Managing your online researcher identity and promoting your work

Antony Williams2015 Kathleen A. Zar Pre-Symposium Workshop,

April 29th 2015

My Hopes for Today

• Encourage you in the “era of participation”• Provide an overview of tools available • Share some stories, statistics and strategies• Encourage you to “share for the sake of science”

My Hopes for Today

• Encourage you in the “era of participation”• Provide an overview of tools available • Share some stories, statistics and strategies• Encourage you to “share for the sake of science”

OUTCOMES• You will claim an ORCiD• You take responsibility for your online profile• You will invest >1 hour per week

Scientists measured by Impact

How to Measure Impact

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• What can you contribute to science?

Alt-Metrics Manifesto (Papers)http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/

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??

Open Researcher & Contributor ID

Here’s why they are useful…

Here’s why they are useful…

• Increasingly requested:• Publications• Grant Applications• Data depositions

Used for Data Aggregationhttp://academickarma.org/0000-0002-2668-4821

Wonderful Profile…

Branding: I am ChemConnector

My primary CV is on my blog

My primary CV is on my bloghttp://www.chemconnector.com/antonywilliams_cv/

My primary CV is on my bloghttp://www.chemconnector.com/antonywilliams_cv/

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 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

• I manage them ALL through About.Me

How to Manage ALL Profiles?https://about.me/ChemConnector

List All Profiles in One Place

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 – EXPANDED Audience

Fast Network Communication

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

ResearchGate

ResearchGate

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

What do numbers mean??

• It’s all relative….

ResearchGate Score

Numbers and IMPACT

I want a 42 though!!!!

Numbers and IMPACT….

National Information Standards Organization and “Altmetrics”

http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/13809/Altmetrics_project_phase1_white_paper.pdf

And into the AltMetrics World

AltMetrics via Plum Analytics

Usage, Citations, Social Media

Detailed Usage Statistics

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)

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”

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!

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 – then use it

• Develop your LinkedIn profile• Publish to Slideshare• Track Google Scholar Citations (for now)

• Choose: ResearchGate or Academia.edu• Set up an About.ME page to link everything• Participate in building your profile

And our article Now?

The downside of many profiles

Thank you

Email: tony27587@gmail.com ORCID: 0000-0002-2668-4821 Twitter: @ChemConnectorPersonal Blog: www.chemconnector.com SLIDES: www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams