helping researchers maximize reach and impact of their work whose work is it anyway? melinda...
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Helping researchers maximize reach and impactof their work
Whose work is it anyway?
Melinda KennewayKudos
3 trends
At every stage in the research cycle – planning, researching, preserving, publishing, and distributing – digital channels are being used by researchers and scholars to communicate, collaborate, promote their research, and debate.
Columbia University Libraries
New research processes
The benefits of using digital channels in a research context have been cited, among myriad others, as including democratization, widening participation, and engaging new audiences on a global level.
New era of engagement
Digital channels are also on the rise for assisting in the evaluation of a scholar’s reputation and the relevance and impact of their work – together with that of their institution, funder and publisher.
New performance measures
Publication performance
• Rise of article level metrics- PLOS, Wiley …
• Introduction of altmetrics- ImpactStory, Altmetric …
• New units of publishing: data/images- Figshare, Dryad ...
• Pre-publication scoring- Rubriq, Peerage of Science
• Tools for institutional assessment - Plum analytics
Impact requires visibility
50%of research publications are never read
90% never cited
50 milliononline articlesand growing
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Who should be responsiblefor impact?
n = 3,669
84% of authors think there is room for improvement So should be open
to using tools that help drive visibility, usage, impact
To what extent do you think more could be done to increase the visibility, usage or impact of your articles on or after publication?
How do researchers feel about current levels of visibility, usage and impact?
Please rate the following for how much responsibility you think they should have for ensuring your articles are as widely read and cited as possible:
Who should have responsibility for increasing levels of visibility, usage and impact?
The missing link
Authors are the missing link in the discoverability chain:
• Harness their expertise to aid understanding of their work and give it context
• Leverage their networks to gain exposure for their work
Comments from researchers
When the investment of time per paper is approximately 3-6 months almost any reasonable duration is acceptable to increase the usage and citations. If I could spend a mere 25 hours, particularly after the paper is accepted or soon after publication to dramatically increase the probability of citations I would!
Research Fellow, Physical Sciences, UK
Lecturer in Social Sciences, UK
I know I should do this but I don’t feel confident enough with [current] tools
Profile and networking sites:- ResearchGate- Academia.edu- LinkedIn
Social sharing tools:- Twitter- Facebook
Metrics:- Various altmetrics- Publisher sites- Web of Science/Scopus
What’s available?
Profile and networking sites:- ResearchGate- Academia.edu- LinkedIn
Social sharing tools:- Twitter- Facebook
Metrics:- Various altmetrics- Publisher sites- Web of Science/Scopus
What’s available?
KUDOS puts researchers in the driving seat
tools to improve the impact of their work
14 Week Pilot in 2013
19% higherarticle usage per day
for articles shared using the Kudos tools compared to the control group
Launched May 2014
30,000+ researcher
registrations
1,000+ new registrations
weekly
300,000+ publications
claimed
Free for authors to use
KUDOS helps universities, funders and publishers
amplify research impact
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Kudos Publisher Program
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Kudos Toolkit
EXPLAIN ENRICH SHARE MEASURE
Authors write a short title, lay summary and impact statement.
Step 1
Basic bibliographic data pulled in from CrossRef
Fields for entering lay metadata
KUDOS distributes this lay metadata in discovery services with links back to publications.
These content snippets are easier to browse and translate, helping more people quickly identify information relevant to them.
Authors link related materials to their article, book or book chapter.
Step 2
Resources linked to publication page on KUDOS
Authors share links to their publications by email and through social media.
SHARE Step 3
By sharing through KUDOS, authors can grow their readership and increase the
performance of their publications.
Authors can track the impact of this against a wide range of metrics.
MEASURE Step 4
KUDOS gives researchers the power to build readership for their work all over the world.
looking ahead
Discoverable or die
Reputation matters
