beyond the paper cv and developing a scientific profile online
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Beyond the paper CV(or how to develop an online profile)
Antony WilliamsARCS Conference, April 27th 2015
About Me
• BSc Chemistry, University of Liverpool• PhD Chemistry, University of London• National Research Council, Canada• University of Ottawa, Canada• Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY• Advanced Chemistry Development, Toronto• ChemSpider, “in a basement”• Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK• EPA, Research Triangle Park
Questions to Start…
• Who in the room has an ORCID????
Questions to Start…
• Who in the room has an ORCID????
• Who has a blog?• Who has a LinkedIn Profile?
The intention of this talk…
• Encourage participation in your online profile• Highlight some of the tools available• Suggest paths to contribute data to science
• Start NOW – your scientific contributions will be way bigger than your CV represents
• No one else will market you so you better had!!!
You vs. Your Statistics
• Clearly who you are should be more important than your “numbers”
• While breakthrough science should conquer all• Your stats open doors• Headhunters review you online• The “weight” of your CV is important
Scientists measured by Impact
Measuring Impact?
National Information Standards Organization and “Altmetrics”
http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/13295/niso_altmetrics_white_paper_draft_v4.pdf
Summarizing my research…• 1982-85 My BSc wrote off three publications…• 1985-88 I left my PhD with NO publications…
• My PhD research outputs:• 8 research notebooks of daily activities• Thousands of paper spectra and plots• A >400 page PhD Thesis• 3 sets of “transparencies”• 5 computer programs
• Not the best CV in the world…who knew?
Your Research Outputs?
• Research datasets• Scientific software• Publications – peer-reviewed and many others• Posters and presentations at conferences• Electronic theses and dissertations• Performances in film and audio
• Lectures, online classes and teaching activities• What else???• The possibilities to share are endless
Is self-marketing of value???• How much work do you put into your own
scientific profile? (versus Facebook )• How much “data” do you actively share?• How much do you produce on your hard drive?
Reports? Lit reviews? Presentations?• Post-publication, how much work is put into
sharing with the community?• More visible does NOT mean better science
Your Profile as a Scientist
• If you are an active scientist – i.e. already published, active researcher, generator of data, early, mid- or late career there is lots to do!
• If you are a junior scientist the benefits of investing time now will provide a strong foundation for your future!
• So what do I do??
Should you be a brand?
• If you are going forth into the social network adopt a “brand name” throughout the network
• Search Google for your “brand name”• Choose a unique brand or be yourself
• BRAND: Collabchem, ChemConnector• YOURSELF: egonwillighagen, joergwegner
Branding: I am ChemConnector
My Online Profile Shared on..
• Places I am viewable:• Online CVs • LinkedIn• Google Scholar Citations for citations• Microsoft Academic Scholar for papers• ImpactStory• Plum Analytics• Wikipedia and ScientistsDB• Search engines
My primary CV is on my blog
My primary CV is on my blog
Re.vu/AntonyWilliams
You should be LinkedIn
• LinkedIn for “professionals”• Expose work history, skills, your
professional interests, your memberships – your profile WILL be watched!
• Who you are linked to says a lot about who you are. Get Linked to people in your domain.
• Professional relationships rather than just friendships. FaceBook-it for friends
LinkedInhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/AntonyWilliams
My Career Captured…
And “Endorsements”
Highlight “Projects”
Manage Articles Here Too.
…and presentations
My Google Scholar Profilehttp://scholar.google.com/citations?user=O2L8nh4AAAAJ
“I don’t have any publications”
• This is YOUR choice! Conference Abstracts..
• You produce reports, presentations and posters during your studies – share them !
Sharing your works online
Slideshare – Highly Accessed
Slideshare – Fast Delivery
Slideshare – NOT Just Slides
Other Platforms
• There are other platforms of course…• Vimeo• YouTube• ResearchGate• Academia• Figshare• Many others
ResearchGatehttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Antony_Williams
Academia.eduhttps://rsc.academia.edu/AntonyWilliams
Scientists are “Quantified”
• We are quantified, stats are gathered and analyzed
• Employers can find them, tenure will depend on them and these already happen without your participation
• Scientists Impact Factors, H-index and many other variants.
Slideshare - Analytics
Academia.edu
Academia.edu
ResearchGate
How I am Quantified…
Almost 42…
What do numbers mean??
• It’s all relative….
Back to Alt-Metrics & Impact
And into the AltMetrics World
AltMetrics via Plum Analytics
Usage, Citations, Social Media
Detailed Usage Statistics
Author attitudes
51
Author attitudes
52
Put WORK into publications
• To explain, enhance and share your articles• Ability to add, connect, integrate other
information associated with the article:• Blog posts, commentaries, external reviews• Presentations, videos, links to later
publications• Follow up work, new data, additional data not
in the supplementary information
• Tools measure visits/views/sharing of article
Kudos Enhance the Article
Explain
Enrich
Measured 15 hours later
A publication as a point-in-time
• From a publication how do you cite forward?• to errata?• to your later publications?• to electronic notebook pages?• to blog posts about your work? • to other peoples related publications?• to reinterpreted data you don’t publish?
We know Titles drive interest!Call it Fuzzy and Tweet it…
AltMetrics within 48 Hours
Bat Fellatio Viewed 337,000 Times…as it were. BE SAVVY
• And yes…known issues with AltMetrics… VIEWS does not mean reads!!!
Within Two Weeks
http://www.chemconnector.com/2014/06/20/give-me-kudos-for-my-articles/
12 shares
45 share referrals
1240 Kudos views 431 downloads
138 claims
Is exposure important???
• Does a highly viewed paper mean better science? CLEARLY NO!
• If AltMetrics is one of the new measures clearly visibility and discoverability is important
• If there is a downside to investing in exposing your publications, what is it?
• YES…it can be called “gaming” or “savvy”
A Story of the Power of Social Media
The Power of Social Media
The Power of Blogs
The Power of Blogs (from Sean Ekins, @collabchem)
What about “Data Sharing”?
• Differently that publications, presentations, movies and “content” – data can be shared
• Real data – spreadsheets, plots, figures, chemical compounds, spectral data etc….
Spreadsheets/Figures
Declare Figure License Here!
Are you a-tweeting on Twitter?• 140 characters to connect and communicate• Use your “brand name” on Twitter • Greatest value for me – bite-sized nuggets
into information of interest and leading people into information I wish to share including my posts, my activities
• Faster responses than email commonly!
My views of the future
• “Altmetrics” popularity is growing.
• ORCID is already important – get one• Scientists, and especially young scientists, can
“get in early” and build reputation• It takes effort driven by participation…
I recommend…
• Register for an ORCID ID• Develop your LinkedIn profile• Publish to Slideshare
• Track Google Scholar Citations (for now)• Choose: ResearchGate or Academia.edu• Participate in building your profile
How to Manage ALL Profiles?https://about.me/ChemConnector
List All Profiles in One Place
And our article Now?
Thank you
Email: [email protected] ORCID: 0000-0002-2668-4821 Twitter: @ChemConnectorPersonal Blog: www.chemconnector.com SLIDES: www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams