This is a presentation that I gave during a UK tour in Sept/Oct 2014 at a number of UK universities Many of us nowadays invest significant amounts of time in sharing our activities and opinions with friends and family via social networking tools. However, despite the availability of many platforms for scientists to connect and share with their peers in the scientific community the majority do not make use of these tools, despite their promise and potential impact and influence on our future careers. We are being indexed and exposed on the internet via our publications, presentations and data. We also have many more ways to contribute to science, to annotate and curate data, to “publish” in new ways, and many of these activities are as part of a growing crowdsourcing network. This presentation will provide an overview of the various types of networking and collaborative sites available to scientists and ways to expose your scientific activities online. Many of these can ultimately contribute to the developing measures of you as a scientist as identified in the new world of alternative metrics. Participating offers a great opportunity to develop a scientific profile within the community and may ultimately be very beneficial, especially to scientists early in their career.

1. Beyond the paper CV: developing
a scientific profile through social
media, Altmetrics and
micropublication
Antony Williams

2. Questions to Start…
• Who in the room has an ORCID (and did you
set it up yourself?)

3. Questions to Start…
• Who in the room has an ORCID (and did you
set it up yourself?)
• Who has NOT heard of AltMetrics?

4. And one selfish one…
• Who in the room has an ORCID (and did you
set it up yourself?)
• Who has NOT heard of AltMetrics?
• Who hasn’t used ChemSpider yet???

5. How much work?
• How much work is done generating and
analyzing data?
• How much effort to represent your science –
presentations, publications?
• How long does it take to write a publication?
• How much work does it take to go through the
peer review process?
• Does anyone now argue against Open Access?
• What about the future of Open Data?

6. …and do you market it???
• How much work do you put into your own
profile (versus other aspects of you on
Facebook )
• Even if you are not going to be a scientist your
online profile is increasingly important.

7. The Power of Social Media

8. The Power of Social Media

9. The Power of Blogs

10. The Power of Blogs
(from Sean Ekins, @collabchem)

11. Is exposure important???
• Does a highly viewed paper mean better
science? CLEARLY NO!
• If AltMetrics is one of the new measures
clearly visibility and discoverability is important
• Considering the investment made in the
science is there a downside to investing in
exposing it?
• YES…it can be called “gaming” or “savvy”

12. Visibility Means Discoverability
• Q: Does a Social Profile as a scientist matter?
• You are visible, when you share your skills,
experience and research activities by:
• Establishing a public profile
• Getting on the record
• Collaborative Science
• Demonstrating a skill set
• Measured using “alternative metrics”
• Contributing to the public peer review process
• There are many ways to become “visible”

13. Your Profile as a Scientist
• If you are an active scientist – i.e. already
published, active researcher, generator of data,
early, mid- or late career there is lots to do!
• If you are a junior scientist the benefits of
investing time now will provide a strong
foundation for your future!
• So what do I do??

14. Maybe you should be a brand?
• If you are going forth into the social
network adopt a “brand name” throughout
the network
• Search Google for your “brand name”
• Choose a unique brand or be yourself
• BRAND: Collabchem, ChemConnector
• YOURSELF: egonwillighagen, joergwegner

15. Branding: I am ChemConnector

16. My Online Profile Shared on..
• Places I am viewable:
• Online CVs
• LinkedIn
• Google Scholar Citations for citations
• Microsoft Academic Scholar for papers
• ImpactStory
• Plum Analytics
• Wikipedia and ScientistsDB
• Search engines

17. My primary CV is on my blog

18. My primary CV is on my blog

19. Re.vu/AntonyWilliams

20. https://www.vizify.com/antony-williams/

21. Are you a-tweeting on Twitter?
• 140 characters to connect and communicate
• Use your “brand name” on Twitter – it has high
frequency here…
• Greatest value for me – bite-sized nuggets
into information of interest and leading people
into information I wish to share including my
posts, my activities
• Faster responses than email commonly!

22. You should be LinkedIn
• LinkedIn for “professionals”
• Expose work history, skills, your
professional interests, your memberships –
your profile WILL be watched!
• Who you are linked to says a lot about
who you are. Get Linked to people in your
domain.
• Professional relationships rather than just
friendships. FaceBook-it for friends

23. LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/in/AntonyWilliams

24. My Career Captured…

25. And “Endorsements”

26. My Google Scholar Profile

27. Mendeley
http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/antony-williams/

28. My Co-author Graph on MAS..

29. Sharing your works online

30. Academia.edu

31. Academia.edu

32. Popularizing Science
Fun in the Networks

33. Scientists are “Quantified”
• We are quantified, stats are gathered and
analyzed
• Employers can find them, tenure will depend
on them and these already happen without
your participation
• Scientists Impact Factors, H-index and many
other variants.

34. How I am Quantified…

35. How I am Quantified…

36. The Alt-Metrics Manifesto

38. And into the AltMetrics World

39. AltMetrics via Plum Analytics

40. Usage, Citations, Social
Media

41. Detailed Usage Statistics

42. Participate in your profile!

43. Kudos

44. Kudos

45. Kudos

46. Kudos and Forward Citations!

47. Enabled by
• Persistent unique digital identifier
• Integrates to workflows such as
manuscript and grant submission
• Supports automated linkages with your
professional activities

48. Contributing to Science
• I became a community contributor to science
• Shared my expertise in the new world of open
• Share your Figures
• Contribute to Wikis – Wikipedia and others
• Participated in Open Notebook Science
• Build tools and platforms to support chemists
• Shared my data, curated data, helped others
• Get engaged on blogs and discussions

49. Oxidation by Sodium Hydride?

50. The Blogosphere Analyzes…

51. The Blogosphere Analyzes…

52. How much is in the archives?

53. An Adventure into the World of
Small but significant contribution..

54. ChemSpider SyntheticPages

55. Micropublishing with Peer Review
(a chemical synthesis blog?)

56. Multi-Step Synthesis

57. Interactive Data

58. What are we building?
• We are building the “RSC Data Repository”
• Containers for compounds, reactions, analytical
data, tabular data
• Algorithms for data validation and standardization
• Flexible indexing and search technologies
• A platform for modeling data and hosting existing
models and predictive algorithms

59. Deposition of Data

60. Compounds

61. Reactions

62. Analytical data

63. Crystallography data

64. My views of the future
• “Altmetrics” is going to be big
• ORCID will be very important
• Scientists, and especially young scientists, can
“get in early” and build reputation
• It takes effort driven by participation…

65. Contribute to Your Profile
• The representation of YOU on the web is
going to become increasingly important…
• Engagement and participation is a choice…
• Consider the value to both you and to your
community regarding contribution
• Open Data, Curations, Annotations etc.

66. RSC Activities of interest
• We have adopted ORCIDs, are working with
Kudos, display AltMetrics scores, have
embraced Open Access and micropublishing
• Our Global Chemistry Network project:
• Will provide a path to profile management
• Will open a data repository for your data
• Will help in feeding data to AltMetrics tools
• Will facilitate collaborative science

67. I recommend…
• Register for an ORCID ID
• Develop your LinkedIn profile
• Publish to Slideshare
• Track Google Scholar Citations (for now)
• Choose: ResearchGate or Academia.edu
• Participate in building your profile

68. And our article Now?

69. Thank you
Email: williamsa@rsc.org
ORCID: 0000-0002-2668-4821
Twitter: @ChemConnector
Personal Blog: www.chemconnector.com
SLIDES: www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams