This presentation was given at the UKICRS meeting (http://www.ukicrs.org/2015-symposium.html) on April 16th 2015. This presentation was in a workshop and focused on trying to inform attendees in the postgraduate phases of their careers how to use online tools to start building a reputation and profile in their field
3. Questions to Start…
• Who in the room has an ORCID????
• Who has a blog?
• Who has a LinkedIn Profile?
• Who has NOT heard of AltMetrics?
4. The intention of this talk…
• Encourage participation in your online profile
• Highlight some of the tools available
• Suggest paths to contribute data to science
• Start NOW – your scientific contributions will be
way bigger than your CV represents
• No one else will market you so you better had!!!
5. 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
10. 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?
11. 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
12. 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
13. 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??
14. Should you 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
16. 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
20. 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
27. My Google Scholar Profile
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=O2L8nh4AAAAJ
28. “I don’t have any publications”
• This is YOUR choice! Conference Abstracts..
• You produce reports, presentations and
posters during your studies – share them !
36. 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.
52. 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
58. 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?
59. We know Titles drive interest!
Call it Fuzzy and Tweet it…
63. 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”
67. The Power of Blogs
(from Sean Ekins, @collabchem)
68. 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….
76. 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!
77. 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…
78. I recommend…
• Register for an ORCID ID
• Develop your LinkedIn profile
• Publish to Slideshare
• Track Google Scholar Citations (for now)
• Choose: ResearchGate or Academia.edu
• Participate in building your profile
79. How to Manage ALL Profiles?
https://about.me/ChemConnector