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

Wednesday 24 February 2016

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

Source: http://libguides.ioe.ac.uk/content.php?pid=469302&sid=3841859

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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