In order to improve the quality of systematic researches, various tools have been developed by well-known scientific institutes sporadically. Dr. Nader Ale Ebrahim has collected these sporadic tools under one roof in a collection named “Research Tool Box”. The toolbox contains over 720 tools so far, classified in 4 main categories: Literature-review, Writing a paper, Targeting suitable journals, as well as Enhancing visibility and impact factor.
Saturday 14 December 2019
Seven ways to increase the visibility of your research
This post is by Library Research Support Advisor, Sally Dalton
So, you’ve published your research and you’re now hoping to sit back, relax and get ready for all those citations to roll in?
Unfortunately the hard work doesn’t stop here!
Now you need to promote your research to make sure it reaches the
widest possible audience, this is part of the job of being a researcher.
By making your research more visible you could potentially open up
future collaboration / job / publication opportunities, increase
citations to your work and increase the number of people finding,
reading and building on your work. Image source: https://pixabay.com/en/water-show-fly-airborn-raves-2092402/ (CC-0)
1. Promote your research at conferences
Conferences are a great opportunity to promote yourself and your
research. Even if you aren’t presenting your work you can use the
conference as an opportunity to meet other researchers and start to
develop your research network. Keep an eye out for names of researchers
you would like to meet and practice introducing yourself and your
research. You may only have a few minutes so make sure you’re prepared!
2. Carefully consider which journals you are going to publish in
Choosing where to publish in an academic matter but there are certain
questions you may want to ask yourself before choosing where to
publish. Are the articles in the journal easily discoverable? Are they
indexed in services such as Web of Science or Scopus? Does the journal
have suitable open access options? Have you and your colleagues heard of
the journal? The answers to these questions will determine how visible
your article will be to other researchers. Think Check Submit provides a simple check list to make sure you choose trusted journals for your research.
3. Sign up for an ORCiD
Having and ORCID can help to make your research more visible. ORCID
is a digital identifier that helps to distinguish you from other
researchers. You can link all your research outputs to your ORCID and
you can keep it throughout your career. It is particularly useful for
researchers with common names, who change their name throughout their
career or who change institutions. No matter what changes are made you
will always have the same ORCID, so other people can easily see details
of your research outputs. More details on how to sign up for a free
ORCID can be found here.
4. Make your research open access
Open access publishing makes scholarly works available online, free
for anyone to find and read. The potential readership of open access
articles is far greater than that for articles where the full-text is
restricted to subscribers. Making your research open access will make it
more visible. There are 2 ways to make your research outputs open
access; by self-archiving in an open access repository or by publishing
in an open access journal. More information on open access can be found
on our open access pages.
5. Share your research data where appropriate
There is growing evidence that sharing data can increase the
visibility of research. Sharing your data could allow other researchers
to validate your work, build upon it and could potentially help to open
up future collaboration opportunities. Learn more about managing and
sharing your data on our Research Data Management pages.
6. Promote your research online
Promoting your research online will help you reach your potential
audience, connect with other researchers and help you to start
developing a network of online colleagues. There are a number of
different social media tools such as Twitter, Instagram, Blogs and
LinkedIn. Whichever tool(s) you use it is important to identify who your
audience is, engage with them by asking questions, speaking up about
issues that interest you and use eye catching images, videos or
visualisations. You don’t need to spend a long time keeping your social
media accounts up to date but you do need to be willing to write and
check your account(s) regularly.
7. Track when your research is being used
Keeping up to date with who is discussing, citing or sharing your
research is important. You can use this type of information on CVs and
when applying for funding/jobs etc. To check who is citing your work you
can look at your articles on sites such as Web of Science, Scopus or
Google Scholar. If you are an early career researcher it may be more
appropriate to use Altmetrics. Altmetrics looks at who is talking and
sharing your research on places such as social media, in news outlets
and on course syllabi. For more information on Altmetrics have a look at
our Altmetrics pages.
The Research Support team run regular workshops on increasing the visibility of your research focused on different faculties, book online here (N.B.
currently for postgraduate research students only, let us know if you
would be interested in similar sessions for research staff).
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