In order to improve the quality of systematic researches, various tools have been developed by well-known scientific institutes sporadically. Dr. Nader Ale Ebrahim has collected these sporadic tools under one roof in a collection named “Research Tool Box”. The toolbox contains over 720 tools so far, classified in 4 main categories: Literature-review, Writing a paper, Targeting suitable journals, as well as Enhancing visibility and impact factor.
Friday, 17 January 2020
Some tips for promoting your research online and tracking how it’s doing
Some tips for promoting your research online and tracking how it’s doing
After doing the research and getting your outputs published, it can
feel like the dissemination will surely take care of itself – you can
tweet it, make it open access on Pure (if the publisher allows) and let
your networks do the rest right? This works to an extent, but there are
some great tools out there to push it even further.
Figshare
Set up in 2019, Edge Hill Figshare
is a home for any research materials worth sharing that don’t have a
home elsewhere such as datasets, figures, conference presentations, or
posters. These can be added to Pure in some cases, but Figshare
visualises them an brings them to life. For example, by sharing a poster
in Figshare like this PhD student has done,
you can connect it to a global community, give it a DOI, and track any
views, downloads, or altmetrics activity. This exposure also provides an
opportunity direct traffic back to your research outputs. To get
started, just go to the site, log in and share something. Learning
Services can provide, help, advice, or training sessions.
Altmetrics
Altmetrics
track research impact via social media channels, websites, policy
documents, blogs, Wikipedia, etc. They demonstrate impact far quicker
than citations, and can track engagement beyond academia. For example,
one 2019 study about how the human gaze can deter seagulls swooping to
take food like chips received global exposure across news media, and this is reflected in the altmetric count, but in academica it has yet to accrue many citations.
An
Altmetric ‘donut’ showing the score received by the paper ‘Herring
gulls respond to human gaze direction’. The different colours represent
different sources of impact.
Workshop: ‘Promoting Research Using Social Media’
On 25 March 2020, Dr Costas Gabrielatos from English, History and
Creative Writing is running this workshop. It discusses the combined use
of academic networking websites (e.g. Research Gate, Academia) and
social media to make reseach visible and accessible. All staff and
research students are welcome – either book via MyView or email
research@edgehill.ac.uk.
‘Maximizing dissemination and engaging readers: The other 50% of an author’s day: A case study’
This paper
has some great tips for disseminating research across and beyond our
regular bubbles echo chambers. This includes harnessing the power of
influencers and taking the opportunity of conference hashtags.
The Conversation
A recent article in The Conversation published by an Edge Hill academic
Definitely worth trying, this platform enables researchers to work
with journalists to present their research for broader audiences and
reach new readers. The company is coming on campus in February and March and you can book a one-to-one with one of their highly expereinced editors.
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