Social media and research impact - Tracking Research Impact - Library at QUT

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How social media can help increase the impact of your research

"...if you want people to read your papers, make them open access, and let the community know (via blogs, twitter, etc) where to get them. Not rocket science. But worth spending time doing. Just dont develop a stats habit." - Melissa Terras, University College London

• The Impact of Social Media on the Dissemination of Research: Results of an Experiment / by Melissa Terras
• Altmetrics shows that citations can’t stand up to the full 31 flavours of research impact / by Heather Piwowar

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Twitter

www.twitter.com
Twitter can add extra value to almost any research project.
Tweet about each new publication, website update, conference presentation or new blog that your project completes. To gauge feedback, you could send a tweet that links to your research blog or papers and ask your followers for their feedback and comments.

Find out more from Using Twitter in university research, teaching, and impact activities: a guide for academics and researchers - link given below.

• #phdchat feed on Twitter
  A twitter channel where phd students from all over the world hang out and communicate
• Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities: a guide for academics and researchers
• What happens when you tween an open access paper?

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Blogging

      
The benefits of blogging about your research include:

• quicker dissemination of research findings
• quicker feedback and comments on your research from your audience
• the ability to increase downloads to your papers and potentially, citations, by linking to an open-access version in, for example, an institutional repository like QUT ePrints
• putting the spotlight on individual research projects rather than the journals they're published in
• the ability to provide context around your research projects
• explaining your research to a non-specialist audience or undergraduate students

Popular blogging platforms include:

• Wordpress
• blog.com
• Blogger
• Tumblr

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ImpactStory

• ImpactStory
  ImpactStory goes beyond traditional measurements of research output -- citations to papers -- to embrace a much broader evidence of use on social media such as Mendeley and Facebook. It can also discern between scholarly and public impact.
• See a sample report from ImpactStory

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Academia.edu

• academia.edu
  Academics use academia.edu to share their research, monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow.
• See a sample profile from academia.edu

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Mendeley

Mendeley is a stable, freely available citation manager with an academic social network that helps you organise your research, collaborate with others and discover new research.
Researchers can build a Mendeley profile and chart views and downloads of their research, join groups, and view popular articles within their fields.
Mendeley data is also becoming more integrated with tools like ImpactStory (listed above) so has benefits acroos all disciplines from the hard sciences to the social sciences and humanitites.

• Mendeley

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Social media and research impact - Tracking Research Impact - Library at QUT