Visibility and Research Impact - Academic Identity Management and Bibliometrics (TU9)

Do you know your h-index and your citation counts? How are impact factor and h-index defined and what is their relevance? How can you manage your scholarly identity to improve the visibility of your research?

This course provides you with an overview of bibliometric measures and academic identity management. You learn how to make sure that you get credit for all your publications in literature databases and how to improve your own publication strategy.

Topics - Academic Identity Management

• Visibility of authors
• Identity management for authors via ORCID
• Author profiles in literature databases (Web of Science/Publons, Scopus and Google Scholar)
• Publication Guidelines of TUM (Affiliation)
  Bibliometrics

Topics - Bibliometrics

• Bibliometric measures and databases
• Journal-level metrics (e.g. Impact Factor, CiteScore)
• Author-level metrics (e.g. h-index)
• Article-level metrics
• Possibilities, limitations and adverse effects, responsible metrics