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Making your article visible with SEO

Make sure your article gets the attention it deserves.

Is your article hiding among millions of others, difficult to find and not being read as a result? If it is, you’re not alone; great research can go relatively unnoticed if it’s not highlighted and indexed in the right way.

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2017 Scholar Metrics Released

Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. GS is releasing the 2017 version of Scholar Metrics. This release covers articles published in 2012–2016 and includes citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar as of June 2017.

To get started, you can browse the top 100 publications in several languages, ordered by their five-year h-index and h-median metrics. To see which articles in a publication were cited the most and who cited them, click on its h-index number to view the articles as well as the citations underlying the metrics.

You can also explore publications in research areas of your interest. To browse publications in a broad area of research, select one of the areas in the left column. For example: Top publications for FINANCE category.

Blacklist of predatory journals: Jeffrey Beall’s list is dead, Cabell's paying list is live

Five months after Jeffrey Beall shut down his widely consulted blog that listed predatory journals and publishers, Cabell’s International launched Cabell’s Blacklist, a list of predatory journals, on June 15.


Read more: https://www.nature.com/news/pay-to-view-blacklist-of-predatory-journals-set-to-launch-1.22090 

Top journals by impact factor - Latest JCR is released

From the press release: 

The 2017 release, with 2016 citation data for literature within the sciences and social sciences, features 11,459 journal listings in 236 disciplines; 81 countries are represented. A total of 132 journals received their first JIF.

Below, top 10 journals for Management by impact factor:

1. Academy of Management Annals

2. Academy of Management Review

3. Journal of Management

4. Academy of Management Journal

5. MIS Quarterly

6. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology & Organizational Behavior

7. Journal of Information Technology

8. Journal of International Business Studies

9. Journal of Supply Chain Management

10. International Journal of Management Reviews

                                               Source: InCites

2016 Google Scholar Metrics

This year's release covers "articles published between 2011 and 2015, both inclusive. The metrics are based on citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar in June 2016.

This also includes citations from articles that are not themselves covered by Scholar Metrics."

Methodology, coverage and inclusion criteria are available from this page.

Exple: Top 10 publications for Marketing category:

1.            Journal of Business Research

2.            Journal of Marketing
3.            Journal of Consumer Research
4.            Industrial Marketing Management
5.            Journal of Marketing Research
6.            Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
7.            European Journal of Marketing
8.            Journal of Consumer Psychology
9.            Marketing Science
10.          Journal of Retailing

Browse the top 100 publications

Altmetric Unveils Top 100 Research Papers of the Year

Altmetric released its annual Top 100 list of published research papers that have generated significant online attention and discussion from all over the world, including from post-publication peer-review forums, patient advocacy groups, mainstream news media, and social media. 


Article #1 - United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps
Article #2 - Medical error—the third leading cause of death in the US
Article #3 - Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

In the past year, Altmetric has tracked over 17 million mentions of 2.7 million different research outputs. These are the top 100 most-discussed journal articles of 2016. 

Journal Impact Factor: what - or who - makes a citable item?

In this article from The Scholarly Kitchen, Phil Davis makes a suggestion for an algorithm driven process in determining what makes an item citatable or not. The goal would be to remove human bias as much as possible in selecting what Thomson Reuters considers a citable item.

Citable items are part of the calculations used to create the Journal Impact Factor of academic publications.

Citable Items: The Contested Impact Factor Denominator

The teaching score: a new metric?

This article from the New York Times present the Open Syllabus Project

The Syllabus Explorer tool lets users search 1 million syllabi, used in the past 10 years, mostly in the US and English speaking countries, and presents a teaching score metric:

"Teaching Score’ (TS) is a numerical indicator of the frequency with which a particular work is taught. Overall Teaching Score is based on the rank of the text among citations in the total collection;"

Top 3 textbooks for Business:

Top 3 textbooks all fields combined: 

96 things publishers do...

Guest post on the The Scholarly Kitchen blog from Ken Anderson.

Top 5:

1. Audience/field detection and cultivation.
2. Journal launch and registration 
3. Create and establish a viable brand
4. Make money and remain a constant in the system of scholarly output.
5. Plan and create strategies for the future
   
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The Reproducibility Project finds a minority of studies can be replicated

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An attempt to estimate the reproducibility of psychological research has found that only 39% of results from three leading psychology journals could be reproduced.


Read the article from the Atlantic Monthly How Reliable Are Psychology Studies?
Visit the site for the Reproducibility Project and the Summary Report from Science.

2015 Google Scholar Metrics

This year's release covers "articles published between 2010 and 2014, both inclusive. The metrics are based on citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar in June 2015. This also includes citations from articles that are not themselves covered by Scholar Metrics."

Methodology, coverage and inclusion criteria are available from this page.

Exple: Top 10 publications for Game Theory and Decision Science category:

1. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
2. Games and Economic Behavior
3. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
4. arXiv Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
5. ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce
6. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
7. Experimental Economics
8. Theoretical Economics
9. Decision Sciences
10. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Top journals by impact factor - Latest JCR is released

From the press release: 

The 2015 release, with 2014 citation data for literature within the sciences and social sciences, features 11,149 journal listings in 237 disciplines; 82 countries are represented. A total of 272 journals received their first JIF; 53 percent of journals saw an increase in JIF from last year and 43 percent saw a decrease. Additionally, 39 journals were suppressed to ensure the integrity of the reports. Suppressed journals are re-evaluated after a year for reconsideration in the JCR.

Below, top 10 journals for Management by impact factor, for more, INSEAD community users can login from the Library page here.

1. ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT ANNALS 
2. ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW 
3. ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 
4. JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT 
5. MIS QUARTERLY 
6. JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY 
7. JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY  
8. PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY 
9. OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
10. ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH METHODS

2015 Academic Reputation Survey

Thomson Reuters released its 6th annual Academic Reputation Survey:
“Exploring Scholarly Trends and Shifts Impacting the Academic Reputation of the World’s Leading Universities”. 

The report analyzes the key trends and shifts in global research influencing institutions’ academic standings. It covers 65,000 academics from 6,500 universities in 105 areas of study.

AAUP Faculty Salary Survey 2014-2015

Busting the Myths, the annual update to the Staff and Faculty survey from the AAUP has been released. You can search the results from 4700 colleges and universities from the Chronicle of Higher Education page, sort by types of schools (very high research, business and management schools, men vs women salary etc.)

PNAS 100th anniversary

2015 marks the 100th anniversary of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). January 1915 was the first issue, click below to view an animated timeline:

PNAS timeline

2015 List of Predatory Publishers

As of January 2017, J. Beall has shut down his blog.

5th update to the annual list of predatory publishers by J. Beall, librarian from the University of Colorado Denver. In addition the usual lists, there are now a list for Misleading Metrics and one for Hijacked Journals

Top Non-Fiction Books: a consensus cloud

From Information is Beautiful, another visualization of top non-fiction titles from various sources

Non-Fiction Books everyone should read:

See Novels everyone should read.

The peer-review scam

Last month Nature posted an article: Publishing: The peer-review scam, it lists the existing weaknesses in modern publishing systems and details how editors are trying to plug the holes.

Top 100 most cited papers

The Journal Nature has partnered with Thomson Reuters Web of Science database to determine the top 100 most cited papers.

Looking at 100 years of data, and the 58 million items stored in the Web of Science database, 3 articles have been cited more than a 100 000 times, all published prior to 1980, all in the biology field.

Google Scholar came up with an alternative ranking, click to see the comparison for 10 papers.