Kudos, a service for maximising the reach and impact of research publications, has announced continued growth in the first quarter of 2016. The six most recent clients to join its services span five countries, including the company's first customer in China, where 5% of registered Kudos researchers are based.
New publisher partners include the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the preeminent publisher of cutting-edge aerospace journals and books; Brill, which publishes 243 journals and over 1000 books each year in the humanities and social sciences, international law, and selected sciences; F1000 Research, the open science publishing platform for life scientists; Karger Publishers, which publishes around 100 journals and 50 books each year in the fields of science and medicine; Tsinghua University Press, the highly-regarded publisher of both English and Chinese journals in a range of subject areas; and Wageningen Academic Publishers, which publishes 6 journals and 40 books annually in the field of life sciences.
Over 80,000 researchers have signed up to use Kudos' free platform for managing communications around their publications – across multiple publishers and tools. They explain work in plain language and generate trackable links for sharing via email, web and social networks; these enable communications to be directly mapped against views, downloads, altmetrics and citations. Kudos thereby provides researchers, and their publishers and institutions, with a rich understanding of which channels and activities are most effective for broadening reach and impact.
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