Kudos, the award-winning service for accelerating research impact through strategic communications management, has enhanced its free service for authors with the addition of a new ‘featured image’ capability. Images help to increase traffic and make pages more engaging and memorable for readers. The new feature is enabled by an integration with Unsplash, a free image bank that provides a wide range of stock photography. Over 500 publication profile pages in Kudos have already been enhanced through the addition of featured images; a random sample of twenty showed that page views had increased by an average of 23 percent following the addition of the featured image.
Researchers can quickly and easily add a photo to their publication profile in Kudos by searching the Unsplash database from within Kudos. They can select either an abstract image, or one that is thematically appropriate for their work. The chosen image is then presented alongside the plain language title and summary that authors create and disseminate via Kudos, to increase the reach and impact potential of their work. Images are credited to the photographer and Unsplash.
Featured images are also incorporated in Kudos’ Shareable PDFs, which are used by authors to measure dissemination of their work via scholarly collaboration networks, and - uniquely - to compare this with other communications channels such as email, social media or events.
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