Browsing by Subject "research metrics"

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    Changing the culture of P&T through conversations about research metrics
    (IUPUI University Library, 2019-02-26) Coates, Heather L.
    Since 2012, librarians at the IUPUI University Library have been providing support for faculty use of metrics in dossiers for promotion and tenure. During these consultations to learn about their research, faculty were willing to discuss their values as a scholar, the types of work they feel are most important and valuable, the pressures and expectations of their departments and schools, among other things. The richness of these conversations led us to expand our metrics services beyond provision of data. We developed a proactive strategy to help faculty take charge of their digital profiles and scholarly dissemination, as well as outreach and trainings to engage with campus administrators, associate deans for research, and department chairs, with the goal of promoting responsible use of metrics in the promotion and tenure process. This presentation will describe our approach to consultations, training, and advocacy in developing P&T standards and processes that align with institutional and disciplinary values and promote scholar choice in methodology, product, and dissemination.
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    Demonstrating impact as a practitioner-researcher
    (Figshare: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3180370.v3, 2016-04-18) Coates, Heather L.
    Librarians have a unique perspective on the scholarly ecosystem as authors, consumers, and stewards. This perspective, combined with our roles in collecting and curating information, enables librarians to identify changes in policy, practice, and technology that can improve the openness, transparency, and sustainability of the scholarly ecosystem. It also reveals opportunities for aligning institutional and professional incentives with these changes. I will share examples of evidence used in my promotion and tenure dossier to demonstrate how librarian practitioner-scholars can be both advocates and exemplars for the changes we want to see in open access, data, and educational resources.
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    Journal, article, and author metrics:​​ a just-in-time video for P&T committee members​​
    (2022-05-06) Ramirez, Mirian; Stumpff, Julia C.; Craven, Hannah J.
    BACKGROUND: Over the last three years, a Midwest medical school’s library has collaborated with the schools’ research affairs and assessment committees to support promotion and tenure (P&T) administrators and educate the academic research community. The library’s role includes preparing and delivering training sessions and workshops on scholarly metrics for early-career faculty and P&T candidates. To help P&T chairs, administrators, and candidates become acquainted with research metrics. Two librarians worked in partnership with the medical school’s faculty professional development committee and with the library instructional design librarian to create an asynchronous video presentation. DESCRIPTION: Due to previous library outreach initiatives focused on scholarly metrics, the librarians were asked to convert a current training session into a video. The librarians were asked to provide further details about the most popular scholarly metrics used for traditional academic research assessment. To develop and create an asynchronous video presentation, the librarians of the library’s research Team partnered internally with the library's instructional design librarian, who has expertise in creating instructional videos. Collaboration with the instructional librarian was key to designing effective learning material including applying the storyboarding technique to organize the content and enhance the final video. The video provides introductory information about scholarly metrics for responsible research assessment. Using existing materials and content as a starting point, the librarians worked together to outline the video’s script, storyboard, and production with attention to the professional development committee’s request. CONCLUSION: This successful and efficient partnership with the faculty professional development committee and the library's instructional librarian led to creating a nine-minute video. The final product was posted in the institutional instruction tools repository and is embedded in the library’s Scholarly Impact LibGuide. As part of the outreach activities, regarding impact metrics, this educational material is an important component for sharing ideas and driving conversations regarding the responsible use of metrics and research assessment. We plan to create additional videos that provide a breakdown of the content covered initially with further details and hands-on activities. This initiative has to led to additional requests to provide training on these concepts and to increase awareness about research metrics among faculty preparing for P&T.
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    News coverage of public health research: An exploratory study of topics, coverage, and open access status
    (2022-04-27) Ramirez, Mirian; Hinrichs, Rachel J.
    OBJECTIVES: This study aims to identify and analyze the news outlets that mention research published by a School of Public Health at a Midwestern university. We analyzed the overall patterns of news sources, including the content type and overall coverage, the correlation with open access (OA) status (both gold and green OA), and the topics that received the most attention in the news. Our results will contribute to a better understanding of the characteristics of news outlets that disseminate public health information, and the types of research mentioned most often in the news. METHODS: We conducted a bibliometric analysis of publications from authors affiliated with a School of Public Health over five years (2015-2019). The searches were conducted in December 2021. We queried Scopus using an affiliation search to identify and retrieve the publications. Then we queried Altmetric Explorer for all the citations from the Scopus search, using the identifiers and the titles to compile the altmetrics data and identify the titles mentioned in news outlets. We used Excel to aggregate, clean up and analyze the data, and VOSviewer software to generate the topic analysis and visualization map. RESULTS: Between 2015 and 2019, 778 publications were published by the School of Public Health. A total of 144 (18.5%) were mentioned in 2,079 news stories from 643 news sources. We analyzed the overall dataset of news outlets according to the source and content type, subject area, and country of publication. We also determined whether OA articles were discussed more often in the news than subscription access articles. We also performed a co-occurrence analysis of the author and abstract keywords of the articles mentioned in news outlets. CONCLUSIONS: Mentions of scholarly articles in news outlets can identify patterns and trends of attention and interest in research beyond academia. This poster analyzed the top news sources that mentioned the research generated by the faculty of a School of Public Health, and the OA status of articles that received mentioned in the news. These findings may support the decision-making of leaders of the school regarding future publication and research strategy development directions.
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    Not Ready for Prime Time: Measuring Publications/Citation Impact for Latin American Titles
    (2013-05-21) Ramirez, Mirian; Craig, Amelia
    Two United Nations Librarians stationed in Latin America (Chile and Mexico) discuss their pilot project on measuring citation impact for UN Publications and new trends in Altmetrics.
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    Upskilling the promotion and tenure process: Training administrators for responsible use of research impact metrics
    (IUPUI University Library, 2018-10) Coates, Heather L.; Odell, Jere D.; Pike, Caitlin
    School and departmental administrators are tasked with evaluating the research output of their faculty as part of the promotion and tenure review process. At our institution, this evaluation is communicated in a letter describing the dissemination venues for the candidate’s research publications, typically journals. Seen in one light, the letter is an opportunity for the school or departmental administrator to advocate for the candidate. However, the focus on dissemination venue rather than on the article or product itself wastes an opportunity to describe the value of the candidate’s work in the context of their discipline and institution. Instead of providing rich information about the work, these letters often copy content from the publisher website and provide Journal Impact Factors, when available, without context. To encourage schools and departments to produce stronger letters in the assessment of a candidate’s dissemination venues, we developed a targeted training for Associate Deans for Research and Department Chairs. The opportunity to develop this training resulted from a broader conversation with faculty about journal cuts and other changes in the library’s strategy for providing access to scholarly content. The faculty asked the library to provide training about changes in scholarly publishing, citation metrics, and altmetrics. Given the time constraints of the audience, our training focuses on providing practical guidance for using and understanding new sources of evidence when writing and reading evaluation letters for promotion and tenure. In addition to describing the content and the institutional context for the training sessions, we will discuss the long-term implications of this effort.