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Using Mastodon to keep track of your scholarly output

Patrick Hochstenbach (UGent)
(2025) SURF Communities.
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In an experimental collaboration, the SURF Open Science Innovation Team and IMEC-IDLab at Ghent University in Belgium are exploring whether Mastodon can be used to semi-automatically collect information about any type of research contribution. The idea is to ask researchers to do little more than post a 'toot' on Mastodon mentioning such a contribution. Smart agents (named “claimbots”), developed by SURF and IMEC, will monitor these toots and handle the complex task of extracting metadata from such toots and populating research productivity portals.

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MLA
Hochstenbach, Patrick. “Using Mastodon to Keep Track of Your Scholarly Output.” SURF Communities, no. 17/07/2025, 2025.
APA
Hochstenbach, P. (2025). Using Mastodon to keep track of your scholarly output.
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Hochstenbach, Patrick. 2025. “Using Mastodon to Keep Track of Your Scholarly Output.” SURF Communities.
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Hochstenbach, Patrick. 2025. “Using Mastodon to Keep Track of Your Scholarly Output.” SURF Communities.
Vancouver
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Hochstenbach P. Using Mastodon to keep track of your scholarly output. SURF Communities. 2025.
IEEE
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P. Hochstenbach, “Using Mastodon to keep track of your scholarly output,” SURF Communities, no. 17/07/2025. 2025.
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  author       = {{Hochstenbach, Patrick}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{17/07/2025}},
  series       = {{SURF Communities}},
  title        = {{Using Mastodon to keep track of your scholarly output}},
  url          = {{https://communities.surf.nl/regie-op-data/artikel/using-mastodon-to-keep-track-of-your-scholarly-output}},
  year         = {{2025}},
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