Kudos: Improving the Reachability and Research Impact

aleebrahim@Gmail.com
@aleebrahim
https://publons.com/researcher/1692944
https://scholar.google.com/citation
Nader Ale Ebrahim, PhD
Research Visibility and Impact Consultant
2nd March 2021
All of my presentations are available online at:
https://figshare.com/authors/Nader_Ale_Ebrahim/100797
@aleebrahim
Kudos: Improving the Reachability
and Research Impact

Abstract
Researchers need tools to disseminate the research findings and
publications and make sure that the high quality work of your research
reaches to the widest possible audience outside of your academic research
discipline. Kudos is one of the services that provides tools for researchers
to maximize the visibility and reach of their published papers. Authors can
make their articles more engaging for a digital readership by adding short
titles, lay summaries, impact statements and supplementary content. In this
webinar, I will try to explain about creating Kudos profiles and using social
media to engage the digital community with your research.
Keywords: H-index, Improve citations, Research tools, Bibliometrics, KUDOS,
Research impact, Research Visibility
Research Visibility and Impact Center-(RVnIC)
©2019-2021 Dr. Nader Ale Ebrahim 2

Research Tools Mind Map
Research Visibility and Impact Center-
(RVnIC) ©2019-2021 Dr. Nader Ale
Ebrahim
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
ZENODO
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID)
Kudos Innovations
& many more Research Tools
Source: https://pixabay.com/en/network-society-social-community-1020016/
Source: https://www.mindmeister.com/39583892/research-tools-by-nader-ale-ebrahim?fullscreen=1
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Overload of information
Growth curve for number of articles published per annum
Chart based on 3.26% pa growth in article numbers,the lower limit proposed by Mabe and Amin in
„Growth dynamics of scholarly and scientific journals”. Scientometrics, 51:1 (2001) 147–162
Published research articles are doubling every
twenty years
but readers’ time is not doubling!

More than 2.5 million scientific
articles are published each year,
and that number is rising. So it’s
increasingly important for you
to find ways to make your
article stand out.
Source: https://www.elsevier.com/connect/authors-update/nine-free-resources-to-promote-your-research

Authors cite a work because:
•It is relevant (in some way) to
what they’re writing
•They know it exists
©2019-2021 Dr. Nader Ale Ebrahim
Source: Gosling, C. (2013). Tips for improving citations 2nd Bibliometrics in Libraries Meeting: The Open University.
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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/opinion/sunday/should-all-research-papers-be-free.html?_r=0
Picture credit to: Scott Gelber
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Impact requires visibility
Source: Melinda Kenneway, Kudos (2015) Whose work is it anyway? Helping researchers maximize reach and impact of their work

Increase
Access
Increase
Download
Increase
Citations
Increase
Impact
Research Visibility and Impact Center-
(RVnIC) ©2019-2021 Dr. Nader Ale Ebrahim
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Source: Ale Ebrahim, Nader and Salehi, Hadi and Embi, Mohamed Amin and Habibi, Farid and Gholizadeh, Hossein and Motahar, Seyed
Mohammad and Ordi, Ali, Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency (October 23, 2013). International Education Studies, Vol. 6, No.
11, pp. 93-99, 2013, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2344585

33-Use all “Enhancing Visibility
and Impact” tools

Research Tools Mind Map: Networking

Kudos

KUDOS puts researchers
in the driving seat
tools to improve the impact of their work
Source: Melinda Kenneway, Kudos (2015) Whose work is it anyway? Helping researchers maximize reach and impact of their work 15

19% higher
article usage per day
for articles shared using the Kudos tools
compared to the control group

Source: http://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/pages/increase-impact-with-kudos

Welcome to the Kudos
Research Showcase. Explore
research stories from leading
researchers, groups and
institutions from around the
world, explained in plain
language on Kudos.
Source: https://www.growkudos.com/showcase/

Source: https://www.growkudos.com/projects/access-to-health-and-hazards-big-data-for-better-public-health

50+ publisher partners
Source: Charlie Rapple, Co-Founder Kudos (2015) Increasing the reach and impact of published research

?
Mentions
“
”
Shares
Bookmarks
Views
Clicks
Downloads
Citations
Traditional
media
How do you know what
effect your efforts to
share your work
are having on its
performance?
connects the dots!
How Kudos is different – sharing

Create a
profile
Connect
publications to
related
resources
Share research
Broaden
engagement
with research
View a range
of metrics
Manage
multiple
comms
channels
Map actions
against
metrics
Understand how
to maximize
reach and impact
Kudos ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
ORCID,
ResearchGate,
Academia.edu
✔ ✖ ✔ ✖ ✖ ✖ ✖ ✖
Google Scholar,
Scopus ✔ ✖ ✖ ✖ ✔ ✖ ✖ ✖
Institutional
repository, CRIS ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✖ ✖ ✖
Altmetric,
Impact Story,
Plum Analytics
✔ ✖ ✖ ✖ ✔ ✖ ✖ ✖
YouTube, Flickr,
Slideshare, Figshare ✔ ✔ ✖ ✖ ✖ ✖ ✖ ✖
VIVO, Incend,
ResearchFish ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✖ ✖ ✖ ✖
Twitter, Facebook,
LinkedIn,
Google+
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✖ ✖ ✖ ✖
ResearchMedia, The
Conversation,
Futurity, Bulletin,
Publiscize
✖ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✖ ✖ ✖ ✖
How Kudos compares to other services

The Kudos workflow
Kudos provides an independent, cross-publisher platform for researchers
to explain and share their work with wider audiences, and to measure the
impact this has on downloads, citations and altmetrics.
There are four simple stages involved for authors to achieve this:
Explain – Explain publications by adding plain language short titles and lay summaries,
and by highlighting what makes the work important; this serves to boost discoverability
Enrich – Enrich articles by adding links to related resources (including videos, slides,
data, etc.) that will help put author research in context
Share – Share publications by email and social media. Kudos will also share content and
links with other discovery channels to maximise reach
Measure – Measure the impact on article performance against an array of metrics,
including downloads, citations and altmetrics, providing a comprehensive picture of a
specific article’s success
Source: http://www.future-science-group.com/kudos/
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EXPLAIN ENRICH SHARE MEASURE

Step 1: Explain your publications
• Adding a short title to your publications will help make them easier to find and can help increase
citations. Make the title specific, descriptive, concise, and comprehensible to a broad range of readers.
Studies show that the construction of an article title has a significant impact on how frequently the
paper is cited [1]. Studies also show articles with short titles can be more highly cited [2].
• Adding a simple, non-technical explanation (lay summary) of your publication will make it easier to
find, and more accessible to a broader audience. Adding an explanation of what is most unique and/or
timely about your work (impact statement), and the difference it might make, will also help increase
readership.
• Kudos will deposit this additional information about your article with a range of discovery services,
all linking back to your publication, to ensure it is even easier to find, read and cite.
• Useful resources to help you write lay summaries and impact statements:
• http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/how-guides/write-lay-summary
• http://www2.ncri.org.uk/ctrad/documents/ctrad_how_to_write_a_good_lay_summary_nov_2012.pdf
• http://blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/2011/06/15/writing-a-lay-summary-is-easy-right/
• http://www.southampton.ac.uk/ris/funding/impact.html
• http://www.sfi.ie/funding/sfi-research-impact/impact-statements/what-makes-a-good-impact-statement.html
• http://agsci.oregonstate.edu/research/writingimpacts
Source: https://www.growkudos.com/about/improve-my-results
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Authors write a short title, lay summary and
impact statement.

What is plain language?
"A communication is in plain language if its wording,
structure, and design are so clear that the intended
readers can readily find what they need,
understand it, and use it." Check your writing
against the plain language checklist.
Source: http://centerforplainlanguage.org/ 28

Check your writing against the plain language checklist
• Does document meet the readers’ needs?
• Is the message clear?
• Are the paragraphs effective?
• Are the sentences effective?
• Are the words effective?
• Have I used headings effectively?
• Did I use list and tables?
• Have I checked the spelling and grammar?
• Does it look easy to read?
Source: http://centerforplainlanguage.org/ 29

Step 2: Enrich your publications
• Link your publications to related resources such as images,
videos, blogs, data sets etc. These additional resources also help
give readers a broader view of your work and can help increase
citations.
• Studies that made data available in a public repository received
9% more citations than similar studies for which the data was not
made available. Publicly available data was significantly (p=0.006)
associated with a 69% increase in citations, independently of
journal impact factor, date of publication, and author country of
origin using linear regression [3]. Evidence also exists from
individual publishers that linking videos to articles can increase
downloads.
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Authors link related materials to their article,
book or book chapter.

Step 3: Share your publications
• Sharing your publications by email and social media can
significantly increase usage and citations. For example, one
study showed that highly tweeted articles are 11 times
more likely to be highly cited than less tweeted articles [4].
• Significant evidence also exists that promoting individual
articles generally positively impacts on publication
performance. One study showed that the difference in
citation count for promoted articles versus non- promoted
articles can still be observed for more than 3 years post
publication [5].
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Authors share links to their publications by email
and through social media.
SHARE

Authors can track the impact of this against
a wide range of metrics.
MEASURE

import the citations from ORCID
into your Kudos
• First sign in to Kudos and select “Manage Account” from the
My Tools drop down menu. Then, simply click the “create or
connect your ORCID iD” button. Once your ORCID iD is
connected to your Kudos account, Kudos can retrieve the list
of publications you have added to your ORCID record and
those you add in the future. These publications will appear
on your “My Profile” page on Kudos.
• If you haven’t associated any publications with your ORCID
record yet please create your ORCID publication list. See
“How do I create my ORCID publication list?” for further
information.
Source: https://www.growkudos.com/about/orcid
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Source: Martín-Martín, A., Thelwall, M., Orduna-Malea, E., & Delgado López-Cózar, E. (2020). Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Scopus,
Dimensions, Web of Science, and OpenCitations’ COCI: a multidisciplinary comparison of coverage via citations. Scientometrics.
doi:10.1007/s11192-020-03690-4

aleebrahim@Gmail.com
@aleebrahim
https://publons.com/researcher/1692944
http://scholar.google.com/citations
Nader Ale Ebrahim, PhD
Research Visibility and Impact Consultant
All of my presentations are available online at:
https://figshare.com/authors/Nader_Ale_Ebrahim/100797
@aleebrahim
Thank you

1. Ale Ebrahim, S., Ashtari, A., Pedram, M. Z., & Ale Ebrahim, N. (2019). Publication Trends in Drug Delivery and Magnetic Nanoparticles.
Nanoscale Research Letters, 14(59). doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s11671-019-2994-y
2. Elaish, M. M., Shuib, L., Ghani, N. A., Mujtaba, G., & Ale Ebrahim, N. (2019). A Bibliometric Analysis of M-Learning from Topic Inception to
2015. International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation, 13(1), 91-112. doi: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMLO.2019.10016605
3. Ghanbari Baghestan, A., Khaniki, H., Kalantari, A., Akhtari-Zavare, M., Farahmand, E., Tamam, E., . . . Danaee, M. (2019). A Crisis in "Open
Access": Should Communication Scholarly Outputs Take 77 Years to Become Open Access? SAGE Open, 9(3), 1-8. doi:
https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244019871044
4. Hussein, M. H., Ow, S. H., Loh, S. C., Thong, M.-K., & Ale Ebrahim, N. (2019). Effects of Digital Game-Based Learning on Elementary Science
Learning: A Systematic Review. IEEE Access, 7(1), 62465-62478. doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2916324
5. Khodabandelou, R., Ale Ebrahim, N., Amoozegar, A., & Mehran, G. (2019). Revisiting Three Decades Of Educational Research In Iran: A
Bibliometric Analysis. Iranian Journal of Comparative Education, 2(1), 1-21. doi:10.22034/ijce.2019.187779.1002
6. Nordin, N., Samsudin, M.-A., Abdul-Khalid, S.-N., & Ale Ebrahim, N. (2019). Firms' sustainable practice research in developing countries:
Mapping the cited literature by Bibliometric analysis approach. International Journal of Sustainable Strategic Management, 7(1/2). doi:
https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSSM.2019.099036
7. Parnianifard, A., Azfanizam, A., Ariffin, M., Ismail, M., & Ale Ebrahim, N. (2019). Recent developments in metamodel based robust black-box
simulation optimization: An overview. Decision Science Letters, 8(1), 17-44. doi: https://doi.org/10.5267/j.dsl.2018.5.004
8. Qadir, K. W., Zafar, Q., Ale Ebrahim, N., Ahmad, Z., Sulaiman, K., Akram, R., & Nazeeruddin, M. K. (2019). A methodical review of the
literature referred to the Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs): bibliometrics analysis and road mapping. Chinese Physics B. doi:
https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-1056/ab4577
9. Ale Ebrahim, S., Ashtari, A., Pedram, M. Z., Sanati-Nezhad, A., & Ale Ebrahim, N. (2020). Publication Trends in Exosomes Nanoparticles for
Cancer Detection. International Journal of Nanomedicine, 15, 4453-4470. doi: https://doi.org/10.2147/IJN.S247210
10. Ale Ebrahim, S., Poshtan, J., Jamali, S. M., & Ale Ebrahim, N. (2020). Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Time-Series Classification
using Deep Learning. IEEE Access, 8, 90202 - 90215. doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2993538
11. Mohammadi Ziarani, G., Mohajer, F., Jamali, S. M., & Ale Ebrahim, N. (2020). Quantitative and Qualitative bibliometric scope toward the
Synthesis of Rose Oxide as a Natural Product in perfumery. Current Organic Synthesis, 17(8). doi:
https://doi.org/10.2174/1872208314666200722161044
12. Nordin, N., Khalid, S.-N. A., Samsudin, M. A., & Ale Ebrahim, N. (2020). Bibliometric Analysis of Publication Trends in Family Firms' Social
Capital in Emerging Economies Journal of Entrepreneurship, Business and Economics, 8(1), 144-179. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12730967.v1
13. Samsudin, M. A., Jamali, S. M., Zain, A. N. M., & Ale Ebrahim, N. (2020). The Effect of STEM Project Based Learning on Self-Efficacy among
High-School Physics Students. Journal of Turkish Science Education, 17(1), 94-108. doi: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3574024
14. Yusop, F. D., Ghaffar, F. A., Danaee, M., Firdaus, A., Hamzaid, N. A., Hassan, Z. F. A., . . . Chen, Y. M. (2020). TWO DECADES OF RESEARCH ON
EARLY CAREER FACULTIES (ECFs): A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF TRENDS ACROSS REGIONS. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities
(JSSH), 28(1), 325 - 342. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12008841.v1
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References
1. Ale Ebrahim, Nader and Salehi, Hadi and Embi, Mohamed Amin and Habibi,
Farid and Gholizadeh, Hossein and Motahar, Seyed Mohammad and Ordi, Ali,
Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency (October 23, 2013).
International Education Studies, Vol. 6, No. 11, pp. 93-99, 2013, Available at
SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2344585
2. Mabe and Amin in „Growth dynamics of scholarly and scientific journals”.
Scientometrics, 51:1 (2001) 147–162
3. Melinda Kenneway, Kudos (2015) Whose work is it anyway? Helping
researchers maximize reach and impact of their work
4. Charlie Rapple, Co-Founder Kudos (2015) Increasing the reach and impact of
published research
5. Martín-Martín, A., Thelwall, M., Orduna-Malea, E., & Delgado López-Cózar, E.
(2020). Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Scopus, Dimensions, Web of
Science, and OpenCitations’ COCI: a multidisciplinary comparison of coverage
via citations. Scientometrics. doi:10.1007/s11192-020-03690-4

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