Many of us nowadays invest significant amounts of time in sharing our activities and opinions with friends and family via social networking tools such as Facebook, Twitter or other related websites. 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 careers. We are already being indexed and exposed on the internet via our publications, presentations and data and new “AltMetric scores” are being assigned to scientific publications as measures of popularity and, supposedly, of impact. We now have even 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 provides an overview of the various types of networking and collaborative sites available to scientists and ways to expose your scientific activities online. It will discuss the new world of AltMetrics that is in an explosive growth curve and will help you understand how to influence and leverage some of these new measures. Participating online, whether it be simply for career advancement or for wider exposure of your research, there are now a series of web applications that can provide a great opportunity to develop a scientific profile within the community.
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Building an Online Profile Using Social Networking and Amplification Tools for Scientists”
1. ORCID ID:0000-0002-2668-4821
Social Media Tools for Scientists
and Building an Online Profile
Antony Williams,
ACS Industry Award Grant Workshop
November 29th 2016, Research Triangle Park
Building an Online Profile: Social
Networking and Amplification
Tools for Scientists
Presentation: 6:30-7:00pm
3. Tonight You Will Choose…
Self-marketing vs. Narcissism
http://research-acumen.eu/wp-content/uploads/Users-narcissism-and-control.pdf
4. All of My Slides Will Be Here Soon…
www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams
5. My Hopes for Today
• Encourage you in the “era of participation”
• Provide an overview of some tools available
• Share some stories, statistics and strategies
• Encourage you to “share for the sake of science
as well as for yourself”
• OUTCOMES
• You will claim an ORCiD
• You will invest ~2 hours per month on your profile
• You have a bigger “Impact” online….
8. Scientists are Evaluated Based on “Statistics”
•Publications – peer-reviewed and many others
•Posters and presentations at conferences
•Electronic theses and dissertations
•Performances in film and audio
•Research datasets
•Scientific software
•Other forms of research
10. Who markets your science???
If not you, then who?
•“It's not the job of researchers to become
experts in public relations — that's why
universities have press offices, says Matt
Shipman, research communications lead at
North Carolina State University in Raleigh.
But he recommends scientists toot their
own horns as well. ”
• http://www.nature.com/news/kudos-promises-to-help-scientists-promote-their-papers-to-new-audiences-1.20346
11. Think about it…
• 100s if not 1000s of hours of research behind a paper.
How much work is the PUBLISHER going to do to make
sure people find out about your article?? How do you find
out about an article???
• Shouldn’t YOU and your CO-AUTHORS invest some time
in getting it out to the network???
• A presentation given to a small room of people has a
lifetime of “20-30 mins”. A presentation shared online for
all to see lives a lot longer. An article shared in the network
has a much wider audience.
12. Your Profile as a Scientist
• If you are a career 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??
13. Build an Online Resume
http://www.linkedin.com/in/AntonyWilliams
38. Is exposure important???
• Does a highly viewed paper mean better science?
CLEARLY NO!
• If AltMetrics are 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”
41. Everyone Should Be LinkedIn
• Your PRIMARY Online CV for headhunters
• 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 LinkedIn to people in your domain.
• Professional relationships rather than just
friendships.
• (Use FaceBook for friends and family)
54. ORCID ID:0000-0002-2668-4821
Sharing your publications,
presentations and data with
the community
Antony Williams
National Center for Computational Toxicology
The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author
and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. EPAHands On: 7:30-8:00pm
62. Add Slides or an Article…
• http://www.slideshare.net to add a presentation
• http://www.researchgate.com to a project or article
Let’s Upload THESE SLIDES
64. FigShare for Data Sharing
https://figshare.com/authors/Antony_Williams/96443
• Think Sharing Data for Supplementary Information and
OPENing your data
68. 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?
70. ORCID ID:0000-0002-2668-4821
Choosing from Researcher
Profile Tools
Antony Williams
National Center for Computational Toxicology
The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author
and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. EPAHands On: 8:00-8:15 pm
71. My Google Scholar Profile
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=O2L8nh4AAAAJ
84. My primary CV is on my blog
http://www.chemconnector.com/antonywilliams_cv/
85. Try Twitter
• 140 characters to connect and communicate
• Use a “brand name” on Twitter
• Greatest value for me – leading people into information I
wish to share including my presentations and publications
• Think amplification of your work….
86. One Tweet for Hongtai Huang
Published
September 2015
88. Facebook
• I personally use Facebook for “friends and family”
– but since many of my friends are scientists…
• I share my blog posts
• I share links to my papers
• I share my presentations directly from
SlideShare
91. What I said…
http://www.nature.com/news/kudos-promises-to-help-scientists-promote-their-papers-to-new-audiences-1.20346
…choose two or three social-media platforms, invest the
time to get them set up, and then spend perhaps two hours a
month keeping them current. If nothing else, he says, build a
LinkedIn profile as an online CV, claim and update an ORCID
ID, and log peer-review activities on Publons.com.
…a research paper is itself the end product of an
extraordinary investment of time and energy. It takes
thousands of hours of research, data analysis, writing and
peer review, he says. “Shouldn't you put at least 10 to 20
hours of work into making sure that you can get the message
out to relevant people?”
97. What Next? My Recommendations
• My slides for reference are where???
• Register for an ORCID ID
• Enhance your LinkedIn profile
• Use Google Scholar Citations and curate
• Choose: ResearchGate or Academia.edu
• Use: Kudos and Publons
• Participate building your profile – share data,
papers, presentations, etc..
98. Thanks
• To the ACS Corporation Associates Local Section Grant
• To RTI International for the matching award
• The Joint UNC/NCSU Biomedical Engineering Program for
being our hosts here at the Frontier Building
• To the coordinating team
– Paige Presler-Jur
– Melissa Pasquinelli
– Joon Cho
– Sarah Shepherd
• To you for participating