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Research Impact is a global endeavour | LinkedIn

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Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/research-impact-global-endeavour-tamika-heiden   Research Impact is a global endeavour Published on Published on October 24, 2017 Tamika Heiden Revolutionising Research Impact Ι Connecting Researchers & Society Ι Facilitating research collaborations 29 articles For a second year running, the completely online and free Research Impact Summit has drawn a crowd and created vibrant conversations. Initially, run as an experiment in 2016, The Research Impact Summit delivered a research conference of a different style and definitely of a different price tag. Having found that the most significant struggles for researchers and higher education administrators are ty...

How Articles Get Noticed and Advance the Scientific Conversation | The Official PLOS Blog

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 Source: http://blogs.plos.org/plos/2015/03/get-paper-noticed-join-current-scientific-conversation Previous Next How Articles Get Noticed and Advance the Scientific Conversation Posted March 30, 2015 by Victoria Costello in Publishing 259 0000-0002-8715-2896 By Victoria Costello, PLOS Senior Social Media & Community Editor The good news is you’ve published your manuscript! The bad news? With two million other new research articles likely to be published this year, you face steep competition for readers, downloads, citations and media attention — even if only 10% of those two million papers are in your discipline. So, how can you get your paper noticed and advance the scientific conversation?  One word: Tweet. A Tweet (n.) is an online communication of no more than 140 characters (o...

5 Steps to tweet your research at conferences effectively | Editage Insights

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 Source: https://www.editage.com/insights/5-steps-to-tweet-your-research-at-conferences-effectively Beyond Research 5 Steps to tweet your research at conferences effectively Elena Milani | Oct 12, 2017 | 584 views Save to read later Add a comment Republish on your website Print Ever since I started my PhD (and even before) I’ve been told about the importance of using social media for communicating about my research. But, just like every other PhD student and early career researcher, I spend most of my time doing research and writing about my project. So how do you use social media to promote your research effectively, if you don’t have any time? The solution is simpler than you can imagine: tweet your conference presentation. Among all social med...

SSRN Top Downloads For: AARN: Educational Policies & Equality (Topic)

 Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/topten/topTenResults.cfm?groupingId=2136383&netorjrnl=jrnl Ethical and Unethical Methods of Plagiarism Prevention in Academic Writing Kaveh Bakhtiyari , Hadi Salehi , Mohamed Amin Embi , Masoud Shakiba , Azam Zavvari , Masoomeh Shahbazi-Moghadam , Nader Ale Ebrahim and Marjan Mohammadjafari   Abstract This paper discusses plagiarism origins, and the ethical solutions to prevent it. It also reviews some unethical approaches, w...

Will 'Publish or Perish' Become 'Clicks or Canned'? The Rise of Academic Social Networks | EdSurge News

 Source: https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-08-01-will-publish-or-perish-become-clicks-or-canned-the-rise-of-academic-social-networks Will 'Publish or Perish' Become 'Clicks or Canned'? The Rise of Academic Social Networks Scholars want peers to find—and cite—their research, and these days that increasingly happens on social media. The old adage ‘publish or perish’ could soon go digital as ‘clicks or canned.’ Several platforms have emerged over the past decade, offering researchers the chance to share their work and connect with other scholars. But some of those services have a bad rap from academics who say commercial sites lack the integrity of institutional repositories run by traditional universities. (Among the most widely-villified are ResearchGate and Academia.edu , which is evident by griping on social media and elsewhere.) “The idea that some of these sites are for-profit raises questions about whether our work is really going to be available to the public, or...

Despite Growth, Scientific Networking Sites Are Likely to Complement, Not Replace Open Access Repositories | Open Science

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 Source: http://openscience.com/despite-their-initial-proliferation-scientific-networking-sites-are-likely-to-complement-not-replace-open-access-repositories/ Despite Growth, Scientific Networking Sites Are Likely to Complement, Not Replace Open Access Repositories October 12, 2017 Even though social media performance becomes increasingly important for scientists, questions about the implications that the business models of scholarly networking sites have persist, while leaving institutional repositories and Open Access publishers with a significant role to play in knowledge sharing. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. As scholars become increasingly concerned with the visibility and view counts that their scientific articles generate, social networking platforms have been slated to become the primary venues for the dissemination and sharing of scientific knowledge. However, as Jessica Leigh Brown implies , as these scholarly social networking site...

Workshop on "Academic Social Networking Sites: Improves Research Visibility and Impact"

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Ale Ebrahim, Nader (2017): Academic Social Networking Sites: Improves Research Visibility and Impact. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5483785.v1 Retrieved: 02:20, Oct 12, 2017 (GMT) Academic Social Networking Sites: Improves Research Visibility and Impact