[Nhcoll-l] Google scholar citation index for collections

Tue May 9 13:22:12 EDT 2017

Thanks Andy,

We just started doing this in the Herpetology department a few months ago
and are still working on entering in the 2700 known citations our
department has (profile is here: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__scholar.google.c&d=DwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=odyfcQ-xGnIEw5EjOoli5Ecsbxjyqqjn-H0oWD9GrWY&s=hD-UQkzw5ppBQMfyOIHCr-cDcuTSuk7tfubPBXPu8SA&e= 
om/citations?user=XHmjakQAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=2). We had a separate email
to link it to created by our IT department (herpetology at calacademy.org).

I'm curious if you've come across an issue that we just started having with
entering citations--starting a couple of weeks ago, publications are no
longer showing up when we search for them. Under "Citations," we used to be
able to click on "Add," then use the search bar for any number of searches
("CAS Herpetology," author last name, title of publication, etc.) and then
add the relevant publications to our citations list. This was especially
helpful when we could pull up all publications from a single author and
check off the ones that used our collection. However, searches no longer
come up with anything, only "Your search - *(search)* - did not match any
article groups." Entering each publication manually is time-intensive when
we're trying to get through a couple thousand.

I entered a support ticket with Google Scholar last week but have yet to
hear anything. Since you (and perhaps other SPNHC-ers) are using the
Citations feature, I thought I'd see if anyone is experiencing the same
issues and, if so, if there's a way around it.

This definitely is a great way to get proof of relevancy of collections (if
we can eventually get ours completed)!

Best,
Laura

*Laura Wilkinson*
Curatorial Assistant

Ornithology and Mammalogy | Herpetology
California Academy of Sciences
p. 415.379.5379

lwilkinson at calacademy.org
www.calacademy.org

55 Music Concourse Drive
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, CA 94118

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Bentley, Andrew Charles <abentley at ku.edu>
wrote:

> Collections are constantly looking for new ways to show their relevance
> and advocate for their existence. We have traditionally used stats on use
> of physical collections through loans etc. and data through aggregator and
> web access stats (well, when they are available). We have always had a
> problem with getting people to feed publication use of collections back to
> the collections and providing a viable measure of what the total
> publication count for a collection really means has been difficult. In this
> regard, something I have set up as an additional measure of collection
> relevance and advocacy is a Google scholar account for KU ichthyology that
> includes all publications that directly cite material from the collection
> or indicate use of the collection for research.
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> I did this by creating a Google email address for the collection –
> KUIchthyology at gmail.com – and then accumulating all publications into a
> Google scholar citation account which can be found here:
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__scholar.google.com_citations-3Fuser-3DFdXNWeMAAAAJ-26hl&d=DwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=odyfcQ-xGnIEw5EjOoli5Ecsbxjyqqjn-H0oWD9GrWY&s=1GmAVghj16SF4bnjjw4ZvenWfS_rEXFh5V4Eyvko1so&e= 
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> .
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> Obviously accumulating these publications is the time consuming part and
> is hindered by the fact that specimens or data are very frequently not
> cited correctly or at all. This is something that needs to be addressed as
> part of a broader strategy to link data into a natural history data
> pipeline that involves as few human interactions as possible. As such I
> employed a number of strategies for accumulating these:
>
>
>
> 1.       Researcher feedback on publications citing our material from a
> yearly email I send out to all loan and tissue gift recipients asking for
> such
>
> 2.       Google scholar searches for various terms:
>
> a.       KU ichthyology
>
> b.      My name found in acknowledgements
>
> c.       Curators names found in acknowledgements
>
> d.      Common collectors in the collection
>
> e.      Common users of the collection
>
> 3.       References associated with Genbank sequences referencing
> specimens from the collection
>
>
>
> These can then all be added to the profile through Google scholar to
> provide an index of collections use which includes an h-index more commonly
> used by researchers to measure both productivity and citation impact or
> their body of work (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_H-2Dindex&d=DwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=odyfcQ-xGnIEw5EjOoli5Ecsbxjyqqjn-H0oWD9GrWY&s=zAaCR9cLCPgjFUkAvBuSPkLoE1y1ixacC96fGUFu0TI&e= ). Our profile
> includes 574 references with total citation of 20,756 and an h-index of 74
> all time and 50 since 2012. As stated in this article:
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>
>
> “Among 36 new inductees in the National Academy of Sciences in biological
> and biomedical sciences in 2005, the median h-index was 57”
>
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>
> So, our collection index is fairly impressive and a great statistic to be
> able to use for collections advocacy showing research use of the collection.
>
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> Andy
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