Sharing your research work is very important in enhancing your impact. This short video from Yale discusses the various ways to share and publicize different parts of the research work, such as manuscripts and data:
How to increase the visibility & impact of your research 06/2014 ESCP Europe
The authors of this guide recommend that you:
Sharing your research work is very important in enhancing your impact. This short video from Yale discusses the various ways to share and publicize different parts of the research work, such as manuscripts and data:
See also a series of videos on impact from Yale: http://library.medicine.yale.edu/tutorials/subjects/research-impact
Scopus and Web of Science both offer the facility to set up a citation tracking alert so that you are notified when a new record cites your paper.
See this short tutorial on how to create a citation alert on Web of Knowledge:
Google Scholar Citations also provides the option of setting up citation alerts. See:
https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/citations.html#citations
Open Access publishing is recognised as an effective way to increase accessibility and therefore visibility of your publications.
The Library helps to maximise the exposure of NUI Galway research, by making the publications of NUI Galway academic staff and researchers openly available through the University's Institutional Repository - ARAN.
See https://libguides.library.nuigalway.ie/openaccesspublishing
"Altmetrics is a way of finding out how many people are engaging with the research you publish online. It focuses on individual articles rather than whole journals or people and gives you a wider and more immediate picture of what's going on that citation counts and other bibliometrics"
From Leeds University Library
Professor Melissa Terras at the Department of Information Studies at UCL tested the impact of blogging and Twitter on publications uploaded to the institutional repository:
"What became clear to me very quickly was the correlation between talking about my research online and the spike in downloads of my papers from our institutional repository."
From The Impact of Social Media on the Dissemination of Research: Results of an Experiment
Eysenbach, G. (2011). Can tweets predict citations? Metrics of social impact based on Twitter and correlation with traditional metrics of scientific impact. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 13(4), e123-e123. http://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.2012
Conclusions: Tweets can predict highly cited articles within the first 3 days of article publication. Social media activity either increases citations or reflects the underlying qualities of the article that also predict citations, but the true use of these metrics is to measure the distinct concept of social impact. Social impact measures based on tweets are proposed to complement traditional citation metrics. The proposed twimpact factor may be a useful and timely metric to measure uptake of research findings and to filter research findings resonating with the public in real time.
See list below for more library guides:
The Library proactively supports and enhances the learning, teaching, and research activities of the University. The Library acts as a catalyst for your success as University of Galway’s hub for scholarly information discovery, sharing, and publication.
Library
University of Galway
University Road,
Galway, Ireland
T. +353 91 493399
