How do my publication behavior affect my bibliometric analysis results?

The primary aim of the Karolinska Institutet/SLL bibliometric database is to furnish Karolinska Institutet/SLL managers, departments/clinics and employees with high quality bibliometric analyses and reports (regarding e.g. publication patterns, co-publication partners and/or by-subject breakdowns). The results provide overviews of the research being conducted by KI/SLL researchers as well as tools that enable scientific results to be compared internally and with the work being done in other countries. Analyses results can also be used to follow up and plan activities, and sometimes even to assess and reward scientific quality.

The incentives from the board of research for publishing could be condensed to:

• Before you publish, do a little background research into the journal to which you intend to submit your article; it should be included in the Web of Science index.
• Check the journal’s impact factor and consider whether you can choose one with a higher value.
• One high-cited article usually gives better returns on the bibliometric indicators than several low-cited articles.
• Verify all your publications. It is essential to the quality of the database, and there is an explicit intention for the choice of bibliometric model to be such that the verification of all your publications has an aggregate positive effect.

 

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