The document discusses various tools researchers can use to create an online research profile, track their impact and citations, and use social media to promote their work. It describes identification tools like ORCID, Google Scholar and Scopus that allow researchers to compile publications and citations in one place. Journal impact factors and researcher metrics like h-index are also covered. The benefits of an online presence through social media platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter are outlined, along with some perceived shortcomings of impact metrics.

1. Using Social Media and Indexes to
Create a Research Profile
Publons™
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Commons

2. Why Should You Use Them?
• Puts your scholarly output in one place
• Allows you to include variations in names
• Disambiguates your name from others with similar
names
• Portable if your institutional affiliation changes
• Keep track of your cited references
• Allows others to have greater access to your work

3. Identification and Profile Tools
• ORCID (Open Researcher & Contributor ID)
• Google Scholar Citations
• Publons-Web of Science
• Influuent
• Scopus Author ID

4. Why Are Identification
Tools Increasingly Important?
• Publishers want to simplify workflow
• Funding organizations want to simplify grant
submissions
• Scholarly societies want easy ways to track
achievement.
• Scholars want an easy way to find
collaborators (Influuent/Catalyst)
• Institutions want to highlight and evaluate
scholarly activities. (Digital Measures)

5. Measuring Journal Impact
• Frequency with which the average article has
been cited in a particular year
• Journal Citation Reports (ISI)
• Can help you
– identify journals in which to publish
– identify journals relevant to your research
– identify the status of journals
– It is NOT quality or rigor

6. Measuring Researcher Impact
• Citation Analysis
– Scopus
– Google Scholar Citations
– Publons—also includes peer review
• h-index, journals or institutions

7. Benefits of Tracking Impact
• Showcase your work
• Benchmark your work against peers
• Find and be found by potential collaborators
• Manage your publications list
• Stay in the conversation
• Take control of your online image

8. Perceived Shortcomings
• Focus on trendy work
• Citations do not equate to quality
• Some tools do not incorporate books
• Some disciplines have few journals
• Review articles, methods papers and self-
citing can skew results
• Tools don’t always go back in time very far
– Scopus only calculates citations received since 1996

9. Impact and Citation Tools
• Web of Science
• h-index
• altmetrics
• Research Gate
• Scopus

10. Social Media are an Extension of
Indexes
• Facebook
• Linked-in
• Twitter

11. Facebook
• Often perceived as old or for cat photos
• Often focus on personal aspects
• FB can be what you what it to be—professional or
personal
• Professional means you only post what is appropriate
• BIG advantage is that is “safe” meaning less trolls
• Based on your “friends” you will know the
image to create.

12. Linked-in
• Strictly professional
• Often greater reach than FB
• More than a recruitment site
• Critical to industry connections
• A place to display your qualifications
• Can be used to promote your recent research

13. Twitter
• Caution—Trolls—Not for the faint of heart
• Exceptional source for latest information from
“authorities”
• Can be used to promote your recent
publications to increase reach—Altametrics
• Not so useful for creating a profile as it is
often disjointed.

14. Others
• Research gate—A hybrid of index and SM
• Quora—Profile of answering questions
• Academia.edu—Publications
• LifeScience Network-Publications
• Neurotree—Scientific Genealogy
• Science Open—Allows making a collection

15. Discussion
Thank you to University of Canberra for their assistance.
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