Web 2.0 technologies have grown increasingly popular and useful for many aspects of personal and professional life. Following this trend, new Internet technologies are emerging that provide many benefits to academic researchers, including assistance in finding research articles around particular topics; identifying colleagues for potential collaboration; disseminating and promoting one's own research; and developing a clearer understanding of which studies, journals, and scholars have had the most impact in a particular field. In this workshop, presented at AECT 2012 in Louisville, KY, I introduced three Internet technologies that can assist scholars and readers of scholarship: Mendeley, Google Scholar Profile, and, to a lesser degree, Publish or Perish.
Mendeley. Mendeley, a free open-source tool, seeks to meet basic citation management needs in a similar way as Endnote, Refworks, and Zotero, while at the same time building a robust scholarly social network using a model based on Last.fm (Henning & Reichelt, 2008; Hoyt, Reichelt & Henning, 2009). Mendeley consists of two main programs: a desktop citation and PDF manager and an online companion that can also manage citations while sharing user-defined pieces of information about one's research with others (Zaugg, West, Tateishi, & Randall, 2011). Mendeley focuses on researchers' libraries instead of on the researchers themselves so networks can be formed around strands of research and specific articles. This may help researchers begin conversations and collaboration with others interested in the same research.
Google Scholar Profile. Google Scholar has a new “my citations” feature that allows researchers to set up their own profile and identify which citations in the Google Scholar system are their own. This profile and list of citations combines to create an attractive online presence and portfolio. Perhaps most importantly, Google Scholar provides the citation counts for specific articles listed on the author’s profile, as well as overall impact statistics, allowing others to quickly see which of the author’s articles have been viewed as potentially most important. Finally, Google Scholar enables authors to list co-authors, creating a network of collaboration that can be useful in studying a specific research topic.
References
Henning, V. & Reichelt J. (2008) Mendeley – A last.fm for research? 2008 IEEE Fourth International Conference on eScience, 1-2.
Hoyt, J. J., Reichelt, J., & Henning, V. (2009) Building successful online research networks with the last.fm model, Proceedings of the 5th Open Knowledge Conference, 1-2.
Zaugg, H.; West, R. E.; Randall, D.; Tateishi, I. (2011). Creating communities of scholarly
inquiry through participation in an online social network. TechTrends. 55(1): 32-36.
3. Orientation
This workshop will focus on:
• Over-arching principles related to finding,
sharing/disseminating, and evaluating
scholarship
• Comparison of citation management tools
• Hands-on with Mendeley, Google Scholar, and
Publish or Perish
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7. A Knowledge
Management Shift
Or
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Puzzles Mysteries?
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21. Why Share?
• To increase your personal publicity and
impact
• To contribute to a collective creativity that
you can then draw on yourself
• Because we are scholars & teachers ... that’s
what we do!
• Because the public has funded our research
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22. Scholar’s Repository
• You have the right, typically, to share the “pre-pubs”
or your research
• You have the right, typically, to share your data
excerpts online in a blog/website
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23. Your Online Reputation
Academics need to be intentional about how, when,
and what shows up when someone uses a search
engine.
• If Google cannot find a faculty scholar's work, then
it is essentially irrelevant — even nonexistent.
• Building a web presence is more than simply having
a website and can make the difference in an
academic's visibility.
http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/intentional-web-presence-10-seo-
strategies-every-academic-needs-know
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24. Key Principles
• Make it easy for people to find you, cite you, and
read you
• Make it easy to keep updated!
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29. First, a word about
Citation Management
Tools
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30. Questions To Consider
• Do you mostly work with your references online or offline?
• Do you work on multiple computers or one?
• Do you need to share references with collaborators? (what
platforms?
• Are your sources usually online or offline? (library stacks,
databases, Google Scholar, websites)?
• Do you use or need advanced features?
• Do you use Word or something else (Open Office, Google Docs?)
• What is your budget?
• Will you need to retain your references after graduation?
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31. Comparison
Learning Curve Functionality
Endnote/Mendeley bes
rd t to
t o ha Endnote wo
easy rst
Refworks/Mendeley Refworks
Zotero Zotero
Large Library Management Collaboration
Mendeley bes
best t to
Endnote to w
orst wo
rst
Refworks Zotero
Mendeley Refworks
Zotero
Endnote
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32. Comparison
Database Integration Website Scraping
bes
b es
t to Zotero t to
wo
Refworks/Endnote wo
rst rst
Mendeley
Zotero
Refworks
Mendeley Endnote
Multiple Computers Document Bibliographies
Refworks best Word (E, M, R, Z)
to w
orst
Mendeley Open Office (E, M, Z)
Zotero Google Docs (?)
Endnote Pages (E, Sente)
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43. Organize into Collections
Tip: consider making collections around topics, and then
also collections for specific research projects
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44. Step 2
Create your
Online
Account
Tip: Fill out your profile to
increase networking
possibilities. Upload your
articles to the “my
publications” collection for
an online vita.
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45. Step 3
Install the Web Importer - http://www.mendeley.com/import/
Tip: works in all major browsers,
including Chrome!
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46. Step 4
Find Articles
1. Import when on the web
2. Export if needed to Refworks/Zotero (Refworks
XML format), then import
3. Drag PDFs into the desktop program or
4. Download PDFs to a “watched” folder
5. Search among the 45 million+ citations contributed
by Mendeley users.
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47. Tip: tag your articles here to save time later.
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48. Step 5
Organize your PDFs
Tip: Don’t organize by titles, as they’re too long. Choose
authors or journals or years.
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49. Step 6: Start Annotating
Tip: If you can’t
highlight, OCR
the document in
Acrobat Pro and
then open in
Mendeley.
Use tagging
liberally to
organize citations
into piles that can
become sections in
your literature
review.
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51. Step 7
Insert into papers (Word, Google, OpenOffice, etc.)
Copy a citation in Mendeley, paste into word
processor, or install the Mendeley plugin for Word
or Open Office.
Tip: Use the plug-in if you like stopping your work flow
to fix problems. I think copy and paste works better,
pretty much for all citation managers.
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52. Step 8: Create Groups
Private =
pdfs +
notes
Public =
citations
Tip: become
contacts first,
groupies
second
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57. Step 9: Sync
Tip: Don’t rely on synching as a backup mechanism.
Backup regularly under the help menu.
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58. Step 10: iPad/iPhone
“You can’t edit any of the metadata for your papers, but
don’t worry, we will be releasing a full version of
Mendeley for iPhone in the near future” - Mendeley’s
blog
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59. For More Info
Zaugg, B. H., West, R. E., Tateishi, I., & Randall, D. L. (2011).
Mendeley: Creating Communities of Scholarly Inquiry Through
Research Collaboration. TechTrends, 55(1), 32-36. doi: 10.1007/
s11528-011-0467-y.
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63. The Old(?) Paradigm
• Over-reliance on quantity over quality
• Over-reliance on one statistic (AR or IF)
• What challenges does this raise?
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65. The Problem with
Impact Factors
• 75% of education journals are missing from ISI
• Doesn’t consider books, presentations, and other
scholarship
• Considers journal impact as a substitute for article/
scholar impact
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68. Challenges with
Acceptance Rates
• Difficult to find updated information
• Does the journal count resubmissions as new
submissions?
• What level of quality articles does the journal receive?
• International influx
• Desk rejects can be quite high, and contribute to the AR
• Quality of peer reviewers
• Reviewers often disagree
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69. ETR&D (2008)
Submit to editor (inform
them it’s unpublished, and not
Blind Review (3-6
Minor Resubmit Accept Reject Seek New Journal
7/11 32/7 0/3 119/5
Agreement
In Press (Edit proofs; fix All - 29%
grammar/APA errors; sign 2 = 39%
none=32%
70. Possible Solution
• Multi-faceted, wholistic evaluation of scholarship
based on multiple pieces of evidence tied to core
scholarship goals
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73. R.I.P.
• Rigor
• Critical review based on stringent standards
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74. R.I.P.
• Rigor
• Critical review based on stringent standards
• Impact
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75. R.I.P.
• Rigor
• Critical review based on stringent standards
• Impact
• How valid/useful is the research for others?
Does it effect change?
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76. R.I.P.
• Rigor
• Critical review based on stringent standards
• Impact
• How valid/useful is the research for others?
Does it effect change?
• Prestige
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77. R.I.P.
• Rigor
• Critical review based on stringent standards
• Impact
• How valid/useful is the research for others?
Does it effect change?
• Prestige
• Trust judgment, a qualitative judgment about
the importance in a field, the “gut check”
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93. R.I.P. Technologies
Rigor
• Open, public review
• PaperCritic (using Mendeley’s API) allows
users to comment and rate articles based on
criteria
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94. R.I.P. Technologies
Rigor
• Open, public review
• PaperCritic (using Mendeley’s API) allows
users to comment and rate articles based on
criteria
• Open research journals and data sets, saved in
the cloud to avoid relying on “fragments of
transcript that evidence the author’s analytic claims”
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95. R.I.P. Technologies
Rigor
• Open, public review
• PaperCritic (using Mendeley’s API) allows
users to comment and rate articles based on
criteria
• Open research journals and data sets, saved in
the cloud to avoid relying on “fragments of
transcript that evidence the author’s analytic claims”
• Additional data sources for “thick description”
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109. R.I.P. Technologies
Prestige
• “Liking” and “following”
• “Authority” measuring within networks
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110. R.I.P. Technologies
Prestige
• “Liking” and “following”
• “Authority” measuring within networks
• Transparency can increase confidence
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111. R.I.P. Technologies
Prestige
• “Liking” and “following”
• “Authority” measuring within networks
• Transparency can increase confidence
• Surveys to “measure the pulse”
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114. FWIW
West, R. E. & Rich, P. J. (2013). Rigor, impact,
and prestige: A proposed framework for
evaluating scholarly publications. Innovative
Higher Education, 38(1).
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115. FWIW
West, R. E. & Rich, P. J. (2013). Rigor, impact,
and prestige: A proposed framework for
evaluating scholarly publications. Innovative
Higher Education, 38(1).
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116. FWIW
West, R. E. & Rich, P. J. (2013). Rigor, impact,
and prestige: A proposed framework for
evaluating scholarly publications. Innovative
Higher Education, 38(1).
Rich, P. J. & West, R. E. (2012). New
technologies, new approaches to evaluating
academic productivity. To be published in
Educational Technology.
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118. Google Scholar
“often the spark of discovery comes from making a new
connection or looking in a direction that you hadn’t yet considered.”
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131. Journal Citations
• Why could it be useful to know citation patterns for a journal?
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132. Journal Citations
• Why could it be useful to know citation patterns for a journal?
• Are citations fairly even? (e.g. BJET)
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133. Journal Citations
• Why could it be useful to know citation patterns for a journal?
• Are citations fairly even? (e.g. BJET)
• Can things be cited well in this journal? (e.g. IRRODL)
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134. Journal Citations
• Why could it be useful to know citation patterns for a journal?
• Are citations fairly even? (e.g. BJET)
• Can things be cited well in this journal? (e.g. IRRODL)
• What kinds of papers does this community seem to
appreciate? (i.e. IHE: Rovai/Garrison)
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135. Journal Citations
• Why could it be useful to know citation patterns for a journal?
• Are citations fairly even? (e.g. BJET)
• Can things be cited well in this journal? (e.g. IRRODL)
• What kinds of papers does this community seem to
appreciate? (i.e. IHE: Rovai/Garrison)
• What key articles should I (or my students) be aware of?
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136. Journal Citations
• Why could it be useful to know citation patterns for a journal?
• Are citations fairly even? (e.g. BJET)
• Can things be cited well in this journal? (e.g. IRRODL)
• What kinds of papers does this community seem to
appreciate? (i.e. IHE: Rovai/Garrison)
• What key articles should I (or my students) be aware of?
• How well cited are my articles (e.g. TechTrends article)
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166. P. or P. Process
• Search for journal titles
• Clean up duplicates and spurious articles
• Sort to see top-cited
• New information: Cites/paper & additional indices
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167. Are we on the tip of
something big?
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Show Mendeley’s public collections feature, where you can follow some else’s collection of articles. Also show the recommender features in Mendeley. Briefly show the GS alerts feature.\n
Show Mendeley’s public collections feature, where you can follow some else’s collection of articles. Also show the recommender features in Mendeley. Briefly show the GS alerts feature.\n
Show Mendeley’s public collections feature, where you can follow some else’s collection of articles. Also show the recommender features in Mendeley. Briefly show the GS alerts feature.\n
Show Mendeley’s public collections feature, where you can follow some else’s collection of articles. Also show the recommender features in Mendeley. Briefly show the GS alerts feature.\n
Show Mendeley’s public collections feature, where you can follow some else’s collection of articles. Also show the recommender features in Mendeley. Briefly show the GS alerts feature.\n
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i.How can you use this to promote your own scholarship? (do you have a paper that is particularly well cited for its journal?). My example: I published in TechTrends. BUT it’s the 6th top-cited article since 2006 with 42 citations. Can I make a case that this particular article is high quality, but published where it was for good reason (the audience)? \n\n
i.How can you use this to promote your own scholarship? (do you have a paper that is particularly well cited for its journal?). My example: I published in TechTrends. BUT it’s the 6th top-cited article since 2006 with 42 citations. Can I make a case that this particular article is high quality, but published where it was for good reason (the audience)? \n\n
i.How can you use this to promote your own scholarship? (do you have a paper that is particularly well cited for its journal?). My example: I published in TechTrends. BUT it’s the 6th top-cited article since 2006 with 42 citations. Can I make a case that this particular article is high quality, but published where it was for good reason (the audience)? \n\n
i.How can you use this to promote your own scholarship? (do you have a paper that is particularly well cited for its journal?). My example: I published in TechTrends. BUT it’s the 6th top-cited article since 2006 with 42 citations. Can I make a case that this particular article is high quality, but published where it was for good reason (the audience)? \n\n
i.How can you use this to promote your own scholarship? (do you have a paper that is particularly well cited for its journal?). My example: I published in TechTrends. BUT it’s the 6th top-cited article since 2006 with 42 citations. Can I make a case that this particular article is high quality, but published where it was for good reason (the audience)? \n\n
i.How can you use this to promote your own scholarship? (do you have a paper that is particularly well cited for its journal?). My example: I published in TechTrends. BUT it’s the 6th top-cited article since 2006 with 42 citations. Can I make a case that this particular article is high quality, but published where it was for good reason (the audience)? \n\n
\nAsk: Why do you think that journal is good? What evidence do you have? Suggest as they read journals, that they start keeping a spreadsheet of different journals they may consider publishing in some day.\n
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New ways of having computers help us find, share, disseminate, and evaluate the quality of research. This can only lead to good things.\n