Kudos

CASE STUDY

Kudos

Kudos (www.growkudos.com) is a service that helps researchers increase the impact of their work by harnessing their personal networks on social media and other communication channels. TBI worked with Kudos and a selection of its publishing partners to design and distribute a survey that aimed to shed light on how and why researchers share their work online, especially through scholarly collaboration networks such as Academia.edu and ResearchGate. This type of sharing is widespread, but can cause ‘blind spots’ for research assessment, as subsequent downloads / usage cannot be readily counted towards a paper’s overall impact.

The survey received over 7,500 responses from researchers around the world, and its findings were instrumental in establishing a pilot programme to develop and implement a new service which allows authors to easily share their work in a way that can be counted towards impact, without any inadvertent breaches of copyright.