Ten simple rules for innovative dissemination of research

Tony Ross-Hellauer; Jonathan P Tennant; Viltė Banelytė; Edit Gorogh; Daniela Luzi; Peter Kraker; Lucio Pisacane; Roberta Ruggieri; Electra Sifacaki; Michela Vignoli

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007704

Ten simple rules for innovative dissemination of research

PLoS Comput Biol. 2020 Apr 16;16(4):e1007704. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007704. eCollection 2020 Apr.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Open and Reproducible Research Group, Institute of Interactive Systems and Data Science, Graz University of Technology and Know-Center GmbH, Graz, Austria.
² Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity, University of Paris, Paris, France.
³ Freelance Researcher, Vilnius, Lithuania.
⁴ University and National Library, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary.
⁵ Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies, National Research Council, Rome, Italy.
⁶ Open Knowledge Maps, Vienna, Austria.
⁷ National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
⁸ Center for Digital Safety and Security, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria.

Abstract

How we communicate research is changing because of new (especially digital) possibilities. This article sets out 10 easy steps researchers can take to disseminate their work in novel and engaging ways, and hence increase the impact of their research on science and society.

Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Humans
Information Dissemination / methods*
Online Social Networking
Research Personnel

Grants and funding

This work was partly funded by the OpenUP project, which received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 710722. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.