"How to Publish" Virtual Learning Series, Session Three: I Got Published! ...Now What?
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Series: These workshops have been developed specifically for graduate students (masters or doctoral) who hope to begin publishing soon but aren't sure where to start. Each session will include insight, resources, and hands-on activities designed to increase your knowledge and confidence about the scholarly publishing process. Although these sessions are designed with SHSU graduate students in mind, other individuals are also welcome. Session: The process doesn't end at publication. Learn about promoting your work, maintaining your scholarly profile, tracking your impact, and more.
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"How to Publish" Virtual Learning Series, Session Three: I Got Published! ...Now What?
- 1. HOW TO PUBLISH SERIES I GOT PUBLISHED! ...NOW WHAT? Presented by Erin Owens, Professor, SHSU 23 April 2021 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC-SA)
- 2. FIRST OFF: CELEBRATE! Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash, used under CC0
- 3. OK, REALLY, **NOW** WHAT? • Promote your work • Maintain your online profile(s) • Maintain your pipeline • Track and communicate impact
- 4. PROMOTE YOUR WORK • Your personal social media channels • Your institution (marketing, social media, research office, etc.) • Alumni networks • Professional association newsletters & social media • Professional listserv messages • Practitioners, policymakers, or other target audiences as appropriate • Conference presentations/posters • Scholarly Works @ SHSU • Scholarly profile(s) Image by Dean Moriarty from Pixabay, used under CC0 license
- 5. MAINTAIN ONLINE PROFILES • LinkedIn (not academically focused) • ORCID (non-profit) • Impactstory (non-profit) • Google Scholar Profiles (for profit) • Mendeley Profiles • Research Gate (for profit) • Academia.edu (for profit) • Discipline-specific academic social networks— e.g., BiomedExperts—but these are becoming less common Image by Oli Lynch from Pixabay, used under CC0 license
- 6. ACTIVITY TIME! • Open the Padlet at https://padlet.com/eowens42/mgf4zddoq5iwn66h (link in chat) • Choose a platform that you are less familiar with. Open the example profile linked. • Spend a few minutes exploring the features (look up another profile if you want). • Back on the Padlet, click the “+” button in that platform’s column to (anonymously) add your thoughts on the platform’s strengths and weaknesses. What features draw you to it or away from it?
- 7. MAINTAIN YOUR PIPELINE (AKA, NO REST FOR THE ACADEMIC) • Have a rough plan, even if it is evolving a little each day. • Don't wait until a project is complete to decide what you'll start next. • Use the "waiting" periods in one project to make progress on another. • Think strategically about how works can build on each other to fulfill your broader research goals and agenda. Photo by Henry Guan on Unsplash, used under CC0 license
- 8. TRACK IMPACT • Scholarly citations in articles, books, dissertations, etc. • Citations demonstrating impact on teaching, policy, or practice • Altmetrics – views, downloads, saves, social media attention, etc. • Try to go beyond a simple count: capture who, where, why, and changes over time • Other indicators: Letters/comments from peers, funding, reviews, awards/recognition, etc. Photo by Mikail McVerry on Unsplash, used under CC0 license
- 9. COMMUNICATE IMPACT • Numbers are meaningless without context. • Collect anecdotes as well as numbers: characterize the impact, tell a story. • How does this work move your research agenda ahead? Move your discipline ahead? • How does your work align with disciplinary, national, or international research agendas, such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? • To what extent is your work reproducible? To what extent has it been reproduced? • How does your work embody your values? Your institution's? Your discipline's?
- 10. DIGGING IN: TOOLS • Google Scholar (free, public) • Harzing's Publish or Perish (free, software download) • Web of Science (available through SHSU library) • Scopus (not free, not available at SHSU) • Scite.ai (free level of access, account required) • Dimensions.ai (free level of access) • Altmetric bookmarklet (free, browser extension) • PlumX URL (free) https://plu.mx/a/?doi= + a DOI number; for example: https://plu.mx/a/?doi=10.1016/j.acalib.2014.02.003 • Impactstory (free, account required) • Open Syllabus Project (free, public) • Publisher website, relevant repositories, etc. (free; may be public or may be accessible only via your author login)
- 22. ACTIVITY TIME! • Navigate your browser to dimensions.ai and click on "Access Free Web App." • Look up a contemporary researcher of interest to you—maybe an advisor, mentor, role model, or just a current "big name" in your field (but don't go classic). • Click on a few of their publications and explore what data is available. Consider: • What interested or surprised you? • What could you perhaps infer about their research impact from the data available? • What other aspects of their impact are perhaps not communicated by this data?
- 23. SO... WHAT'S THE FINAL PRODUCT? • Write a story about who you are as a researcher, what you do and what you are trying to achieve (big picture), and what you believe you have accomplished so far. • Weave in the various indicators you have collected as evidence to support various points in your story. • Remember, try to include quantitative AND qualitative data: strong anecdotes, substantive comments, etc. can be just as valuable as numbers • Use this narrative to justify future work in grant applications, fellowship or job applications, etc., and eventually perhaps a tenure and promotion application.
- 24. ...WHOA. THIS IS A LITTLE OVERWHELMING. • Well, yes, it can be. • Be strategic: don’t try to capture every number possible. • Compile citing works into a “master” list, add to it over time, and reference it when an up-to-date snapshot is needed. • Ask for advice from faculty mentors, peers, professional association networks—and, yes, even the library! Image by Robin Higgins from Pixabay, used under CC0 license
- 25. FURTHER RESOURCES • Resources and strategies for promoting your work: https://shsulibraryguides.org/publish/promoting • Resources on online profiles: https://shsulibraryguides.org/publish/researcherprofiles • What can I post where? Sherpa Romeo database: https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ • Resources on tracking citations: https://shsulibraryguides.org/publish/citations • Resources on altmetrics: https://shsulibraryguides.org/publish/altmetrics • Which metric(s) to use? https://shsulibraryguides.org/publish/whichmetrics • Frameworks and best practices for communicating impact: https://shsulibraryguides.org/publish/usingmetrics • Suggestions and toolkits for maintaining your research pipeline: https://shsulibraryguides.org/publish/pipeline
- 26. THANK YOU! QUESTIONS? Erin Owens Professor / Scholarly Communications Librarian SHSU Newton Gresham Library 936-294-4567 eowens@shsu.edu ORCID researcher profile: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9520-9314 * Slides and recordings from this and previous sessions in this series will be available at: https://shsulibraryguides.org/publish-early/slides
Editor's Notes
- ** Notification / reminder that the session will be recorded for those not able to attend Launch **POLL** after my introduction
- Post to your social media channels. Tag professional colleagues, your university's official channels, friends, and others who might re-share in their own networks. Communicate with the marketing office at your university—they may have their own methods for publicizing researcher works, or they may see a connection to a story they can write. Try to get something announced on university social media, maybe via the research office. Leverage any alumni networks you may have from your previous institutions; maybe they put out a magazine with professional notes or updates from alumni, maybe they have social media. Institutions like to showcase what their alumni are accomplishing professionally. Some professional association newsletters and social media channels will promote recent publications by members—if you belong to an association, ask them about opportunities like this. Send an announcement to professional listservs that you're a member of. If your work impacts practitioners—e.g., teachers, nurses, etc.--or policymakers or other specific target groups, consider how you can reach out and make them aware of your work. Present at conferences so you can share some of your key findings and promote your article. This doesn't have to be an hour-long talk; many conferences also have opportunities for short lightening talks or posters. And it doesn't have to be the largest national conference in your field; look for smaller local, state, and regional conferences. Scholarly Works @ SHSU – our institutional repository – can provide a stable place to host any works you want to share. It gets them indexed in Google, makes your work more widely discoverable, and gives you stable permanent URLs so you can link to those works in CVs, portfolios, etc. You can often deposit published articles—we will work with you to verify journal policies—but you can also post conference papers, posters, videos, datasets, any output from your research that you want to preserve and share. Please understand that the publishing agreement you sign with the journal may limit the ways that you can post or distribute your article, so be sure you don’t violate that contract. Keep your scholarly profile(s) updated with the details! Which segues nicely to the next segment...
- - How many? Choose between 1 and 3 to focus your energy, based on what seems most strategic in your discipline. - Which platforms? Could include LinkedIn, ORCID, Google Scholar Profiles, ImpactStory, ResearchGate, Academia.edu, … How do you decide which one(s) to focus on? - Search users on different platforms. Do you see other people there in your discipline, and are they established scholars, or just grad students? Do those profiles look updated / kept current? - Compare features of different platforms. Does one emphasize publications only, while another accommodates other things like conference presentations, grant funding, etc.? Does one just act as a resume, while another enables more networking? How do its capabilities align with your priorities and interests? How easy is it to keep updated? Can your profile on that platform be found by searching your name in Google? How does its non-profit or for-profit status align with your values? - You may have to create accounts and try out several platforms before you get a feel for your preferences. If you decide you do not want to maintain a certain platform, delete that profile (or make it private) so that it doesn’t continue to hang around as an outdated, incorrect representation of you. Create and stick to a review schedule. Set a time, whether it's once a month, once a semester, every quarter, whatever works for you. Review all the profiles that you have decided to emphasize and make any needed updates. It’s not just about adding accomplishments: keep yourself informed of changes with the platform, too, because things changes. New features get added that you may want to leverage. Little-used features get retired. Sometimes whole platforms will be retired: Mendeley, best known as a reference management platform, had added profiles but has now announced their impending retirement. If I had been relying on that platform to showcase myself as a researcher, I would need to be aware of this so that I could plan ahead and refocus my energy on another platform. Need to consider, what you can post where: As I mentioned earlier, your publishing agreement may limit where and when an article can be shared. Some publishers have stricter rules for platforms like ResearchGate, so be careful posting full articles until you research permissions.
- It's a bit like washing a sink full of dishes. You start one dish soaking, but it needs time for the pasta to come unstuck. You don't just stand there watching it soak. You pick up the next dish. And you don't drain and refill the sink between washing each dish, because you would lose too much momentum. This metaphor might not work for you, it might be too depressing to think of your writing like washing dishes forever, so come up with an alternative mental image if it helps. But the idea is to be efficient with your time and maintain your momentum once you get going. An object in motion is more likely to stay in motion, an object at rest is more likely to stay at rest; all of that.
- What authors, what disciplines, interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary, what geographical distribution, citations by leaders in the field, use in scholarly articles vs dissertations, use in lit reviews vs adopting protocols, citations supporting vs refuting, etc. Remember that citations can take time to appear, in no small part because of the speed of the research, review, and publishing processes. Fields vary: in fast-moving fields like health, you may expect to see citation within 1-2 years of publication, but many works will have a shorter half-life and will not continue to be cited at the same rate after 5-10 years. In the arts and humanities, however, citation is often slower to begin but will have a much longer half-life, with citations likely to continue appearing longer after publication. Keep this in perspective; this is why we want to be able to consider factors beyond just citation.
- Google Scholar I can search for my article by its title or my name; it shows Cited by... and I can click that to pull up all of those citations in Google. Be aware of duplicates and errors in Google's list: as much as possible, follow links, identify nature of citing item, and verify citation. Also note – no good way to download a list; you would need to click and copy a citation for each item individually (boooo). If you want to download a list of citing works, I highly encourage downloading the free program Publish or Perish instead! It leverages Google Scholar data in its own search interface, so you can search for your article, then do a Citing Works search, then download the results in a spreadsheet.
- Harzing’s Publish or Perish
- Web of Science I can search for my article by its title or my name; it shows Times Cited, but understand that will only include citations that are also in WOS Click that to see the details Note the discrepancy between 34 times cited, versus 29 citing articles shown—why?
- Web of Science Explain the discrepancies (35, 34, 29) on the previous slide: 35 = 34 in WOS Core and 1 in Arabic CI; 34 = 29 articles and 5 conference proceedings
- Scite.ai
- Dimensions Main summary dashboard, gives a sense of the variety of metrics, including citing works. Notice the self-citation; this is a problem in just about all tools. If your work builds on itself in an escalating research agenda, it's normal to cite your own previous work, but then when discussing impact, you generally want to omit self-citations and don't allow them to artificially inflate your claims.
- Dimensions (details of the Dimensions badge) What I particularly appreciate here is the TEXT versus the numbers. They seek to explain what those numbers are intended to indicate.
- Dimensions (details of the Altmetric donut badge) More dashboards than you'll know what to do with... literally. They will drown you in numbers, but you have to be able to fit those numbers into the context of your research story so that they are meaningful. Does it matter if a paper was read in South Africa versus the United Kingdom? Maybe yes for me, maybe no for you. Is it meaningful if doctoral students are saving a paper in their Mendeley library? Maybe no for me, but maybe yes for you. See what I mean about context?
- Altmetric
- Plum URL
- Publisher platforms
- What questions do you have for me?