Many of us nowadays invest significant amounts of time in sharing our activities and opinions with friends and family via social networking tools. However, despite the availability of many platforms for scientists to connect and share with their peers in the scientific community the majority do not make use of these tools, despite their promise and potential impact and influence on our future careers. We are being indexed and exposed on the internet via our publications, presentations and data. We also have many more ways to contribute to science, to annotate and curate data, to “publish” in new ways, and many of these activities are as part of a growing crowdsourcing network. This presentation will provide an overview of the various types of networking and collaborative sites available to scientists and ways to expose your scientific activities online. Many of these can ultimately contribute to the developing measures of you as a scientist as identified in the new world of alternative metrics. Participating offers a great opportunity to develop a scientific profile within the community and may ultimately be very beneficial, especially to scientists early in their career.
3. Questions to Start…
• Who in the room has an ORCID (and did you
set it up yourself?)
• Who has NOT heard of AltMetrics?
4. And one selfish one…
• Who in the room has an ORCID (and did you
set it up yourself?)
• Who has NOT heard of AltMetrics?
• Who hasn’t used ChemSpider yet???
5. How much work?
• How much work is done generating and
analyzing data?
• How long does it take to write a publication?
• How much work does it take to go through
the peer review process?
• How much effort to represent your science –
presentations, publications?
6. …and do you market it???
• How much work is putting into “Marketing” a
publication/presentation?
• How much work do you put into your own
profile as a scientist (versus other aspects of
you on Facebook )
• Even if you are not going to be a scientist your
online profile is increasingly important.
10. The Power of Blogs
(from Sean Ekins, @collabchem)
11. 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
• Considering the investment made in the
science is there a downside to investing in
exposing it?
• YES…it can be called “gaming” or “savvy”
12. Visibility Means Discoverability
• Q: Does a Social Profile as a scientist matter?
• You are visible, when you share your skills,
experience and research activities by:
• Establishing a public profile
• Getting on the record
• Collaborative Science
• Demonstrating a skill set
• Measured using “alternative metrics”
• Contributing to the public peer review process
• There are many ways to become “visible”
14. My entry into social media
• I was NOT a follower into the world of social
media
• I am actually this guy…
• But challenge me and I get a “little vocal”
15. Learning about blogging the hard
way
• ChemSpider was a “hobby project”
• Housed in a basement and running off three
servers – one bought, two built
• Sensitive to weather and power stability
• Went live at ACS Spring 2007 in Chicago
21. 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??
22. Maybe you should 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
24. 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
27. Blogging was a passion…
• My blog is my voice
• I communicate and engage the community
• I ask for help, share my skills, collaborate
• Blogging was my most important voice in the
social network.
• I committed to positions, have been very
honest, challenging, invested a lot of time..
30. Are you a-tweeting on Twitter?
• 140 characters to connect and communicate
• Use your “brand name” on Twitter – it has high
frequency here…
• 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!
31. 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
35. Share/Manage Your Publications
• Where do you “manage your publications”?
• Share your “activities” with the community
• My publications/slides/videos are my CV on
• My Blog
• On LinkedIn
• On SlideShare
• On Researchgate
• On Academia.edu
36. Sharing your slides online?
• Slideshare to host, expose and share your
presentations, publications, posters and
videos (subject to copyright you might have
transferred!)
• http://www.slideshare.net/
• Register for an account and retain your
branding! Keep your online brand
consistent
45. 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.
54. • Persistent unique digital identifier
• Integrates to workflows such as
manuscript and grant submission
• Supports automated linkages with your
professional activities
Enabled by
55. Contributing to Science
• I became a community contributor to science
• Shared my expertise in the new world of open
• Share your Figures
• Contribute to Wikis – Wikipedia and others
• Participated in Open Notebook Science
• Build tools and platforms to support chemists
• Shared my data, curated data, helped others
• Engaged on blogs and discussions
70. My experiences in social media
• I was able to communicate AND demonstrate
my skills, expertise, passion, drive and
intention by blogging and sharing
• “Connected” with collaborative people
• Like-mindedness “out there” is a great feeling
• I blog far less today than I used to…time
commitment can be very large
• “Twitter makes no sense”…until I did it
• LinkedIn: professional networking tool
71. My views of the future
• “Altmetrics” is going to be big
• ORCID will be very important
• Scientists, and especially young scientists, can
“get in early” and build reputation
• It takes effort driven by participation…
74. Contribute to Your Profile
• The representation of YOU on the web is
going to become increasingly important…
• Engagement and participation is a choice…
• Consider the value to both you and to your
community regarding contribution
• Open Data, Curations, Annotations etc.
75. Thank you
Email: williamsa@rsc.org
ORCID: 0000-0002-2668-4821
Twitter: @ChemConnector
Personal Blog: www.chemconnector.com
SLIDES: www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams