This is a presentation made at the "Advancing Research Communication and Scholarship" http://arcscon.tumblr.com/ 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
(or how to develop an online profile)
Antony Williams
ARCS Conference, April 27th
2015

2. About Me
• BSc Chemistry, University of Liverpool
• PhD Chemistry, University of London
• National Research Council, Canada
• University of Ottawa, Canada
• Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY
• Advanced Chemistry Development, Toronto
• ChemSpider, “in a basement”
• Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK
• EPA, Research Triangle Park

3. Questions to Start…
• Who in the room has an ORCID????

4. Questions to Start…
• Who in the room has an ORCID????
• Who has a blog?
• Who has a LinkedIn Profile?

5. The intention of this talk…
• Encourage participation in your online profile
• Highlight some of the tools available
• Suggest paths to contribute data to science
• Start NOW – your scientific contributions will be
way bigger than your CV represents
• No one else will market you so you better had!!!

6. You vs. Your Statistics
• Clearly who you are should be more
important than your “numbers”
• While breakthrough science should
conquer all
• Your stats open doors
• Headhunters review you online
• The “weight” of your CV is important

7. Scientists measured by Impact

8. Measuring Impact?

9. The Alt-Metrics Manifesto
http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/

10. National Information Standards
Organization and “Altmetrics”
http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/13295/niso_altmetrics_white_paper_draft_v4.pdf

11. Summarizing my research…
• 1982-85 My BSc wrote off three publications…
• 1985-88 I left my PhD with NO publications…
• My PhD research outputs:
• 8 research notebooks of daily activities
• Thousands of paper spectra and plots
• A >400 page PhD Thesis
• 3 sets of “transparencies”
• 5 computer programs
• Not the best CV in the world…who knew?

12. Your Research Outputs?
• Research datasets
• Scientific software
• Publications – peer-reviewed and many others
• Posters and presentations at conferences
• Electronic theses and dissertations
• Performances in film and audio
• Lectures, online classes and teaching activities
• What else???
• The possibilities to share are endless

13. Is self-marketing of value???
• How much work do you put into your own
scientific profile? (versus Facebook )
• How much “data” do you actively share?
• How much do you produce on your hard drive?
Reports? Lit reviews? Presentations?
• Post-publication, how much work is put into
sharing with the community?
• More visible does NOT mean better science

14. 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??

15. Should you 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

16. Branding: I am ChemConnector

17. 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

18. My primary CV is on my blog

19. My primary CV is on my blog

20. Re.vu/AntonyWilliams

21. 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

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

23. My Career Captured…

24. And “Endorsements”

25. Highlight “Projects”

26. Manage Articles Here Too.

27. …and presentations

28. My Google Scholar Profile
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=O2L8nh4AAAAJ

29. “I don’t have any publications”
• This is YOUR choice! Conference Abstracts..
• You produce reports, presentations and
posters during your studies – share them !

30. Sharing your works online

31. Slideshare – Highly Accessed

32. Slideshare – Fast Delivery

33. Slideshare – NOT Just Slides

34. Other Platforms
• There are other platforms of course…
• Vimeo
• YouTube
• ResearchGate
• Academia
• Figshare
• Many others

35. ResearchGate
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Antony_Williams

36. Academia.edu
https://rsc.academia.edu/AntonyWilliams

37. 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.

38. Slideshare - Analytics

39. Academia.edu

40. Academia.edu

41. ResearchGate

42. How I am Quantified…

43. Almost 42…

44. What do numbers mean??
• It’s all relative….

45. Back to Alt-Metrics & Impact

47. And into the AltMetrics World

48. AltMetrics via Plum Analytics

49. Usage, Citations, Social
Media

50. Detailed Usage Statistics

51. Author attitudes
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52. Author attitudes
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53. Put WORK into publications
• To explain, enhance and share your articles
• Ability to add, connect, integrate other
information associated with the article:
• Blog posts, commentaries, external reviews
• Presentations, videos, links to later
publications
• Follow up work, new data, additional data not
in the supplementary information
• Tools measure visits/views/sharing of article

54. Kudos Enhance the Article

55. Explain

56. Enrich

57. Measured 15 hours later

58. A publication as a point-in-time
• From a publication how do you cite forward?
• to errata?
• to your later publications?
• to electronic notebook pages?
• to blog posts about your work?
• to other peoples related publications?
• to reinterpreted data you don’t publish?

59. We know Titles drive interest!
Call it Fuzzy and Tweet it…

60. AltMetrics within 48 Hours

61. Bat Fellatio Viewed 337,000
Times…as it were. BE SAVVY
• And yes…known issues with AltMetrics… VIEWS does
not mean reads!!!

62. Within Two Weeks
http://www.chemconnector.com/2014/06/20/give-me-kudos-for-my-articles/
12 shares
45 share
referrals
1240 Kudos views 431 downloads
138 claims

63. 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
• If there is a downside to investing in exposing
your publications, what is it?
• YES…it can be called “gaming” or “savvy”

64. A Story of the Power of Social
Media

65. The Power of Social Media

66. The Power of Blogs

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

68. What about “Data Sharing”?
• Differently that publications, presentations,
movies and “content” – data can be shared
• Real data – spreadsheets, plots, figures,
chemical compounds, spectral data etc….

69. Spreadsheets/Figures

70. Declare Figure License Here!

71. Are you a-tweeting on Twitter?
• 140 characters to connect and communicate
• Use your “brand name” on Twitter
• 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!

72. My views of the future
• “Altmetrics” popularity is growing.
• ORCID is already important – get one
• Scientists, and especially young scientists, can
“get in early” and build reputation
• It takes effort driven by participation…

73. 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

74. How to Manage ALL Profiles?
https://about.me/ChemConnector

75. List All Profiles in One Place

76. And our article Now?

77. Thank you
Email: tony27587@gmail.com
ORCID: 0000-0002-2668-4821
Twitter: @ChemConnector
Personal Blog: www.chemconnector.com
SLIDES: www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams