Increase your visibility

 Source: http://whyopenresearch.org/visibility

Increase
your
visibility

Be
open
and
get
more
citations,
page
views,
downloads,
and

media
attention
for
your
research.

It’s important, especially for early-career researchers, to build a
name for themselves. For that, your work has to be seen, read, and
cited. Sharing your work can make that happen.

Be open → Get more citations!

Numerous studies have shown that publishing openly – whether in an OA
journal, or self-archiving in an open repository – confers a citation
advantage.

Article sharing

Manuscripts posted in open repositories prior to formal publication
are called preprints. Preprints start gathering citations earlier and
maintain a citation advantage over articles published only in
traditional journals for months or years to come.

Source: Anne Gentil-Beccot, Salvatore Mele, and Travis
Brooks.
2009. arXiv:0906.5418v2.

Source: Anne Gentil-Beccot, Salvatore Mele, and Travis
Brooks. 2009. arXiv:0906.5418v2.

And it's not just one
study. The Open Access Citation
Advantage Service, maintained by SPARC Europe, keeps an up-to-date
list of relevant citation studies and summaries of their results. To
date, the majority of studies find a significant citation advantage of
publishing openly.

Source: Data
from The Open Access
Citation Advantage Service, SPARC Europe. Accessed October,
2015. Figure produced by E.C. McKiernan (CC BY).

The open access citation advantage holds for diverse fields, with
maximum percent increases in citations from 36-600%!

Source: Data
from Alma Swan,
2010. Figure produced by E.C. McKiernan (CC BY).

Data sharing

Studies that share their data openly tend to get more citations than
studies that do not make their data available.

Source: Heather A. Piwowar, Roger S. Day, and Douglas
B. Fridsma. 2007. PLOS
ONE, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000308. Figure
licensed CC BY.

Source: Heather A. Piwowar​ and Todd
J. Vision. 2013. PeerJ, doi:10.7717/peerj.175. Figure
licensed CC BY.

Code sharing

Sharing code can also lead to more citations, as shown in this
2012 study by
Patrick Vandewalle (free version
here
[pdf]).

Be open → get more readers

Open access articles get more tweeters and Mendeley readers than paywalled
articles published in the same journal.

Source: Euan Adie.
2014. figshare, doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.1213690
(CC BY).

Open access articles receive more page views than non-OA articles.

Source: Xianwen Wang, Chen Liu, Wenli Mao, and Zhichao
Fang. 2015. arXiv:1503.05702.

So...get sharing and get seen!

Increase your visibility