Drive research output performance for REF 2028

Universities have 4 years left to optimise output performance ahead of assessment in 2028. Growing readership and citations takes time, so action needs to be taken now to optimise the performance of outputs.

Kudos can help, with a fully automated service that requires no additional work by your faculty, and has been proven to significantly increase views, Altmetric scores and citations. Kudos AI summarization can be a strong incentive for your research community to use your repository.

An annual subscription to Kudos provides:

✓ AI-generated plain language summaries for all articles on your repository

✓ Branded showcase for all your summaries, linking back to the full text in the repository and on the publisher website

✓ Promotion of AI summaries to a broad and global audience

✓ Option to link related outputs such as infographics and videos to further drive performance

✓ Analytics on reach and engagement for all your outputs

✓ Reporting by Unit of Assessment and Faculty/Department

Prices start from just £5/DOI.

Our platform typically helps achieve^*:

4 x
higher views

7.5 x
more citations

23 x
Altmetric scores

*based on analysis of our knowledge cooperative showcases 2021-2024

Improving the discoverability of your research ahead of REF 28

Kudos links together publications, plain language summaries and other research outputs and communication assets. We create attractive, magazine-style Showcases – improving discoverability, information decision-making, and maximizing readership, citations and impact.

Plain language summaries

Explaining research findings and recommendations – making it easier for wider audiences to find and understand.

Article extenders

Enriching articles with multimedia, including images, infographics, videos and other research outputs and communication assets.

Layered publications

Bringing together all the outputs from a research project to tell the story of the study transparently.

Stories and Showcases

Creating attractive, image-led pages for your summaries, multimedia and publication layers – and compiling these into themed Showcases.

Reaching a global audience

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500,000+
registered users

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88,500+
28-day active users

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10% YOY
user growth

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100,000,000+
publication views

Key features

Access for you and your authors to our easy-to-use platform for setting up Stories

Add and edit plain language summaries
Upload and display featured image, infographic or video within the page
Add links to related resources / outputs across multiple platforms including repositories

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Full metrics on users and usage of your Showcase and Stories

Key publication metrics including citations and altmetrics
Broader insights including geographical breakdown of Showcase visitors

Dedicated account manager

including support for identifying publications related to clinical trials.

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Discoverability via Kudos Showcases

Featured status in relevant Kudos Showcases
Including our global research Showcase, and Showcases for specific audiences / subject areas / topical themes

Your own branded, customizable Showcase

Tools for featuring particular publications, Stories and authors
Customizable with your logos and corporate imagery, or select from our stock library of banner images

Showcases

Why partner with Kudos

There is a growing demand for transparency in research. Although much content is openly available, it is distributed across websites, not linked together. It’s available, but not discoverable. Meanwhile, much of this content is couched in scientific language – meaning it is available, but not accessible.

Kudos is breaking this impasse by bringing storytelling to science. We are the research communication sector’s leading platform for bringing together scientific publications, plain language summaries, and related research outputs and communication assets.

We help scientists explain and share their own publications to maximize readership, citations and impact. We have a ready-made global audience of academics, healthcare practitioners, policy makers and patients. We also optimize visibility and exposure through search engine optimization, content tagging, metadata optimization, and syndication.

Kudos is the only platform dedicated to bridging the critical gap between research producers and users. In doing so, we help more people find, understand and benefit from research.

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Professor Prokar Dasgupta
Professor and Chair of Urology
King's College London • Guy's Hospital • King's Health Partners • UK

"A fantastic, simple tool for helping to broaden awareness and application of research. We were impressed at how soon we began to see results."

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Professor Jian’an Wang
Shenzhen University, China

“I’m very happy with my page, it looks really great. Thank you for your high level and warm professional service to help me build an audience for my research.”

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Dr Richard Horowitz
Medical Director
Hudson Valley Healing Center, Hyde Park, NY, USA

"My experience working with Kudos was seamless. Kudos encapsulated the essence of my work and made it accessible for scientists and non-scientists alike. I would recommend Kudos to anyone looking to highlight their work to the broader community."

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Professor Karl Reinhard Aigner
Head • Department of Surgical Oncology • Medias Klinikum, Germany

“I have been really impressed by this service. Kudos produced a really professional summary of my research, and a lovely bright web page which has already had lots of visitors.”

Kudos is used by over 500,000 researchers in 10,000 universities all over the world

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