Researcher KnowHow: Raising Your Research Profile

1. Raise
your
research
profile

2. We’re going to cover:
1. Recording your research activities with
ORCiD
2. Tracking attention with Altmetric
3. Sharing your research on social media
4. Engaging with different audiences with Kudos

3. What is ORCID?
• Open Researcher and Contributor
Identifier
• ORCID iD is a 16-digit unique
identifier
• Free to register and use your iD
• ORCID is used around the world by
• Publishers
• Research organisations
• Funders

4. How can ORCID benefit me? Your
iD…
• distinguishes you and ensures your research
outputs and activities are correctly attributed to
you
• reliably and easily connects you with your
contributions and affiliations
• reduces form-filling
• improves recognition and discoverability for you
and your research outputs
• is interoperable
• is persistent

5. Stand out in the sea of
researchers

7. How to get an ORCiD?
• Login to your Liverpool Elements profile
• Click on menu > automatic claiming
• Click to add ORCiD
• Click to register and follow the instructions

8. Altmetric
• Altmetric measures and tracks the attention your
research is receiving online
• Includes tweets, Facebooks posts, mentions in
mainstream news, mentions in policy documents,
blogs, Wikipedia etc.
• Can give an early indication of attention before
citations start to kick in and demonstrate the
‘reach’ of your research
• Could be particularly useful in REF impact case
studies
https://www.altmetric.com/ (register on campus)

9. Search for a research output, researcher or
department

10. See details of who has
been discussing a paper
and where
Keep track of
any new
mentions

11. See exactly where your
research has been
mentioned in a variety of
sources

12. Or view details for
a whole
department

13. Twitter
• Microblogging site that
has been around since
2006
• Send messages or
‘tweets’ of 280 characters
or fewer
• Follow people you’re
interested in to see what
they’re saying and
(usually) they will follow
you back

14. Why can Twitter be useful for
researchers?
• Develop a personalised
news feed of your research
interests
• Publicise your publications
and conferences
• Ask questions about your
research
• Contribute to new
developments in your field

15. Recognisable Twitter
handle (though it’s
handy that Stuart has
a distinctive
surname!)
Included link
to staff
profile and
list of
publications
Tweets about
politics and public
policy in general

16. Claire tweets about the research
project she is currently working
on including the events that have
been run as part of it. She’s
included a link to the project’s
WordPress site.

17. What makes a good Twitter
account for research?
• Cover photo that represents
your research
• Profile picture reflects how you
want fellow
researchers/members of the
public to see you
• Good personal statement that
includes who you are and what
your areas of interest are
• Recognisable Twitter handle

18. How can you use Facebook?
• Create a Facebook page
for your research group
• Share ideas or
networking
• Can be more private than
Twitter so a good place to
start if you want to limit
your posts
• Create event pages for
research events which
you can send out

21. Instagram
• Communicate your
research visually:
drawings, images, data
visualisation, the
‘human’ side of research
• Can provide more depth
than on Twitter and
explain your work in
more detail
• Use hashtags so people
can find your posts
• ‘Go live’ and Instagram
‘Stories’

24. • Helps you to develop a plain-language description
of your work for non-academic audiences
• Can add related resources e.g. videos, data etc.
• Share these summaries to a variety of sources
using Kudos templates
• Measure the readership and sharing activities
within Kudos
https://www.growkudos.com/

27. Open approaches to
research…
• Open Access to publications ensures widest possible
readership and re-use
• Open Access to data increases opportunities for
impact
• Open approaches to your work helps you to engage
with potential audiences in new ways

28. Get started!
1. Set up an ORCiD via Liverpool Elements or
link your existing ORCiD to your Elements
profile
2. Register on Altmetric and search for yourself.
If you don’t have many publications, search
for a colleague or your department
3. Register for a Twitter account and make a
start on your Twitter profile
4. Register for a Kudos account and explore the
options