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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">many of you will be familiar with the Pimbblet et al. (2011) paper “<i>The h-index in Australian Astronomy</i>” that is used by some members of our community to benchmark their publication
track record. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/PjkVCQnMBZf3gROgWUxf6TGNFT6?domain=ui.adsabs.harvard.edu">https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011PASA...28..140P/abstract</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Since 2011, publication practices in our field have evolved substantially, meaning that the data presented in this paper is no longer representative. Despite the many limitations (and hidden
biases) of publication metrics, many people still find it useful to benchmark their publications, in particular, in contexts like ARC grant applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Hence, we thought it would be useful to redo and update the analysis so that it is relevant to the current context. As with the first analysis we are using the ASA membership list as a convenient
way of defining the Australian Astronomy community at the current point in time.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We are doing our analysis in a semi-automatic way using public information from ADS/SciExplorer. The most significant challenge is disambiguating individuals with non-unique names. Hence to
assist this project it would be useful to collect curated publication lists (via ADS, ORCID or Scopus) from anyone who would like to contribute them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">If you would like to contribute a curated list of your publications, please submit them via this link:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/9OqbCROND2uRoOEoLsNhRT1WX0B?domain=forms.gle">https://forms.gle/1n7fh27dKYy7QTMeA</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">As a side note, if you are an active researcher and do not have an ORCID, it is easy (and beneficial) to set one up here:
<a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/Kyw0CVARKgC5mZ3mAHyiATEJ_ur?domain=orcid.org/">https://orcid.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">“ORCID is a free, unique, persistent identifier (PID) for individuals to use as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities.”</span></i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">As a second side note, if you have a PhD, you might find it useful to add yourself to the AstroGen project, which is a family tree of PhD astronomers, run by the American Astronomical Society:
<a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/r1YuCWLVXkUPZ4OZBHnsQToVz1F?domain=astrogen.aas.org">https://astrogen.aas.org/front/index.php</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Please let us know if you have any feedback on this project,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Tara Murphy and Kevin Pimbblet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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