What’s My Motivation, Darling? Inspiring Researchers to Build and Measure the Reach and Impact of their Work

David SommerProduct Director and Co-Founder of Kudos

@growkudos @DavidLSommer #chs15

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Your speakers

David SommerProduct Director • Co-Founder, Kudos

Graham StoneInformation Resources Manager, University of Huddersfield, UK

Sara RouhiProduct Sales Manager, The Americas, Altmetric

#chs15 #Motivation #Darling

@growkudos @DavidLSommer #chs15

We provide tools for researchers and institutions to help Increase the impact

of research and build academic reputations

researchers universities publishers funders

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Research is changing

Image credit: Bourrasque, by Paul Cocksedge Studio, photographed by Mark Cocksedge

5Image credit: Bourrasque, by Paul Cocksedge Studio, photographed by Mark Cocksedge

Research is changingArticles that keep evolving into new versions

There may never be a final paper in F1000 Research, only temporal versionsKent AndersonAAAS / Scholarly Kitchen

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6Image credit: Bourrasque, by Paul Cocksedge Studio, photographed by Mark Cocksedge

Research is changingRising popularity of alternative communications formats

More people look at my stuff on Slideshare than my published articlesAntony Williams,Chemistry Professor

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Pressure to demonstrate impact

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Exposition of tools, services & software

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The research cycleIdeas

Funding

Experiments

Writing

ReviewPublication

Communication

Discovery

Measurement

Profile

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Writing

Working together to write papers requires the ability to simultaneously work on documents, and keep track of edits and versions.As software in this area becomes more social, it is also hooking into submission systems and workflows.

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ReviewTwo approaches to “social” reviewing:• Public reviewing, enabling researchers to be

credited for this valuable contribution:

• Reviewing post-publication, publicly though possibly anonymously in some services, to broaden and democratize the process of discussing research findings

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Publication

It’s not just about the text!Researchers need to be able to discover, re-use, cite – and be credited for – a wider range of outputs• Datasets• Figures• Posters

• Slides• Audio• Video See also:

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Communication

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Talking about your research is proven to increase the impact of your research

It’s helpful to do so in a way that enables

you to track the effect of social

communication on key metrics such as

views, downloads, mentions, citations

Explaining – in plain languageThe glaucoma-associated olfactomedin domain of myocilin (myoc-OLF) is a recent addition to the growing list of disease-associated amyloidogenic proteins. Inherited, disease-causing myocilin variants aggregate intracellularly instead of being secreted to the trabecular meshwork, which is a scenario toxic to trabecular meshwork cells and leads to early onset of ocular hypertension, the major risk factor for glaucoma. Here we systematically structurally and biophysically dissected myoc-OLF to better understand its amyloidogenesis. Under mildly destabilizing conditions, wild-type myoc-OLF adopts non-native structures that readily fibrillize when incubated at a temperature just below the transition for tertiary unfolding. With buffers at physiological pH, two main endpoint fibril morphologies are observed: (a) straight fibrils common to many amyloids and (b) unique micron-length, ~ 300 nm or larger diameter, species that lasso oligomers, which also exhibit classical spectroscopic amyloid signatures. Three disease-causing variants investigated herein exhibit non-native tertiary structures under physiological conditions, leading to a variety of growth rates and a fibril morphologies. In particular, the well-documented D380A variant, which lacks calcium, forms large circular fibrils. Two amyloid-forming peptide stretches have been identified, one for each of the main fibril morphologies observed. Our study places myoc-OLF within the larger landscape of the amylome and provides insight into the diversity of myoc-OLF aggregation that plays a role in glaucoma pathogenesis.

Explaining – in plain languagepeople within your field to skim and scan more publications

people in adjacent fields to understand the relevance of your work to what they are doing

people outside academia to get a handle on research and apply it in non-academic ways

people searching lay keywordsto find publications otherwise “hidden” from them

people who can access it to actually understand it!

Easier for

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Discovery

Whether for talking about their own research, or bookmarking other people’s research, LOTS of growth out of the “reference manager” space – solutions are now broader and more sophisticated than that provenance implies!

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Metrics

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The more people conduct and communicate research in social

ways, the more metrics can evolve to give a nuanced

understanding of the effect of research throughout its life cycle

Providers are differentiated by data sources and algorithms

Snowball Metricsworking towards standards

Altmetrics Initiative

Articles

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Profiles (the egosystem)Profiles for

the researcherthe researchthe research institution

Profiles toshowcase and sharediscover and followkeep trackdisambiguate

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Which will be hits?

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Remembering the misses

Google Buzz

Google Wave

Making an impact

Your researchers might already be actively sharing

their work via one or more of these

channels

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Making an impact

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And they might already be looking at the performance

of their work

Making an impactBut how do they know

which of their actions are generating results?

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Making an impactBut how do they know

which of their actions are generating results?

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The author tweeted

As a result, views increased

substantially

A range of metrics

Evaluating The Effectiveness of ToolsTop Tips:

Determine what is important to you. Usage, Citations, Mentions, Altmetrics, Public Engagement…

Identify tools that have demonstrated the ability to help in these areas

Agree specifically how you will measure success – how did the tools help increase specific measures that matter to you?

Try the tools out and see how they perform against your agreed criteria

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An attempt to map the landscape

@growkudos @DavidLSommer #chs15

An attempt to map the landscape

@growkudos @DavidLSommer #chs15

Thank you!

David SommerProduct Director and Co-Founder of Kudos

@growkudos @DavidLSommer #chs15