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Four Leicester academics feature in this year's list of Highly Cited Researchers, compiled by Web of Science.  To be in the list of Highly Cited Researchers you must have published multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science. The four Leicester academics are: Melanie J. Davies, Professor of Diabetes Medicine. Kamlesh Khunti, Professor of Primary Care Diabetes and Vascular Medicine. Alex J. Mitchell, Honorary Professor of Psycho-oncology and Liaison.  Gary B. Willars, Associate Professor, Department of Cell Physiology and Pharmacology. You can read the full list and further explanation here .

Over the Summer of 2019, two studies were published investigating commonalities in highly cited papers. If you've ever wondered how to give your article a boost and attract more readers - read on - this post will summarise the findings. Of course, there is no magic formula or quick-and-easy route to guarantee a highly cited paper. Ultimately, a paper is cited as a result of its content contributing something new or significant to a field of research. However, as the rate of publishing scientists and academic publications rises each year, the struggle is real for the early career researcher seeking to simply get their work read! The insights from Mohamed Elgendi (The University of British Colombia) and Nicholas Fraser (ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics) et al make for interesting reading. Picture from Pixabay.com under  Pixabay License 5 features of a highly cited article Elgendi analysed 100 highly cited and 100 lowly cited articles from 202 open-acc...

Earlier this week I blogged about how Open Access broadens out readership beyond academia and recommended investigating Altmetrics, which offer a really useful insight into the conversations that take place online between audiences. Today's post delves a little deeper into a possible link between Open Access, Altmetrics and citation count. Image credit: [citation needed] by  Dan4th Nicholas CC BY 2.0 The correlation of Open Access publication and an increased citation rate has been well-established, from +36% (Biology) to +600% (Agricultural Sciences). It's been interesting since then to observe how the Open Access landscape has evolved to include Altmetrics into the citation equation. Studies have found a short-term spike in the attention received by articles that have been Tweeted by the journal publisher, others have linked Altmetrics attention to a citation count higher in Open Access (OA) articles than in Non-Open Access (NOA) articles. However, the causali...

We now have recordings available of our latest set of Research Elevenses: Satisfying Your Funder’s Open Access Requirements Introduction to SciVal – Research Performance Metrics Tool Catalogue your personal library

Our second talk in this year's Research Elevenses is: Introduction to SciVal – Research Performance Metrics Tool Wednesday 31 st  January 11am, Consultation Room, Doctoral College Reading Room, 1 st  Floor, David Wilson Library Dr William Farrell SciVal is one of the leading tools for research evaluation. Using data from Scopus and other sources it allows you to analyse publication and citation metrics, patent data, grant information and media impact. You can benchmark yourself, your institution or your research group against comparable peers. Plus many more features. This session will introduce you to some of the basic functions of SciVal and how it is useful for understanding research performance. Link to webinar:  https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/677ac91fbae84f82828b2b9dd6479b9a

30 minute updates on key information issues for Leicester researchers Library Research Services are running a series of 30 minute talks on key issues for Leicester researchers. There’s no need to book - just turn up! Refreshments provided too! If you are off-campus you can join in the webinar. A recording of each session will be made available after the event. Satisfying Your Funder’s Open Access Requirements Wednesday 24 th  January 11am, Consultation Room, Doctoral College Reading Room, 1 st  Floor, David Wilson Library Grant Denkinson If you have research funding from a funding council, charity or elsewhere they may require you make your publications Open Access in particular ways. You might have to do extra things as well as meeting the HEFCE / REF and university policy which applies to all research staff. It is usually relatively simple to comply and not doing so may jeopardise your funding. Open Access and Research Data Advisor Grant Denkin...

During the next year we'll be starting to offer more training and advice on traditional publication metrics and atlmetrics. In the meantime there is already a wealth of altmetric data available to University of Leicester staff and researchers. Almetrics refers to the the alternative ways your research is being referred to. For example, has it been tweeted, blogged, cited in Wikipedia, picked up by news outlets or mentioned on FaceBook? There are various companies and platforms that are offering data or ways of collating this data. This post will focus on two: PlumX and Altmetric . Please be aware: Altmetrics is still a new and emerging field and not all research outputs will have altmetrics data. Altmetrics in Literature Databases You will see the PlumX Metrics icon appearing when you search some of our databases e.g. Scopus and EbscoHost. For example, this Richard III paper by Turi King et al . - you can see the PlumX Metrics option on the right of the page: ...