LibGuides: Journal Evaluation & Measuring Author Impact: Social Media and the Academic Professional

Overview

Social media offers faculty and researchers unique opportunities including:

Reaching a broad audience that may not normally have access to your publications.
Creating prospects for collaboration with other professionals in your field.
Engaging across research disciplines with effective exchanges and meaningful conversations.
Useful for teaching and training purposes.
A platform to share events, create social networking groups, and meet like-minded researchers.
Potential to get peer-reviewed feedback from pre-print submissions.
A cost-effective way to improve patient-clinical interactions.
The ability to disseminate large data sets to be used for multiple studies.
A resource to advertise study recruitment to eligible participants.

Enterprise Policy - Social Media
This resource is accessible only by using a VPN or on-campus internet connection.

PubPeer
A collaborative platform for post-publication peer review. PubPeer enables users to leave questions or critiques about published papers--and authors to respond--with the goal of improving the quality of scientific research. Search for publications using DOI, PMID, or author name. It protects commenters' privacy, allowing users to register without IP tracking and to comment anonymously. A browser plug-in displays a banner when a website features publications that have comments on the platform and the option to explore the comments on the publication(s) by clicking the banner. Within the platform, see whether an author of a commented paper has responded to the comments, signaled on a paper with a green 'Author response' banner. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Office of Research Conduct and Compliance.