Maximise your impact - Scholarly Communication - IOE LibGuides at Institute of Education, London

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Maximise your impact

Improve the visibility of your research

Make
your research available to the widest possible audience and improve the
discoverability of your material by adopting one or more of the
following strategies:

 

Make material available via open access

• Remove journal subscription cost barriers so material is freely available online.
• For example, publish in open access journals or deposit in the institutional repository IOE ePrints

Use Social Media to promote your article

• Eliminates
  many traditional barriers to reach the general public by using social
  media sites such as Twitter, FaceBook and by blogging (see IOE LibGuide on Social Media for Researchers for instructions on how to get started)
• Receive rapid feedback and make new connections from these sites
• Measure and track social media impact and changes to real-world practice

Write to enhance discoverability

• Create a clear, descriptive titles which includes the key words
• Reiterate the key words or phrases from the title within the abstract itself to optimise search results   
• Choose journals that are indexed in a wide number of databases
• Blog about your research keeping in mind a more general audience - you are writing now for the lay public.

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Build an online profile

By
increasing your profile, your contacts and personal impact, you can
increase your success rate in the competitive environment of academia.

 

Network

• Build your network – make sure you have dynamic diverse networks
• Join networks such as LinkedIn, ResearchGate or Academic.edu
• Create an author profile on Google Scholar

Register an Author ID

• Register with ORCID and ResearcherID (Web of Science) - for instructions, click here
• Cite your name in a consistent format to increase discoverability
• Check your author profile on SCOPUS
• See the Bibliometrics and citation searching IOE LibGuide

Social Media

• Communicate, network and identify new research topics
• Increase your profile more broadly by setting up a blog, using Twitter etc
• Use the Social Media IOE LibGuide to get started and see also Social media: A guide for researchers (Research Information Network, UK).

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Further reading

• 10 ways to increase usage and citation of your article using social media
  Sage (n.d)
• A-Z of social media for academics
  A. Miah (2012)
• Beyond citations: Scholars' visibility on the social Web
  J. Barl-Llan et al (2012)
• Citations are not enough: Academic promotion panels must take into account a scholar’s presence in popular media
• Do more tweets mean higher citations?
  M. Fenner (2012)
• Get noticed disseminate your research better
  Elsevier (2012)
• Guide to using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities
  A. Mollett, D. Moran & P. Dunleavy (2011)
• Handbook on maximizing the impacts of your research
  London School of Economics and Political Science (n.d)
• Social networks for academics proliferate, despite some doubts
  K. Mangan (2012)
• Why should scientists use Twitter?
  mjvinas (2011)

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