How Can I Increase My Impact?

 Source: https://guides.temple.edu/toolkit/enhance

 

Research Impact & Scholarly Credentials

Information, tools, and suggestions for documenting the significance of scholarly credentials and accomplishments.

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• Social / Cultural Impact
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How Can I Increase My Impact?

There are ways for researchers to increase their visibility and impact. Keep in mind, of course, that methods for increasing visibility and impact vary across disciplines.

 

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Use Author Identifiers and/or Profiles

Author identifiers disambiguate authors with the same or similar name. Because they persist even if you change your name, switch fields, or relocate, having an author identifier ensures that your work is discovered and attributed to you. An identifier will simplify updating your CV or preparing an annual report because it streamlines the process of compiling a bibliography of your work. Searchable author identifier registries contain researcher profiles and lists of citations.

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  ORCiD

  ORCiD is a global registry of unique identifiers for researchers and scholars that is open, non-proprietary, transparent, mobile, and community-based. ORCiD provides a persistent digital identifier to distinguish you from all other researchers, automatically linking your professional activities. Your ORCiD ID will belong to you throughout your scholarly career as a persistent identifier to distinguish you from other researchers and ensure consistent, reliable attribution of your work.

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• ResearcherID

  ResearcherID is Thomson Reuters’ registry of unique author identifiers limited to authors with work indexed in Web of Science. ResearcherID adds dynamic citation metrics from Web of Science. Authors must register for a ResearcherID.
• Google Scholar

  Ensures that all your works are grouped together in Google Scholar and enables you to track citations to your work.

Share Your Research Online

There are a variety of online places you can share your work to increase and track its visibility. Here are some to get you started:

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  TUScholarShare

  A service to support the needs of the Temple University community around sharing, promoting, and archiving the wide range of scholarly works created in the course of research and teaching. The repository aims to make Temple scholarship freely available online to a global audience, with the goal of advancing knowledge and learning.
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  Humanities Commons

  A non-profit, open access network designed to provide scholars, teachers, librarians and other humanists with a way to share their work and teaching materials and to network. Features a repository called the Commons Open Repository Exchange (CORE), where users can share and archive conference papers, syllabi, peer-reviewed articles and other documents and media.
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  figshare

  A cloud based repository that "allows users to upload any file format to be made visualisable in the browser so that figures, datasets, media, papers, posters, presentations and filesets can be disseminated."
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  GitHub

  A web-based hosting service for version control using git. It can be used to host software, code, and even websites. Includes an Insights panel that provides information on interactions with your content.
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  Twitter

  Share links and short messages, keep up with conferences and meetings, and connect with potential collaborators. Tweets can be tracked for altmetric purposes.
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  WordPress

  Create a free blog or website with the popular platform. Or, use WordPress Hosting at Temple University.
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  Vimeo

  Watch, upload, and share video content.

Find & Connect with Likeminded Researchers

Academic social networking sites can help you develop and grow your professional network. They offer opportunities to easily follow and connect with other scholars in a field in ways that previously could not have happened by only attending conferences. They may lead to future research opportunities, including collaborative ones (e.g. future papers, projects, grants, conferences. etc.). They may also offer a platform for relaying your research activities or viewpoints on topics of interest– and get feedback on them. 

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  Academia

  Facilitates interactions with other scholars and promotes sharing your works. Also provides analytics regarding use of your works.
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  ResearchGate

  Facilitates interactions with other researchers and promotes sharing your research. Also tracks citations and downloads of your works as well as tweets about your works.
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  Mendeley

  Mendeley is a freemium-based reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research. Create a researcher profile, track views and downloads as an alternative impact measure, and find similar papers to the ones you're reading.
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  LinkedIn

  Used by business scholars as a platform to share information and discuss issues.
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  Humanities Commons

  A non-profit, open access network designed to provide scholars, teachers, librarians and other humanists with a way to share their work and teaching materials and to network. Features a repository called the Commons Open Repository Exchange (CORE), where users can share and archive conference papers, syllabi, peer-reviewed articles and other documents and media.

Enhance Discoverability & Dissemination

• SHERPA RoMEO

  Use SHERPA RoMEO to look up a journal's archiving policies to see what you (as an author) are allowed to do with your articles and where you can share them.

Increasing the Visibility of Your Research