Which Social Media Should an Academic populate to develop an online presence as a researcher?

Academics and Researchers should have presence on various social media to develop an online presence which is very necessary now-a-days. Just writing papers and publishing is not enough. Online presence on various social media is ‘almost’ mandatory.

1. Quantity and Quality of Publications

• Keynote Address and Invited papers
• Publishing Peer Reviewed Papers in National/International Journals
• Paper Presentation in National/International Conferences
• Abstracts in National/International Conference Proceedings
• Accepted but Unpublished Conference Papers in National and International Conferences
• Articles in various print and electronic media National and International
• Lectures at various platforms for external audience National and International
• Included in Syllabus National and International
• Institutional Repositories: Preprint and Post Print
• Cited in Research Reports, White papers, Policy Documents etc

2. Citations
3. Impact Factor

• Traditional:A to Z Impact Factors http://files.figshare.com/1067961/56_impacts_preprint_5_26_13.pdf
• Altmetrics: Seen, Acknowledged, Mentioned, Praised/Trashed, Positive/Negative Comments, Recomended, Forwarded, Downloaded on various Social Media

 

Various Social Tools that can be used

• Social Tool: Facebook
• Professional Tool: LinkedIn
• Academic, Research, Collaborative Tool
  • Academia.edu
  • Google Scholar
  • ResearchGate

• Research ID
  • Orcid
  • ResearcherID

• Impact Measurement Tool: Klout
• Collaboration Sites: Mendeley

• Resource Sharing Tools:
  • Blogging: WordPress
  • Microblog: Twitter
  • Image: Flickr
  • Video: YouTube
  • Sound: SoundCoud
  • Presentation: Slideshare
  • Multimedia Presentation: Prezi (14 days free)
  • Book Marking: Delicious
  • Website: About.com

 

Tips

• Share and re-share links
• Link to various directories
• Have patience – building followers takes time

 

 

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