9 January 2020
Kudos has announced the launch of its new Research Showcase. This public website provides stakeholders – from funders, taxpayers and donors, to research participants and beneficiaries – with earlier insight into emerging research from researchers, groups and institutions around the world. Kudos Pro and the Showcase enable discussion around research projects to be tracked and reported through Kudos’ allocation of DOIs to research projects, and its integration of Altmetric scores.
Following the launch, researchers who have created a public profile for their work using Kudos Pro can now opt to ‘publish’ that page in the Kudos Research Showcase. Making information about projects available in this way, from much earlier in the project lifecycle, is intended to maximise the impact potential of research by ensuring it is found and understood by broader audiences, particularly those outside academia.
Charlie Rapple, Chief Customer Officer at Kudos, said, “Having earlier insight into ‘work in progress’ provides a range of benefits including more opportunities for feedback, more relevant findings, and more time to plan better communication or application of results.”