With the flourishing environment of platforms for sharing data, establishing an online profile and engaging in scientific discourse through alternative modes of publishing and participation, there are numerous potential benefits. However, while many scientists invest significant amounts of time in sharing their activities and opinions with friends and family the majority do not make use of the new opportunities to participate in the developing social web of science, despite the potential impact and influence on future careers. We now have many new ways to contribute to science outside of the classical publishing model. These include the ability to annotate and curate data, to “publish” in new ways on blogs and micropublishing sites, and many of these activities can be as part of a growing crowdsourcing network. Our efforts in this area are already being indexed and exposed on the internet via our publications, presentations and data and increasingly we are being quantified. This presentation will provide an overview of the various types of networking and collaborative sites available to scientists and ways to expose their scientific activities online. Many of these can ultimately contribute to the developing metrics of a scientist as identified in the new world of alternative metrics. Participation offers a great opportunity to develop a scientific profile within the community and may ultimately be very beneficial, especially to scientists early in their career.

1. The Benefits of Participation
in the Social Web of Science
Antony Williams
Research Square
October 30th 2014

2. My background…
• From 1985-present day
• PhD’ed in the UK
• Canadian Government lab as postdoc
• Academia as NMR Facility Manager
• Fortune 500 Company as Technology Leader
• Start-up – product manager and CSO
• Consultant – chemistry informatics industry
• Entrepreneur – Created “ChemSpider”
• Publisher - Royal Society of Chemistry

3. My greatest contribution so far?

4. I am a set of statistics & profiles
• My Blog: www.chemconnector.com
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/ChemConnector
• ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2668-4821
• Amazon Author Page: Follow Link to Author Page
• My Klout: http://www.klout.com/#/ChemConnector
• LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/antonywilliams
• SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams
• Google Scholar Citations Profile: Antony Williams Citations
• Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_John_Williams

5. My Brand: ChemConnector

6. Scientists measured by Impact

7. My New Interest? Teaching…
My new interest…

8. Helping build profiles…
• Can I help scientists have a greater impact?
• Other thank providing access to scientific data
how can I help?
• Researchers focus on discovery but are
measured by publications, funding and patents.
• Tenure is a common goal - IMPACT matters
• How will researchers achieve societal impact ?

9. Measuring Impact?

10. My Judgments…
• Researchers do not work hard enough on
sharing their research, teachings or data
• Impact is more than “Published XX papers in
YY journals with Impact Factors of ZZ”
• The Metrics of Impact are changing
• Collaboration is more necessary than ever
• Platforms for sharing activities can result in
broader exposure

11. Research Outputs
• Blogs
• Research datasets
• Scientific software
• Posters and presentations at conferences
• Electronic theses and dissertations
• Performances in film and audio
• Lectures, online classes and teaching activities

12. The Alt-Metrics Manifesto

13. National Information Standards
Organization and “Altmetrics”
http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/13295/niso_altmetrics_white_paper_draft_v4.pdf

14. https://impactstory.org/ChemConnector

16. AltMetrics via Plum Analytics

17. Usage, Citations, Social
Media

18. Detailed Usage Statistics

19. Ask a researcher these Qs…
• How much work generating and analyzing data?
• How much effort to represent your research –
presentations, publications?
• How long does it take to write a publication?
• How much work/time for the peer review process?
• Does anyone now argue against Open Access?
• What about the future of Open Data?

20. Publications First…
• Impact Factors DO still matter…
• I want the BEST peer review process, with the
highest chance of publication, in the fastest
time, with the greatest exposure, and the
highest impact factor (Research Square helps)
• Increasingly important to consider for me…
• Open Access/Open Data (funding aside!)
• Article Level Metrics are VERY IMPORTANT
• Post-publication annotation/enhancement
• Supplementary Info Data handling

21. A shift to Openness

22. Open Data is here…

23. Article Level Metrics

24. Article Level Metrics

25. Article Level Metrics

26. POST-publication comments

28. Oops…

29. >2 Years to Resolution

30. Oxidation by Sodium Hydride?

31. The Blogosphere Analyzes…

32. The Blogosphere Analyzes…

33. POST-publication comments

34. POST-publication comments

35. What I try to teach now…
• Scientists need to participate in building their
own profile
• Generally visibility means discoverability
• Establish a public profile
• Get on the record
• Collaborative Science
• Demonstrate a skill set
• You are already quantified
• Contribute to the public peer review process

36. LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/in/AntonyWilliams

37. My Google Scholar Profile

38. Mendeley
http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/antony-williams/

39. Sharing your works online

40. Academia.edu

41. Academia.edu

42. How I am Quantified…

43. How I am Quantified…

44. Participating in your profile

45. Kudos

46. Kudos

47. Kudos

48. Kudos and Forward Citations!

49. What will researchers change?
• There will be less denial of the power of the
network – and especially the platforms
• Funding agencies are pushing hard to track
impact – and Altmetrics are high on the list
• Supervisors will encourage student participation
for a cascaded impact
• It won’t be just about the publications – data
sharing and reuse, blogs, presentations
• Hopefully sharing RESEARCH DATA

50. Research Square and ORCID?

51. Research Data

52. Micropublishing with Peer Review

53. Compounds

54. Reactions

55. Analytical data

56. Crystallography data

57. Publishing 10 years from now?
• My hopes for publishing research:
– Peer review will no longer be anonymous
– Open Annotation and post-publication review
available from every publisher
– Access to “raw data” for interrogration, download
and reuse is expected from SI data
– Article Level Metrics will be the norm and
Altmetrics measures of impact have settled
– “Micropublishing” of unpublished results increased
– Publications are not “dead” and can be extended..

58. Open Annotation accepted

59. Open Annotation

60. Thank you
Email: williamsa@rsc.org
ORCID: 0000-0002-2668-4821
Twitter: @ChemConnector
Personal Blog: www.chemconnector.com
SLIDES: www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams