{"id":4752,"date":"2016-10-14T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T03:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/?p=4610"},"modified":"2018-05-24T17:05:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T11:35:12","slug":"kudos-extends-its-reach-by-collaborating-with-journals-and-publishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/kudos-extends-its-reach-by-collaborating-with-journals-and-publishers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kudos Extends Its Reach by Collaborating with Institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may have read our experts’ take<\/a> on the benefits of individual researchers using Kudos. Last year in October 2015, Kudos also launched a new platform called Kudos for Institutions<\/a>. This platform will help institutions take a strategic approach to increase researchers\u2019 visibility, reach a wider audience, and have a wider impact of studies funded by them. Kudos can also provide reports on how their researchers are using the service to manage communications around their work and a range of article-level metrics including usage, altmetrics<\/a> and citations. By mapping these against researchers\u2019 use of Kudos\u2019 toolkit, they can demonstrate the value of their actions and motivate continued effort.<\/p>\n

By using Kudos<\/a>, institutions can benefit in the following ways:<\/p>\n

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  1. Kudos is the only system that shows how\u00a0communications efforts drive\u00a0publication performance\u2014people\u00a0in academia are mostly interested in whether their work is being downloaded, read and cited and not interested in seeking\u00a0likes and shares on social media. Researchers using Kudos\u2019 system to generate trackable URLs makes sharing trackable, via social media<\/a>, email, online or even offline, in things like conference\u00a0slides and handouts. Kudos then works with publishers and metrics providers to gather a whole load of metrics against which the tracked actions can be mapped.<\/li>\n
  2. Kudos helps researchers and institutions to understand which activities and media are most effective so that future efforts can be optimized and time saved.<\/li>\n
  3. By showing such meaningful communications drive results shows that using Kudos correlates to 23% higher downloads, (see: https:\/\/blog.growkudos.com\/2016\/09\/08\/introducing-kudos-for-institutions-4-ways-you-can-benefit\/<\/a>) providing researchers with the necessary evidence to justify time spent on publicity efforts, thereby enabling and encouraging such efforts.<\/li>\n
  4. Additional metadata to help increase discoverability. The advantages are twofold: 1) It\u00a0makes it quicker for other specialists to determine whether to read the work in more depth, and helps people outside the field to understand and potentially\u00a0apply or build on the work, and 2) the important benefit of\u00a0plain language metadata helps broaden\u00a0the discoverability of the work by expanding the range of search terms that are likely to find it.<\/li>\n
  5. A nexus for collaboration<\/a> between all research \u201cstakeholders\u201d. Any\u00a0research project has multiple stakeholders who\u00a0share a common goal of\u00a0ensuring the work achieves its potential (whether by readership, citations, policy influence, public engagement, etc.). Efforts towards this common goal have, in the past, resulted in each stakeholder undertaking separate activities, which often duplicates effort, and there is no visibility of each other\u2019s actions\u00a0or results,\u00a0making it almost impossible to share\u00a0learnings or benefit from each other\u2019s successes. By working with researchers directly, and their institutions, publishers,\u00a0funders and societies, Kudos can provide a central system through which everyone can channel their efforts so each person can collaborate their research<\/a> by seeing what others have done and learning from and building on to that to improve results. To view this more in detail, visit Kudos Greater Research Impact: https:\/\/blog.growkudos.com\/2016\/09\/08\/introducing-kudos-for-institutions-4-ways-you-can-benefit\/<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  6. In the case of Open Access publication, where the author effectively becomes the customer, there is a critical need for the publisher to demonstrate specifically how they will help the author to gain the greatest reach and impact for their work (see: https:\/\/scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org\/2013\/12\/17\/what-is-kudos-an-interview-with-david-sommer-co-founder\/<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    In short, Kudos\u2019s reports help researchers, universities, research organizations, corporations and funders understand how they \u201cmeasure, monitor and maximize\u201d <\/em>the visibility and impact of their published articles. They want to amplify and support their efforts, and optimize their outreach, by building on three core principles:<\/p>\n