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Kudos (scholarly impact service)
Kudos is a software service to assist authors of scholarly content enrich and share their publications with the aim of gaining higher impact. Authors of scholarly content are able to use Kudos to push their reaserch out to social media channels, measure the impact and supplement content with information that has been published post in the initial publication.

Using the Kudos service authors are shown graphs showing the full text and article downloads of their content which can then be compared to their social media activities.

Awards
Kudos was awarded UK government funding to further develop it's product as part of the SMART (grant scheme).

Integrations
Kudos partnered with Thomson Reuters to add citation data to author dashboards in October 2014 utilising citation data from Web of Science

Scholarly Publishers using Kudos
Kudos was trialed in it's first beta phase in 2013 with three scholarly Publishers The Royal Society of Chemistry, Taylor and Francis and the American Institue of Physics.

In late 2013 Kudos announced that it would expand the number of partners including Cambridge University Press and Elsevier