What the Data Means: Documenting Research (Meta)data
Post Views: 58 — by Chloe Ng For research data to be discovered and reused, it needs to be easy to understand. Even before a dataset is finalised, researchers returning to their own data later, or collaborators working with it, need clear explanations and context to know what the data mean. Data documentation provides this…
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How HKU’s Geography Research Trended Online (2020–2024): Attention, Reach and Policy Influence
Post Views: 91 — by Kitman Chan We wanted to look beyond traditional metrics to understand the real-world footprint of HKU’s geographical research. In today’s digitally connected world, the academic conversation happens everywhere: on social media, in news headlines, and even in policy rooms from Geneva to Washington. By using Altmetric Explorer and SciVal, we analyzed 1,064 HKU-affiliated geography outputs from 2020 –2024. Below…
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Keeping Research Data Organised: Good Habits from the Start
Post Views: 121 — by Chloe Ng As research projects grow in size, it is not uncommon for researchers to find themselves lost within their own project folders. Many have experienced the frustration of struggling to locate the exact data files they were working with, or trying to distinguish between multiple versions of the same…
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The Present and Potential of Opening Reference Lists
Post Views: 138 — by Fanny Liu “Open citations” (open references) refers to sharing bibliographic references openly, making the information freely accessible and reusable. Citations are the links between published works and the other works which influence them, usually acknowledged in the reference lists. Scholars analyse citations to study the development of knowledge over time,…
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Data Citation: How to Credit Datasets
Post Views: 264 — by Chloe Ng Following our previous blog post on data discovery, this post focuses on how to cite the data we have discovered and reused. Data citation refers to the practice of formally referencing data, in the same way that researchers provide bibliographic citations for articles, books, or other scholarly sources.…
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Evolving Benchmarks – Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researcher Methodology Updates in 2025
Post Views: 234 — by River Mi HKU’s Performance in 2025 Highly Cited Researcher HKU achieved a new record with 54 scholars named in Clarivate’s “Highly Cited Researchers 2025” list (HCR list) with 38% of Hong Kong Highly Cited Researchers affiliated. In 2025, Clarivate awarded 6,868 individuals worldwide, among whom 145 had primary affiliation in…
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Paywalls Down, Impact Up: An Overview of Participation of HKU Authors in Open Access Publishing 2025
Post Views: 274 — by Fanny Liu Introduction Similar to last year’s post, this post presents an overview of open access publications authored by researchers of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) for 2025. Data Publication and Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI) data were extracted from InCites (data from the Web of Science Core Collection)…
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HeinOnline’s Scholarly Impact Rankings: Another Set of League Tables Based on Citation Counts?
Post Views: 226 — by Eddie Ko HeinOnline released its Scholarly Impact Rankings (SIR) in late January 2026. HKU staff and students can access SIR via HeinOnline > Law Journal Library database. The steps for access are illustrated in the figure below: An open-access version SIR is also available. While both versions provide the same…
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HKU Research in the first half of 2020s: An SDG Perspective
Post Views: 266 — by Christina Wong Introduction The University of Hong Kong continues to advance research that aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Given the absence of SDG 17 (Partnerships of the Goals) in Elsevier’s (2024) index due to the difficulty of classification, this article explores insights from bibliometric data of…
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Data Discovery: Where to Find the Right Datasets
Post Views: 391 — by Chloe Ng Every day, vast amounts of data are collected or generated by scholars, governments, NGOs, businesses, and other organizations. By discovering existing datasets, researchers can reuse data to save time and costs in data collection, conduct replication studies, compare findings, or incorporate validated components of research design (CESSDA, 2022).…
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