the research identity connection: boosting visibility and impact of your research
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Boosting visibility and impactof your research Charlie Rapple
Kudos Co-Founder
@charlierapple @growkudoswww.growkudos.com
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Sorry I can’t be with you in person!
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KUDOShelps researchers + institutions to manage communications around their work more effectively and thus
increase visibility and impact
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Connecting the dots
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Don’t just measure impact – create it!
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Free service, three simple steps
EXPLAIN
SHARE MEASURE
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Who’s using Kudos?
110,000 researchers
200+at Stanford
30%medicine /
biology
“Kudos is so simple to use.I can effortlessly share my research
on multiple platforms and track it from the Kudos dashboard”
Dr. Mark F. Weems, Neonatologist, University of Tennessee@charlierapple
Does it work?
Control group
Treatment group
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160Median full text downloads
Proactively explaining and sharing work
increases downloads by
23%n =
4,858
n = 4,866
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Kudos as a toolkit for Open Science
Explanations that you add in Kudos are licensed under CC-BY to help maximize reach and visibility of your work
Available doesn’t mean accessible – Kudos helps a more people find and understand work to maximize your “investment” in Open Access
If you have Open Data relating to your publications, Kudos acts as a hub, connecting all outputs together
Kudos is not a closed system – your institution, publisher and funder can support and amplify your efforts
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My own experiences of OA• I wish I had known
– to factor OA publication fees into project budgets– to ask potential collaborators about their publication
preferences• If there’s a chance at a “name” publication I always take it
– that kind of visibility is worth (a) an open access charge if they have a “hybrid” model or (b) the “hassle” of sending PDFs of my paper to anyone who asks
• I can’t see OA ending up as a centralized entity – there are too many nuances to how different communities
want it to work, and too many risks of having all our eggs in one basket