Social Media – Research Dissemination

MSc Karan MenonDept. of Information Management & Logistics

TUT

Why Science Communication? •  For the benefit of greater good

–  UNIVERSITIES ACT 558/2009: The mission of the universities is to promote free research and academic and artistic education, to provide higher education based on research, and to educate students to serve their country and humanity. In carrying out their mission, the universities must promote lifelong learning, interact with the surrounding society and promote the impact of research findings and artistic activities on society.

•  For the benefit of yourself –  If you want to proceed in your career, e.g. get a

tenure track position

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What is the Impact of Social Media?

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•  Guess when I tweeted my papers? Top ten downloaded papers from my department in the last year, 7 of which include me in the author list.

•  The papers that were tweeted and blogged had at least more than 11 times the number of downloads than their sibling paper which was left to its own devices in the institutional repository

Source: http://melissaterras.blogspot.fi/2012/04/is-blogging-and-tweeting-about-research.html

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Social media can create a huge leap in the number of citations

•  More than twofold increase in citations in one year

•  Citations also to old articles that were not cited at all (in the last 5 years)

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Citations

…and this will also show on your h-index with a delay

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Embedded Stories

Link: http://www.tut.fi/novi/?page_id=1017

Academic References – Use of SoMe in Research

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Rowlands, I., Nicholas, D., Russell, B., Canty, N. and Watkinson, A., 2011. Social media use in the research workflow. Learned Publishing, 24(3), pp.183-195. (Google Citations: 101, Web Of Science Citations: 36)

Allen, H.G., Stanton, T.R., Di Pietro, F. and Moseley, G.L., 2013. Social media release increases dissemination of original articles in the clinical pain sciences. PloS one, 8(7), p.e68914. (Google Citations: 49, Web Of Science Citations: 14)

Weller, K., 2015. Social media and altmetrics: An overview of current alternative approaches to measuring scholarly impact. In Incentives and performance (pp. 261-276). Springer International Publishing. (Google Citations: 11)

Meisel, Z.F., Gollust, S.E. and Grande, D., 2016. Translating Research for Health Policy Decisions: Is It Time for Researchers to Join Social Media?.Academic Medicine.

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