Social media for scientists

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Social media are important for scientists to let the world know whet they are doing. It is essential to communicate with scientists and the general public. It enhances their scientific relevance as well as their societal relevance

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Social media for scientists

Wouter Gerritsma, Wageningen UR Library

The power of a tweet

Within 24 h, 900 views, after 30 h 1039 views

Imagine what happens when Michael Müller tweets about his latest article

Which he actually did the a day ago

And got nearly 300 article views

What is important!

@nutrigenomics tweeted about an article published in open access journal!

Any user with a mobile device, PC or other internet connection can access this paper

Is this going to fly for Nature?

Source: http://fxvdigital.com/our-services/twitter-design/

But perhaps you don't like twitter

Some essential social media tools for scientists

LinkedIn

●Academia.edu & Researchgate.net

Google Scholar citations

●ResearcherID & ScopusID & ORCID

Mendeley.com

Slideshare.net

Wikipedia

Blogs

Your contact book

Full screen image with title

ResearcherID profile of Hans Baveco

Omnipresent h-index

Google Scholar Citations, Researcher ID, Scopus

Updates Availability

GS Citations Automatic Public

ResearcherID Manually Public

Scopus Automatic Next month?

Your master number