Raising Your Research Profile: Publishing Strategies for Raising Your Research Profile
1. Raising your research profile
Publishing strategies for raising
your research profile
Research Support Team
2. By the end of this briefing you should:
• Know which are the main considerations when deciding where to
publish
• Be able to identify some of the tools available to assist your
decisions
• Have an awareness of a range of tips to increase your publications’
visibility and impact
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3. What do you need to consider?
Which journal Preparation
for publication
Funder
requirements
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4. Which journal?
• Journal impact factors and ratings
– Web of Science (JCR)
– Scopus (SJR)
– Journal Quality List
• Journal information
– Longevity
– Indexing status
– Frequency of publication
– Medium
• Audience
– Subject-specific journals
– Specialised society journals
– Publish results in more popular journals alongside article in scholarly journal
Ulrich’s Periodical Directory provides a lot of journal information,
including readership type
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5. Preparation for publication to
increase citation
• Sort your name out!
– Create a research identifier
• ORCID
• ResearcherID
• Scopus author ID
• Optimise your article for search engines
– Title
– Abstract
– Keywords
• Co-author
– Work with a high profile researcher if you’re an early career researcher
– Tend to generate more citations
– International collaboration
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6. Funder requirements
• Open access
– Deposit required by RCUK-funded research
• IRep
• Open access journals
– DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
– Bentham OA
– BioMed Central
– Subject repositories
• e.g. PubMed Central, CogPrints, SSRN
• Check your funder’s self-archiving policies
– SHERPA/FACT allows you to check if journals are compliant with certain funders’
policies
• Check for compliant journals
– the SHERPA/RoMEO database will help you check a publisher’s copyright and
archiving policies.
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7. Further support
• Your Research Support Librarian
– Email the Library Research Team at LIBResearchTeam@ntu.ac.uk
• Publication Good Practice Guidelines: standard outputs
– Available on eCentral
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Journal Quality List – table of different rating systems, including ABS (Association of Business Schools) journal quality guide for business journals
JCR – original measure of citations; impact factors/ number of citations
SCImago Journal Rank – number of citations received plus prestige of the journal where the citations come from
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) – preferred one as it creates a persistent digital identifier – integrates with Scopus and Researcher ID; used by major publishers – allows your publications to be added to your profile. Doesn’t provide citation metrics.
ResearcherID – service provided by WoS; add papers to account and track citations for them in WoS (also tracks h-index)
Scopus author ID – this is automatically created when you have a paper indexed in Scopus
Co-author – international collaboration boosts citations, and adds the UK’s position as a world-class research nation
Need to ensure journal is compliant with funder’s requirments
OA – NTU Publications Strategy
Mention hybrid journals; green & gold (but not in detail)
CogPrints – Cognitive Science (including linguistics)
SSRN – Social Sciences Research Network
Mention non-standard ones are being produced for monographs