Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has signed a two-year partnership with Kudos - the online platform that helps increase the impact of publications - after seeing high engagement levels with the service from its authors during trials.
Kudos helps researchers, their institutions and funders maximise the visibility and impact of their publications to all audiences both within the academic community and more broadly.
Results of Emerald's initial trial of the Kudos service were very encouraging, with Emerald authors showing the highest level of activity of any participating publisher, while Kudos found that authors that used its sharing tools during the trial saw a significant increase in their impact - with impact being measured by a wide range of metrics, including downloads, citations and altmetrics.
These results indicate that Emerald authors have found real value in the Kudos service - paid for by Emerald - as a means of broadening the reach and impact of their research.
Emerald was also the first publisher to sign up to an innovative pilot, whereby Kudos's publisher partners - such as Emerald - sponsor the creation of compelling professional lay summaries and infographics by Research Media for a select number of online scholarly articles, in order to drive engagement and subsequent download and usage levels.
Kudos has also partnered with Thomson Reuters' ScholarOne manuscript submission and peer review system and Emerald Group Publishing is one of the first global publishers to sign up to the innovative pilot.
ScholarOne and Kudos will enable authors to add a plain language explanation of their work during the submission and acceptance workflow; integrating Kudos into existing article workflows in this way is aimed at making it quicker and easier for authors to begin the process of increasing readership, and encourage more authors to do so.
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