These are my slides from the 4:am Altmetrics conference on using Altmetrics as Opportunity Indicators and how they can be used to guide researchers to take the most effective actions with there limited time.
14. Since 6th Sept 2017:
Toby shared a trackable link from
Kudos 21 times, resulting in
1828 clicks on those shares
Total of 2691 views of his plain
language summary on Kudos
475 click throughs to full text
Altmetic score of 419
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15. Posting a trackable link
to lib-license
1,334 clicks on that link
4,000 active subscribers
on lib-license
1 post to
lib-license
33%
response
rate
Generated
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17. Methodologically
sound; technical skill;
substantive
knowledge; strategic
Breadth; volume;
hands on
Publishes; presents;
communicates well;
uses networks; self-
promoting
Research practice
Engagement
Explains ideas to
others; shares ideas;
research leader;
has students
Collegial
engagement
Dissemination
Research
performance
Research activity
Performing;
making visible
Extract from conceptual model of the dimensions of research performance, Dr Pat Bazeley
Communicating
theresearch
Doing
theresearch
Research Performance Framework
@DavidLSommer | @growkudos
18. Methodologically
sound; technical skill;
substantive
knowledge; strategic
Breadth; volume;
hands on
Research practice
Engagement
Research
performance
Research activity
Extract from conceptual model of the dimensions of research performance, Dr Pat Bazeley
Doing
theresearch
Publishes; presents;
communicates well;
uses networks; self-
promoting
Explains ideas to
others; shares ideas;
research leader;
has students
Collegial
engagement
Dissemination
Performing;
making visible
Communicating
theresearch
Research Performance Framework
@DavidLSommer | @growkudos
19. Research
performance
Publishes; presents;
communicates well;
uses networks; self-
promoting
Explains ideas to
others; shares ideas;
research leader;
has students
Collegial
engagement
Dissemination
Performing;
making visible
Communicating
theresearch
Reach Resonance Results
Measures size of
audience, representing
potential for influence
Measures the attention
actions are generating
Measures how outputs
are performing
Attributes
Properties of a person or
organization by virtual of
their affiliations &
network
Extract from conceptual model of the dimensions of research performance, Dr Pat Bazeley
Research Performance Framework
@DavidLSommer | @growkudos
20. One
Attributes
Properties of a person or
organization
Custom
Recommendations
Reach Resonance Results
Measures size of
audience, representing
potential for influence
Measures the attention
actions are generating
Measures how outputs
are performing
Kudos Custom Recommendations
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21. 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160
Control group
Treatment group
n = 4,858
n = 4,866
Median full text downloads
121
149 Proactively
explaining and
sharing work
increases
downloads by
23%
Can attention drive action? Yes!
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25. @DavidLSommer | @growkudos
What is next?
• Broadening the model
• More data sources
• More opportunity, attention and effectiveness indicators
• Building a bigger data set
• Algorithms to interpret the data and evidence
• Intelligent recommendations for researchers and the
organizations that support them
• Interested to hear from institutions that want to benefit
Thank you!
Notes de l'éditeur
To which our answer is, yes, it does.
We analysed full text downloads for publications where the authors had used the Kudos toolkit to explain and share their work, and compared this to our control group where the Kudos tools had not been used.
We found that downloads of the full text, on the publisher site, were 23% higher for those publications where authors had used the Kudos toolkit to explain and share their work.
So this is starting to become the kind of evidence we need to persuade those senior academics who frown upon communications efforts by their more junior colleagues – because (in as much as we can correlate downloads to readership), then we’re starting to see that outreach efforts are correlated to improved readership which is key to the creation of any future impact, whether academic or otherwise.
So in conclusion:
Reputation opens secret doors
Some people are very good at building it – we need to level the playing field – this is no longer optional stuff for academics.
Tools, guidance, support to help everyone “compete” equally
We are beginning to have the evidence that will help justify time spent using such tools and undertaking such activities, to those senior academics who are sceptical
New modes of outreach do drive meaningful metrics
Usage ≠ impact but is a vital basis on which impact is built: if people don’t read your work, they can’t apply or cite it.