REF is coming.
We were just asked to identify 5 best article published since 2014.
'Best' means likely to have an impact because of the scientific merit.
So, here I am looking at school's publication database for citations to justify my choice.
Then hard reality hits my head.
My recent work has been struggling to be cited even though they were looked at and talked about.
I asked the head of my institute for advice about increasing citations. And here they are:
1. Work with many colleagues. i.e. Networking
The best audience is your colleagues who are working in the similar subject areas. Let them know what you have published.
2. Communication, i.e. Blogging, SNS
It is too much to do everything by yourself. Work together with colleagues (see the first tip) to divide the workload.
More practical advice are:
3. Having a long title including keywords in the abstract.
This will help the work to be identified easily through a literature search.
4. Have a clear take-home message in the abstract. Simple is the best. And make the message relevant to people (i.e. implication).
5. Types of the work.
Methodological paper and systematic reviews are likely to be cited.
It may sound generic, but we need to remind ourselves to read the abstract over and over to assess if readers would be interested in our work. If not, re-write!
And think about what our expertise is and here is what the head of my institute concluded.
6. Branding
If any of our work is related, do they have the same keywords? Associated with the third tip, this practice will help our related work to be identified.
Taking the advice on board, I have a proposition for you.
I have been working on ageing health with emphases on cross-national comparisons (UK-Japan mainly). Is anyone working in the similar areas and would like to exchange recently published evidence with me? Here is my latest publication in ageing and health.
1. Identifying Frail-Related Biomarkers among Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Japan: A Research Example from the Japanese Gerontological Evaluation Study. doi: 10.1155/2018/5362948.
2.Social and Behavioural Determinants of the Difference in Survival among Older Adults in Japan and England. doi: 10.1159/000485797.
3. Can sleep disturbance influence changes in mental health status? Longitudinal research evidence from ageing studies in England and Japan. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2016.11.017.
We have lived in the era of 'Publish or Perish'. But I say that we are moving to the new era, 'Being cited or Perish'. Let's thrive together!
We were just asked to identify 5 best article published since 2014.
'Best' means likely to have an impact because of the scientific merit.
So, here I am looking at school's publication database for citations to justify my choice.
Then hard reality hits my head.
My recent work has been struggling to be cited even though they were looked at and talked about.
I asked the head of my institute for advice about increasing citations. And here they are:
1. Work with many colleagues. i.e. Networking
The best audience is your colleagues who are working in the similar subject areas. Let them know what you have published.
2. Communication, i.e. Blogging, SNS
It is too much to do everything by yourself. Work together with colleagues (see the first tip) to divide the workload.
More practical advice are:
3. Having a long title including keywords in the abstract.
This will help the work to be identified easily through a literature search.
4. Have a clear take-home message in the abstract. Simple is the best. And make the message relevant to people (i.e. implication).
5. Types of the work.
Methodological paper and systematic reviews are likely to be cited.
It may sound generic, but we need to remind ourselves to read the abstract over and over to assess if readers would be interested in our work. If not, re-write!
And think about what our expertise is and here is what the head of my institute concluded.
6. Branding
If any of our work is related, do they have the same keywords? Associated with the third tip, this practice will help our related work to be identified.
Taking the advice on board, I have a proposition for you.
I have been working on ageing health with emphases on cross-national comparisons (UK-Japan mainly). Is anyone working in the similar areas and would like to exchange recently published evidence with me? Here is my latest publication in ageing and health.
1. Identifying Frail-Related Biomarkers among Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Japan: A Research Example from the Japanese Gerontological Evaluation Study. doi: 10.1155/2018/5362948.
2.Social and Behavioural Determinants of the Difference in Survival among Older Adults in Japan and England. doi: 10.1159/000485797.
3. Can sleep disturbance influence changes in mental health status? Longitudinal research evidence from ageing studies in England and Japan. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2016.11.017.
We have lived in the era of 'Publish or Perish'. But I say that we are moving to the new era, 'Being cited or Perish'. Let's thrive together!
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