Analysing researchers’ outreach efforts and the association with publication metrics: A case study of Kudos
With the growth of scholarly collaboration networks and social communication platforms, members of the scholarly community are experimenting with their approach to disseminating research outputs, in an effort to increase their audience and outreach. However, from a researcher’s point of view, it is...
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| author | Erdt, Mojisola Aung, Htet Htet Aw, Ashley Sara Rapple, Charlie Theng, Yin-Leng |
| author2 | Glanzel, Wolfgang |
| author_facet | Glanzel, Wolfgang Erdt, Mojisola Aung, Htet Htet Aw, Ashley Sara Rapple, Charlie Theng, Yin-Leng |
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| description | With the growth of scholarly collaboration networks and social communication platforms, members of the scholarly community are experimenting with their approach to disseminating research outputs, in an effort to increase their audience and outreach. However, from a researcher’s point of view, it is difficult to determine whether efforts to make work more visible are worthwhile (in terms of the association with publication metrics) and within that, difficult to assess which platform or network is most effective for sharing work and connecting to a wider audience. We undertook a case study of Kudos (https://www.growkudos.com), a web-based service that claims to help researchers increase the outreach of their publications, to examine the most effective tools for sharing publications online, and to investigate which actions are associated with improved metrics. We extracted a dataset from Kudos of 830,565 unique publications claimed by authors, for which 20,775 had actions taken to explain or share via Kudos, and for 4,867 of these full text download data from publishers was available. Findings show that researchers are most likely to share their work on Facebook, but links shared on Twitter are more likely to be clicked on. A Mann-Whitney U test revealed that a treatment group (publications having actions in Kudos) had a significantly higher median average of 149 full text downloads (23.1% more) per publication as compared to a control group (having no actions in Kudos) with a median average of 121 full text downloads per publication. These findings suggest that performing actions on publications, such as sharing, explaining, or enriching, could help to increase the number of full text downloads of a publication. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/866562021-01-18T04:50:20Z Analysing researchers’ outreach efforts and the association with publication metrics: A case study of Kudos Erdt, Mojisola Aung, Htet Htet Aw, Ashley Sara Rapple, Charlie Theng, Yin-Leng Glanzel, Wolfgang Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information Centre for Healthy and Sustainable Cities (CHESS) Controlled Study Human With the growth of scholarly collaboration networks and social communication platforms, members of the scholarly community are experimenting with their approach to disseminating research outputs, in an effort to increase their audience and outreach. However, from a researcher’s point of view, it is difficult to determine whether efforts to make work more visible are worthwhile (in terms of the association with publication metrics) and within that, difficult to assess which platform or network is most effective for sharing work and connecting to a wider audience. We undertook a case study of Kudos (https://www.growkudos.com), a web-based service that claims to help researchers increase the outreach of their publications, to examine the most effective tools for sharing publications online, and to investigate which actions are associated with improved metrics. We extracted a dataset from Kudos of 830,565 unique publications claimed by authors, for which 20,775 had actions taken to explain or share via Kudos, and for 4,867 of these full text download data from publishers was available. Findings show that researchers are most likely to share their work on Facebook, but links shared on Twitter are more likely to be clicked on. A Mann-Whitney U test revealed that a treatment group (publications having actions in Kudos) had a significantly higher median average of 149 full text downloads (23.1% more) per publication as compared to a control group (having no actions in Kudos) with a median average of 121 full text downloads per publication. These findings suggest that performing actions on publications, such as sharing, explaining, or enriching, could help to increase the number of full text downloads of a publication. NRF (Natl Research Foundation, S’pore) Published version 2017-12-21T05:46:29Z 2019-12-06T16:26:43Z 2017-12-21T05:46:29Z 2019-12-06T16:26:43Z 2017 Journal Article Erdt, M., Aung, H. H., Aw, A. S., Rapple, C., & Theng, Y.-L. (2017). Analysing researchers’ outreach efforts and the association with publication metrics: A case study of Kudos. PLOS ONE, 12(8), e0183217-. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/86656 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44185 10.1371/journal.pone.0183217 en PLoS ONE https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/94B0LT © 2017 Erdt et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. 25 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Controlled Study Human Erdt, Mojisola Aung, Htet Htet Aw, Ashley Sara Rapple, Charlie Theng, Yin-Leng Analysing researchers’ outreach efforts and the association with publication metrics: A case study of Kudos |
| title | Analysing researchers’ outreach efforts and the association with publication metrics: A case study of Kudos |
| title_full | Analysing researchers’ outreach efforts and the association with publication metrics: A case study of Kudos |
| title_fullStr | Analysing researchers’ outreach efforts and the association with publication metrics: A case study of Kudos |
| title_full_unstemmed | Analysing researchers’ outreach efforts and the association with publication metrics: A case study of Kudos |
| title_short | Analysing researchers’ outreach efforts and the association with publication metrics: A case study of Kudos |
| title_sort | analysing researchers outreach efforts and the association with publication metrics a case study of kudos |
| topic | Controlled Study Human |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/86656 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44185 |
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