Huh. Any #academics out there use Flockademic? How does this tool relate to something like ImpactStory?
One value-add is the ability to "add a journal." Anyone run a journal out of this?
@naga So
This is my ImpactStory profile: https://profiles.impactstory.org/u/0000-0003-4298-168X
This is my Flockademic: https://flockademic.com/profile/0000-0003-4298-168X
Are these two sites doing the same thing? Close to it? What's the diff?
@vickysteeves They seem close. Flockademic has more of your CV. ImpactStory seems more focused on sharing/tweeting. Other than the CV, the biggest difference I see in information is the publication years being visible on ImpactStory, which is helpful.
@naga I can also get my ImpactStory profile as JSON which is neat: https://profiles.impactstory.org/api/person/0000-0003-4298-168X
Not sure what to do with it, but!
@naga @vickysteeves Do you mean ironic in the sense that it's not decentralised? Or is there another reason for that? Because otherwise ORCID is an independent non-profit organisation that makes all their data openly available.
@Flockademic @vickysteeves My mistake. I was confusing it with Thomson Reuters' ResearcherID.
@vickysteeves I hadn't heard of Flockademic until just now.
@bstacey Yeah I hadn't heard about it until this morning!
@vickysteeves SciRate has gotten a bit of adoption in my corner of physics; here's my profile on that: https://scirate.com/blake-stacey
@bstacey @vickysteeves I just use ResearchGate, which I realize is a different model. I mostly use it by going through phases of answering questions to stealth-market my consulting.
Since I got sick, I'm not a lead on anything (by choice), so I rarely am responsible for the choice of publication outlet or where/if to post preprints, though I try to push the leads that direction.
@naga @bstacey @vickysteeves Note that ResearchGate is a for-profit that does not use open licensing, makes your research unavailable without warning, does not use open identifiers, provides no archival guarantees, and I think has a few other points that I can't think of now that should make you think twice. Same for Academia.edu.
(That's not to say that Flockademic is perfect (far from it), but there are far better homes for your preprints.)
@Flockademic @bstacey @vickysteeves Yes, I'm aware. That's what I meant by "a different model." I don't use it for sharing my research. As I said, I use it for marketing via the Q/A.
@naga @bstacey @vickysteeves Ah, good, carry on then ^.^
@Flockademic @bstacey @vickysteeves My "advertising" primarily consists of a presence on help boards and discussion groups on my topics, and a website link in my signature.
I'm really quite terrible at this marketing thing. 😂
@vickysteeves Heh, not too many are using at the moment - it's still very young! Compared to ImpactStory profiles, the goal of Flockademic is really to get academics to openly share their research if they haven't yet, rather than a focus on analytics.
The journal thing is also somewhat of a leftover of a change in direction earlier - I should really update the wording there to emphasise that things like peer review are not supported yet.
@vickysteeves "Sign in with ORCID" seems a bit ironic!
For preprints, my field is covered by arXiv.org , but that doesn't do the landing page. Hmm.
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