<div dir="ltr">I heartily endorse Andy's suggestion. Since we created our collection's GS profile (announced in a note in Nature in Jan 2013), we've seen an increase of ~3 per yr in our <i>h</i>-index, well above what Jorge Hirsch viewed as the slope of a successful scientist (an increase of 1 per yr) when he invented the <i>h</i>-index in 2005. It is a collection statistic that resonates with the science side of our audience, including many administrators at our institution.<div><br></div><div>Another benefit of the profile is that it shows how diverse the collection's use has been, adding a publicly visible endorsement for why broad institutional collecting is necessary, especially when conditions are changing rapidly.<br><div><br></div><div>Note: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nature.com_nature_journal_v493_n7433_full_493480b.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=2o9CXuDIZIzIXyLgqCNIEU7Ikv1wHlEvSQdIZo3mg7o&s=SEjBUk57rvgbu8Dqu5Q2bWemZZqzLwgKJoWtKkaBmaM&e=">https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v493/n7433/full/493480b.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>How we did it: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.kevinwinker.org_Creation-2520of-2520UAM-2520Birds-2520Google-2520Scholar-2520profile.pdf&d=DwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=2o9CXuDIZIzIXyLgqCNIEU7Ikv1wHlEvSQdIZo3mg7o&s=ivD6PXTGCc-0bjxs8VZ5b0FICZ3YVtP_veloUFAGVhw&e=">http://www.kevinwinker.org/Creation%20of%20UAM%20Birds%20Google%20Scholar%20profile.pdf</a> </div><div><br></div><div>Our current profile: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__scholar.google.com_citations-3Fuser-3DEbOuSfwAAAAJ&d=DwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=2o9CXuDIZIzIXyLgqCNIEU7Ikv1wHlEvSQdIZo3mg7o&s=nX3TldUK8ydlKmYS4aaCu8xAefsx0ByeNGH1IMyABvY&e=">https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EbOuSfwAAAAJ</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best, K.</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Bentley, Andrew Charles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abentley@ku.edu" target="_blank">abentley@ku.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#1d2129">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#1d2129">I did this by creating a Google email address for the collection – <a href="mailto:KUIchthyology@gmail.com" target="_blank">KUIchthyology@gmail.com</a> – and then accumulating all publications into a Google scholar citation account which can be
found here: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__scholar.google.com_citations-3Fuser-3DFdXNWeMAAAAJ-26hl&d=DwMFAw&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=vFSGtLM0cNpoH-UibHjf4aGdJaIApt8NFu_FNkAOY7A&s=_nIVkYcD38Orsf22poNI_AkLWRwZkl4k_MEoAy-pX18&e=" target="_blank">
https://scholar.google.com/<wbr>citations?user=FdXNWeMAAAAJ&hl</a><wbr>.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#1d2129">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:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="color:#1d2129"><span>1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1d2129">Researcher feedback on publications citing our material from a yearly email I send out to all loan and tissue gift recipients asking for such<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="color:#1d2129"><span>2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1d2129">Google scholar searches for various terms:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="color:#1d2129"><span>a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1d2129">KU ichthyology<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="color:#1d2129"><span>b.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1d2129">My name found in acknowledgements<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="color:#1d2129"><span>c.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1d2129">Curators names found in acknowledgements<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="color:#1d2129"><span>d.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1d2129">Common collectors in the collection<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="color:#1d2129"><span>e.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1d2129">Common users of the collection<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="color:#1d2129"><span>3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1d2129">References associated with Genbank sequences referencing specimens from the collection<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#1d2129">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 (<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_H-2Dindex&d=DwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=2o9CXuDIZIzIXyLgqCNIEU7Ikv1wHlEvSQdIZo3mg7o&s=ZDt2JGlhaYP5nqZ8xPNrEBvfJ_aDae_5jFPD5dmqPxs&e=" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/<wbr>wiki/H-index</a>). 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:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#1d2129">“Among 36 new inductees in the National Academy of Sciences in biological and biomedical sciences in 2005, the median h-index was 57”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#1d2129">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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