Introduction to Citations Metrics and Its Role in Identifying Suitable Publication Outlets

The College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, in conjunction with the Moore Institute, will be hosting a series or support and information workshops for staff in the coming semester. The first workshop (on Wednesday October 2nd at 1pm) will consider the topic of citation metrics and its role in identifying suitable publication outlets. All sessions will be held in Room G010, Ground Floor Hardiman Research Building.

This session, to be led by Hardy Schwamm (Open Scholarship Librarian, James Hardiman Library), will provide an introduction to citation metrics. We will look at author and journal metrics and see how they can help with identifying suitable publication outilets. We will also discuss limitations of metrics and their responsible use. We will focus on the tools Scopus and Google Scholar. A useful overview of academic impact and research metrics can be found on this PDF.

Hardy Schwamm is the new Open Scholarship Librarian in NUI Galway’s James Hardiman Library who will get involved in different aspects of “Openness” such as Open Access, Open Data and Responsible Metrics. Hardy has previously worked as Research & Scholarly Communications Manager at Lancaster University in the UK where one of his responsibilities was to understand and develop the institutional citations performance.

Our subsequent workshop will be held on Wednesday November 6th at 12pm and will consider the topic of Preparing Major Funding Applications