Academic Social Networks and Personal Websites ...

9 downloads 53749 Views 4MB Size Report
Blog posts to alert followers when you publish/present ... 3. Decide whether or not to get yourself a website. (New Google Sites, Wordpress, WIX, Weebly,.
Your Online Presence Academic Social Networks and Personal Websites Why? How?

Nick Byrd byrdnick.com

Automaticity of alerts about your publication Quality of Your Publication

Is your research followable?

Popularity of Your Topic

Receiving Citation Visibility of Your Publication

Accessibility of Your Publication

(from Kyung Kim and Devin Soper's “Be Visible or Vanish”)

Is your research visible? Accessible?

How Accessibility Works Accessibility: self-archive preprints and other publications on your website or an academic social network (ASN) — e.g., ResearchGate, Academia.edu. NB: “ResearchGate [has the highest rate of full text availability]” (Jamali and Nabavi 2015)

Google Scholar crawls the internet for your papers and then directs search traffic to you and your papers.

How Following Works People follow researchers (or topics or phrases) using Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Academia.edu, PhilPapers, etc. When those researchers upload a preprint or publish something, their followers are automatically alerted.

ASNs → Citations “…articles posted to Academia.edu had 58% more citations than articles only posted to other online venues, such as personal and departmental home pages, after five years.” (Niyazov et al 2016, italics added) NB: some of these ↑ authors have a conflict of interest.

Comparing ASNs FREE

Automatic Citation metrics





✓ ✓ ✓

Manual Access Upload/link Citation without to Preprints Metrics account?

✓ ✓















Built-in comment system

Websitelike Page

Registered Users A bunch?



210,641



11 million



50
 million

$

ASN user base The number of registered users on a site might be misleading. After all, many registered users might not be active users. So you might not care that Academia.edu has more registered users than ResearchGate because the latter seems to have far more active (academic) users — i.e., more users who can cite your work.

(From Nature, 2014)

How Do Scholars Use ASNs?

From “Academic social networks…”

…visualized

From “Academic social networks…”

…visualized

From “Academic social networks…”

Why? Perhaps because scholars in the Arts & Humanities are much less likely to use ResearchGate than Academia.edu? (Academia.edu was started by someone in the Arts & Humanities)

From Times Higher Ed.

Google Scholar is the most used ASN. So, if nothing else, make a Google Scholar profile.

(From Nature, 2014)

Social Media? 1. “[Over 40% of scientists who use social media regularly report that they use social media to discover peers]” (Nature, 2014, italics added) 2. “The volume of Twitter mentions is statistically correlated with arXiv downloads and early citations just months after the publication of a preprint” (Shuai et al, 2012) 3. “Highly tweeted articles were 11 times more likely to be highly cited than lesstweeted articles” (Eysenbach,2011 )

Your own website? 1. More control over your online presence. 2. Continuity of online presence between jobs/ institutions. 3. Descriptions of your teaching (and perhaps videos of it). 4. Blog posts to alert followers when you publish/present something (e.g., Myisha Cherry, Richard Zach) for plain-language descriptions of your research (e.g., Eric Schwitzgebel). to work out your ideas (e.g. Helen de Cruz, Rachel Williams, John Danaher, Richard Yetter Chappell). or just to stay in the habit of writing regularly.

All-in-one website and ASN? Academia.edu now offers a “Personal Website” service for about $8/month.

ASNs vs. ASNs vs. WEBSITES FREE

Google Sites Wordpress WIX Weebly

✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Academia.edu ResearchGate

✓ ✓ ✓

AUTO CUSTOM SETUP DOMAIN ($)

✓ ✓ ✓

✓ ✓ ✓

$

✓ ✓ ✓

$

$

$



$

Squarespace

Google Scholar

FOLLOWABLE

LARGE THEME LIBRARY

$

FRONT END EDITING

DRAG & DROP EDITING





ish

ish

✓ ✓ ish



CUSTOMIZE EVERYTHING

$

MOBILEFRIENDLY

AD FREE

✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

✓ $



$

BLOG READY

✓ ✓ ✓ $







$

$

ish ish

Take Action 1. Create a Google Scholar profile (3-step tutorial) 2. Decide whether or not to create a profile on an ASN (Academia.edu, ResearchGate, Mendeley, others) 3. Decide whether or not to get yourself a website (New Google Sites, Wordpress, WIX, Weebly, Squarespace, etc.) 4. Next step: use citation management and bookmarking tools (Google Scholar Button, Mendeley (also an ASN), Zotero)

Other Resources Arvan, C. (2015). Query: why so few early-career bloggers? Ebrahim, A., Nader, Salehi, H., Embi, M. A., Habibi, F., Gholizadeh, H., … Ordi, A. (2013). Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency (SSRN). Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network. Griffiths, M. D. (2015). How to improve your citation count. MacCallum, C. J., & Parthasarathy, H. (2006). Open Access Increases Citation Rate. PLOS Biology, 4(5), e176. https://doi.org/10.1371/ journal.pbio.0040176 Reynolds, C., & Mulcahy, L. (2015). PhD Career Development Programme. London School of Economics. Swan, A. (2010, February). The Open Access citation advantage: Studies and results to date.

Free eBook (PDF)