Engaging researchers with altmetrics

Michelle WalkerMMiT September 2015

#mmit2015

Session Outline

• Context • Rationale• Feedback• Future potential developments • Your thoughts, ideas, actions

Are the tools working for you?Informing emerging conversations with

latest research

Supporting experimentation with

emerging tools

Engaging in early education / outreach

• Searching for your literature review • Maximising your research profile: how to be seen better • Measuring research performance • Copyright essentials for researchers • Mindmapping for researchers • Keeping up to date with new research• Open Access at Northumbria • Research and collaboration using web tools & social media

Traditional metrics

Photo credit: http://www.vads.ac.uk/results.php?cmd=search&words=NAP_4_3_13_19&mode=boolean&submit=search

Northumbria University - Research Support: The Essentials June 2015

“The way that publishing has been developing and

the need to let the wolrd(sic) know about my

outcomes”

How to monitor your impact as a researcher through citation alerts, altmetrics, ego searches, etc.

I found all the lesson very interesting in particoluar(sic) the parts of " Choosing a journal" and the using of the "social“ to promote our research.

“Reinforced what I thought I knew but was unsure of. Handout to accompany the session useful.”

“The examples of how staff at Northumbria had used different media, etc. it was relaly(sic) inspiring.”

Next steps

• Visits• Research metrics service• Collaboration with internal partnersPhoto credit: https://pixabay.com/en/step-steps-path-direction-shoes-163948/

Are the tools working for you?Informing emerging conversations with

latest research

Supporting experimentation with

emerging tools

Engaging in early education / outreach

• What stage are your researchers / institution at?• What do you do currently to support researchers

regarding altmetrics?• What would you like to do?Photo credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/King%27s_College_London_Students_Evacuated_To_Bristol%2C_England%2C_1940_D430.jpg

Over to you!