Assess Research Impact
Promote Your Research: BEFORE Submission
Here are a few suggestions for ways to ensure your article is highly downloaded PRIOR to submission:
Key Takeaways:
- Choose a descriptive title. Write a clear title that includes the most important keywords and demonstrates the significance of your research.
- Use appropriate keywords. Think of every likely angle that
someone would search on regarding your research topic, and make sure
that those angles are covered with your keywords. - Write an informative abstract. Include keywords and key
phrases in your abstract in order to optimize your article for search
engines and encourage readers to click through to the full article.
Key Takeaways:
- Your title should include the key terms from your research.
- Choose an intelligent list of words and phrases for the keyword section.
- Use those keywords naturally within your abstract.
Promote Your Research: AFTER Submission
Here are a few suggestions for how to maximize the impact of your research:
Ensure your research makes an impact:
Get Noticed: Promote your article for maximum impact:
Ensure your research makes an impact:
- Take advantage of free author eprints. If you receive free
eprints with the publication of your article, be sure to share these
eprints with colleagues and friends. Some popular strategies for
distribution of eprints include adding links to your email signatures,
sending direct article links to contacts, and/or posting links on social
media. - Add your article, or the journal, to your students' reading lists as essential reading.
- Add article links to personal web pages or institutional faculty profiles. The more links you post on the Internet, from a range of websites, the higher it will appear within search engine results.
- Check whether the library has a subscription to the journal. If not, recommend a subscription to a librarian.
- Register for a unique ORCID author identifier. Then add the details of your article to your profile.
- If you've published a book, be sure to ask the publisher how
your work will be promoted so that it reaches its intended audience. Also ask the publisher how you will be supported as an advocate for your book.
Get Noticed: Promote your article for maximum impact:
- Preparing your article. Choose the right journal, based on
its scope. Then optimize your article for SEO discovery by including a
great abstract, relevant keywords, and appropriate section titles and
subheadings. - Publishing your article. Publishers offer several features
that will help improve the visibility of your article. These include
DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) that always link to the latest
available version of your article and Table of Contents e-alerts for
subscribers. Some publishers, such as Elsevier, also highlight top
articles from the past 12 months, which may be freely available to any
interested readers. - Promoting your article. In addition to standards such as
conference presentations and posters, consider connecting with others on
social networking sites and using institutional communication channels,
such as press releases, to announce your research. - Monitoring your article. Some publishers offer research
dashboards, which present data on who is accessing your article, to
their authors. Altmetrics also allow you to track and analyze the online
activity around your article.
ResearchGate
Billed
as "the professional network for scientists and researchers,"
ResearchGate is a free social network (of sorts) that allows researchers
from around the world to connect, share, and access scientific output,
knowledge, and expertise. Share your publications, collaborate with
colleagues, get statistics about uses of your research, and get help
from others with research problems.
Claim Your Research
The tools shown in the video below will help you make sure your research is properly attributed and credited to you.
ORCID and Scopus: Manage your author profile (video run time: 5:15)
ORCID and Scopus: Manage your author profile (video run time: 5:15)
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Usage and Citation Alerts
Most publishers offer free alert services that will notify you
when your article has been cited. Here are a couple publishers who offer
these services.
when your article has been cited. Here are a couple publishers who offer
these services.
Citation Alerts (Thomson Reuters)
Thomson
Reuters offers citation alerts from Web of Science. These alerts will
notify you by email whenever a record you have chosen has been cited by a
new record that has been added to Web of Science.
My Research Dashboard (Publisher: Elsevier)
My
Research Dashboard allows authors to understand in greater detail and
with greater speed how their publications are being read, shared, and
cited. This is a free service that replaces Usage Alerts and CiteAlerts,
available exclusively to all Elsevier authors. Authors have access to
personal dashboards that capture citation data for all of their
publications published in any journal, as well as usage data for all of
their publications published in Elsevier journals.
How Publishers Are Incorporating Altmetrics
A handful of publishers have begun to incorporate altmetrics -
i.e. mentions and shares of research output across traditional and
social media outlets - into their platforms. These metrics can help you
present a broader impact of your research, such as a Twitter
conversation generated from a paper presentation at a conference or the
number of readers who have saved your article for reading or discussion
on Mendeley. Below are links to details on how some publishers are
presenting altmetrics to scholarly audiences.
i.e. mentions and shares of research output across traditional and
social media outlets - into their platforms. These metrics can help you
present a broader impact of your research, such as a Twitter
conversation generated from a paper presentation at a conference or the
number of readers who have saved your article for reading or discussion
on Mendeley. Below are links to details on how some publishers are
presenting altmetrics to scholarly audiences.
Bookmetrix.com (Springer books)
This
website brings together a collection of performance metrics for books
published by Springer. Use this tool to see how your books are being
discussed, cited, and used around the world. Includes metrics for book
chapters, too.
Taylor & Francis
As
of May 28, 2015, Taylor & Francis will include altmetric data to all
journal articles published since January 2012. Authors and other users
will be able to see bibliographic information, demographics for Twitter
and Mendeley, and more.
Further Reading
Below are additional resources that highlight various aspects of bibliometrics and altmetrics.
- Bornmann, L. (2014). Do altmetrics point to the broader impact of
research? An overview of benefits and disadvantages of altmetrics. Journal of Informetrics, 8(4), 895-903. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2014.09.005 - Bornmann, L. (2014). Validity of altmetrics data for measuring
societal impact: A study using data from Altmetric and F1000Prime. Journal of Informetrics, 8(4), 935-950. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2014.09.007 - Bouyssou, D., & Marchant, T. (2014). An axiomatic approach to bibliometric rankings and indices. Journal of Informetrics, 8(3), 449-477. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2014.03.001
- Egghe, L. (2014). Impact coverage of the success-index. Journal of Informetrics, 8(2), 384-389. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2014.01.005
- Tattersall, A. (Ed.). (2016). Altmetrics: A practical guide for librarians, researchers and academics. London, UK: Facet Publishing.
- Thomson Reuters. (2008). Using bibliometrics: A guide to evaluating research performance with citation data. http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/m/pdfs/325133_thomson.pdf
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