Be Visible Online. or Vanish. Using the Internet to Increase Your Research Impact. Dr Lareen Newman Senior Research Fellow

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1 Be Visible Online or Vanish Using the Internet to Increase Your Research Impact Dr Lareen Newman Senior Research Fellow

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3 Improve our Track Record/CV for current/future employability so competitive on grant applications for successful promotion How to show we re doing a great job eg Impact: number of citations Standing > includes who is citing you, international? Also depends on Keeping on top of what s being published Knowing who s who and networking in your area Promoting yourself and your work

4 Prof Corey Bradshaw, University of Adelaide TOP 5 EXCUSES 1. My employer will get angry 2. My track record isn t good enough (i.e., I m embarrassed) 3. What I do is no one else s business 4. I couldn t be bothered; it s too much work 5. No one reads it anyway

5 Prof Corey Bradshaw, University of Adelaide Pretty much every time I review a manuscript or a Grant application, I Google the researchers involved (at least the lead investigators). When I can t find their history, I get frustrated, generally become grumpy, and am probably less likely to give a positive review. And let s not even go there if you re looking for a job. Even with your CV and publications list in-hand, as a selection committee member I will ALWAYS Google you. When I find that you haven t even bothered to put yourself on the web, chances are you won t even make the interview list.

6 How the Internet & Social Media can help us Increase visibility of your outputs to others (so easier to cite you) Extend your reputation in your field and beyond Get greater impact with a wider audience here and internationally Make your publications easy to get > could increase citations Keep track of your outputs, know which are popular Compare your output to others Network with > researchers, policymakers, the public Keep track of or respond to current events and new research Find hotspots of activity, conferences you didn t know about Get easier access to others research

7 1. TRACK your outputs and who cites you - GoogleScholar, Scopus 2. BE VISIBLE - Make yourself and your work easy for others to find and cite - Flinders Academic Commons, ResearchGate, Academia.Edu, Slideshare etc 3. NETWORK who s who, who knows you, what s going on - Twitter, LinkedIn, Blogs, Researchgate

8 1. TRACK your outputs and who cites you GoogleScholar Scopus (Researchgate)

9 GoogleScholar BENEFITS: ** 10 minutes to set up ** Then minimal input > new articles automatic check /change links Includes non-journals eg reports Alerts when your new pubs come out to you & others Alerts when someone cites you > good to know, identifies others in the field, new papers hot off the press FOR OTHERS: Free access; See your full list and up-to-date Easy to get link to one/more publication copies (free vs pay) DOWNSIDES? People can see all my pubs and my H-index

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15 SCOPUS BENEFITS Similar to GoogleScholar but only journal articles Is just there automatically no need to do anything (except search by author name for yourself!) H-index more pure but depends on your discipline (eg public health > doesn t include policy reports or cites) DOWNSIDES Limited access eg via Library, so not freely available to all SO: Cite output metrics on GS AND Scopus??

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17 2. VISIBILITY Make yourself and your work easy for others to find and cite (GoogleScholar) Flinders Academic Commons ResearchGate (Slideshare) etc

18 GoogleScholar (again) Very easy to find and see underlined name with articles or people can search to see if you have a profile > whole list (editors > reviewers) Can add your own links to pubs (FAC and/or original journal) Alerts you via when people cite you > good for seeing what s new in the field

19 Flinders Academic Commons Our Institutional Research Repository Open access free to everyone/public Mandatory for NH&MRC, coming for ARC Optional for other pubs up to you Flinders Library checks all copyright Articles found more easily by Google than some journals > more likely to turn up See Liz Walkley-Hall Flinders Library

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23 ResearchGate Gives you another academic profile (up-todate cf your webpage) Can be used as a network as well Have to join/login (but easy/free) People can set alerts (& you can on them) Some people here but not GoogleScholar BUT Copyright issues

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28 We can all aim for the stars!

29 Academia.Edu I only joined last week to show you guys! Another academic profile Easy to join (but easy/free) Easy to maintain Has over 4 million academics Copyright issues add pdf AND/OR link AND links to your GoogleScholar profile

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33 3. NETWORK Who s who, what s going on (Researchgate) Twitter (microblog) Blogs Facebook LinkedIn

34 Twitter BENEFITS: Quick to learn basics Publicise yourself/new research grants/papers To an increasing audience > no. followers increases and retweets to other people s audiences Find hotspots of relevant activity/people Build links with other key/interested people TO CONSIDER:? Just stick to facts, pass on news, new publications? Be more provocative and political? Include personal experiences

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37 Reading a Tweet The owner Time since tweet 3h Twitter and blogging may be an excellent way to combat gender bias by increasing visibility of female academics Hyperlink to more info 140 character message

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42 My Twitter profile over 6 mths People can unfollow you Slower increase while I m on holiday and not tweeting Following to push over 100! Kickstart: new followers after I followed a heap of new people

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45 Blogs BENEFITS A weblog of your thoughts and news from your field Another profile and way to gain public popularity I haven t used these yet We have a new Blog feed on our Southgate Website DOWNSIDES My current perception is they take too much time I d need to keep it up-to-date to be useful Not sure what the benefits are for me yet

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47 Facebook BENEFITS Interactive network with a group of like-minded people I do have 2 pages: personal and one for my Book, but not for work Public Health have one for their student group DOWNSIDES Needs constant updating and interaction (OK with/for a considerably sized group eg friends, students? ) Needs a dedicated person to run it?

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49 LinkedIn BENEFITS A public profile including your pubs, more like a CV Like a professional facebook - interactive Recommends only link-in with people you know Different set/group than on Twitter Has thematic discussion groups (useful vs time) More people I know are on here, in SA/Oz, cf ResGate I keep for public health (Twitter more for digital/e-health) Tells you when people have new job/position Can send personal message DOWNSIDES Need to set up detailed profile

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53 So Thank You Have a go at something And stay in touch! lareen.newman@flinders.edu.au ResearchGate, LinkedIn, GoogleScholar