Use The Free Kudos Service To Promote Your Published Work

Use the free Kudos service to promote your published work

Tammy Chung, PhD

Interim Editor, Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

In 2018, the American Psychological Association (APA) licensed Kudos (growkudos.com) to promote the published work of APA authors, and Publons (publons.com) to recognize the efforts of peer reviewers. This article focuses on Kudos, which provides authors with a free social media platform to describe, disseminate, and track the impact of their published work. In a recent case study (Erdt et al., 2017), use of Kudos resulted in an average 23% increase in full text downloads compared to a control condition.

In 15 minutes, and 3 steps, Kudos can help authors maximize the impact of their article. First, describe your work in everyday language. Second, share trackable article links (e.g., Twitter, Facebook). Third, see the impact of your 15 minutes on altmetrics, downloads, and citations.

The Kudos site provides helpful tips on how to write article titles and brief summaries that will bring a broad, relevant audience to your article. Kudos also provides “quick start” how-to videos to facilitate use of the site’s tools for promoting one’s work and measuring its impact. APA hopes that partnering with Kudos will help the authors who support its publications to promote their work, and increase the impact and reach of the science being published.

Reference

Erdt, M, Aung, HH, Aw, AS, Rapple, C, Theng, Y-L (August 17, 2017) Analysing researchers’ outreach efforts and the association with publication metrics: A case study of Kudos. PLoS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183217