Slides from a lunchtime presentation to Engineering staff at the University of Hertfordshire with tips on increasing your citation count

1. TOP TIPS TO INCREASE YOUR
CITATION COUNT
School of Engineering Lunchtime Seminar Series
Andreas Chrysanthou
Gill Hall
Catherine Manthorpe
Helen Singer
24 March 2015
Copyright University of Hertfordshire

2. Why increase your citation count?
•Discoverability
•Show the impact your research has
had in the field
•Research assessment – REF
•Attract funding

3. Top tips to increase your citation count
…… to begin with…..
• Publish rigorous, original and significant research
• Have a focused area of research
• Does your paper extend current fundamental knowledge?
• Ask yourself “Is my work going to be cited?”
• Have knowledge of the journals you may want to publish
in (do researchers in your field publish there?)

4. Top tips to increase your citation count
• Know what the various terms that describe the quality of
journals mean (Impact factor, immediacy index, cited half-
life, etc.)
• Quality vs. quantity

5. Tip 1: Check author’s citations
Scopus:Author search

6. Tip 1: Check author’s citations
Scopus:Analyze author output

7. Tip 1: Check author’s citations
Google Scholar

8. Tip 2: Publish in high impact journals
Check publisher’s website, JCR or Scimago

9. Tip 3: Use the Research Information System
•Ensure all your outputs are in RIS
•Feeds through to your web profile
•Feeds through to UHRA
•Metadata means your research is more
exposed to the web/web crawlers
•Attract funding

10. Tip 4: Use Open Access
• Leads to discoverability
• Green or Gold?
Gold – made OA on journal website on
payment of Article Processing Charge (APC).
Can deposit final version in RIS/UHRA and
other repositories
Green – no charge – deposit accepted
version (postprint) in RIS/UHRA.
Can also be deposited in other repositories

11. Tip 5: Get found easily
• Choose keywords that researchers in your field
will be searching for so that your paper will
appear higher up in a search.
• Use consistent keywords/phrases in your title
and abstract.
• Use a consistent form of your name (initials,
forename and surname). Consider using ORCID
• Share your datasets. See Research Data
Management – consult Bill Worthington.
• Include 'University of Hertfordshire' in the
institutional affiliation field of all research outputs

12. Tip 6: Network!
• Academic networking tools eg
o Academia.edu
o EndNote
o Mendeley
• Create a blog (in WordPress for example)
• Link from CV section of your research profile to
blog, LinkedIn/Twitter/facebook
• See Publishing & promoting your research

13. WHY?
• Highly tweeted articles are 11 times more likely to
be cited than less tweeted articles
• 10,000 tweets a day relate to scholarly activity
• Half a billion users and academic community
growing
• Get to find out what's being published,
conferences, developments
• Discover ‘trending’ topics, find collaborators, track
impact of your articles
Tip 7: Use social media eg Twitter