raising your research profile
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This presentation to postgraduate students at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, highlights the importance of creating research profiles ; the use of social media in scholarly communication ; Altmetrics ; Impactstory ; ResearcherID ; Twitter, etc.TRANSCRIPT
IPGC Conference24-25 Sept 2013
Raising your research profile
Eileen ShepherdPrincipal Faculty Librarian: Science & Pharmacy
Rhodes University Library
“As a graduate student preparing for a career
in research, you have two jobs:
(1) do some good research (2) build a community around your research topic.” Phil Agre, Networking on the Network (2005)
How?(amongst other things) ……
by networking and
becoming known
One way to do this is by using technology
Some examples of technologies researchers can use
websites
online discussion groups
register on academic research sites
use social networking software
(1)Register on academic or professional
research sites, e.g.:
ResearcherID
ResearchGate
Academia.edu
http://www.researcherid.com
• a solution to author ambiguity problem
• as you are assigned a unique identifier
• manage publication lists, track citations & your h-index
• showcase your publications
• identify potential collaborators
Free registration – do it today!
and put (South)African research on the map!
Searching by institute (36 for NMMU):
By author – Dr G Kerley (NMMU):
Citation metrics for Dr Kerley:
Get an e-badge, see collaborators, etc.
Analyse collaborators by country, authors, institution, research area:
http://www.researchgate.net/
• Research visibility
• Connection with other researchers
• Collaboration with other researchers
• Stats and metrics for your research output
(2) Social networking for researchers
Why on earth would I want to do this?
A few reasons:
to raise your research profile
to get noticed & cited
to find collaborators
to measure your research impact (apart from citations) by means of altmetric
Altmetric: a new way of measuring research
impact
Every day, thousands of scholarly papers are being discovered, discussed and shared.
.
Who collects the information?
http://www.altmetric.com/
creates and maintains a cluster of servers that watch social media sites, newspapers,
government policy documents and other sources for mentions of scholarly articles.
“We bring all the attention together to compilearticle level metrics”
Altmetric bookmarklet:
This is what it looks like in action:
So,
By sharing, using social networking tools:
TwitterMendeleyCite-u-LikeGoogle+DeliciousBlogsLinkedInRedditFacebookand many more………………..
Publishers are starting to implement social media options at
article levelSome examples:
Nature
PLOS
Wiley
Taylor & Francis
@RhodesResearch https://twitter.com/RhodesResearch
Twitter feeds in RU LibGuides, e.g. Biochem http://ru.za.libguides.com/
Thanks for listening
Questions, suggestions, comments?