Social media and research impact
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
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
Twitter
#phdchat feed on Twitter
A twitter channel where phd students from all over the world hang out and communicate
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a social networking site for professionals, mainly used for professional networking. There are millions of users worldwide.
The Thesis Whisperer on Twitter
Social media and research impact - Tracking research impact - Library guides at QUT
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