Does Criticism Overcome the Praises of Journal Impact Factor?

Journal impact factor (IF) as a gauge of influence and impact of a particular journal comparing with other journals in the same area of research, reports the mean number of citations to the published articles in particular journal. Although, IF attracts more attention and being used more frequently than other measures, it has been subjected to criticisms, which overcome the advantages of IF. Critically, extensive use of IF may result in destroying editorial and researchers’ behaviour, which could compromise the quality of scientific articles. Therefore, it is the time of the timeliness and importance of a new invention of journal ranking techniques beyond the journal impact factor

A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases

Nowadays, the world’s scientific community has been publishing an enormous number of papers in different scientific fields. In such environment, it is essential to know which databases are equally efficient and objective for literature searches. It seems that two most extensive databases are Web of Science and Scopus. Besides searching the literature, these two databases used to rank journals in terms of their productivity and the total citations received to indicate the journals impact, prestige or influence. This article attempts to provide a comprehensive comparison of these databases to answer frequent questions which researchers ask, such as: How Web of Science and Scopus are different? In which aspects these two databases are similar? Or, if the researchers are forced to choose one of them, which one should they prefer? For answering these questions, these two databases will be compared based on their qualitative and quantitative characteristics

Citations and its Impact to University Ranking

Higher education is increasingly becoming a global business. The main factor to distinguish between different universities is university ranking. There are numerous university ranking systems that include a number of citations as one of the measuring indicators. The citations may come from high quality research and publications. However, publishing a high quality paper in scientific journals is only halfway towards receiving citation in the future. The rest of the journey is dependent on disseminating the publications via proper utilization of the “Research Tools”. Proper tools allow the researchers to increase the research impact and citations for their publications. This workshop series will provide various techniques on how one can increase the visibility and enhance the impact of one’s research work

A new research impact measuring system

<p>For years, scientists have been trying to measure the quality of scholarly work by the number of times an article is cited in other articles or the impact factor of the journal which published an article. However, citation is a lagging indicator and journal impact factor may be misleading since a Journal's citation count is usually caused by a small number of articles in that journal.</p> <p>With the rise of the web as the archiving and emerging interaction platform, there is a need for new ways to measure articles and books impact. Altmetrics attempts to use the online activity to measure impact, buzz, word of mouth for scientific information and it includes new ways to measure usage at the citation level. In this workshop, I will explain about application of altmetrics tools such as: Altmetric.com, Impactstory.org, Plumanalytics.com, and PLoS metrics.</p

How to Enhance Research Visibility & Citations

<p>Increase your research visibility in the academic world in order to receive comments and citations from fellow researchers across the globe, is essential. Because, The number of citations contributes to over 30% in the university rankings. Therefore, most of the scientists are looking for an effective method to increase their citation record.<br>Publishing a high quality paper in scientific journals is only the mid point towards receiving citation in the future. The balance of the journey is completed by advertising and disseminating the publications by using the proper “Research Tools”. Nader who has developed a method for increasing the visibility of the research, will get you familiar with the tools you need in order to grow your research visibility and raise the impact of research.</p> <p> </p> <p>Cite as: Ale Ebrahim, N. (2014). How to Enhance Research Visibility & Citations Paper presented at the Pharmacology Department Journal Club Seminar Series, Lecture Hall , Pharmacology Department, Faculty of Medicine., University of Malaya. </p

Recent publications By: Nader Ale Ebrahim

<p>A list of over 30 journal publications in the fields of:</p> <p>Technology Management,</p> <p>Virtual R&D teams,</p> <p>Virtual Teams,</p> <p>Computer-Mediated Communication</p> <p>Stage-Gate,</p> <p>Global Virtual Teams,</p> <p>Conceptual Model of Virtual Product Development,</p> <p>R&D Management,</p> <p>Small and Medium-scale Enterprises (SMEs),</p> <p>Industrial Engineering,</p> <p>New Product Development,</p> <p>Collaborative systems,</p> <p>Electronic-Collaboration,</p> <p>Collaboration Technology,</p> <p>Concurrent Engineering,</p> <p>Research Tools,</p> <p>Bibliometrics,</p> <p>e-skills</p> <p>Plagiarism</p> <p>Turnitin</p> <p>Publication marketing</p> <p>Increase H-Index</p> <p>Research impact</p> <p> </p

Email Communications for Boosting the Research Visibility and Impact

Your research findings and publications have to reach thousands, of your peers and colleagues. Email communications help researchers to undertake more outreach and increase their research visibility, impact and citations. If you have recently published a study that would be of interest to others in your field, disseminate it through email. “Email communications” allow the researchers to boost their research findings to a wider audiences. This workshop will provide various techniques to increase the visibility and enhance the impact of researcher’s output by employing the “Email communications” tools. <br

Strategies to Enhance Research Visibility, Impact & Citations

<p>Do you know “Over 43% of ISI papers have never ever received any citations?” (nature.com/top100, 2014). Now it’s time to start spreading the word around your findings and analysis. Publishing a high quality paper in scientific journals is only halfway towards receiving citation in the future. The rest of the journey is dependent on disseminating the publications via using the proper “Research Tools”. Proper utilization of the tools allows the researchers to increase the research impact and citations for their publications. This workshop will provide you various techniques on how you can increase the visibility and hence the impact of your research work.</p

Improving Research Visibility Part 6: Academic Social Networking

Researchers needs to remove many traditional obstacles to disseminate and outreach their research outputs. Academic social networking allows you to connect with other researchers in your field, share your publications, and get feedback on your non-peer-reviewed work. The academic social networking, making your work more widely discoverable and easily available. The two best known academic social networking are ResearchGate and Academia.edu. These sites offer an instant technique to monitor what other people are looking at in your field of research. Both networks are offer roughly the same features. ResearchGate is more closely focused on collaboration and interaction, while Academia.edu often functions more as an academic version of LinkedIn, with an online CV and as a place to share your publications

Conducting Research: Literature Search to Writing Review Paper, Part 3: Writing Literature Review

: “Research Tools” can be defined as vehicles that broadly facilitate research and related activities. “Research Tools” enable researchers to collect, organize, analyze, visualize and publicized research  outputs. Dr. Nader has collected over 700 tools that enable students to follow the correct path in research and to ultimately produce high-quality research outputs with more accuracy and efficiency. It is assembled as an interactive Web-based mind map, titled “Research Tools”, which is updated periodically.  “Research Tools” consists of a hierarchical set of nodes. It has four main nodes: (1) Searching the literature, (2) Writing a paper, (3) Targeting suitable journals, and  (4) Enhancing visibility and impact of the research. In this workshop some tools from the part 2 (Writing a paper) will be described. The e-skills learned from the workshop are useful across various research disciplines and research institutions