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Track who is reading your research through Google Citations
I have now set up Google Scholar to track who is citing my work in their publications, herehttp://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oq_kacMAAAAJ.
It will be interesting to see if I get a lift in citations now that the publications are more easily accessible via my Academia.edu portal.
My most highly cited papers so far are:
Year of publication in (brackets).
- Business Attitudes to Government Export Services and Export Marketing Behaviour (1981)
- Preparing to engage in education for sustainability: A critique of the New Zealand tertiary education strategy (2008)
- An interactive planning model for the New Zealand dairy industry (1983)
- Investing in education for sustainability: An exploratory strategic audit of a tertiary educational organisation (2008)
- Auditing the strategic plan (1992)
- Investing in education for eco-sustainability: A ʻfast followerʼ strategic posture or Unitec Institute of Technology (2008)
- Shifting frontiers, new priorities, creating pathways: elevating the case for tertiary education for sustainable development in New Zealand (2009)
- Opening the black box: Beyond adventure-based management education programmes (1994)
- New Zealand perspectives of international entrepreneurship (2004)
For advice on setting up Google Citations, see:
- Google Scholar Citations Open To All (googlescholar.blogspot.com)
- Finding significant citations for legal opinions - Google Scholar Blog (lennyesq.wordpress.com)
- UBC Scholars Get Your Own Profile at Google (aplaceofmind.ubc.ca)
- A plot of my citations in Google Scholar vs. Web of Science (r-bloggers.com)
- Google Scholar Works with EndNote (uofllibraries.wordpress.com)
- How Researchers Can Use Inbound Linking Strategies to Enhance Access to Their Papers (downes.ca)
- Getting close to Google Scholar (litteramedia.wordpress.com)
I’ve had 31 profile views and 71 document views in the last 30 days via Academia.edu
… and the little lift towards the end of the timeline is because I just uploaded a further 60 articles.
My life’s publications all in one location
I have spent two days scanning and uploading almost thirty-five years of writing to one place: Academia.edu. This site is like a ‘Facebook’ for academics. Over the brief period I uploaded my publications some 60 people have viewed articles that I have written. It’s most satisfying to see notification of who is reading what. And I have made two academic friends as we connect and share inquiries.
I have now uploaded over 80 articles. These mostly exclude the ravings and pontifications posted here on my pogus.tumblr. The accompanying graph (here) shows how traffic to view my writing gained a significant lift as I began uploading sixty articles that had not been automatically identified by the Academia system.
Another nice feature of Academia is that all the documents are immediately available to the viewer through Scribd. No need to download the documents! Furthermore, you can link to the document view in a URL from another site.
The visitor can view:
The profile of an academic: their institution, academic interest, recent publications and activities: http://unitec.academia.edu/PeterMellalieu
A list of all publications with abstracts, keywords, view and download capability: http://unitec.academia.edu/PeterMellalieu/Papers
My top ten visitors
These are the ‘top ten’ items that visitors have viewed so far. The figures show 30 day views, All time views
- Weaving the threads of innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurial learning through a… 14, 19
- An interactive planning model for the New Zealand dairy industry 13, 24
- Creating the A+ assignment: A project management approach 9, 9
- Writing to learn argument and persuasion: A ‘Trojan Horse’ for promoting the adoption of’ Writing… 5, 5
- Model answer: A ‘Five Paragraph’ essay in management 5, 5
- The Rise and Fall of Education for Sustainability in New Zealand’s Tertiary Education Strategies:… 4, 4
- Educating future managers: A survey of recent publications 3, 5
- New Zealand perspectives of international entrepreneurship 3, 3
- Some new directions in systems modelling practice. 3, 3
- Opening the black box: Beyond adventure-based management education programmes 3, 5
- Preparing to engage in education for sustainability: A critique of the New Zealand tertiary… 2, 2
- Recent Advances in Network Optimization Methods and Applications 2, 2
- Auditing the strategic plan 2, 2
- Think revolution, not evolution: Creating entrepreneurial capability through rewarding learning… 1, 1
- Investing in education for eco-sustainability: A ʻfast followerʼ strategic posture for Unitec… 1, 1
- Expert systems for agricultural production [crop damage in agricultural crops] 1, 1
- Education and Me (voakl.net)
- Making Sure You’re on the Right Track in Your PhD Program (annmic.wordpress.com)
I think it’s a crying shame … But you can’t make a career for yourself in a modern university doing good stuff. Almost all over the world you have to focus on a very narrow area; you have to prove your credentials by being cited in scholarly journals, which is not a proper marker of anything other than the respect of your peers from a narrow circle. It’s a massive wasted opportunity and it does get me annoyed.
Alain de Botton in Scherer, K. (2012, March 3). University challenge: what is the real purpose of getting a higher education? New Zealand Listener, 232(3747), 24.
- Databases with Scholarly Journal Articles (uofllibraries.wordpress.com)
- Crowdsourcing the Analysis and Impact of Scholarly Tweets (biomed20.ucsf.edu)
- Scholarly Editing and E-Books (mzynel.wordpress.com)
- Creating Geniuses: In Malaysia? (dinmerican.wordpress.com)
- Success Strategy for Students: How to Make Sense of Scholarly Research Articles (drsaraheaton.wordpress.com)
- A temple to atheism, for crying out loud (whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com)
- “Decoupling the scholarly journal” by Priem and Hemminger (mbanks.typepad.com)
