But first, WHY?
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Improve the discoverability of your work
Increase citations
Make yourself more visible
Increase opportunities
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Academicimpact
Educate
Improve access to research and knowledge
Socialimpact
https://www.slideshare.net/MyScienceWork/how-can-i-make-my-research-more-visible?from_action=save
• Help researchers, students and funding
bodies find you and your publications
• Promote your skills and knowledge
• Connect with other researchers
• Increase your research impact by
disseminating your work
• List all of your publications in one place
• Making it easy for others to identify your
work
• Track your citation metrics.
But first, WHY?
• More Benefits include:
– Researcher profiles can be browsed by
other researchers, prospective
collaborators, students, journalists and
funding bodies
– Increase the visibility of your research
– Track your citation metrics
– Reduce the number of name variations
Researcher profiles and networks Webinar 4 June 2020
To be More Visible
Share Your JOY Email it Talk
about it Get excited
Ask for Feedback & Advice Improve the
quality of your research & papers Raise
awareness
Share Preprints, Presentations Help people
discover & find your work Put stuff on the
web that people will want to use and refer to
Discuss & Be Active Build & Show expertise
Connect with peers Learn & Test your
ideas
Disseminate Choose your
favorite tool See who is
interested Increase the #
of people who know you
Use your social network
Conference presentations
Posters
Email
Publish in prestigious journals
Institutional repositories
Researcher profiles and networks Webinar 4 June 2020
Agenda
• Part-I Big Image
– The paradox of open access
– Aaron Hillel Swartz
– Guerilla Open Access Manifesto
– Robin Hoods of Science
– The Roads to OA
• Part-II Researcher Profiles
– Scientific names
– Create and connect your profiles to maximize
your research impact
– Researcher Profiles tools
– Managing sci information
– ORCID auto-update
– Zotero – Mendeley - ResearchGate – Google
scholar - Web of Science ResearcherID
– How t import Web of Science publication into
ORCID
• Part-III: Researcher networks
– Promoting your articles to increase your digital
identity and research impact
– Use online services, networks and
communication tools to:
– 11 Ways for Promoting your articles to
increase your digital identity and research
impactResearcher profiles and networks Webinar 4 June 2020
The paradox of open
access
Government funds research
Researchers publish their results in peer
reviewed scientific journals
Researchers access their papers through
subscription
Publishers edit
these papers
and sell them
back to them
through libraries
Researcher profiles and networks Webinar 4 June 2020
The alternative
Government funds research
Researchers publish their
results in peer reviewed
scientific journals
Researchers access their
papers through
subscription
Publishers edit
these papers
and sell them
back to them
through libraries
Researchers publish their
papers in journals or
repositories
THIS ARE OFFERED
IN OPEN ACCESS
GRATIS
Researcher profiles and networks Webinar 4 June 2020
Aaron Hillel Swartz
Aaron Hillel Swartz (November 8,
1986 – January 11, 2013) was an
American computer programmer,
entrepreneur, writer, political
organizer, and Internet hacktivist.
We need to download scientific
journals and upload them to file
sharing networks. We need to fight for
Guerilla Open Access Manifesto
Researcher profiles and networks Webinar 4 June 2020
Robin Hoods of Science
Alexandra Elbakyan
Alexandra Elbakyan the creator of Sci-Fi website made around 48 million journal
articles available freely online. People could not access any research for free but with
Sci-Hub any research is on your fingertips. https://sci-hub.tw/
The Roads to OA
Researcher profiles and networks Webinar 4 June 2020
Scientific names
This means avoiding name variants and making it easy for others
to find you Especially relevant if you have more than one surname
Scientific Names: Tips
• Recommendations
– Sign your papers consistently.
– Always sign in the same format
– Use your full given name, no need
for initials!
– Use hyphens if you have two
surnames
– If you can choose between different
scientific names, use the most
uncommon oneResearcher profiles and networks Webinar 4 June 2020
Create and connect your profiles
to maximize your research impact
• Researchers and graduate
researchers are encouraged to
establish researcher profiles and
identifiers.
• Doing so connects you to the
world and maximizes the visibility
of your research outputs and
impact.
• LinkedIn
– >> 250 million users. The world's largest
service for professional network.
• ResearcherGate
– get more contacts, follow other users
and discussion groups, share
publications.
– >> 3 million users
• Mendeley
– A service for managing references and
networking
• Academia.edu
• MyScienceWork
Researcher profiles and networks Webinar 4 June 2020
Researcher Profiles
Tools
Scopus author identifier
• Each author indexed in the Scopus citation database
has an automatically generated author identifier that
helps with finding authors with common last names
or variations in spelling. It also enables the matching
of authors with their papers and citation metrics,
regardless of how they are cited in the database.
ResearcherID
• ResearcherID is a free profile and name
identifier service that is integrated with the Web
of Science. The service can be integrated with
the Orchid account.
https://latrobe.libguides.com/researcherprofiles/sites
ORCID You can use this service to maintain a publication
list and automatically add publication data to your profile
from Researcher ID and Scopus
The researcher profiles enable researchers to
create their own personal ID. The ID helps to
distinguish researchers from each other and
prevents problems related to name confusions.
Google Scholar Citation Your profile can be private or
public. The service will automatically count citations
and generate an h-index based on these.
Managing sci information
Google Scholar
Create a
profile in
Google
Scholar
Add new
publications
Manage
your
publications
Create
citation alert
Managing sci information
Main features
Create bibliographies and insert citations into
documents,
Import, organize and annotate PDF files,
Access papers on the web and mobile devices.
Collaborate with colleagues and share papers,
notes and annotations,
Network with other researchers and discover
potential collaborators.
Promote events and conferences.
ResearchGate
• ResearchGateisaprofessional
networkforscientiststhatwas
foundedin2008.
• In2016ResearchGatereported
11millionusersandover100
millionpublications.
• Connect with colleagues, co-authors, and specialists in your
field
• Add your research to your profile to make it discoverable by
other researchers
• Add your current project to your profile to share updates and
get feedback on what you're working on
• Access publications and other work in your field and from
your network
• Ask research-related questions and get answers from experts
• Share your knowledge and expertise by answering questions
• Get stats on your work and find out who's been reading and
citing it
• Explore the latest jobs matched to your researcher profile
• Share your preprints and other early work to get feedback
from others before you publish it
Web of Science ResearcherID
• How do I get a ResearcherID
– From the homepage of the Web of Knowledge in the
menu bar.
– Through the registration link
http://www.researcherid.com/SelfRegistrati
on.action using your name and email.
Researcher profiles and networks Webinar 4 June 2020
How t import Web of Science
publication into ORCID
1. Login or register for ResearcherID
2. Click on ResearcherID
3. Select the appropriate action: To associate your ORCID with your ResearcherID account and Click
Continue
4. Login to ORCID
5. Click Authorize for the data exchange between the two systems. This will return you to
ResearcherID
6. Decide “What data would you like to exchange between ResearcherID and ORCID?”
Profile ID, Send ResearcherID publications into my ORCID account, or Retrieve ORCID
publications into my ResearcherID account
7. Select: Send ResearcherID publications to my ORCID account.
8. Click Send. This will send 100 publications at a time.
9. Grants & patents are not at the moment accepted by ORCID
10. Delete duplicates
11. ORCID does not track citations.
Managing risk: Recommendations
• There are risks involved with sharing your
information on profile sites.
– manage your privacy by only sharing
information that you are happy to share
to others
– ensure that you only share information
that you can legally disclose to others
– manage the security of your information
by reviewing the user agreement of
each profile tool so that you know who
accesses your data, how it is stored
and what you can controlBefore you upload any of your publications to a profile site you should check to see if your journal has any
publishing restrictions on the Sherpa/RoMEO website otherwise you may not be legally entitled to share the
full-text of your work.
Use online services, networks and
communication tools to:
Increase your research impact
Connect with researchers within
the same field
Build a reputation in your area
Inform the general public about
your research
Discover the latest in your industry
or research field
Gather feedback from others –
may lead to new directions / ideas
Showcase your research group,
center or institute
• Social media can…
promote, connect and disseminate
your research to a wider, non
academic audience
potentially increase downloads of
your papers (link from Research
Outputs Repository or an open
access journal homepage)
provide context around your research
projects
help you engage in discussions with
colleagues with similar research
interests, or recent conferences
grant a broader view of your research
impact using new forms of scholarly
communication
Twitter is a free, real time information network. Users can 'tweet' small
bits of information to the world. Follow others to discover the latest
information and research.
Facebook is a social media tool that allows users to share a mix of
media formats and aims to connect people with friends and others
who work, study and live around them.
Researcher profiles and networks Webinar 4 June 2020
11 Ways for Promoting your articles to increase your
digital identity and research impact
1. Place articles on your institutional webpage or repository.
2. Place articles in an appropriate subject repository.
3. Inform interested users on Twitter. Choose appropriate
#hashtags to increase the discoverability of your work.
4. Post links to articles on Facebook, and any relevant
groups, as well academic networking sites, including
your LinkedIn and Google+ profiles.
5. Save it to your reference library and promote in the
academic network of reference manager sites such
as CiteuLike or Zotero.
6. Share your research data and code and increase your
citations
7. Inform society news outlets and bloggers in your field.
8. Create a Google Scholar profile and track your citations.
(1) Place articles on your
institutional webpage or
repository
• Sharing either a pre-
print (pre-peer review)
or post-print (post-peer
review, pre-proofing
stage) version of their
articles is fully compliant
with most publishing
policies, and an easy
and free way to make a
copy of your work freely
available.
http://sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.php
Researcher profiles and networks Webinar 4 June 2020
(1) Place articles on your
institutional webpage or
repository
Soft Computing Journal
http://sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.php
Researcher profiles and networks Webinar 4 June 2020
(2) Place articles in an
appropriate subject repository
• The arXiv (Physics, Maths, Computer
Science),
• BiorXiv (Biosciences),
• SocArXiv (Social Sciences),
engrXiv (Engineering).
– Sharing your work on one of these
platforms is simple and free, and a
great way to increase access to your
research papers.
– There is plenty of evidence to show
that by publishing pre-printed
publications, your search brings
together more citations, faster and
faster than the rates associated with
traditional publishing.
https://arxiv.org/
https://www.biorxiv.org/
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv
https://engrxiv.org/
(3) Post Inform interested
users on Twitter
• Using Twitter in particular is relatively simple, not very time consuming,
and a great way to start or join conversations relevant to your research.
• Posting your research articles on Twitter is a way of generating increased
citations for your work. While social media not be every researcher’s cup
of tea, it is certainly a handy way of promoting your work, increasing it’s
reach and impact, and improving your article Altmetric scores.
– Do you have a new publication? Tweet the title or a description
together with a link to the paper on the website of the journal.
– Do you have some old publications? It’s time they see the sunlight
again, so tweet about old papers too.
– Don’t only tweet about your papers or only when you have a
publication, it makes you look like a sad scientist
– Use a hashtag, so people can search for it, indicating the topic of
your papers like #Blockchain
• Altmetric Attention Score
– reach - how many people are likely to
see the tweet - this is based on the
number of followers attached to the
account.
– promiscuity - how often does this
person tweet about research outputs?
– bias - is this person/account tweeting
about lots of papers from the same
journal domain, thereby suggesting
promotional intent?
(4) Post links to articles on Facebook,
and any relevant groups
• Post links to articles on Facebook, and
any relevant groups, as well
academic networking sites, including
your LinkedIn and Google+ profiles.
– As with Twitter, all of these platforms
provide ways to increase the readership of
your work, which is ultimately what we
all want. Posting it on numerous platforms
is a positive way of maximizing the
potential reach and audience for your
work. That means more recognition, more
readership, and hopefully more citations
too.
Researcher profiles and networks Webinar 4 June 2020
(5) Save it to your reference library and promote in
the academic network of reference manager sites
CiteULike was a web service which allowed users
to save and share citations to academic papers.
Based on the principle of social bookmarking, the
site worked to promote and to develop the sharing
of scientific references amongst researchers.
Zotero is, at the most basic level, a reference
manager. It is designed to store, manage, and
cite bibliographic references, such as books and
articles.
(6) Share your research data and
code and increase your citations.
• Research has shown that by sharing your data
openly you also give your work an important
citation advantage by making it more user-
friendly and useful to others.
• Figshare, Zenodo, GitHub and DataDryad handl
e a huge variety of data types and might be
appropriate for online storage of primary data
and other ‘supplements’ to the primary research
articles.
https://figshare.com/
https://zenodo.org/
https://github.com/
https://datadryad.org/stash
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(7) Inform society news outlets and
bloggers in your field
• Newspapers
– Daily local newspapers and weekly
community newspapers are an
excellent means to communicate news
about an activity, service, event, or
issue.
• Television
– Local TV news stations follow national
and regional news, but will often try to
“localize” their news stories. Television
is a medium of feeling, with
communications presented in short,
compelling sound bites – “to the point”
information that can be shared quickly.
• Radio
– Radio stations that feature news
segments generally run them in the
• YouTube
– YouTube is a video-hosting website that allows
registered users to store and share video content.
Make sure to align videos with your YouTube
channel context and target group(s). In creating
videos, provide an entry sequence, welcome
viewers, provide an overview, tell the story (keeping
sentences short and concise), and end with a wrap-
up or call to action. Address the audience directly to
establish a rapport. Select relevant keywords/tags
to optimize search ability and hits. Go to
www.youtube.com.
• Blog
– Short for weblog, a blog is an online journal that
can be written to provide clear, bold opinions on a
topic; share stories; or provide updates on a
journey or undertaking. When used as a public
relations tool to promote your industry or company,
the writing style and content should be interesting,
compelling, unique, and reflect your
professionalism and expertise. The blog should be
updated frequently and can include images, videos,https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.aded.net/resource/resmgr/Media/Media_Outlet_Types_7_2_2014.pdf
(8) Create a Google Scholar profile
and track your citations
• In addition to useful functions like
saved searches and setting new
content alerts, creating a Google
Scholar profile helps you to track
citations to your publications for
free, and increases your visibility in
searches. Google Scholar updates
your profile regularly with new
citations and as you publish new
articles, and provides additional
metrics such as your h-index.
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(9) Add articles to
your ORCID account.
• The ORCID (Open Researcher and
Contributor ID) is a non-profit
alphanumeric code to uniquely
identify scientific and other academic
authors and contributors.
• The benefit of using ORCID is that it is
becoming widely adopted as part of
an essential toolkit for researchers,
and often a requirement for authors
for publication.
https://orcid.org/
(10) Update your
ScienceOpen profile through
ORCID,
• Including your publication record, you can track article-level metrics for
your research, put it into context of 28 million research articles on
ScienceOpen platform, and also enable you to perform additional functions
on ScienceOpen such as post-publication peer review and building research
collections for your communities.
https://www.scienceopen.com/
(11) Upload Slides To
SlideShare
• Our worked so hard on those
slides. All data were correct, no
typos, figures were distributed
harmonically. You even
acknowledged that co-author that
didn’t have the courtesy to read
his co-authored manuscript!
• Don’t you think it is a pity to just
use them for 15 minutes in that
presentation in that session of that
conference where no presentation
had anything to do with your
research?
• It is time to reuse those old slides and
put them to a better service. We are
going to make them available for
everyone via SlideShare.
• How many times have you thought:
“Oh my, I don’t understand this
paper, I wish I could attend a
presentation of this guy.” Guess
what? Many people think the same
of your paper. so do them and
yourself a favor and make your slides
available via the Internet.
You will not only grow your academic footprint,
but you will also help others.
Last words
• Write A Comment In A
LinkedIn Group
– LinkedIn Groups is the best place to find people
interested in a very specific topic. Do you like
Cloud computing or Soft computing groups?
There’s a group for that.
– Alternative careers for PhD students? Also a
group. Do you like Next Scientist? There is also
a Next Scientist group in LinkedIn.
– An extra advantage is that group members can
see your LinkedIn profile and make sure you are
the real deal.
• Answer A Question In
ResearchGate
– In ResearchGate, a social network for scientists,
other peers ask questions on specific fields of
research. If you give a good answer or point the
person in the right direction, you can expand your
reputation as expert in that field.
– A nice feature of this Q&A sites is that people go
with their real names, so answers tend to be of
high quality. No bullshiting or bullying allowed.
The result is that great discussions originate in
such forums.
Publons
Next Webinar
Publons is a commercial website that provides a free service
for academics to track, verify, and showcase their peer
review and editorial contributions for academic journals. It
was launched in 2012 and was bought by Clarivate
Analytics in 2017 (which also owns Web of
Science, EndNote, and ScholarOne). It claims that over
200,000 researchers have joined the site, adding more than
one million reviews across 25,000 journals
Publons also provides:
tools for publishers to find, screen, contact, and
motivate peer reviewers;
data and publications about global peer review
behavior;
peer review training for early-career
researchers; and
features for academics to discuss and evaluate
published research.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The essential mission of SRGE toward the research
and education in Egypt is to foster learning and
promoting research integrity in the current and next
generation of researchers in Egypt. SRGE is
rededicating itself to this fundamental purpose.
**Slides are adapted from several presentations/books on the
internet, own experience