Monday 7 November 2016

Increasing Visibility - Documenting Impact & Increasing Visibility - Library Guides at Iowa State University

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Documenting Impact & Increasing Visibility

Provides examples and tutorials for documenting and improving scholarly visibility and impact.

Be Findable

There are a lot of ways to increase your online visibility but it all comes down to increasing your findability.

When you sign up or create an online profile make information as public as possible. This helps distinguish you from others with the same, or similar, names.

Google Scholar

Creating a public Google Scholar profile is an easy way to increase your findability and it also provides other benefits such as an author H-index, citation counts, and more.

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Google Scholar Profile

Google Scholar Account Set-up

You will need a Google Account.
- Sign-up for an account if you don't already have one.
- You can use a personal email or your ISU email address.
Sign into Google Scholar using your Google Account.
Click My Citations at the top of the page to enter your profile.
From this screen you can:
- Edit your profile information, including where you work, name, photo, and research interests.
- Manage your publications.

You can also explore the profiles of other faculty at Iowa State University on Google Scholar.

More Ideas & Recommendations for Increasing Visibility

Basic best practices for increasing online visibility

Create academic profiles, especially on open platforms, to improve search results and provide access to your work.
- Open examples: Google Scholar, ORCID, ResearcherID, Digital Repository@ISU.
- Closed examples: Acadamia.edu, LinkedIn, ResearchGate, etc.
Publish Open Access
- Open access publications have higher citation and download rates (# of readers).
- You can publish and share much more than just publications, research data and software are also important!
Share publications on social media sites
- You can gain readers by providing easy links to your papers; Open access versions will work best that way everyone can read it.
- Twitter is an especially good tool for this as all public tweets can be searched.