Kudos: Researcher Outreach Actions and Publication Download Data, 2014-2016

February 2016 data from the Kudos platform, containing 20,775 unique publications claimed by authors and 4,867 publications with full-text download data. The dataset was used in a joint study by Kudos and Nanyang Technological University to analyze the association between online outreach efforts and publication metrics. Data fields are described in a provided readme file, and publication DOIs have been anonymized.

Use Cases

• Comparing the effectiveness of different social media channels (e.g., Facebook vs. Twitter) for research sharing based on click-through rates mentioned in the description.
• Analyzing the association between researcher actions (explaining, sharing, enriching publications) and full-text download counts, as indicated by the Mann-Whitney U test results.
• Modeling the potential impact of outreach efforts on publication visibility, based on the reported 23.1% higher median downloads for the treatment group.

Strengths

• Dataset size is explicitly stated: 20,775 unique publications and a subset of 4,867 with full-text download data.
• Analysis includes a controlled comparison, showing a statistically significant 23.1% higher median download count for publications with outreach actions.
• Data provenance is clear, resulting from a research collaboration between Kudos and an academic institution.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent from the provided metadata; field semantics must be inferred after downloading the readme file.
• Last update date is unknown; the data snapshot is from 2016, which may limit relevance to current social media platforms and practices.
• Row count for the full dataset with all variables is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific analyses.

Provenance

Source

Kudos platform, provided for a research collaboration with CHESS, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Collection Method

Extracted from the Kudos web service in February 2016.

Time Range

Data covers publications claimed and actions taken on the Kudos platform, which launched in May 2014, up to the extraction date in February 2016.