Mendeley is a company based in London and New York that builds collaborative networks for scientists by allowing them to search, read, annotate, organize, and write papers as well as import research documents into their cloud-based profiles. The company has over 2 million users and has extracted data from 300 million uploaded documents to provide analytics on research impact and new metrics for discovery.

1. Creating a Collaborative
Network for Scientists
William Gunn
Head of Academic Outreach
william.gunn@mendeley.com
@mrgunn

2. Based in London & New York, Mendeley is researchers, graduates
and software developers from...
...backed by co-founders and
former executives of:
Supported by:

3. ...and aggregates it in the cloud
Mendeley extracts
research data…
Collecting rich signals
from domain experts.

4. Instrumenting the Research
Workflow
Search
Read
Annotate
Organize
Write
Import

5. Rich user profile data

6. 300 million documents uploaded
2.0 million users
Cambridge
Stanford University
MIT
Imperial College London
University of Oxford
Harvard University
University of Michigan
University College London
University of California at Berkeley
Columbia University

7. New data on research impact
 Get better data on what's
working
 Get it faster
 Give researchers greater
academic freedom

8. Research is too slow

9. Google Analytics for research

10. Google Analytics for research

11. Personalized Impact

12. Enter Social Discovery

13. Metrics as a discovery tool