Kudos (scholarly reputation)
| Initial release | April 2014 |
|---|---|
| Operating system | web application |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Scholarly Reputation Management |
| Website | Kudos |
Kudos (scholarly reputation service)
Kudos is a software service to help authors of scholarly content enrich and share their publications with the aim of gaining higher impact. Authors of research publications are able to use Kudos to describe their research in plain language, supplement it with information that has been created since the initial publication, communicate it via social media channels, and measure the impact of these activities.[1] Authors are shown graphs showing the full text and article downloads of their content which can then be compared to their social media activities. The company claims that its service increases publication usage by 19%[2] and that it has over 1,000 authors signing up each week.[3]
Awards
In March 2014, Kudos was awarded UK government funding to support its development, as part of the SMART (grant scheme). The company has since (October 2014) been awarded The Charleston Advisor’s Readers’ Choice Award for Best New End User Product [4]
Integrations
Kudos partnered with Thomson Reuters to add citation data to author dashboards in October 2014 utilizing citation data from Web of Science [5]
Scholarly Publishers using Kudos
Kudos was piloted in 2013 with three scholarly publishers The Royal Society of Chemistry,[6] Taylor & Francis [7] and AIP Publishing, the publishing arm of the American Institute of Physics.[8]
In late 2013, Kudos announced [9] that it would expand the number of partners to over 20 including Cambridge University Press [10] and Elsevier [11]
Scientists and Kudos
British Chemist Antony John Williams blogged about his use of Kudos [12]
References
- ↑ http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/12/17/what-is-kudos-an-interview-with-david-sommer-co-founder/
- ↑ http://www.stm-publishing.com/kudos-announces-pilot-results-additional-clients/
- ↑ http://blog.growkudos.com/2014/06/20/press-release-kudos-reports-accelerating-uptake-by-authors-of-tools-to-increase-publication-impact/
- ↑ http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/charleston/chadv/2014/00000016/00000002/art00002
- ↑ http://blog.growkudos.com/2014/10/21/kudos-partners-with-thomson-reuters/
- ↑ http://www.rsc.org/AboutUs/News/PressReleases/2013/Kudos-RSC-launch.asp
- ↑ http://editorresources.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/?p=5263
- ↑ http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=1318
- ↑ http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=1444
- ↑ http://journals.cambridge.org/action/stream?pageId=10252&level=2
- ↑ http://www.elsevier.com/connect/new-kudos-service-helps-researchers-boost-their-visibility-and-impact
- ↑ http://www.chemconnector.com/2014/06/20/give-me-kudos-for-my-articles/