1. using
social
media
michelle dalton
university of limerick
to increase your research impact

2. http://bit.ly/P4wcgo

3. social media
= citations

4. blogging
reputation & presence

5. http://inside-the-brain.com/ Prof W. O’Connor, UL GEMS

6. twitter
dissemination & engagement

7. (Source: Website-Monitoring.com.)

8. a conversation…

9. …not a broadcast mechanism

10. join communities
LSE’s list of academic tweeters: http://bit.ly/nIrqDJ

11. follow conferences
#phdchat
#openaccess

12. Over 10,000 scholarly links are
shared on Twitter every day
Keep up to date with emerging research,
researchers & trends

13. Over 10,000 scholarly links are
shared on Twitter every day
Keep up to date with emerging research,
researchers & trends
...and also engage industry, funders & the
wider public

14. Eysenbach, G. (2011). Can tweets predict citations?
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 13(4)
Highly tweeted articles
11 times more likely to
be highly cited than less-
tweeted articles

15. altmetrics
tracking your research impact

16. impact > citations

17. why
you
need
to
know
about
them

18. track who is talking
about & sharing
your research

19. downloads, shares, tweets, likes,
views, bookmarks, comments,
reviews, wikipedia articles, blog posts,
news stories, saves, +1s, google
scholar citations, favourites, clicks,
stars, mentions …

20. … of journal articles, book chapters,
data-sets, videos, blog posts, slide
decks, software, conference papers,
websites …

21. in practice

22. within twelve days of
publicationarticle published 3 apr 2013
screenshot 15 apr 2013

23. but zero citations

24. real-time indicators of impact
captures ‘practitioner’ impact of those
who may never publish
evidence of public engagement
a leading indicator for future citations?
measuring impact

25. discover trending topics and papers
identify potential collaborators
track the impact and reach of your
article across different channels
research tools

26. the value of altmetrics
on your cv
provides impact of just-published work
includes all types of scholarly output
evidence of industry & public engagement
facilitates qualitative analysis of impact

27. the tools

28. works for any
paper with a doi
http://www.altmetric.com/bookmarklet.php

29. impactstory.orgnot just citations

30. impactstory.org

31. impactstory.orgpubmed central
& scopus

32. “In the next five years, I believe that it will
become routine to track — and to value —
citations to an online lab notebook,
contributions to a software library, bookmarks
to data sets from content-sharing sites such as
Pinterest and Delicious. In other words, to value
a wider range of metrics that suggest a research
product has made a difference”
heather piwowar
Nature 493, 159 (10 January 2013) doi:10.1038/493159a

33. # reputation
# visibility
# impact

34. blogging
building reputation
twitter
dissemination & engagement
altmetrics
tracking your impact
find the
tools that
work for
you

35. twitter: @mishdalton
blog: libfocus.com
slideshare: mishdalton
managing editor: @oalisj
www.michelledalton.ie
michelle.dalton@ul.ie
about me
thank you