The importance and means to increase the visibility of your research output

ÅABC, Strukturkemi, Uppsala universitet

URL for slides: goo.gl/yFhkCX
DOI 10.6084/m9.figshare.997729

Some slides adopted from ORCID outreach resources

Any product (of research activity) that is commonly accepted in the scientific community, such as

• articles in scientific journals
• talks (i.e., slides, video)
• theses
• posters
• datasets
• code
• …

• Very long tradition
  • First systematic publishing of scientific research results (1665 in England, France)
  • Has seen major changes in the last decades (computers, internet)
• Currently, ~50 000 scientific journals operate worldwide (~30 000 indexed by WoS+Scopus)
• 66 million DOI links indexed by CrossRef (Apr 2014)
• Well-established methods exist to track citations of your papers
• Growing pains
  • how to keep track of individual researchers, as they change institutions, get married, or even switch fields?

• actively sharing research output is good for the field, and for the individual researcher
• previously, there was very little incentive to do so
  • uploading material to personal website or similar
  • no tracking of impact of shared material
• but a lot has happened in the last few years

• There has always been and always will be companies trying to peddle their latest and greatest solution to all your problems.

• In the end, they mostly fail, taking all your spent time and effort with them down the drain.

• But when the whole community comes together around a solution, the chances of it holding up to the test of time is much greater.

• And always consider who the stakeholders of an enterprise are.

• Science is a communal effort, where new work either incorporates or refutes previous work
• Attribution is therefore critically important, and intimately linked to the concept of impact

It used to be that tracking the impact of all your research output was tedious, time-consuming, manual work and hardly worth it except for the academic superstars.

This is rapidly changing.

The research community has lacked the ability to link researchers with their professional activities. As a researcher, you want to

• ensure your work is discoverable and connected to you throughout your career,
• minimize the time you spend entering repetitive data online,
• eliminate name ambiguity, distinguishing you from other researchers and ensuring proper attribution.

• How The Rise Of The “R” Computer Language Is Bringing Open Source To Science
• KIB: Versionshantera mera med Git Alternative to github, http://bitbucket.org/
• Nature: Research tools: Jump off the page
• CrossRef Labs: Turn a DOI into a QR code with basic metadata
  

How do you maintain your professional presence online?

… are defined as factual records (numerical scores, textual records, images and sounds) used as primary sources for scientific research, and that are commonly accepted in the scientific community as necessary to validate research findings. A research data set constitutes a systematic, partial representation of the subject being investigated. (OECD, 2007)

Declaration on Access to Research Data from Public Funding (OECD, 2004)

Showcase using your MSc thesis on figshare

• ORCID
• Google Scholar
  
• ImpactStory
• Figshare

• BetterPosters (blog)
  By Zen Faulkes, @DoctorZen, gives advice on scientific posters.
• Maintain a reading list on your website using Mendeley Groups

• Reddit AMA Mark Hahnel