RCCP II eConversation Series 4: Altmetrics: Tracking the Online Attention and Broadening the Reach of Your Research
Fri Jul 27, 11:00 - Fri Jul 27, 12:30
Event is online
ABOUT
Ensuring your work is being accurately represented and interpreted, as well as getting to the right people at the right time, all play an important factor in its broader impact.
Altmetrics are real-time data that provide a record of how research has been shared, discussed and reused online. These data can help you understand who is talking about a piece of research, how often they are discussing it and what’s being said.
During this webinar, Charlotte Perry Houts, Implementation Manager, and Josh Clark, Marketing Executive, at Altmetric will give an introduction to the data and demonstrate how they can be used by researchers and institutions to:
Support the promotion of research to maximize its reach
Monitor and track early engagement of research as soon as it’s published
Demonstrate the value of research for promotion and funding
Discover ‘trending’ research in your field and beyond
And much more…
This session forms part of the Rural Campuses Connection Project II (RCCPII) Capacity Development Initiative. The RCCP II eConveration Series offers monthly online sessions covering topics relevant to researchers, support staff, and students at higher education institutions in South Africa. For more information about future sessions and other events please visit the RCCPII calendar.
About the speakers:
Charlotte joined Altmetric as Implementation Manager in September 2017, shortly after moving from San Francisco to London. She is responsible for helping new customers get implemented with Altmetric products, especially Badges for showcasing the attention to published research, and the Explorer for Institutions database. She is passionate about Open Access and data sharing.
Josh joined Altmetric in February 2016 as Marketing Executive having previously worked in a variety of sales and marketing roles for a number of academic publishers. At Altmetric he is responsible customer-facing messaging and promotions including managing the content for the website, blog, webinar program and social media channels as well as event coordination and running the Altmetric Ambassador program.