PART 1: ACADEMIC IMPACTS.- Chapter 1: How citations work.- 1.1 The role citations play.- 1.2 Citation rates across disciplines.- 1.3 Time lags and citation profiles.
- 1.4 What shapes researchers' overall citation profiles across their careers?.- 1.5 Handling self-citation.- Chapter 2: Tracking and understanding your citations.- 2.1 The 'legacy' citation tracking systems.- 2.
2 Google Scholar's tracking systems.- 2.3 Web-based citation plus full text.- 2.4 Altmetrics.- 2.5 Digital metrics and academic citing behaviours.- Chapter 3: Planning journal articles.
- 3.1 Getting papers from research projects.- 3.2 Working with co-authors and research teams.- 3.3 Deciding where to submit an article.- 3.4 Understanding the peer review process.
- 3.5 Maintaining a flow of research and papers.- Chapter 4: Crafting better journal articles.- 4.1 Choosing an article structure suitable for each discipline.- 4.2 Writing better - avoiding 'academese'.- 4.
3 Helping other researchers to cite you.- 4.4 Writing informative titles and abstracts for journal articles.- Chapter 5: Producing books and chapters.- 5.1 Books as academic outputs and their citation rates.- 5.2 Getting your book known.
- 5.3 Edited books.- 5.4 Chapters in books.- PART 2: ACADEMIC AND EXTERNAL IMPACTS.- Chapter 6: Applied work, 'grey' literature and choosing across projects.- 6.1 Applied work.
- 6.2 'Grey' literature and other publications.- 6.3 A choice canvass for research and publications options.- Chapter 7: Digital era scholarship - bigger, better, shorter, faster, free.- 7.1 Bigger data.- 7.
2 Bigger search.- 7.3 Better communicated.- 7.4 Shorter publication forms.- 7.5 Faster research.- 7.
6 Free access and open access to knowledge.- Chapter 8: Improving impacts at department and university level.- 8.1 Committing to knowledge exchange.- 8.2 Choosing a blogging/digital strategy.- 8.3 Integrating department and university impact efforts.
- 8.4 University leadership and information flows.- PART 3: EXTERNAL IMPACTS.- Chapter 9: Impacts, intermediaries and academic purpose.- 9.1 What an external impact is (and is not).- 9.2 Academia and modern professions.
- 9.3 The impacts interface.- Chapter 10: Working with other organizations. 10.1 Which academics can link to outside bodies. 10.2 The variety of university links to businesses and other organizations.- 10.
3 How working with outside organizations can benefit research.- 10.4 The costs and possible risks of working externally.- Chapter 11: Public engagement and impacts.- 11.1 Intuitive explanations, research narrative and 'maths dread'.- 11.2 Who can do public engagement?.
- 11.3 The benefits of getting involved.- 11.4 Mitigating costs and potential risks.- Afterword: How the impacts agenda boosts academic progress and democratizes knowledge.- References.