Tools for Increasing Research Impact

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Tools for Increasing Research Impact David Sommer, Product Director and Co-founder at Kudos

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Tools for Increasing Research ImpactDavid Sommer, Product Director and Co-founder at Kudos

Kudos background

We provide tools for researchers, publishers and institutions to help Increase the

impact of research

researchers publishers institutions funders

Research is changing

Image credit: Bourrasque, by Paul Cocksedge Studio, photographed by Mark Cocksedge

Research is changing

Image credit: Bourrasque, by Paul Cocksedge Studio, photographed by Mark Cocksedge

Articles that keep evolving into new versions

There may never be a final paper in F1000 Research, only temporal versions.Kent AndersonAAAS / Scholarly Kitchen

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Research is changing

Image credit: Bourrasque, by Paul Cocksedge Studio, photographed by Mark Cocksedge

Rising popularity of alternative communications formats

More people look at my stuff on Slideshare than my published articles.Antony Williams,Chemistry Professor

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Under pressure to demonstrate impact

Explosion of tools and services

The research cycle

Explosion of tools and services

Writing

Writing

See also:

Working together to write papers requires the ability to simultaneously work on documents, and keep track of edits and versions.As software in this area becomes more social, it is also hooking into submission systems and workflows.

Explosion of tools and services

Peer review

Peer reviewTwo approaches to “social” reviewing:

• Public reviewing, enabling researchers to be credited for this valuable contribution:

• Reviewing post-publication, publicly though possibly anonymously in some services, to broaden and democratize the process of discussing research findings

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Explosion of tools and services

Publication

Publication

It’s not just about the text!Researchers need to be able to discover, re-use, cite – and be credited for – a wider range of outputs• Datasets• Figures• Posters

• Slides

• Audio• Video

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Explosion of tools and services

Communication

Communication

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Talking about your research is proven to increase the impact of your research

It’s helpful to do so in a way that enables you to track the effect of

social communication on key metrics such as

views, downloads, mentions, citations

The glaucoma-associated olfactomedin domain of myocilin (myoc-OLF) is a recent addition to the growing list of disease-associated amyloidogenic proteins. Inherited, disease-causing myocilin variants aggregate intracellularly instead of being secreted to the trabecular meshwork, which is a scenario toxic to trabecular meshwork cells and leads to early onset of ocular hypertension, the major risk factor for glaucoma. Here we systematically structurally and biophysically dissected myoc-OLF to better understand its amyloidogenesis. Under mildly destabilizing conditions, wild-type myoc-OLF adopts non-native structures that readily fibrillize when incubated at a temperature just below the transition for tertiary unfolding. With buffers at physiological pH, two main endpoint fibril morphologies are observed: (a) straight fibrils common to many amyloids and (b) unique micron-length, ~ 300 nm or larger diameter, species that lasso oligomers, which also exhibit classical spectroscopic amyloid signatures. Three disease-causing variants investigated herein exhibit non-native tertiary structures under physiological conditions, leading to a variety of growth rates and a fibril morphologies. In particular, the well-documented D380A variant, which lacks calcium, forms large circular fibrils. Two amyloid-forming peptide stretches have been identified, one for each of the main fibril morphologies observed. Our study places myoc-OLF within the larger landscape of the amylome and provides insight into the diversity of myoc-OLF aggregation that plays a role in glaucoma pathogenesis.

Explaining in plain language

Explaining in plain language

• people within your field to skim and scan more publications

• people in adjacent fields to understand the relevance of your work to what they are doing

• people outside academia to get a handle on research and

apply it in non-academic ways• people searching lay

keywordsto find publications otherwise “hidden” from them

Easier for:

Explosion of tools and services

Discovery

Discovery

Whether for talking about their own research, or bookmarking other people’s research, LOTS of growth out of the “reference manager” space – solutions are now broader and more sophisticated than that provenance implies!

Explosion of tools and services

Metrics

MetricsSnowball Metrics

The more people conduct and communicate research in social ways, the more metrics can evolve to give a nuanced understanding of the effect of research throughout its life cycle

Providers are differentiated by data sources and algorithms.

See also:Altmetrics Initiative

Explosion of tools and services

Profiles (the egosystem)

Profiles (the egosystem)

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Profiles for:• the researcher• the research• the research institutionProfiles to:• showcase and share• discover and follow• keep track• disambiguate

Which will be hits?

Remembering the misses

Google Buzz Google Wave

Your authors might already

be actively sharing their

work via one or more of these

channels ?

Making an impact

And they might already be

looking at the performance of

their work

Making an impact

Making an impact

?

But how do they know which of their

actions are generating

results?

Making an impact

?

Action: The author

tweeted

Result: Views increased

substantially

Use a range of metrics

Top Tips:

Determine what is important to you. Usage, Citations, Mentions, Altmetrics, Public Engagement…

Identify tools that have demonstrated the ability to help in these areas

Agree specifically how you will measure success – how did the tools help increase specific measures that matter to you?

Try the tools out and see how they perform against your agreed criteria

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Evaluating the effectiveness of tools

• Workflow integration• Data integration• Analytics and Insight

Integrate Educate

Integrate or educate

• Educating authors• Providing advice• Creating How To guides

An attempt to map the landscape…

Thank youDavid Sommer, Product Director and Co-founder at Kudos@GrowKudos | www.growkudos.com | [email protected]