Figshare Figures You Should Share Your Figures

Research data is becoming more important and presentations, posters, and videos, for example, are all considered proper research products. But how do you share your non-traditional research output in a way that makes it discoverable and citeable?

Mieneke van der Salm • April 21, 2015

A Change of Pace

Since last May, I've been blogging here at The Leiden Connected Researcher on an (almost) weekly basis. From this month on, I'll be slowing the pace and scaling back to monthly posts.

Mieneke van der Salm • March 31, 2015

Gerard van Westen on Impactstory

Impactstory is the altmetrics provider most focused on researchers. Gerard van Westen agreed to share his thoughts and experiences with the service.

Mieneke van der Salm • March 24, 2015

Plumb your altmetrics data with Plum and PLoS

Last week we looked at Impactstory, this week we finish off the overview of the main altmetrics providers on the market with a closer look at Plum Analytics and PLoS Article Level Metrics.

Mieneke van der Salm • March 19, 2015

Let your research tell its story with Impactstory

Impactstory is an altmetrics service aimed at authors and researchers, who want to monitor the altmetric scores for their own articles, datasets and other research products themselves.

Mieneke van der Salm • March 12, 2015

Cui Computo? Altmetrics and the companies that score them

In the past months, I've focussed on social media and scientific social networks, stressing how being active on there can help gain your work more exposure and increase its impact. But how do you then monitor this impact and what does it mean?

Mieneke van der Salm • March 03, 2015

Willem van Boom on ORCID and other author identifiers

This week I interview Professor Willem van Boom on the subject of ORCID and other author identifiers. He has some great insights to share.

Mieneke van der Salm • February 24, 2015

Scope out your research: about ResearcherID and Scopus Author ID

This week we continue our survey of persistent author identifiers with Thomson Reuters' ResearcherID and Elsevier's Scopus Author ID. How useful are they to Leiden Scholars?

Mieneke van der Salm • February 17, 2015

Flowers make the scholar: about ORCID and Google Scholar Citations

Last week we talked about the importance of persistent identifiers. This week we'll be taking a closer look at two of them: ORCID and Google Scholar Citations.

Mieneke van der Salm • February 11, 2015