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Social media can be an intimidating place for academics as not all of them take to it like ducks to water. For many newcomers, a more approp

video of a talk I gave for The British Psychological Association on Altmetrics and how researchers can make use of them

With so many scholarly communications tools and technologies now available, how do academics decide which are most appropriate for their res

Altmetrics offers all kinds of insights into how a piece of research has been communicated and cited. In 2014 Altmetric.com added policy doc

Newspaper articles, TV appearances and radio slots are increasingly important ways for academics to communicate their research to wider audi

Academia can always learn a lot from the rest of the world when it comes to working with the web. The project 101 Innovations in Scholarly C

0 is the magic number: Why small numbers matter just as much as large ones when we talk about altmetrics.

For many academics Twitter stands out above any other social media tool as their platform for open and scholarly engagement – partially than

Social media and digital tools are now a staple of many researcher practices and have brought new dimensions to publishing, finding and orga

Dirty Harry once said, “Opinions are like assholes; everybody has one”. Now that the internet has made it easier than ever to share an unsol