About one-fifth of current scientific papers are being shared on Twitter. With 230 million active users and 24 percent of the U.S. online population using the microblogging platform, hopes are high that tweets mentioning scientific articles reflect some type of interest by the general public and might even be able to measure the societal impact of research. However, early studies show that most of the engagement with scientific papers on Twitter takes place among members of academia and thus reflects visibility within the scientific community rather than impact on society. At the same time, some tweets do not involve any human engagement but rather are generated automatically by Twitter bots.
This talk focuses on identifying audiences on Twitter and teaches participants how to collect, analyze, visualize, and interpret diffusion patterns of scientific articles on Twitter. The course provides an overview of Altmetrics research and present the challenges – including methods and first results – of classifying Twitter user groups, with a particular focus on identifying members of the general public and measuring societal impact. The course will provide hands-on exercises and instructions on how to analyze by whom, when, and how scientific papers are shared on Twitter.
Speaker: Stefanie Haustein, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa
Developing a Professional Social Media Presence on Twitter – Tips and Strateg...SC CTSI at USC and CHLA
When used to support and promote professional activities, social media can be a powerful tool for faculty, researchers, and clinicians. Platforms like Twitter make it easy and convenient to disseminate research, expand professional networks, and interact with new audiences. Given all the potential benefits, it is important to develop an intentional social media strategy that will enhance one’s career.
This webinar provides social media guidance for researchers and academics who are looking to build a professional, digital presence. Social media case studies, step-by-step instructions for conducting a “digital audit” and recommended tips for social media use are presented.
Effective use of academic and social media networks for endorsing publicationsSC CTSI at USC and CHLA
Do you know how to effectively promote your publications? Researchers need to ensure that their research study has gained maximum visibility for both, significant impact on the academic community and increased citation count. “Digital networking” is a powerful means through which the academic community can boost the reach of their study. This webinar will give a detailed overview of the recommended strategies for effective research promotion on academic and social media platforms and optimizing visibility of the published articles.
After this webinar, researchers will have a better understanding of the following:
Understanding the significance of research promotion
Overview of traditional ways of research promotion
Popular academic and social media networks
Choosing the right channel for promotion
Drawbacks of using social media for academic purposes
Measuring the impact of the applied promotional strategy
Citations—often termed as intellectual transactions, acknowledgment of intellectual debts, and conceptual association—are a link between the author’s current study and already published work. It not only provides credibility to the author’s work but also helps funders evaluate the impact of the research study. Citation indexes are maintained for information retrieval of both cited and citing work, facilitating the literature search process. It also helps authors in identifying the number of citations that their papers have received. Citation data is considered as a legitimate measure to rank authors, journals, and publishers. Through this webinar, we aim to provide information about citation indexing and how authors and publishers can get indexed in established citation databases.
Social Media and the 21st-Century Scholar: How Researchers Can Harness Social...SC CTSI at USC and CHLA
Date: Mar 6, 2019
Topic: Social Media and the 21st-Century Scholar: How Researchers Can Harness Social Media to Amplify Their Career
Speaker: Teresa M. Chan, MD, MHPE, Assistant Professor, Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
Overview: Improving health care requires better dissemination of research discoveries to reach practitioners, patients, and the public. Effective scholarship is essential to achieve this goal. The speaker Dr. Chan argues that it is "incumbent on scientists and scholars to use every tool in their armamentarium, including social media, to reach their intended audiences."
Utilization of Twitter by early career women in academic medicine and science...SC CTSI at USC and CHLA
Date: October 10th, 2018
Speaker: Jaime D. Lewis, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Cincinnati
Overview: This webinar will highlight different ways of using Twitter for professional development to obtain the support women in academic medicine and science are otherwise lacking.
The social network Twitter will be explored as a supplemental method for navigating the networks of academic medicine. Use cases include (1) access to role models, (2) peer-to-peer interactions, and continuous education, and (3) connections with those entering the pipeline—students, trainees, and menses.
Learning objectives:
- Describe the social network Twitter as a supplemental method for navigating the networks of academic medicine.
- Understand the use of Twitter in order to:
- find role models,
- develop peer-to-peer interactions,
- foster your education, and
- connect with those entering the pipeline—students, trainees, and mentees.
Global digital context
Social Media, a definition
Social Media policies?
Digital identity – the ‘research professional’
Social Media tools for academia?
Social Media – a new data source
Social Media in Research –
what considerations?
Citing Social Media sources
Value of Social Media?
Using social media to promote your researchHazel Hall
Slides from a workshop for academics, researchers, and PhD students (1) to address the need to enhance the visibility of their work, (2) to raise awareness of opportunities for developing professional networks offered by social media (e.g. to connect to peers and collaborators, and engage with the work of others as they engage with theirs); (3) to discuss strategies for the development of presences on, and use of, social media.
Developing a Professional Social Media Presence on Twitter – Tips and Strateg...SC CTSI at USC and CHLA
When used to support and promote professional activities, social media can be a powerful tool for faculty, researchers, and clinicians. Platforms like Twitter make it easy and convenient to disseminate research, expand professional networks, and interact with new audiences. Given all the potential benefits, it is important to develop an intentional social media strategy that will enhance one’s career.
This webinar provides social media guidance for researchers and academics who are looking to build a professional, digital presence. Social media case studies, step-by-step instructions for conducting a “digital audit” and recommended tips for social media use are presented.
Effective use of academic and social media networks for endorsing publicationsSC CTSI at USC and CHLA
Do you know how to effectively promote your publications? Researchers need to ensure that their research study has gained maximum visibility for both, significant impact on the academic community and increased citation count. “Digital networking” is a powerful means through which the academic community can boost the reach of their study. This webinar will give a detailed overview of the recommended strategies for effective research promotion on academic and social media platforms and optimizing visibility of the published articles.
After this webinar, researchers will have a better understanding of the following:
Understanding the significance of research promotion
Overview of traditional ways of research promotion
Popular academic and social media networks
Choosing the right channel for promotion
Drawbacks of using social media for academic purposes
Measuring the impact of the applied promotional strategy
Citations—often termed as intellectual transactions, acknowledgment of intellectual debts, and conceptual association—are a link between the author’s current study and already published work. It not only provides credibility to the author’s work but also helps funders evaluate the impact of the research study. Citation indexes are maintained for information retrieval of both cited and citing work, facilitating the literature search process. It also helps authors in identifying the number of citations that their papers have received. Citation data is considered as a legitimate measure to rank authors, journals, and publishers. Through this webinar, we aim to provide information about citation indexing and how authors and publishers can get indexed in established citation databases.
Social Media and the 21st-Century Scholar: How Researchers Can Harness Social...SC CTSI at USC and CHLA
Date: Mar 6, 2019
Topic: Social Media and the 21st-Century Scholar: How Researchers Can Harness Social Media to Amplify Their Career
Speaker: Teresa M. Chan, MD, MHPE, Assistant Professor, Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
Overview: Improving health care requires better dissemination of research discoveries to reach practitioners, patients, and the public. Effective scholarship is essential to achieve this goal. The speaker Dr. Chan argues that it is "incumbent on scientists and scholars to use every tool in their armamentarium, including social media, to reach their intended audiences."
Utilization of Twitter by early career women in academic medicine and science...SC CTSI at USC and CHLA
Date: October 10th, 2018
Speaker: Jaime D. Lewis, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Cincinnati
Overview: This webinar will highlight different ways of using Twitter for professional development to obtain the support women in academic medicine and science are otherwise lacking.
The social network Twitter will be explored as a supplemental method for navigating the networks of academic medicine. Use cases include (1) access to role models, (2) peer-to-peer interactions, and continuous education, and (3) connections with those entering the pipeline—students, trainees, and menses.
Learning objectives:
- Describe the social network Twitter as a supplemental method for navigating the networks of academic medicine.
- Understand the use of Twitter in order to:
- find role models,
- develop peer-to-peer interactions,
- foster your education, and
- connect with those entering the pipeline—students, trainees, and mentees.
Global digital context
Social Media, a definition
Social Media policies?
Digital identity – the ‘research professional’
Social Media tools for academia?
Social Media – a new data source
Social Media in Research –
what considerations?
Citing Social Media sources
Value of Social Media?
Using social media to promote your researchHazel Hall
Slides from a workshop for academics, researchers, and PhD students (1) to address the need to enhance the visibility of their work, (2) to raise awareness of opportunities for developing professional networks offered by social media (e.g. to connect to peers and collaborators, and engage with the work of others as they engage with theirs); (3) to discuss strategies for the development of presences on, and use of, social media.
Social networking services have been adapted by the academia and have been aptly termed academic social networking services (ASNS).
ASNS, may foster multi-disciplinary collaborations by providing a platform for researchers from diverse backgrounds to find one another and cooperate on issues of common interests.ASNs have for many become the primary way to provide access to one’s research output, outpacing all other types of online locations such as personal websites and repositories.
Presentation to the ESRC Scottish Graduate School of Social Science on the evaluation of the digital impact of research. There is a video associated with these slides available at https://vimeo.com/149665866
Introduction to “Research Tools”: Tools for Collecting, Writing, Publishing, ...Nader Ale Ebrahim
“Research Tools” enable researchers to collect, organize, analyze, visualize and publicized research outputs. I have collected over 700 tools that enable researchers to follow the correct path in research and to ultimately produce high-quality research outputs with more accuracy and efficiency. “Research Tools” consists of a hierarchical set of nodes. It has four main nodes: (1) Searching the literature, (2) Writing a paper, (3) Targeting suitable journals, and (4) Enhancing visibility and impact of the research. This presentation will provide an overview to the most important tools from searching literature to disseminating researcher outputs. The e-skills learned from the workshop are useful across various research disciplines and research institutions.
10 SIMPLE STEPS TO BUILDING A REPUTATION AS A RESEARCHER, IN YOUR EARLY CAREERMicah Altman
A talk sponsored by the MIT Postdoctoral Association with support from the Office of the Vice President for Research.
In the rapidly changing world of research and scholarly communications researchers are faced with a rapidly growing range of options to publicly disseminate, review, and discuss research—options which will affect their long-term reputation. Junior scholars must be especially thoughtful in choosing how much effort to invest in dissemination and communication, and what strategies to use.
In this talk, I briefly discuss a number of review of bibliometric and scientometric studies of quantitative research impact, a sampling of influential qualitative writings advising this area, and an environmental scan of emerging researcher profile systems. Based on this review, and on professional experience on dozens of review panels, I suggest some steps junior researchers may consider when disseminating their research and participating in public review and discussion.
Ogólna prezentacja na temat dwóch dedykowanych dla badaczy sieci społecznych: Mendeley i Academia. Bardziej dla początkujących niż dla zaawansowanych użytkowników. Zachęcam do zgłaszania błędów, uwag itp.
Outline of the UCSF approach to Research Networking, which focuses on rapid iterations of adding new data sources and features to see what works, and abandon what doesn't work.
Academic Social Networks : Challenges and opportunities. 7th UNICA Scholarly ...pascal aventurier
7th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar. 27-28 th November 2014, Univ Sapienza Roma
Academic social Networks : presentation, main functionalities, interests and dangers
Keynote speech at the Eureopan Academy of Management at a panel on the future of business schools. Discusses the case for and against becoming more relevant.
The case for:
Engagement leads to better research
Ranking-mania leads us astray
Engagement through new media is easy
The case against:
Has the quest for relevance gone too far?
Are we asking too much of (junior) academics?
Let’s not create opposing “camps”
Presentation and workshop notes from session on how to apply the Researcher Development Framework to library and information service provision for research/e support
Uses case studies of different types of researchers.
Workshop notes integrated into the presentation
ResearchGate and Academia: Networks for Researchers to Improve Research ImpactNader Ale Ebrahim
Researchers needs to remove many traditional obstacles to reach the general public. Academic social networking allows you to connect with other researchers in your field, share your publications, and get feedback on your non-peer-reviewed work. It gives you another place to establish your name and research and perhaps even collaborate with others. The academic social networking, making your work more widely discoverable and easily available. The two best known academic social networking are ResearchGate and Academia.edu. These sites offer an instant technique to monitor what other people are looking at in your field of research. Both networks are offer roughly the same features. ResearchGate is more closely focused on collaboration and interaction, while Academia.edu often functions more as an academic version of LinkedIn, with an online CV and as a place to share your publications.
Disseminating Research and Managing Your Online Reputation Katja Reuter, PhD
This slide deck was presented at the 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting. It provided a general overview of the topic and addresses the following learning objectives include: (1) Understand the potential and limitations of digital dissemination of research; (2)
Understand relevant health content regulations, guidelines and ethics, (3) Understand the concept of and tools for measuring the results of one’s digital efforts, and (4) Understand the concept of and tools for online reputation management.
Incorporating a research-minded approach to professional practiceHazel Hall
Opening keynote presentation to the European Association for Health Information and Libraries, the International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists, and the International Clinical Librarian Conference, University of Edinburgh, Wednesday 10th June 2015
Serach, Serendipity & the Researcher ExperienceNASIG
Presenter: Lettie Conrad, Executive Program Manager, Discovery & Product Analysis, SAGE Publishing
When considering academic researchers’ information-seeking and retrieval needs, we often focus on search – optimizing for search, Google-like search for libraries, user preferences for one-box quick-search tools, and so on. But what about unplanned instances of discovery? Are new technologies, such as text mining and natural language processing, enabling new pathways that lead researchers to relevant material, perhaps even leading to surprising new connections across disciplines? Conversely, with the prevalence of satisficing, does serendipity even play a role when searching for information about a scholarly topic?_x000D_
Through a study of undergraduate students and their faculty members, as well as a survey of publisher and website offerings, this talk will summarize common user pathways and how today’s students and faculty use content recommendation tools with recommendations for how libraries and the scholarly communications community might respond.
This presentation was given by Monica D.T. Rysavy, Ph.D. and Russell Michalak at #BUDSC18, Bucknell University's Digital Scholarship Conference in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania in October 2018.
WEBINAR: Joining the "buzz": the role of social media in raising research vi...HELIGLIASA
Joining the ‘buzz’ : the role of social media in raising research visibility: Traditional bibliometric methods of evaluating academic research, such as journal impact factors and article citations, have been supplemented in the past 5-10 years by the development of altmetrics (alternative metrics/article level metrics). Altmetrics measures aspects of the impact of a work, such as references in data and knowledge bases, article views, downloads and mentions in social media and news media.
This webinar (based on a presentation of the same name at the LIASA conference on 24th September 2014) gives a brief background to altmetrics and demonstrates how Rhodes University, Grahamstown, librarians are using social media to raise the visibility of the research output of their institution.
Presented by Eileen Shepherd, Principal Librarian, Science & Pharmacy, Rhodes University Library
Joining the ‘buzz’ : the role of social media in raising research visibility ...Eileen Shepherd
[This presentation is based on my previous presentation, of the same title, at the LIASA 2014 conference. It was presented as a webinar for LIASA Higher Education Libraries Interest Group on 6/11/2014]
Traditional bibliometric methods of evaluating academic research, such as journal impact factors and article citations, have been supplemented in the past 5-10 years by the development of altmetrics (alternative metrics or article level metrics). Altmetrics measures impact of research, data and publications, such as references in data and knowledge bases, article views, downloads and mentions in social media and news media. This presentation gives a brief background to altmetrics and demonstrates how Rhodes University librarians are using social media to raise the visibility of the research output of their institution. (Rhodes University is in Grahamstown, South Africa)
Social networking services have been adapted by the academia and have been aptly termed academic social networking services (ASNS).
ASNS, may foster multi-disciplinary collaborations by providing a platform for researchers from diverse backgrounds to find one another and cooperate on issues of common interests.ASNs have for many become the primary way to provide access to one’s research output, outpacing all other types of online locations such as personal websites and repositories.
Presentation to the ESRC Scottish Graduate School of Social Science on the evaluation of the digital impact of research. There is a video associated with these slides available at https://vimeo.com/149665866
Introduction to “Research Tools”: Tools for Collecting, Writing, Publishing, ...Nader Ale Ebrahim
“Research Tools” enable researchers to collect, organize, analyze, visualize and publicized research outputs. I have collected over 700 tools that enable researchers to follow the correct path in research and to ultimately produce high-quality research outputs with more accuracy and efficiency. “Research Tools” consists of a hierarchical set of nodes. It has four main nodes: (1) Searching the literature, (2) Writing a paper, (3) Targeting suitable journals, and (4) Enhancing visibility and impact of the research. This presentation will provide an overview to the most important tools from searching literature to disseminating researcher outputs. The e-skills learned from the workshop are useful across various research disciplines and research institutions.
10 SIMPLE STEPS TO BUILDING A REPUTATION AS A RESEARCHER, IN YOUR EARLY CAREERMicah Altman
A talk sponsored by the MIT Postdoctoral Association with support from the Office of the Vice President for Research.
In the rapidly changing world of research and scholarly communications researchers are faced with a rapidly growing range of options to publicly disseminate, review, and discuss research—options which will affect their long-term reputation. Junior scholars must be especially thoughtful in choosing how much effort to invest in dissemination and communication, and what strategies to use.
In this talk, I briefly discuss a number of review of bibliometric and scientometric studies of quantitative research impact, a sampling of influential qualitative writings advising this area, and an environmental scan of emerging researcher profile systems. Based on this review, and on professional experience on dozens of review panels, I suggest some steps junior researchers may consider when disseminating their research and participating in public review and discussion.
Ogólna prezentacja na temat dwóch dedykowanych dla badaczy sieci społecznych: Mendeley i Academia. Bardziej dla początkujących niż dla zaawansowanych użytkowników. Zachęcam do zgłaszania błędów, uwag itp.
Outline of the UCSF approach to Research Networking, which focuses on rapid iterations of adding new data sources and features to see what works, and abandon what doesn't work.
Academic Social Networks : Challenges and opportunities. 7th UNICA Scholarly ...pascal aventurier
7th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar. 27-28 th November 2014, Univ Sapienza Roma
Academic social Networks : presentation, main functionalities, interests and dangers
Keynote speech at the Eureopan Academy of Management at a panel on the future of business schools. Discusses the case for and against becoming more relevant.
The case for:
Engagement leads to better research
Ranking-mania leads us astray
Engagement through new media is easy
The case against:
Has the quest for relevance gone too far?
Are we asking too much of (junior) academics?
Let’s not create opposing “camps”
Presentation and workshop notes from session on how to apply the Researcher Development Framework to library and information service provision for research/e support
Uses case studies of different types of researchers.
Workshop notes integrated into the presentation
ResearchGate and Academia: Networks for Researchers to Improve Research ImpactNader Ale Ebrahim
Researchers needs to remove many traditional obstacles to reach the general public. Academic social networking allows you to connect with other researchers in your field, share your publications, and get feedback on your non-peer-reviewed work. It gives you another place to establish your name and research and perhaps even collaborate with others. The academic social networking, making your work more widely discoverable and easily available. The two best known academic social networking are ResearchGate and Academia.edu. These sites offer an instant technique to monitor what other people are looking at in your field of research. Both networks are offer roughly the same features. ResearchGate is more closely focused on collaboration and interaction, while Academia.edu often functions more as an academic version of LinkedIn, with an online CV and as a place to share your publications.
Disseminating Research and Managing Your Online Reputation Katja Reuter, PhD
This slide deck was presented at the 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting. It provided a general overview of the topic and addresses the following learning objectives include: (1) Understand the potential and limitations of digital dissemination of research; (2)
Understand relevant health content regulations, guidelines and ethics, (3) Understand the concept of and tools for measuring the results of one’s digital efforts, and (4) Understand the concept of and tools for online reputation management.
Incorporating a research-minded approach to professional practiceHazel Hall
Opening keynote presentation to the European Association for Health Information and Libraries, the International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists, and the International Clinical Librarian Conference, University of Edinburgh, Wednesday 10th June 2015
Serach, Serendipity & the Researcher ExperienceNASIG
Presenter: Lettie Conrad, Executive Program Manager, Discovery & Product Analysis, SAGE Publishing
When considering academic researchers’ information-seeking and retrieval needs, we often focus on search – optimizing for search, Google-like search for libraries, user preferences for one-box quick-search tools, and so on. But what about unplanned instances of discovery? Are new technologies, such as text mining and natural language processing, enabling new pathways that lead researchers to relevant material, perhaps even leading to surprising new connections across disciplines? Conversely, with the prevalence of satisficing, does serendipity even play a role when searching for information about a scholarly topic?_x000D_
Through a study of undergraduate students and their faculty members, as well as a survey of publisher and website offerings, this talk will summarize common user pathways and how today’s students and faculty use content recommendation tools with recommendations for how libraries and the scholarly communications community might respond.
This presentation was given by Monica D.T. Rysavy, Ph.D. and Russell Michalak at #BUDSC18, Bucknell University's Digital Scholarship Conference in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania in October 2018.
WEBINAR: Joining the "buzz": the role of social media in raising research vi...HELIGLIASA
Joining the ‘buzz’ : the role of social media in raising research visibility: Traditional bibliometric methods of evaluating academic research, such as journal impact factors and article citations, have been supplemented in the past 5-10 years by the development of altmetrics (alternative metrics/article level metrics). Altmetrics measures aspects of the impact of a work, such as references in data and knowledge bases, article views, downloads and mentions in social media and news media.
This webinar (based on a presentation of the same name at the LIASA conference on 24th September 2014) gives a brief background to altmetrics and demonstrates how Rhodes University, Grahamstown, librarians are using social media to raise the visibility of the research output of their institution.
Presented by Eileen Shepherd, Principal Librarian, Science & Pharmacy, Rhodes University Library
Joining the ‘buzz’ : the role of social media in raising research visibility ...Eileen Shepherd
[This presentation is based on my previous presentation, of the same title, at the LIASA 2014 conference. It was presented as a webinar for LIASA Higher Education Libraries Interest Group on 6/11/2014]
Traditional bibliometric methods of evaluating academic research, such as journal impact factors and article citations, have been supplemented in the past 5-10 years by the development of altmetrics (alternative metrics or article level metrics). Altmetrics measures impact of research, data and publications, such as references in data and knowledge bases, article views, downloads and mentions in social media and news media. This presentation gives a brief background to altmetrics and demonstrates how Rhodes University librarians are using social media to raise the visibility of the research output of their institution. (Rhodes University is in Grahamstown, South Africa)
Joining the ‘buzz’ : the role of social media in raising research visibility at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa - HELIG Webinar presented by Eileen Shepherd
Research-Open Access-Social Media: A winning combinationEileen Shepherd
This presentation endeavours to show that social media and open access are a great couple, to provide a brief introduction to altmetrics – a non-traditional form of measuring scholarly impact and to demonstrate the use of social media in raising awareness and visibility of Rhodes University research
Research-Open Access-Social Media: a winning combination, presented by Eileen Shepherd at the Open Access Symposium on 21 October 2014 - Rhodes University Library
Weller social media as research data_psm15Katrin Weller
Presentation at "Preserving Social Media" (#psm15), London, October 27th 2015.
http://dpconline.org/events/details/96-preserving-socialmedia?xref=126%3ASocialMedia15
Disseminating Scientific Research via Twitter: Research Evidence and Practica...Katja Reuter, PhD
About one-fifth of current scientific papers are being shared on Twitter. With nearly 69 million active U.S. Twitter users (24% of the U.S. adult population) and 328 million monthly active users worldwide, Twitter is one of the biggest social networks worldwide. Understandably, hopes are high that tweets mentioning scientific articles and research findings can reach peers and the general public. Studies show that most of the engagement with scientific papers on Twitter takes place among members of academia and thus reflects visibility within the scientific community rather than impact on society. However, there are ways to reach the broader public. This webinar will provide an overview of using Twitter to reach peers and non-specialist groups, the relationship between tweets and citations, and provide tips for building an academic Twitter presence.
Speaker: Katja Reuter, PhD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Preventive Medicine at the Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC; Director of Digital Innovation and Communication for the Southern California Clinical and Translational Research Institute (SC CTSI).
Learning objectives:
1. Describe the strengths and limitations of using Twitter for the dissemination of scientific research.
2. Describe practical approaches for building an academic presence on Twitter.
3. Describe approaches to identify and reach different audiences on Twitter.
Stepping out of the echo chamber - Alternative indicators of scholarly commun...Andy Tattersall
This set of slides which was presented at Sheffield Hallam University and The London School of Hygene and Tropical Medicine. They showcase the many ways academics can leverage digital scholary communication tools to discover what is being said about their research and how best to respond to that conversation.
Communication has always been an integral part of the scientific endeavor. The work of a scientist will only be finished when it has been communicated. Social networks support both faster and more interactive ways of communicating Science to a wider audience. Twitter is among the most popular social networks at present, integrating a community of over 500 million users around the world. However, based on a 2014 survey, only 13% of 3,500 scientists worldwide actively visit Twitter.
Scientists can get a lot of benefits from using Twitter. It can be used for communicating research findings to the scientific community and to the public. Twitter allows users to follow Science influencers, to stay updated with research breakthroughs and opportunities, and to interact with other researchers. Twitter can also be helpful in research dissemination and readership. Previous studies have shown a strong association between science communication and citation rates. It also has a great potential to increase the reach of scientific messages and promote direct engagement with non-scientific audiences such as the public, media, policymakers, etc.
In today's world where there has been an alarming increase in anti-scientific trends and fake news, scientific voices are rapidly disappearing. Twitter is an excellent platform for scientists to craft a personal online brand to educate the public with evidence-based Science. To counter the perpetuation of fake news online, we need more scientists online who are willing to develop their own brands and to engage a generally bewildered populace.
This presentation will tackle the use of Twitter in Science communication, the benefits of using Twitter for researchers, and the steps on how scientists can maximize Twitter to advance their careers. Evidences showing the impact of Twitter in scientific production and dissemination, as well as networking and collaboration with other researchers will also be discussed.
E-Learn 2014 Abstract: Today digital footprints are left all over the Internet for others to find. This article reviews the means through which scholars can organize research and connect digital scholarship for increased visibility and impact. A survey of the literature on scholarship tools to provide connections for publishing records, academic citations, and digital identity management was done. The authors reviewed Researcher ID, ORCID, and Google Scholar Citations. The numbers of portals for synthesizing research output and related identity management platforms are increasing; however, understanding what this research impact might look like in the digital age can provide questions for assessment for understanding these traces of scholarship online.
Science dissemination 2.0: Social media for researchers (MTM-MSc 2022)Xavier Lasauca i Cisa
In this workshop (Master in Translational Medicine-MSc, University of Barcelona's Faculty of Medicine-Hospital Clínic, 25 May 2022) I summarised the benefits which can be gained from use of social media (specially Twitter, blogs and other networks and repositories) to support research activities, and I provided examples of these socialnetwork sites as tools for scientific communication, as well as resources to increase the diffusion, visibility and impact of the scientific production. Structure of the lecture: Introduction,The digital revolution, Altmetrics, Open science, Active listening, Twitter, Professional networking, Blogging, Sharing, Digital identity building, References to deepen and Conclusions.
Best Practices for Establishing an Effective Online Presence: A Panel Discussion for Academics
Overview: Join this expert panel session to learn best practices for establishing and maintaining an effective and engaging social media presence as a researcher and/or academic. Learn strategies for promoting your research, publications, conference talks and other efforts.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this webinar, you will be able to:
Create a plan to establish a social media presence that is engaging and effective.
Identify the benefits of using multiple platforms to reach various audiences.
Plan an approach that allows you to use social media in a way that showcases your accomplishments and presents your work to the public, stakeholders, funders, and your peers.
Education Resource Center Series: Engaging Techniques for Teaching Students &...SC CTSI at USC and CHLA
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to
Identify reasons why students/scholars struggle with scientific papers
Apply provided engagement strategies to our own teaching
Plan updates for how we teach scientific papers
Digital Scholar Webinar: Understanding and using PROSPERO: International pros...SC CTSI at USC and CHLA
This 60-minute webinar starts with an overview of why and how PROSPERO was developed. I will then show how to search the database and how to register systematic review protocol details and keep records up to date. Reflections on the 10 years since the launch of PROSPERO and the challenges the rapidly changing digital environment now presents will also be briefly covered.
Speaker
Dr. Alison Booth Senior Research Fellow, University of York, UK
Dr. Booth joined the York Trials Unit (YTU) in October 2015. She has experience in the design and conduct of a range of research methods, in particular systematic reviews, RCTs, and methodological studies. She has a background in radiography, clinical governance and research ethics. Alison is a Senior Research Fellow in YTU and also an Advisor and Impact Lead for the NIHR Research Design Service Yorkshire and Humber (RDS YH). Her particular interests are in knowledge translation, impact and transparency in research reporting.
Education Resource Center Workshop Series: Teaching, Training & Communicating...SC CTSI at USC and CHLA
This 60-minute interactive workshop "Teaching, Training & Communicating with Those in Science Denial" is based on research by Drs. Gale Sinatra and Barbara Hofer recently published in their book Science Denial: Why It Happens and What To Do About It. Facilitators, including one of the book's authors, present the causes and effects of science denial and 3 strategies to improve our science messaging to various audiences including while teaching, training, and communicating with those in science denial. Participants will work with colleagues in breakout groups to practice making their own scientific communications more effective and relatable. Most scientific communicators have not been trained in psychology, so this workshop is recommended for any university faculty and researchers in the sciences and/or those assisting faculty in the sciences with their courses or other educational offerings and trainings. This might also be of interest to TAs and graduate students pursuing a career in science and/or science teaching, and those in science fields working in community engagement and/or with the media.
Digital Scholar Webinar: Clinicaltrials.gov Registration and Reporting DocumentsSC CTSI at USC and CHLA
This 60-minute webinar covers the basic requirements for registration and results reporting requirements in Clinicaltrials.gov. Tips and tricks will be provided, as well as the most common issues to avoid to ensure a smooth and efficient process for public posting and updates to clinical studies. Learning Objectives At the conclusion of this webinar, participants will be able to identify internal contacts and resources available to assist with their Clinicaltrials.gov registration or results reporting.
Research Ethics Forum: Ethical Challenges in Trials of Human Genome Editing a...SC CTSI at USC and CHLA
In her 60-minute presentation, Professor Charo addressed Ethical Challenges in Trials of Human Genome Editing and Gene Therapy, as gene therapy and genome editing clinical trials involve ethical challenges not always found in other areas of research.
Facilitators, who are also some of the article's authors, present 3 common myths in online education and 6 related case studies from faculty who have busted those myths. Participants will work with colleagues in breakout groups to relate to the article by sharing other myths they held or heard, translating effective online teaching practices to in-person teaching, and focusing on how empathy and social interaction impact the learning experience. Particularly with many returning to in-person teaching, this workshop is recommended for university faculty and/or those assisting faculty with their courses or other educational offerings and trainings because effective online pedagogy can still be used for in-person learning.
Digital Scholar Webinar: Recruiting Research Participants Online Using RedditSC CTSI at USC and CHLA
This 50-minute presentation introduces r/SampleSize, a community on the website Reddit that allows for online participant recruitment without compulsory or immediate payment. It will provide an overview of best practices for recruiting participants on r/SampleSize. It will also compare r/SampleSize to Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), a widely used crowdsourcing platform for recruiting research participants.
Advice from the Battleground: Inside NIH Study Sections and Common Mistakes o...SC CTSI at USC and CHLA
The purpose of this seminar was to provide practical guidance to investigators who are submitting grant applications, discuss how the sections are evaluated, and go over common mistakes to avoid during the application process. The seminar included a panel of five speakers led by a moderator.
Cancer cell metabolism: special Reference to Lactate PathwayAADYARAJPANDEY1
Normal Cell Metabolism:
Cellular respiration describes the series of steps that cells use to break down sugar and other chemicals to get the energy we need to function.
Energy is stored in the bonds of glucose and when glucose is broken down, much of that energy is released.
Cell utilize energy in the form of ATP.
The first step of respiration is called glycolysis. In a series of steps, glycolysis breaks glucose into two smaller molecules - a chemical called pyruvate. A small amount of ATP is formed during this process.
Most healthy cells continue the breakdown in a second process, called the Kreb's cycle. The Kreb's cycle allows cells to “burn” the pyruvates made in glycolysis to get more ATP.
The last step in the breakdown of glucose is called oxidative phosphorylation (Ox-Phos).
It takes place in specialized cell structures called mitochondria. This process produces a large amount of ATP. Importantly, cells need oxygen to complete oxidative phosphorylation.
If a cell completes only glycolysis, only 2 molecules of ATP are made per glucose. However, if the cell completes the entire respiration process (glycolysis - Kreb's - oxidative phosphorylation), about 36 molecules of ATP are created, giving it much more energy to use.
IN CANCER CELL:
Unlike healthy cells that "burn" the entire molecule of sugar to capture a large amount of energy as ATP, cancer cells are wasteful.
Cancer cells only partially break down sugar molecules. They overuse the first step of respiration, glycolysis. They frequently do not complete the second step, oxidative phosphorylation.
This results in only 2 molecules of ATP per each glucose molecule instead of the 36 or so ATPs healthy cells gain. As a result, cancer cells need to use a lot more sugar molecules to get enough energy to survive.
Unlike healthy cells that "burn" the entire molecule of sugar to capture a large amount of energy as ATP, cancer cells are wasteful.
Cancer cells only partially break down sugar molecules. They overuse the first step of respiration, glycolysis. They frequently do not complete the second step, oxidative phosphorylation.
This results in only 2 molecules of ATP per each glucose molecule instead of the 36 or so ATPs healthy cells gain. As a result, cancer cells need to use a lot more sugar molecules to get enough energy to survive.
introduction to WARBERG PHENOMENA:
WARBURG EFFECT Usually, cancer cells are highly glycolytic (glucose addiction) and take up more glucose than do normal cells from outside.
Otto Heinrich Warburg (; 8 October 1883 – 1 August 1970) In 1931 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology for his "discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme.
WARNBURG EFFECT : cancer cells under aerobic (well-oxygenated) conditions to metabolize glucose to lactate (aerobic glycolysis) is known as the Warburg effect. Warburg made the observation that tumor slices consume glucose and secrete lactate at a higher rate than normal tissues.
Observation of Io’s Resurfacing via Plume Deposition Using Ground-based Adapt...Sérgio Sacani
Since volcanic activity was first discovered on Io from Voyager images in 1979, changes
on Io’s surface have been monitored from both spacecraft and ground-based telescopes.
Here, we present the highest spatial resolution images of Io ever obtained from a groundbased telescope. These images, acquired by the SHARK-VIS instrument on the Large
Binocular Telescope, show evidence of a major resurfacing event on Io’s trailing hemisphere. When compared to the most recent spacecraft images, the SHARK-VIS images
show that a plume deposit from a powerful eruption at Pillan Patera has covered part
of the long-lived Pele plume deposit. Although this type of resurfacing event may be common on Io, few have been detected due to the rarity of spacecraft visits and the previously low spatial resolution available from Earth-based telescopes. The SHARK-VIS instrument ushers in a new era of high resolution imaging of Io’s surface using adaptive
optics at visible wavelengths.
Seminar of U.V. Spectroscopy by SAMIR PANDASAMIR PANDA
Spectroscopy is a branch of science dealing the study of interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter.
Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy refers to absorption spectroscopy or reflect spectroscopy in the UV-VIS spectral region.
Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy is an analytical method that can measure the amount of light received by the analyte.
THE IMPORTANCE OF MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE SAMPLE RETURN.Sérgio Sacani
The return of a sample of near-surface atmosphere from Mars would facilitate answers to several first-order science questions surrounding the formation and evolution of the planet. One of the important aspects of terrestrial planet formation in general is the role that primary atmospheres played in influencing the chemistry and structure of the planets and their antecedents. Studies of the martian atmosphere can be used to investigate the role of a primary atmosphere in its history. Atmosphere samples would also inform our understanding of the near-surface chemistry of the planet, and ultimately the prospects for life. High-precision isotopic analyses of constituent gases are needed to address these questions, requiring that the analyses are made on returned samples rather than in situ.
Earliest Galaxies in the JADES Origins Field: Luminosity Function and Cosmic ...Sérgio Sacani
We characterize the earliest galaxy population in the JADES Origins Field (JOF), the deepest
imaging field observed with JWST. We make use of the ancillary Hubble optical images (5 filters
spanning 0.4−0.9µm) and novel JWST images with 14 filters spanning 0.8−5µm, including 7 mediumband filters, and reaching total exposure times of up to 46 hours per filter. We combine all our data
at > 2.3µm to construct an ultradeep image, reaching as deep as ≈ 31.4 AB mag in the stack and
30.3-31.0 AB mag (5σ, r = 0.1” circular aperture) in individual filters. We measure photometric
redshifts and use robust selection criteria to identify a sample of eight galaxy candidates at redshifts
z = 11.5 − 15. These objects show compact half-light radii of R1/2 ∼ 50 − 200pc, stellar masses of
M⋆ ∼ 107−108M⊙, and star-formation rates of SFR ∼ 0.1−1 M⊙ yr−1
. Our search finds no candidates
at 15 < z < 20, placing upper limits at these redshifts. We develop a forward modeling approach to
infer the properties of the evolving luminosity function without binning in redshift or luminosity that
marginalizes over the photometric redshift uncertainty of our candidate galaxies and incorporates the
impact of non-detections. We find a z = 12 luminosity function in good agreement with prior results,
and that the luminosity function normalization and UV luminosity density decline by a factor of ∼ 2.5
from z = 12 to z = 14. We discuss the possible implications of our results in the context of theoretical
models for evolution of the dark matter halo mass function.
Nutraceutical market, scope and growth: Herbal drug technologyLokesh Patil
As consumer awareness of health and wellness rises, the nutraceutical market—which includes goods like functional meals, drinks, and dietary supplements that provide health advantages beyond basic nutrition—is growing significantly. As healthcare expenses rise, the population ages, and people want natural and preventative health solutions more and more, this industry is increasing quickly. Further driving market expansion are product formulation innovations and the use of cutting-edge technology for customized nutrition. With its worldwide reach, the nutraceutical industry is expected to keep growing and provide significant chances for research and investment in a number of categories, including vitamins, minerals, probiotics, and herbal supplements.
Introduction:
RNA interference (RNAi) or Post-Transcriptional Gene Silencing (PTGS) is an important biological process for modulating eukaryotic gene expression.
It is highly conserved process of posttranscriptional gene silencing by which double stranded RNA (dsRNA) causes sequence-specific degradation of mRNA sequences.
dsRNA-induced gene silencing (RNAi) is reported in a wide range of eukaryotes ranging from worms, insects, mammals and plants.
This process mediates resistance to both endogenous parasitic and exogenous pathogenic nucleic acids, and regulates the expression of protein-coding genes.
What are small ncRNAs?
micro RNA (miRNA)
short interfering RNA (siRNA)
Properties of small non-coding RNA:
Involved in silencing mRNA transcripts.
Called “small” because they are usually only about 21-24 nucleotides long.
Synthesized by first cutting up longer precursor sequences (like the 61nt one that Lee discovered).
Silence an mRNA by base pairing with some sequence on the mRNA.
Discovery of siRNA?
The first small RNA:
In 1993 Rosalind Lee (Victor Ambros lab) was studying a non- coding gene in C. elegans, lin-4, that was involved in silencing of another gene, lin-14, at the appropriate time in the
development of the worm C. elegans.
Two small transcripts of lin-4 (22nt and 61nt) were found to be complementary to a sequence in the 3' UTR of lin-14.
Because lin-4 encoded no protein, she deduced that it must be these transcripts that are causing the silencing by RNA-RNA interactions.
Types of RNAi ( non coding RNA)
MiRNA
Length (23-25 nt)
Trans acting
Binds with target MRNA in mismatch
Translation inhibition
Si RNA
Length 21 nt.
Cis acting
Bind with target Mrna in perfect complementary sequence
Piwi-RNA
Length ; 25 to 36 nt.
Expressed in Germ Cells
Regulates trnasposomes activity
MECHANISM OF RNAI:
First the double-stranded RNA teams up with a protein complex named Dicer, which cuts the long RNA into short pieces.
Then another protein complex called RISC (RNA-induced silencing complex) discards one of the two RNA strands.
The RISC-docked, single-stranded RNA then pairs with the homologous mRNA and destroys it.
THE RISC COMPLEX:
RISC is large(>500kD) RNA multi- protein Binding complex which triggers MRNA degradation in response to MRNA
Unwinding of double stranded Si RNA by ATP independent Helicase
Active component of RISC is Ago proteins( ENDONUCLEASE) which cleave target MRNA.
DICER: endonuclease (RNase Family III)
Argonaute: Central Component of the RNA-Induced Silencing Complex (RISC)
One strand of the dsRNA produced by Dicer is retained in the RISC complex in association with Argonaute
ARGONAUTE PROTEIN :
1.PAZ(PIWI/Argonaute/ Zwille)- Recognition of target MRNA
2.PIWI (p-element induced wimpy Testis)- breaks Phosphodiester bond of mRNA.)RNAse H activity.
MiRNA:
The Double-stranded RNAs are naturally produced in eukaryotic cells during development, and they have a key role in regulating gene expression .
A brief information about the SCOP protein database used in bioinformatics.
The Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) database is a comprehensive and authoritative resource for the structural and evolutionary relationships of proteins. It provides a detailed and curated classification of protein structures, grouping them into families, superfamilies, and folds based on their structural and sequence similarities.
Disseminating Scientific Papers via Twitter: Practical Insights and Research Evidence
1. Digital Scholar
Webinar
1st April 2020
Hosted by the Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute (SC
CTSI), University of Southern California (USC) and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
(CHLA)
2. Eric Pedersen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of
Psychiatry and the
Behavioral Sciences
Director of Digital Mental
Health
@ericRpedersen
@SoCalCTSI
About Today’s Session
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5. About the Speaker
Stefanie Haustein, Ph.D.
• Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa’s
School of Information Studies
• She teaches research methods and evaluation,
knowledge organization, information
visualization, social network analysis and
information literacy.
• Her research focuses on scholarly communication,
bibliometrics, altmetrics, and open science.
• Co-director of the ScholCommLab, a research
group based in Ottawa and Vancouver that
analyzes all aspects of scholarly communication in
the digital age
9. Social media in academia
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Social media use
→ ResearchGate most popular
among scientists and
engineers, less popular in
humanities and social sciences
→ Facebook known by >90% but
used regularly by <40%
→ Twitter among most known
(85%) but least used (>10%)
platforms
→ Hype medium
Van Noorden, R.. (2014). Online collaboration: Scientists and the social network. Nature, 512(7513), 126-129. https://doi.org/10.1038/512126a
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Social media use
→ 10-15% of academics use Twitter
→ Used for informational needs:
→ Post work content
→ Follow discussions
→ Discover papers
→ Used in social context:
→ Discover peers
→ Criticism and reluctance:
→ Shallow medium
“pointless babble”
→ Blurred boundaries
Sugimoto, C. R., Work, S., Larivière, V., & Haustein, S. (2017). Scholarly use of social media and altmetrics: A review of the literature. Journal of the Association for
Information Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23833
Van Noorden, R.. (2014). Online collaboration: Scientists and the social network. Nature, 512(7513), 126-129. https://doi.org/10.1038/512126a
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Twitter users per country
Number of users 2018 (in million) Percentage of population
https://www.statista.com/statistics/242606/number-of-active-twitter-users-in-selected-countries/
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Geolocation of tweets linking to journal articles
Tweets with geotags captured by Altmetric 01/2012 to 06/2016
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Academics on Twitter
scholcommlab.ca
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Journal articles shared on Twitter
https://doi.org//10.1148/radiol.2020200490 https://dimensions.altmetric.com/details/76472854/twitter
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Journal articles shared on Twitter
https://monthlyreview.org/2020/04/01/covid-19-and-circuits-of-capital/ https://twitter.com/nosoyyo7/status/1244271157420986369
19. Scholarly metrics
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Types of metrics
→ Bibliometrics
→ Publications
→ Peer-reviewed journal articles
→ Books
→ Conference proceedings
→ Datasets
→ Citations
→ In peer-reviewed journals
→ In books
→ In conference proceedings
→ In policy documents
→ Collaboration
→ Usage metrics
→ Views
→ Downloads
→ Reuse
→ Social media metrics
→ Social networking
→ Facebook
→ ResearchGate
→ Social reference management
→ Mendeley
→ Zotero
→ Social data sharing
→ Github
→ Zenodo
→ Blogging
→ Microblogging
→ Twitter
→ Weibo
→ Wikis
→ Social recommending and reviewing
→ Reddit
→ F1000Prime
20. Scholarly metrics
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Types of metrics
Haustein, S. (2016). Grand challenges in altmetrics: Heterogeneity, data quality and dependencies. Scientometrics, 108(1), 413–423. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-
016-1910-9
informetrics
bibliometrics
cybermetrics
webometrics altmetrics
scientometrics
data metrics
scholarly metrics
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Webometrics and altmetrics
→Webometrics
“Polymorphous mentioning is likely to become a defining feature of Web-based
scholarly communication.”
“There will soon be a critical mass of web-based digital objects and usage
statistics on which to model scholars’ communication behaviors […] and with
which to track their scholarly influence and impact, broadly conceived and
broadly felt.”
→PLOS article level metrics (ALM)
→Altmetrics
“study and use of scholarly impact measures based on activity in online tools and
environments”
“a good idea but a bad name”
Priem (2014)
Cronin, Snyder, Rosenbaum, Martinson & Callahan (1998)
Cronin (2005)
Rousseau & Ye (2013)
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Twitter-based metrics: Disciplines
Haustein, S. (2019). Scholarly Twitter metrics. In W. Glänzel, H. Moed, U. Schmoch, & M. Thelwall (Eds.), Handbook of Quantitative Science and Technology Research
(pp. 729-760). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/ 10.1007/978-3-030-02511-3_28 | https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02201
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Twitter-based metrics: Journals
Haustein, S. (2019). Scholarly Twitter metrics. In W. Glänzel, H. Moed, U. Schmoch, & M. Thelwall (Eds.), Handbook of Quantitative Science and Technology Research
(pp. 729-760). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/ 10.1007/978-3-030-02511-3_28 | https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02201
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Twitter-based metrics: Journals
Haustein, S. (2019). Scholarly Twitter metrics. In W. Glänzel, H. Moed, U. Schmoch, & M. Thelwall (Eds.), Handbook of Quantitative Science and Technology Research
(pp. 729-760). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/ 10.1007/978-3-030-02511-3_28 | https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02201
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Twitter-based metrics: Users (>30k tweets)
Haustein, S. (2019). Scholarly Twitter metrics. In W. Glänzel, H. Moed, U. Schmoch, & M. Thelwall (Eds.), Handbook of Quantitative Science and Technology Research
(pp. 729-760). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/ 10.1007/978-3-030-02511-3_28 | https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02201
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Twitter-based metrics: Users (>1k tweets)
Haustein, S. (2019). Scholarly Twitter metrics. In W. Glänzel, H. Moed, U. Schmoch, & M. Thelwall (Eds.), Handbook of Quantitative Science and Technology Research
(pp. 729-760). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/ 10.1007/978-3-030-02511-3_28 | https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02201
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Twitter-based metrics: Hashtags
Haustein, S. (2019). Scholarly Twitter metrics. In W. Glänzel, H. Moed, U. Schmoch, & M. Thelwall (Eds.), Handbook of Quantitative Science and Technology Research
(pp. 729-760). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/ 10.1007/978-3-030-02511-3_28 | https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02201
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Twitter-based metrics: Time patterns
Haustein, S. (2019). Scholarly Twitter metrics. In W. Glänzel, H. Moed, U. Schmoch, & M. Thelwall (Eds.), Handbook of Quantitative Science and Technology Research
(pp. 729-760). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/ 10.1007/978-3-030-02511-3_28 | https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02201
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Twitter-based metrics
→ No or only weak correlations with citations
Tweets are not a substitute for citation-based indicators.
→ Higher for more recent publications
Need to account for age differences by week or month or publication.
→ Need field-normalization (e.g., percentiles)
Articles in biomed or social sciences are tweeted more often than those in STEM.
→ Not all tweet activity is impact
Many tweets to articles are sent automatically or for promotional purposes.
→ Do not measure societal impact
The majority of users sharing links to journal articles are academics.
→ Tweet content is more interesting than tweet counts
Instead of using tweets for rankings, engage with interested users and tell a story.
32. Metrics literacies
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We need to improve the way in
which metrics are used in academia.
Scholars are already overwhelmed
by too much to read.
Why not provide audio-visual
OER instead of text?
33. Metrics literacies
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Definition
Haustein, S. et al. (2020). SSHRC Insight Development Grant Application.
Metrics literacies are an integrated set of competencies, dispositions and
knowledge that empower individuals to recognize, interpret, critically assess
and effectively and ethically use scholarly metrics.
Objectives
→ Develop open educational resources (OER) to support metrics literacies using
audiovisual material.
→ Experimentally test and identify the most effective types of OER for helping
academics and research administrators to appropriately apply and understand
research metrics.
→ Disseminate the most effective resources under CC-BY licences via knowledge
mobilization plan including social media and community partnerships.
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Project team
→ Project management
→PI Stefanie Haustein
uOttawa, School of Information Studies
→Co-PI Michelle Schira Hagerman
uOttawa, Faculty of Education
→RA Alyssa Jeffrey
uOttawa, School of Information Studies
→ Bibliometric expertise
→Robin Champieux
OHSU, Librarian
→Carey Ming-Li Chen
Science & Technology Policy Research and
Information Center, Taiwan
→Isabelle Dorsch
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
→Elizabeth Gadd
Loughborough University, Research Policy Manager
→ Media production
→Marie-Josée Archambault
Concordia, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
→Peter Musser
Librarian and Youtuber
→Alli Torban
Podcast host and data visualization expert
→Community outreach
→Michelle Riedlinger
University of the Fraser Valley, Communication
→Germana Barata
State University of Campinas, SciComm
→Fiona Smith Hale
Ingenium, Chief Knowledge Officer
→Robin Champieux
Metrics Toolkit