Sunday, 13 March 2016

NCI at Frederick: Kudos: Support for increasing the reach and impact of your publications

Source: https://ncifrederick.cancer.gov/ScientificLibrary/SpotlightNews/Kudos.aspx

Kudos: Support for increasing the reach and impact of your publications

The Scientific Library is working with a new service
called Kudos, to help you maximize the reach and impact of your
published work.
It’s quick too – it takes on average 15 minutes to
explain your work in plain language and share it via your email, web and
social networks.
This makes your work more visible and accessible, and
enables you to track the effect of the different places you share it,
against a range of metrics including full text downloads,
altmetrics and citations.

By bringing together your communications activities with
this range of publication metrics,
Kudos is uniquely able to help you decide how and where
to communicate about your work. In a pilot program,
publications that were shared through the Kudos tools
received on average 19% more downloads than those in a control group.
Kudos is free and easy to use:

www.growkudos.com/go/ncif

For more details, visit www.growkudos.com/about/researchers,
watch this short introductory video or read through the
FAQ below.

More information in the Kudos User Guide

Please contact the Scientific Library,
if you have any questions about Kudos.

Kudos FAQ

What is Kudos? A free web-based service for increasing the reach and impact of published research.
Around 60,000 researchers are signed up to use Kudos, from over 10,000 institutions in over 200 countries.
Why is the Scientific Library participating? We are
exploring different ways to support NCI at Frederick researchers,
and helping to encourage innovation at NCI at
Frederick. As part of the Kudos institutional pilot, the Library will
receive institutional
access to reports on which publications are being
promoted via Kudos, and to what effect. The Library will be working
with NCI at Frederick
administrators to determine the value of the
information in these reports during the pilot phase.
What do researchers have to do? Register, find a
publication or two, explain them in plain language,
and use Kudos to share them via your existing email,
web and social networks – then sit back and watch the increase in
usage!
Kudos uniquely helps you to measure the effect of
these actions on downloads, altmetrics and citations. Once you see the
system working for your work,
you can go back and find, explain and share other
publications.
What’s in it for me? Sharing your work, and creating
simple descriptions that Kudos can share on your behalf,
maximizes the likelihood of it being found and
applied – both within, and beyond, your field. This helps increase its
impact;
in a pilot program, publications that were shared
through the Kudos tools received on average 19% more downloads than
those in a control group.
How does this differ from other services that researchers use?
Kudos is the only toolkit specifically designed
to help you take control of the reach and impact of
your published work, to provide tools and guidance for explaining and
sharing your
research for wider audiences, and to bring together
in one place multiple datasets about the performance of your
publications.

ORCID: gives you a unique identifier, and enables
you to list your publications. If you have done this, you can connect
your
ORCID and Kudos accounts to save you doing this
part of the process again when you use Kudos to explain and share your
work.
More information on ORCID
ResearchGate: allows you to create a profile but
does not provide tools for increasing the reach and impact of your work,

and does not bring in metrics from other systems
to give you a one-stop view of how your publications are performing.

It’s a pilot – what happens when it ends? The researcher service is free
so you will still be able to use it.
The only thing that would end is our institutional
access to reports on which publications are being worked on in Kudos,
and to what effect.
What evidence supports the Kudos concept? A number of interesting studies build the case for Kudos, for example:

• Publications with shorter / simpler titles attract more citations:

C.E. Paiva et al (2012).
Articles with short titles describing the results are cited more often.
Clinics (Sao Paulo). (doi: 10.6061/clinics/2012(05)17)
T.S. Jacques and N.J. Sebire (2010).
The impact of article titles on citation hits: an analysis of general and specialist medical journals.
The impact of article titles on citation hits: an analysis of general and specialist medical journals.
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Short Reports. (doi:10.1258/shorts.2009.100020)

• Lay communication contributes to scientific impact: