 1990s. Today, three billion individuals worldwide use social media. While its traditional use has been to connect with family and friends, social media has also been integrated into many other areas of society, including health care. Today, many health care professionals, including pharmacists, use social media for developing their own personal brand, professional networking, professional development, scholarly activity, pharmacy education, and even patient care. Despite the benefits of actively engaging with social media, the available evidence would suggest that pharmacists' engagement with social media for professional use has been limited. This is likely due to several well‐publicized criticisms of social media, including the potential for users to segregate themselves into echo chambers of only like‐minded individuals, inability to confirm the accuracy of shared information, its potential as a distractor from other tasks and responsibilities, and personal and patient privacy concerns. Fortunately, most of these concerns can be minimized if pharmacists develop a strategy for social media engagement that is intentional and consistent with their personal goals. Pharmacists should consider becoming not only passive “lurkers” on social media but also creating original content that shares knowledge and encourages conversations with others. We propose that pharmacists use a design‐based approach to ensure their use of social media is effective and sustainable. The “ABCDE” approach includes analyzing one's goals and audience, brainstorming ideas for how best to use social media, creating content that is relevant, practical, and useful, disseminating content efficiently and effectively, and periodically evaluating how well one's goals are being met and identifying opportunities for improvement.

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To tweet or not to tweet? A primer on social media for pharmacists

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2019

J Am Coll Clin Pharm

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“…Additional information on author-level impact can be gathered from emerging scholarly networking platforms, such as ResearchGate and ImpactStory, combining traditional publication and citation records with indicators of social attractiveness of scholarly items (e.g., reads, online mentions). 14 15 ResearchGate, a social platform with its own policy of open archiving, tracking citations, networking, and sharing archived works, depends chiefly on items uploaded by its users, some of whom are not so active in doing so, limiting the reliability of related author metrics. 16 The automatically calculated ResearchGate scores are displayed on registered user profiles and processed for ranking by the platform.…”

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Researcher and Author Impact Metrics: Variety, Value, and Context

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Numerous quantitative indicators are currently available for evaluating research productivity. No single metric is suitable for comprehensive evaluation of the author-level impact. The choice of particular metrics depends on the purpose and context of the evaluation. The aim of this article is to overview some of the widely employed author impact metrics and highlight perspectives of their optimal use. The h-index is one of the most popular metrics for research evaluation, which is easy to calculate and understandable for non-experts. It is automatically displayed on researcher and author profiles on citation databases such as Scopus and Web of Science. Its main advantage relates to the combined approach to the quantification of publication and citation counts. This index is increasingly cited globally. Being an appropriate indicator of publication and citation activity of highly productive and successfully promoted authors, the h-index has been criticized primarily for disadvantaging early career researchers and authors with a few indexed publications. Numerous variants of the index have been proposed to overcome its limitations. Alternative metrics have also emerged to highlight ‘societal impact.’ However, each of these traditional and alternative metrics has its own drawbacks, necessitating careful analyses of the context of social attention and value of publication and citation sets. Perspectives of the optimal use of researcher and author metrics is dependent on evaluation purposes and compounded by information sourced from various global, national, and specialist bibliographic databases.

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“…The author-level metrics (ALmetrics) provides a measure for the research output of an individual author. 6 It summarizes and aggregates the impact of an author's publications by using metrics like h-index (Hirsch-index 7 , calculated from the number of articles N by an author that have each received at least N citations), i10-index (measures the number of publications with at least 10 citations, Google Scholar), g-index (an improvement of h-index by giving more weight to highly-cited articles), e-index (differentiates between scientists with similar h-indices but different citation patterns) and others. 8 The h-index (proposed by J.E.…”

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“…32 The author metrics linked to the academic profile platforms provide an important dimension and visibility, for example, the Google Scholar Citation 33 which computes the total number of 'citations' received by the article, the ResearchGate 34 which calculates the article reads, and the ImpactStory which records 'online mentions' of publication with a DOI added to the ORCID profile of an author. 6 These bibliometric indexes analyze how many articles are published by an author, the number of citations from those articles, and the visibility of research output by that author.…”

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Author-level metrics: Its impact on scholarly output evaluation among various publication metrics

Shah

2021

J Patan Acad Health Sci

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Publication metrics indicate the visibility and reach of a research publication. The metrics can be at article-level, author-level, and journal-level to measure the scholarly output and its impact. Bibliometrics is the use of statistical methods to analyze various publications mostly used in the field of library and information science; whereas, scientometrics is the sub-field concerned with the science of metrics for the measurement and analysis of scholarly publications. Readers are not always well informed about the various publication metrics, and use them without knowing how to interpret them, their strength and limitations.

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Performance Behavior Patterns in Author-Level Metrics: A Disciplinary Comparison of Google Scholar Citations, ResearchGate, and ImpactStory

Cited by 10 publications

References 25 publications

To tweet or not to tweet? A primer on social media for pharmacists

To tweet or not to tweet? A primer on social media for pharmacists

Researcher and Author Impact Metrics: Variety, Value, and Context

Author-level metrics: Its impact on scholarly output evaluation among various publication metrics

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