SOCIAL MEDIA AND OER FOR BOOSTING

RESEARCH VISIBILITY

Sudhakar Singh

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION

UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD
PRAYAGRAJ

This Presentation is prepared from various OER available online

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Academic and Professional Social Networks: ResearchGate,

Academia, Microsoft Academic, Mendeley, LinkedIn, Twitter
Knowledge Sharing and OER: Pre-Print Sharing by arXiv and SSRN,
Personal Blog
Measuring Research Visibility: Google Scholar Citation, Scopus
Citation, h-index, i10-index, Altmetrics
Author Identity: ORCID, ResearcherID, Institutional Email-Id
Journal Selection: Web of Science, Scopus, UGC Journal List, Impact
Factor
 Academic and Professional Social Networks
ResearchGate
ResearchGate is the professional network for scientists and
researchers.
Over 15 million members from all over the world use it to share,
discover, and discuss research.
Objective to connect the world of science and make research
open to all.
[https://www.researchgate.net/about]
 Academic and Professional Social Networks
ResearchGate: What one can do?
Share your publications, access millions more, and publish your
data.
Connect and collaborate with colleagues, peers, co-authors, and
specialists.
Get stats and find out who's been reading and citing your work.
Ask questions, get answers, and solve research problems.
Share updates about your current project, and keep up with the
latest research.
[https://www.researchgate.net/about]
 Academic and Professional Social Networks
Academia
Academia.edu is an American commercial social
networking website for academics.
Academia is the easiest way to share papers with millions of
people across the world for free.
The website allows its users to create a profile, upload their
work(s), and select areas of interest. Then the user can browse the
networks of people with similar interests.
[https://www.academia.edu/].
 Academic and Professional Social Networks
Microsoft Academic
Microsoft Academic is a free public web search engine for academic
publications and literature, developed by Microsoft Research.
[https://academic.microsoft.com/php].
It operates around 6 main types of entities:
Author - Individual author of a publication.
Institution - Author institution is the institution the author was affiliated with at the
time of publishing the paper.
Paper - Publication title.
Journal - Name of a scholarly journal.
Topic - Research area, as identified by publisher keywords and Microsoft Academic
algorithms.
Conference - A venue where research is presented.
 Academic and Professional Social Networks
Mendeley
Organize your documents + references
Collaborate by joining + creating groups
Discover statistics + recommendations
Stay up to date + learn more
Store your data
Manage your career
[https://www.mendeley.com/]
 Academic and Professional Social Networks
LinkedIn and Twitter
It is mainly used for professional networking, including employers
posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs. Special group may
be helpful to discuss and share the current issues.
[https://in.linkedin.com/]
There is no obvious correlation between Twitter mentions and
subsequent citations at this time.
Still, taking a few seconds to share a link could lead to hundreds of
new readers, and you never know if one of them will be extremely
interested in what they see.
Don’t be afraid to promote your own work.
[https://twitter.com/]
 Knowledge Sharing and OER
Open Educational Resources(OER)
"Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning and research
materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the
public domain or have been released under an open license that
permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others
with no or limited restrictions"
[The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation]
 Knowledge Sharing and OER
All Rights Reserved Copyright
It is mine. I do NOT allow you to take this material and repurpose it.
You need to ask for my permission to use this [7].
Open License
It is mine. But I DO allow you to take my material. Just remember to
make a proper attribution to me. It is free, and you do not need to ask
for my permission to use it [7].
For open educational resources the most typical and common open
licenses used are Creative Commons Licenses.
[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/]
 Knowledge Sharing and OER
PrePrint
It is the author's own write-up of research results and analysis that has not been
peer reviewed, nor had any other value added to it by a publisher (such as
formatting, copy-editing, technical enhancements, and the like) [2-5].
PostPrint (Accepted Version)
It has been accepted for publication and which typically includes author-
incorporated changes suggested during submission, peer review, and editor-author
communications. They do not include other publisher value-added contributions
such as copy-editing, formatting, technical enhancements and (if relevant)
pagination [2-5].
Published Version
A published journal article is the definitive final record of published research that
appears or will appear in the journal and embodies all value-adding publisher
activities including peer review co-ordination, copy-editing, formatting, (if relevant)
pagination, and online enrichment [2-5].
 Knowledge Sharing and OER
PrePrint Sharing
Elsevier’s Policy:
Authors can share their preprint anywhere at any time.
If accepted for publication, we encourage authors to link from
the preprint to their formal publication via its Digital Object Identifier
(DOI). Millions of researchers have access to the formal publications
on ScienceDirect, and so links will help your users to find, access,
cite, and use the best available version.
Authors can update their preprints on arXiv or RePEc
(Research Papers in Economics) with their accepted manuscript .
[4-5]
 Knowledge Sharing and OER
DOI (Digital Object Identifier)
[https://www.doi.org/]
A DOI, or Digital Object Identifier, is a string of numbers, letters and
symbols used to permanently identify an article or document and link
to it on the web [8].
A DOI will help your reader easily locate a document from your
citation. Think of it like a Social Security number for the article you’re
citing — it will always refer to that article, and only that one [8].
 Knowledge Sharing and OER
How to know that Journal/Publisher support self-
archiving or not?
Can be checked from this URL
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/search.php
 Knowledge Sharing and OER
arXiv
arXiv (pronounced "archive"—the X represents the Greek letter chi
[χ]) is a repository of electronic preprints (known as e-prints)
approved for posting after moderation, but not full peer review.
It consists of scientific papers in the fields
of mathematics, physics, astronomy, electrical engineering, computer
science, quantitative biology, statistics, mathematical
finance and economics, which can be accessed online.
In many fields of mathematics and physics, almost all scientific
papers are self-archived on the arXiv repository.
It is maintained and operated by Cornell University.
[https://arxiv.org/about]
 Knowledge Sharing and OER
SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
SSRN is an open-access online preprint community.
Specializing primarily in social sciences, including economics, law,
corporate governance, and humanities.
SSRN is branching out in to other science disciplines providing
opportunities for scholars to post their early research, collaborate on
theories and discoveries, and get credit for their ideas before peer
reviewed publication.
SSRN is instrumental as a starting point for PhD students,
professors, and institutional faculty to post early-stage research, prior
to publication in academic journals.
[https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/]
[https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/ssrn-faq/]
 Knowledge Sharing and OER
Personal Blog: Some Benefits
Promotion of your research work and OERs.
Promotes autonomous learning by providing opportunities for
students to take more control of their learning.
Motivates students to become better readers and writers.
 Effective forums for collaboration and discussion.
Teachers can use blogs to publish assignments, resources, and
keep students and even parents up to date on class events, due
dates, and content being covered.
Network with other Bloggers
[https://websitesetup.org/best-blog-sites/]
 Measuring Research Visibility
Google Scholar Citations
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for
scholarly literature.
Google Scholar Citations provide a simple way for authors to keep
track of citations to their articles.
You can check who is citing your publications, graph citations over
time, and compute several citation metrics.
You can also make your profile public, so that it may appear in
Google Scholar results when people search for your name.
[https://scholar.google.com/]
 Measuring Research Visibility
Google Scholar Citations
Citations: Number of citations to all publications. Number of other
publications indexed in Google Scholar citing your all publications.
h-index: is the largest number h such that h publications have at
least h citation.
i-10 index: is the number of publication with at least 10 citations.
[https://scholar.google.com/]
 Measuring Research Visibility
Scopus Citations
Provide a simple way for authors to keep track of citations to their
articles published in Scopus indexed Journals and Conference
Proceedings.
[https://www.scopus.com/home.uri]
 Measuring Research Visibility
Altmetric
Altmetrics have a number of advantages over citation-based metrics:
They are quicker to accumulate than citation-based metrics: By virtue
of being sourced from the Web and not from journals and books, it’s possible
to monitor and collate mentions of work online as soon as it’s published.
They can capture more diverse impacts than citation-based
metrics: As described above, altmetrics can complement citations in that
they help you to understand the many ‘flavours’ of impact research can have.
They apply to more than journal articles and books: Researchers are
sharing their data, software, presentations, and other scholarly outputs online
more than ever before. That means we can track their use on the Web as
easily as we can for articles and books.
[https://www.altmetric.com/about-altmetrics/what-are-altmetrics/]
[https://help.altmetric.com/support/signup]
 Author Identity
ORCID
ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you
from every other researcher and, through integration in key research
workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports
automated linkages between you and your professional activities
ensuring that your work is recognized. [https://orcid.org/ ]
ResearcherID
ResearcherID is an identifying system for scientific authors. The
system was introduced in January 2008 by Thomson Reuters (Clarivate
Analytics). This unique identifier aims at solving the problem of author
identification and correct attribution of works.
[https://www.researcherid.com/#rid-for-researchers]
Institutional Email-id
 Journal Selection
Journal Selection has a significant role in research visibility.
Predatory journals must be avoided.
There is no agreed-upon definition, and perceptions of what the term
“predatory” means vary widely. A good starting point from Shamseer et
al. [6] is that predatory journals “actively solicit manuscripts and charge
publication fees without providing robust peer review and editorial
services.”
 Journals must be peer reviewed and indexed in: Web of Science,
Scopus, UGC Journal List.
Impact Factor: Calculation for five-year impact factor, Example:
A= citation in 1992 to articles published in 1987-91
B= articles published in 1987-91
C= A/B = five-year impact factor
 References
[1] https://www.researchgate.net/about
[2] Understanding your rights: pre-prints, post-prints and publisher versions,
By Bonnie Swoger on December 16, 2013
[3] https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/sharing#definitions
[4] https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/sharing
[5] https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-and-
computation/news/manuscript-posting-in-arxiv
[6] https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-017-0785-9
[7] https://training.instructure.com/courses/1276118/pages/what-is-an-open-
license
[8] https://library.uic.edu/help/article/1966/what-is-a-doi-and-how-do-i-use-them-in-
citations
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