This is a presentation given at the 2015 Kathleen A. Zar Pre-Symposium Workshop on April 30th 2015. 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.

1. Managing your online researcher
identity and promoting your work
Antony Williams
2015 Kathleen A. Zar Pre-Symposium Workshop,
April 29th
2015

2. My Hopes for Today
• Encourage you in the “era of participation”
• Provide an overview of tools available
• Share some stories, statistics and strategies
• Encourage you to “share for the sake of science”

3. My Hopes for Today
• Encourage you in the “era of participation”
• Provide an overview of tools available
• Share some stories, statistics and strategies
• Encourage you to “share for the sake of science”
OUTCOMES
• You will claim an ORCiD
• You take responsibility for your online profile
• You will invest >1 hour per week

4. Scientists measured by Impact

5. How to Measure Impact

6. 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
• What can you contribute to science?

7. Alt-Metrics Manifesto (Papers)
http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/

8. 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?

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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??

12. Open Researcher & Contributor ID

13. Here’s why they are useful…

14. Here’s why they are useful…
• Increasingly requested:
• Publications
• Grant Applications
• Data depositions

15. Used for Data Aggregation
http://academickarma.org/0000-0002-2668-4821

16. Wonderful Profile…

17. Branding: I am ChemConnector

18. My primary CV is on my blog

19. My primary CV is on my blog
http://www.chemconnector.com/antonywilliams_cv/

20. My primary CV is on my blog
http://www.chemconnector.com/antonywilliams_cv/

21. 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!

22. 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
• I manage them ALL through About.Me

23. How to Manage ALL Profiles?
https://about.me/ChemConnector

24. List All Profiles in One Place

25. 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

26. LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/in/AntonyWilliams

27. My Career Captured…

28. And “Endorsements”

29. Highlight “Projects”

30. Manage Articles Here Too.

31. …and presentations

32. My Google Scholar Profile
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=O2L8nh4AAAAJ

33. “I don’t have any publications”
• This is YOUR choice! Conference Abstracts..
• You produce reports, presentations and
posters during your studies – share them !

34. Sharing your works online

35. Slideshare – Highly Accessed

36. Slideshare – EXPANDED Audience

37. Fast Network Communication

38. Slideshare – NOT Just Slides

39. Other Platforms
• There are other platforms of course…
• Vimeo
• YouTube
• ResearchGate
• Academia
• Figshare
• Many others

40. ResearchGate
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Antony_Williams

41. ResearchGate

42. ResearchGate

43. Academia.edu
https://rsc.academia.edu/AntonyWilliams

44. 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.

45. Slideshare - Analytics

46. Academia.edu

47. Academia.edu

48. ResearchGate

49. What do numbers mean??
• It’s all relative….

50. ResearchGate Score

51. Numbers and IMPACT

52. I want a 42 though!!!!

53. Numbers and IMPACT….

54. National Information Standards
Organization and “Altmetrics”
http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/13809/Altmetrics_project_phase1_white_paper.pdf

56. And into the AltMetrics World

57. AltMetrics via Plum Analytics

58. Usage, Citations, Social
Media

59. Detailed Usage Statistics

60. A Story of the Power of Social
Media

61. The Power of Social Media

62. The Power of Blogs

63. The Power of Blogs
(from Sean Ekins, @collabchem)

64. 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

65. Kudos Enhance the Article

66. Explain

67. Enrich

68. Measured 15 hours later

69. 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. We know Titles drive interest!
Call it Fuzzy and Tweet it…

71. AltMetrics within 48 Hours

72. Bat Fellatio Viewed 337,000
Times…as it were. BE SAVVY
• And yes…known issues with AltMetrics… VIEWS does
not mean reads!!!

73. Within Two Weeks
http://www.chemconnector.com/2014/06/20/give-me-kudos-for-my-articles/
12 shares
45 share
referrals
1240 Kudos views 431 downloads
138 claims

74. 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”

75. 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. Spreadsheets/Figures

77. Declare Figure License Here!

78. 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…

79. I recommend…
• Register for an ORCID ID – then use it
• Develop your LinkedIn profile
• Publish to Slideshare
• Track Google Scholar Citations (for now)
• Choose: ResearchGate or Academia.edu
• Set up an About.ME page to link everything
• Participate in building your profile

80. And our article Now?

81. The downside of many profiles

82. Thank you
Email: tony27587@gmail.com
ORCID: 0000-0002-2668-4821
Twitter: @ChemConnector
Personal Blog: www.chemconnector.com
SLIDES: www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams