I am not sure if citations really mean scientific excellence, but it does mean impact in the scientific world. I seek ways to maximize citation numbers while keeping an ethic approach (no citation cooperative suggestions please).
Interesting question :)...the modern holy graal for researcher. :)
Well, review papers potentially could attract more citations. So....let's write reviews! :)
I think that RG is a good venue for increased visualization of your published papers, which is likely to increase their impact. Since I joined RG and uploaded many of my publications about two months ago, my dashboard shows 3225 publication views and 535 full-text downloads. Not only does this help researchers to access and read my papers, but in the long term, hopefully some may choose to cite them.
I've also started uploading links to my new papers on LinkedIn. With a few hundred followers there, mostly scientific colleagues, this alerts them quickly to any new publications.
Thus, basically, by increasing access, you also increase citation frequency which is why Open Access journals often have high impact factors.
As Olesya says, good reviews attract a lot of citations, as authors are very often encouraged to cite reviews instead of the original research papers. Almost inevitably these become your most cited papers (and will thus relatively quickly add to your H-index).
Also, many citation classics are methodological papers, describing new analytical techniques.
However, the bottom line is to do good science and publish it! :-)
Dear Bjorn, dear Olesya,
Writing reviews may be cited, but it's not science in my opinion. It may provide citations, but does not create anything new. I find writing for citations weird as a concept and debatable as ethic.
What i want is to maximize citations of existing articles, ways to promote my research, my ideas, and to convince people to join my research topic.
I do this using RG, i use conferences also, and that's about it.
Best regards,
Bradut
Of course, the answer about review papers was not complete and even a bit humorous :). On the other hand, the compilation of the existing results is very important part of science too.
Your question became more clear after you answer. I think, you already described the best ways to increase the visibility of your research. The classical way is conferences and discussions. Nowadays it is open access to electronic versions and even publicity in mass media. It seems that modern scientist should be also a good "trader" (this activity is not originally scientific as well).
This is actually one of the weak-points of the citation measurement system. It does not provide accurate image of scientific value, but of scientific prestige. However, a really wrong scientific result can obtain huge number of citations as it is attacked and debated, and a really complete scientific research can generate little or no citations as there is little to add to it. More, a really "out of the box" approach can be ignored and misunderstood for years before/if becomes visible. Nevertheless, researchers need citations to be "measured" as there is no other alternative measure, and should be obtained in a rather short time to have any impact in their career.
Dear Bradut,
Your view that your scientific colleagues who write reviews are carrying out an unethical activity has to stand for you, I find this statement disrespectful and distasteful. I find it equally baffling that you think that scientists are actually spending valuable time writing reviews only to get citations. You really must find your self in a weird scientific environment.
Your belief that writing reviews is not science and that reviews add nothing new is in my mind completely wrong, and I guess you've never been a part of the process of writing a review. A good review, which takes a lot of work to compile, first of all examines critically the available studies and their data, pointing out possible over- or misinterpretations of data, strength and weaknesses of the available information. It carries out a gap analysis of the field and thereby generates hypotheses which need to be tested in the future, or otherwise points out important future research directions. This is every bit as much science as a researcher developing a new analytical tool in the lab, or a scientist sitting at the desk writing a new research proposal - it helps move the research forward. Science is much more multifaceted than you seem to think!
Dear Bjorn,
I have never said that reviews are unethical. I did said that writing and publishing for the sole purpose of being cited is debatable from ethics point of view, but nevertheless i know it is a practice.
I have seen reviews that are more entitled to "laudatio" title being published, and cited. Some really made me sick because of avoiding to criticize obviously wrong premises. Politically correct does not mean scientifically correct. Those are very different from the ones you describe.
Yes, i live in weird scientific environment. I have to visit foreign universities and write letters to authors to obtain articles i want to read, and bad value articles involving effort and expenses to obtain really annoy me and waste valuable time, even money.
You have never been exposed to such situation as i presume your university can afford various valuable database access. If you would pay 35 EUR to get a pile of junk with a promising abstract, you would understand what i mean. If you would find 100 articles that need to be at least seen before writing about a topic, meaning 3.500 euro expenses or one year of correspondence to get-it free, you would understand what i mean. Keep in mind, i can only get funding after publishing, if i am lucky.
Citations are various. Some time they are only to shown actual subject of the work.
NEGATIVE citations alo can not be proudly, newerteless they increase our scientific measures.
RG scores are not transparent-they are too complex and includ activity of RG user in forums (really this is a way to meet peoples with symilar ideas and formal followers, that is also geim and fan, but not scientific activity)
I have collected a series of "Research Tools" which can assist the researcher to increase his/her publication visibilities. Link to http://www.mindmeister.com/39583892/research-tools-by-nader-ale-ebrahim then click + sign close to 'Advertisement" section. There are over 200 "Tools" available for disseminating the research output. There is a direct relationship between article visibility and citations. Therefore, the research needs to increase article visibility for receiving more citation.
your research should speak for its own quality. In todays world of open access publications it is not difficult for any one to see your paper.
It has been noted that some publishers use methods to get more citations: such acts that increase citations to papers of some journals do not indicate the real impact of journals or papers
Recently I have published an article entitled "Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency" which is available online on http://ssrn.com/abstract=2344585 . You can find over 33 different ways for increasing the citations impact.
Please follow "33 Tips to Maximize Articles’ Citation Frequency" which is available online and attached with this comment.
http://works.bepress.com/aleebrahim/87/
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2344585
I disagree with the idea of manipulation to increase citations. I believe the more your research is indexed online the more it is visible and that by itself helps.
The kind of research you do also impacts citation index. Few studies in lifesciences are there (Ex. Antibiotic patterns) which are revisited each time with different results, so if your work is standard enough you have more chances to be cited a similar work is published.
Dear Ramana,
As i specified in the question: "keeping an ethic approach".
Promoting your own ideas especially outside the mainstream is quite difficult, but by no means something wrong. The availability of publications means nothing unless connected to attention. There is more information online now then ever, but less attention than ever.
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2344585 This paper by reviewing the relevant articles extracts 33 different ways for increasing the citations possibilities.
Agreed it is relatively a important, hope attached ones useful.
Article The ‘omnipotent’Science Citation Index Impact Factor
Conference Paper A different view: An inquiry into visualization of bibliometric data
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I think that tips in this link help maximizing citation numbers while keeping an ethical approach: http://lib.guides.umd.edu/bibliometrics/visibility
Regards,
CT
I doubt - if there are any statistics, how raw data were used after making dataset available. Possibly, there are doubts from the author's side. Good dataset in ecology/zoology may take years of fieldwork.
I think real scientific knowlage transformation is very much important to solve problems in agriculture
- Watch your title length and punctuation.
- Take advantage of preprint servers and release your results early.
- Avoid mentioning a country in your title, abstract or keywords.
- Link your paper to the supporting data in a freely accessible repository.
- Cut the hyphens.
- Badges
- Science topic