Making yourself visible on the net as a researcher
• Networking and making connections with others – Historically • Attending as many conferences • “Hooking-up” with likeminded people • Result – Produce academic papers – generate grants
– Now • All that can be done online – Profiles Google Scholar, Scopus, ResearchGate, LinkedIn, Facebook
Dr Nenad Naumovski
Assist Prof in Food Science and Human Nutrition
• Is there a need for conference networking?
Publish or Perish?
Basic concept of being visible • Advantages of having academic profile online – – – – – – –
Show yourself to the World Seek out other academics with similar interests Collaboration on projects Online meetings Information about new developments in real time Feedback on papers from peers (proofreading and editing) Share data (Presentations, graphs, figures, sound/video files,…)
Building up professional profile • Separate the ‘personal’ from ‘professional’ – Keeping in contact with friends and family – differs that dealing with colleagues • • •
Great Saturday Night – Bad Sunday Morning Birthday party Photographs of children, puppies, kittens, family, etc…
– Your latest publication •
The effect of compound X on the development and progression of Y in the puppies.
– Grant that you have received •
NHMRC equipment grant for xyz
– Job/responsibility that you have (Internally/Externally) •
AERC member, HREC member…
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Where to start? • Databases for upload of academic information
Google Scholar Profile • Relatively new data source for citation analysis
– Google search – 1300 database platforms [25.11.2015] Recommendations: – Researcher ID – Thomson Reuters Web of Science – Google Scholar – Scoups Author ID – ORCID – ResearchGate (Academic Social Networking Site)
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Freely available to everyone Very easy to create Very simple way to keep track of citations View the research metrics (updated automatically) Control what to be shown (update the list manually or delete from list) Research group profile can be created
Google Scholar Profile • Adding the conference presentations as an example
Google Scholar Profile • Disadvantages – Includes some non-scholarly articles
https://scholar.google.com.au/
• Handbooks, library guides, etc.
– Not all journals are indexed in Google Scholar • It can be modified by entering the references manually
– Uneven coverage of different fields of study • Nutrition, Food Science, Biological sciences relatively well represented
– Older Publications • May not be listed / picked-up
– Author names • Author names that contain apostrophes may be a problem
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Other Research Identifiers worth investing time with • Scopus Author Identifier (Elsevier) – Provides citation counts for articles published within the Scopus journals set – ID is automatically assigned if you have published with the identified journals – Check accuracy of ‘Author profile’ to ensure that you have single identifier •
Specially if you have changed your surname
– You can only check this from your University server •
If your university has subscription to it
Other Research Identifiers worth investing time with • Researcher ID – Provides citation counts for articles published within the Thomson Reuters journals set – ID is automatically assigned if you have published with the identified journals – Check accuracy of ‘Author profile’ to ensure that you have single identifier •
Specially if you have changed your surname
http://www.researcherid.com
Other Research Identifiers worth investing time with • Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) – – – –
Internationally recognised registry of researchers Links activities and research outputs 16 digit code that identifies the researcher similar to ISBNs or DOIs Increasingly used by journal publishers, universities, funding bodies Some journals will ask for ORCID number – NHMRC – suggests to include ORCID into the Research Grant Management System (RGMS)
ResearchGate • Academic Social Media Networking site – Founded in 2008 – Over 3 million users •
35% visiting at least once per month (around 1 million)
– Allows individuals to •
Upload publications into their profiles (BE CAREFUL
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Altmetrics / Citation count / Impact management Ask questions / provide answers about research problem – Discussion boards Instant messaging Follow the researchers / Group Collaboration / Reference management Endorse the researchers field of expertise
www.researchgate.com
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In Summary • Make sure that you are visible on the web – Treat it as a business… • • • •
You have invested years of study in it Maximise the ‘profit’ Use the “robots” to do the job for you See what the ‘Big-Dogs’ are doing and model them – No need to re-invent the wheel
– It is not ‘set-and-forget’ system • Dedicate no more than 1hr/week for it
– Do not forget the three MAIN WORDS in research • Publish, Publish, Publish
