Many of us nowadays invest significant amounts of time in sharing our activities and opinions with friends and family via social networking tools such as Facebook, Twitter or other related. 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 provides 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. Sharing your scientific activities
with the entire world using Social
Networking Tools
Antony Williams
UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil
October 30th 2015
ORCID ID:0000-0002-2668-4821
All Slides will Be Publicly Available at
www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams

2. My Hopes for Today
• You will claim an ORCiD
• You will invest some time (>1 hour per month)
in maintaining your online profile
• Convince you there are various ways to
“publish” your work
• You will publish and advertise your data,
posters, presentations, papers etc.

3. Scientists measured by Impact

4. How to Measure Impact

5. You vs. Your Statistics
• There are many influences on your career
• Headhunters, collaborators and colleagues
“review you” online
• The “weight” of your CV is important
• What you have done indicates interests,
skills and experience
• Your “statistics” open doors
• It’s not just about publications…

6. 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

7. 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 to
catch-up!
• 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??

8. Open Researcher & Contributor ID

9. Here’s why they are useful…

10. Here’s why they are useful…
• Increasingly requested:
• Publications
• Grant Applications
• Data depositions

11. Wonderful Profile…

12. My primary CV is on my blog

13. My primary CV is on my blog
http://www.chemconnector.com/antonywilliams_cv/

14. My primary CV is on my blog
http://www.chemconnector.com/antonywilliams_cv/

15. 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
• I manage them ALL through About.Me

16. 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.
• Professional relationships rather than just
friendships.
• FaceBook is for friends and family

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

18. Parts of my Career Captured…

19. …and “Endorsements”

20. Highlight “Projects”

21. Manage Articles Here Too.

22. …and presentations

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

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

25. Sharing your works online

26. Slideshare – Highly Accessed

27. Fast Network Communication

28. Slideshare – NOT Just Slides

30. • Share various
types of data
including figures,
documents,
graphs,
spreadsheets,
videos,
presentations etc.
• DOI citations

31. Can you share your
posters? If so, use
these platforms to
post them online
and get feedback

32. Share Chemistry Data

33. ChemSpider
• Deposit your chemical compounds and
associated data and share.
• Pre- or post publication!
• Better way to share data than PDF Files!

34. ESI – Text Spectra

35. ChemSpider ID 24528095

36. Publish Your Syntheses

38. Highly Accessed

39. http://datadryad.org/

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

41. A good way to Create a CV also

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

43. 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.

44. Slideshare - Analytics

45. Academia.edu

46. Academia.edu

47. ResearchGate

48. Alt-Metrics Manifesto (Papers)
http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/

50. And into the AltMetrics World

51. AltMetrics via Plum Analytics

52. Usage, Citations, Social Media

53. Detailed Usage Statistics

54. Get Credit for Reviewing Papers

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

56. “Advertise” your 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

57. Kudos Enhance the Article

58. Explain

59. Enrich

60. Enriching with links

61. 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?

62. 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?

63. 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…

64. I recommend…
• Register for an ORCID ID – then use it
• Develop your LinkedIn profile
• Publish to Slideshare
• Track Google Scholar Citations (for now)
• Choose: ResearchGate or Academia.edu
• Set up an About.ME page to link everything
• Participate in building your profile

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