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Measuring Research Impact
Open Access Agreements with Publishers
Make your Research Output Open Access
Publishing in Open Access makes outputs freely available online so that they can be downloaded, read and re-used in accordance with licensing. This means that the potential readership of open access articles is far greater than articles restricted to subscribers, so your articles are much more likely to be downloaded, shared and cited.
Check out MU's Open Access Repository called "Maynooth University Research Archive Library" (MURAL)
For a global directory of Academic Open Access Repositories & Policies look at Open DOAR
For listings of Open Access to Publish in, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is really useful.
Sharing your research data and making it more accessible and visible can also result in wider citation of your data and research.
Think carefully about where you publish
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Think Check SubmitThink. Check. Submit. helps researchers identify trusted journals for their research.
Through a range of tools and practical resources, this international, cross-sector initiative aims to educate researchers, promote integrity, and build trust in credible research and publications.
Other Useful guides
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Increasing Research VisibilityUseful Guide from Leeds University
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Maastricht University Five Ways to Increase the visibility of your ResearchSo, 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 want to promote your research to make sure it reaches the widest possible audience. 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.
Improving your articles Search Engine Discoverability
Getting Started
Update your Profile on the Maynooth University Research Information System
Sign up for a ORCID identifier. ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities ensuring that your work is recognised. Check out the ORCID knowledge base.
Create a Google Scholar Citations Profile: Google scholar citations allows authors to track citations to their scholarly works and to calculate numerous citation metrics based on Google Scholar citation data. By setting up a profile, you will be able to disambiguate yourself from authors with the same or similar names and make yourself more findable on Google.
Create a Research Profile using Researcher ID (now Publons) on the Web of Science Database available via the Libraries A-Z of Databases. Register with Web of Science to begin this process.
Check your Author ID on the Scopus database to make sure your details are correct. This identity is automatically generated if you have publications on Scopus.
Promote your Research Online using Academic Social Networks
The A-Z of Social Media for Academia : is a really useful and current listing of Social Media Platforms available to you. It's produced by Professor Andy Miah,Chair in Science Communication & Future Media, in the School of Environment & Life Sciences, University of Salford, Manchester.
Academic Social Media (Academia.edu, Research Gate)
How to get a paper published in a high impact journal
eBook "The 30 day Impact Challenge" by Stacy Konkiel
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The 30 day impact challenge: the ultimate guide to raising the profile of your research"In a hugely competitive research landscape, scientists can no longer afford to just publish and hope for the best. To leave a mark, researchers have to take their impact into their own hands. But where do you start?
There are so many ways to share, promote, and discuss your research, especially online. It’s tough to know where to begin.
Make your work findable
- Metadata
- Metadata describes a research output, making it easier to find and use. For example, metadata may include a title, author, file format, date published, subject keywords, or an explanation of how data was collected.
- Make you publications easier to find by using effective titles, abstracts and author keywords in your publications
- Clear/concise use of language, that has your keywords embedded into it to ease searching
- Research Data should be made available, details here
- Websites & Blogs
- Link your article once it’s published from your personal webpage,
blog, social networking sites, and from your Maynooth University
academic profile. This will help to make it more discoverable on search
engines.
- If you have a personal website or blog you can improve its ranking in search engine results by considering elements such as: keywords in body content
- keywords in title tags, meta tags, and heading tags
- including links to external websites about similar topics
- Link your article once it’s published from your personal webpage,
blog, social networking sites, and from your Maynooth University
academic profile. This will help to make it more discoverable on search
engines.
Correct Author Attribution
A limitation of citation-tracking databases is the different ways authorship is attributed. Problems can stem from data errors, name ambiguity, and how multi-authored articles are attributed.
- Misspelling your name or errors in institutional attribution are sometimes found in citation-tracking databases.
- To reduce name ambiguity, all authors should define their identity
convention as an author early, and use that convention systematically.
- Citation-tracking databases attribute authorship of multi-authored articles differently, as it may be attributed to all of a publication's authors equally (full counting), or by giving relative weights to authors in collaborative publications (fractional counting).
Use the correct MU Affiliation format in your publications
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Guidelines for Maynooth University’s Identity in Academic Publications and Grant ApplicationsTo make sure your paper is correctly accredited to MU it is vital to use the correct Affiliation format in your publications.
Publication behaviours across disciplines
- Research Output, Productivity and Impact will vary across disciplines
- Citation tracking databases do not have equal coverage across the disciplines
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