Saturday, 29 April 2023
Thursday, 27 April 2023
Enhance Your Journal’s Visibility and Impact
Source: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.22714888.v1
Enhance Your Journal’s Visibility and Impact
Abstract:
The objective of researchers is to have their work published in high-impact journals that can maximize the visibility and impact of their research. This means making sure that the journal is respected in the academic community and that other researchers are citing their work. In this talk, various practical strategies are presented for journal publishers to enhance their article citations without resorting to unethical practices. Nader Ale Ebrahim, a consultant on research visibility and impact, elaborates on how these factors contribute to a journal's success and provides a selection of "Research Tools" to support editors and editorial staff in promoting and publicizing their publications to enhance their journal's visibility and impact. The attendees of the talk will gain a thorough comprehension of the practical strategies and tools available to market their publications and amplify the visibility and impact of their journals.
Wednesday, 26 April 2023
How to Increase Research Visibility and Impact in Medical Education?
Source: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.22705585.v1
How to Increase Research Visibility and Impact in Medical Education?
Abstract:
Medical education is an essential component of improving healthcare practices, teaching methods, and curricula to better serve patients. Research in medical education plays a vital role in advancing medical knowledge, influencing policy decisions, and promoting quality healthcare services. However, despite the significant potential for impact, medical education research often lacks visibility and may struggle to make an impact on policy or change. To increase the visibility and impact of medical education research, researchers must understand the importance of promoting their outputs to the widest possible audience. While publishing high-quality papers in scientific journals is crucial, it is only half of the journey toward achieving impact and citations in the future. The other half involves effectively advertising and disseminating publications using the proper “Research Tools”. The primary objective of this workshop is to equip medical researchers with actionable guidance to enhance the visibility and impact of their research in medical education. Through the effective utilization of “Research Tools”, researchers can significantly amplify their research's reach, leading to increased citations and greater influence. This concise and informative workshop is designed to serve as a valuable reference guide for medical researchers looking to improve their research visibility and impact.
Monday, 17 April 2023
چگونه رویت پذیری و اثرگذاری پژوهش را در آموزش پزشکی افزایش دهیم؟
عنوان کارگاه: چگونه رویت پذیری و اثرگذاری پژوهش را در آموزش پزشکی افزایش دهیم؟
زمان برگزاری: ساعت 17:00 تا 19:00، 7 اردیبهشت 1402
محل برگزاری: دانشگاه علوم پزشکی ایران، سالن همایش های رازی
Friday, 14 April 2023
Turnitin launches new AI writing detector for educators and universities
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Turnitin launches new AI writing detector for educators and universities
Turnitin, a leading provider of academic integrity solutions, has activated new features that detect the use of artificial intelligence (AI) writing tools.
According to the provider, these features can be found in Turnitin Feedback Studio (TFS), TFS with Originality, Turnitin Originality, Turnitin Similarity, Simcheck, Originality Check, and Originality Check+. The groundwork for developing these features started early — nearly two years before the release of ChatGPT.
“The technology behind ChatGPT, Google Bard, and other AI writing tools did not come as a surprise, given the dedicated research and development of the Turnitin AI team over the last few years,” said Chris Caren, CEO of Turnitin.
“However, we were all impressed with the progress and promise that GPT-3.5 showed over GPT-3.”
That progress even caught Elon Musk and other AI experts by surprise — so much so that they are calling for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI’s newly launched GPT-4.
James Thorley, the Regional Vice President of Asia Pacific at Turnitin, explains that new features would give educators a powerful tool to maintain academic integrity across their student cohorts by providing powerful, actionable, and cross-institution data insights to enrich decision-making.
With this, over 10,700 institutions and more than 2.1 million educators can quickly evaluate a submission for the presence of AI-generated text and provide feedback to students in their current Turnitin workflows.
The work is not done
Generative AI tools, such as AI chatbots, are growing at a breakneck pace. Two months after OpenAI launched GPT-3.5 (more commonly known as ChatGPT), the chatbot had more than 30 million users and got roughly five million visits a day, two people with knowledge of these figures said.
Turnitin’s CEO knows this well and recognizes that new AI writing tools are coming out regularly with claims and aspirations of being undetectable.
Currently, the new features on this platform have reportedly been able to detect the presence of AI writing with 98% confidence and a less than one percent false-positive rate in Turnitin’s controlled lab environment.
Even then, it’s impossible to get a tool that can detect AI-generated text with 100% certainty. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, a professor who oversees research in natural-language processing and machine learning at the University of British Columbia, explains why that’s the case.
“The whole point of AI language models is to generate fluent and human-seeming text, and the model is mimicking text created by humans,” Abdul-Mageed shares. “New AI language models are more powerful and better at generating even more fluent language, which quickly makes our existing detection tool kit outdated.”
Take GPT-4, for example. While it is less capable than humans in many real-world scenarios, the large multimodal model (accepting image and text inputs, giving text outputs) exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks.
GPT-4 passed a simulated bar exam with a score around the top 10% of test takers. In contrast, GPT-3.5’s score was around the bottom 10%.
Caren shares that Turnitin will continue to adapt and respond to the next iterations and innovations in AI writing — prioritizing the safety of students as well as the needs of educators and institutions.
Tuesday, 4 April 2023
How to improve research visibility and impact?
How to improve research visibility and impact?
How to improve research visibility and impact?
Research visibility and impact are key parameters for the success of any research work. For researchers, it is not enough to just conduct a good research study, it is equally important to disseminate it effectively to a wider audience. This can be done by increasing research visibility and impact, which will increase the chances of your work being cited, shared, and used by others. Here are some ways to improve research visibility and impact.
Firstly, publishing in high impact factor journals is one of the most important ways to increase research visibility and impact. The higher the impact factor of a journal, the more likely it is to be read and cited by other researchers. Manuscripts submitted to such journals undergo a rigorous peer-review process, which increases the credibility of the research. Additionally, sharing research on preprint servers and institutional repositories can also enhance its visibility by making it widely accessible to scholars across the globe.
Secondly, actively promoting work on social media and other online platforms can also help to increase research impact. Researchers should create profiles on academic networking platforms like ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and LinkedIn to ensure that their work reaches other researchers in the field. Furthermore, creating websites or blogs to promote research can be a great way to reach out to a wider audience. Posting about new findings, publishing blog posts, and tweeting about research can help to create significant buzz on social media, increasing the research visibility and impact.
In conclusion, by adopting the practices of publishing in high-impact journals, promoting research studies online through social media, and creating websites and blogs, researchers can significantly increase their research visibility and impact. These strategies can help researchers to attain higher citation counts, generate interest in their work, and encourage the possibility of collaborations with other scholars. By enhancing their research visibility and impact, researchers can bring about more significant advances in their field and help in bridging the gap between research and practical implementation.
The article writes with the assistance of https://tinywow.com.
Free access to all of my teaching materials about improving research visibility and impact, through https://figshare.com/authors/Nader_Ale_Ebrahim/100797
References:
- Ale Ebrahim, Nader and Salehi, Hadi and Embi, Mohamed Amin and Habibi, Farid and Gholizadeh, Hossein and Motahar, Seyed Mohammad and Ordi, Ali, Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency (October 23, 2013). International Education Studies, Vol. 6, No. 11, pp. 93-99, 2013, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2344585
- Ale Ebrahim, Nader and Salehi, Hadi and Embi, Mohamed Amin and Habibi, Farid and Gholizadeh, Hossein and Motahar, Seyed Mohammad, Visibility and Citation Impact (March 30, 2014). International Education Studies, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 120-125, 2014, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2419315
- Ale Ebrahim, Nader and Gholizadeh, Hossein and Lugmayr, Artur, Maximized Research Impact: An Effective Strategies for Increasing Citations (December 15, 2017). Managing and Leading Creative Universities – Foundations of Successful Science Management: A Hands-On Guide for (Future) Academics (pp. 29-51). Tampere, Finland: International Ambient Media Association (iAMEA); ISBN 978-952-7023-16-7, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3101575
- Ale Ebrahim, Nader and Salehi, Hadi, Maximize Visibility: A Way to Increase Citation Frequency (May 27, 2013). UM HIR SPECIAL FEATURE (27 May 2013), pp. 1-5, 27 May, 2013., Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2351122
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