Tools for Engagement:

Using social media to achieve

research impact

Prof. Jonathan P. Bowen

Birmingham City University Museophile Limited

www.bcu.ac.uk/jonathan-bowen www.jpbowen.com

@jpbowen

Background

• Mathematics, art, engineering,

computer science, software

engineering, museum informatics

• Academia: Imperial, Oxford, Reading, LSBU, BCU

• Visitor: UNU-IIST, KCL, Brunel, Westminster,

Waikato (New Zealand, 2011), Pratt Institute (New

York, USA, 2012), East China Normal University

(Shanghai, China, 2013)

• Industry: Logica, Silicon Graphics, Altran Praxis

• Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

(EVA London conference, 7–9 July 2015)

Overview

• Communities

• Online resources

– Google Scholar

– Academia.edu

– ResearchGate

– Academic Search

– ORCID

– Etc.

Community of Practice

• CoP: collection of people

developing domain knowledge

• Elements:

– Domain, common interest

– Community, willing to engage together

– Practice, developing new knowledge

• A brief introduction by Etienne Wenger,

2006: www.ewenger.com/theory

Cultivating a CoP

Different levels of

participation:

• Coordinator(s)

• Active

members

• Peripheral

members

• Outsiders

Bow tie effect

Visualization

Example – two communities

(arts and science) Facebook

TouchGraph

connections

Theories of Programming and

Formal Methods

Shanghai, China, 1–3 September 2013

Festschrift for Prof. He Jifeng,

Shanghai, China, 2013 Jonathan

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Google Scholar – home page

• h-index (top h publications with h or more citations)

• i10-index (at least 10 citations)

Google Scholar – citations

• h-index (top h publications

with h or more citations)

• i10-index (at least 10

citations)

h-index

Top h publications

with h or more

citations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index

Alan Turing citations

Google Scholar

Small number of influential papers

– c. 5+ citations per day

– few co-authors

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Theoretical computer science

Artificial Intelligence

Bioinformatics

Turing’s Worlds (centenary event)

Department of Continuing Education

University of Oxford, 23–24 June 2012

Alan Turing – 2014

• 60th anniversary of Turing’s death

– 7 June 2014.

• Talk at BCS, London – 5 June 2014.

www.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/52335

• Talks at BCU Induction Week, Bletchley Park

– 25 September 2014.

• See also Gresham College talk – 2013:

www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/alan-

turing-the-founder-of-computer-science

The Turing Guide

• Book due in 2015

• To be published by Oxford University Press

• Edited by Jonathan Bowen, Jack Copeland,

Mark Sprevak, and Robin Wilson

• c.40 chapters by contributors largely from

Oxford, Cambridge, Bletchley Park meetings

Academia.edu

• Academic networking website

• Cf. LinkedIn (professional networking)

• Includes affiliation to university and

department

• Allows easy addition of books, papers,

answers, talks, teaching documents,

research interests, CV, status updates,

websites, etc.

• Add keywords for publication searching

• Monitoring of access statistics

Academia.edu home page

E.g., bcu.academia.edu/JonathanBowen

Academia.edu statistics

E.g., lsbu.academia.edu/JonathanBowen

Academia.edu document accesses

Last 30 days

Academia.edu top documents

Last 30 days

Academia.edu country accesses

Last 30 days

Academia.edu

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accesses

Last 30 days

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• Personal publications page

ResearchGate requests & updates

• Personal publications page

Microsoft Academic Search • http://academic.research.microsoft.com

• Publications, citations, h-index

• g-index (top g with a total of at least g2 citations)

• Now historical – but good for visualization

g-index

Top g with

a total of at

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citations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-index

Top 30 co-

authors as

measured by

the number of

publications

Academic

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graph

Academic Search citation graph • Top 34 authors by number of citations

ACM Digital Library • Computer science professional body

• Editable personal publications page

• portal.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81407593776

ACM Digital Library

Personal page features

DBLP – Computer Science Bibliography

• University project – personal publications page

• Major computer science journals and conferences

• dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/b/Bowen:Jonathan_P=.html

DBLP – Computer Science Bibliography

• University project – personal publications page

• Major computer science journals and conferences

• dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/b/Bowen:Jonathan_P=.html

Mendeley – www.mendeley.com Professional networking, managing/sharing papers

Mendeley – www.mendeley.com Professional networking, managing/sharing papers

Mendeley – www.mendeley.com Professional networking, managing/sharing papers

Non-free citations websites

• E.g., Web of Science

– Thomson Reuters: http://wokinfo.com

– UK: http://wok.mimas.ac.uk

• OK if your university subscribes

• But not all do ...

• And no control for users

Free publications websites • ACM Digital Library – CS professional body

• BibSonomy – social bookmark and

publication sharing system

• CiteSeerX – publications database

• DBLP – CS bibliography, individual effort

• Issuu – personal documents (PDF, ...)

• Mendeley – reference manager,

academic social network

• ResearchGate – for scientists, make your

work visible, 3+ million members

• Researchr – find, collect, share, review

scientific publications

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID)

• Non-proprietary alphanumeric code for

academic authors

• http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8748-6140

• Other proprietary IDs:

– ResearcherID A-3383-2008 (Thompson Reuters)

– Scopus Author ID 7402065957 (Scopus)

• Can be interlinked

ORCID – http://orcid.org

• Home page

ORCID – Jonathan P. Bowen

• Jonathan Bowen

ORCID – Jisc projects • http://orcidpilot.jiscinvolve.org

• Exploring the use of ORCID in academia

• May 2014 – January 2015

ResearcherID – Jonathan P. Bowen

• Jonathan Bowen

Scopus – Jonathan P. Bowen

• Jonathan Bowen

Summary

“If we knew what it was we

were doing, it would not be

called research, would it?”

– Albert Einstein (1879–1955)

Bust in

Birmingham

Museum

and Art

Gallery

• Plethora of sites

• Check you profile on a selection

• Choose one or two effective ones

Conclusion

• Google Scholar – visibility

• Academia.edu & ResearchGate

– virtual communities

• ORCID – virtual identify

• Academic Search – visualization

Thank you!

Prof. Jonathan P. Bowen (FBCS, FRSA)

Birmingham City University Museophile Limited

jonathan.bowen@bcu.ac.uk @jpbowen

www.bcu.ac.uk/jonathan-bowen www.jpbowen.com