Unless a scientist is limited by their employer from exposing their scientific activities through publications and presentations, their future impact, whether expected to be at a bench, in front of an instrument or surrounded by robotics, will largely be represented online through their published works, their citation profile and other forms of recognition of their work by their peers. Search engines are already harvesting information about a scientist and aggregating into profiles such as those offered by Google Scholar Citations and Microsoft Academic Search. Rather than be limited to the online representation provided by such services students are encouraged to participate in the creation of their online profile and architect the representation of themselves online to as large a degree as possible to represent themselves to future employers and collaborators. This presentation will give an overview of potential approaches to participating in development of their online persona.
The social profile of a chemist online - The Potential Profits of Participation
1. The Social Profile of a Chemist
Online – The Potential Profits
of Participation
Antony Williams
ACS Indianapolis
September 11th
2013
2. How does the internet influence you?
• How many of you visit the internet/check
your email less than a dozen times per
day?
• Where do you go for fact-checking?
• How many on Facebook? Twitter?
• You know you have an online profile right?
• Scientists…how many of you are working
on building a scientific profile online?
• How many of you online now???
3. If we can map the planet…
• …then we should map the Galaxy!
9. How can I contribute to chemistry?
• Publish data, share data, validate and
curate data
• Publish chemicals, syntheses and data
• “Publish” – Papers, Blogs, Reports,
Tweets, Presentations, Videos
• Contribute to Wikipedia
• Participate in chemistry communities
• Contribute to the Big Data
10. About Me…as a Chemist
• I’ve performed a few dozen chemical syntheses
• I’ve run thousands of analytical spectra
• I’ve generated thousands of NMR assignments
• I’ve probably published <5% of all work
• Most of it has been lost
• But things can be different today….
• But it still needs to be associated with me…
22. I Manage My Publications Publicly
• My publications/slides/videos are my CV on
• My Blog
• On LinkedIn
• On SlideShare
• On Researchgate
• On Academia.edu
26. Scientists are “Quantified”
• As scientists we are quantified
• Stats are gathered and analyzed
• Employers can find them, tenure will depend
on them and these already happen without
your participation
• Scientists Impact Factors, H-index and many
other variants.
35. My views of the future
• “Altmetrics” is going to be big
• Scientists, and especially young scientists, can
“get in early” and build reputation
• It takes effort driven by participation…
36. Micropublishing
How Much Data is Lost?
• How many reactions never get published?
• How much data could be shared?
• How many properties are measured and
lost?
• What stands in the way of sharing?
• Is it technology?
• Permissions? “The Boss”, Licensing?
43. Rewards and Recognition
Congratulations! Your 1st CSSP
article has been published.
Philosopher Lao Tzu said “A
journey of a thousand miles begins
with a single step”. In the same
way we hope that this will be the
first of many submissions that you
make to CSSP.
The First Step badge is
awarded when a user
submits (& has published)
their 1st
CSSP article.
48. The Power of Blogs
(from Sean Ekins, @collabchem)
49. • Persistent unique digital identifier
• Integrates to workflows such as
manuscript and grant submission
• Supports automated linkages with your
professional activities
Enabled by
50. My Online Profile was built on..
• My work on Wikipedia
• My blogs
• Slideshare for presentations
• YouTube for videos
• ChemSpider for chemistry
• Have an opinion, participate, step out there, get
busy, be productive, work hard and contribute