How to Increase a Journal Visibility and Impact

aleebrahim@Gmail.com
@aleebrahim
https://publons.com/researcher/1692944
https://scholar.google.com/citation
Nader Ale Ebrahim, PhD
Research Visibility and Impact Consultant
21st April 2021
All of my presentations are available online at:
https://figshare.com/authors/Nader_Ale_Ebrahim/100797
@aleebrahim
How to Increase a Journal
Visibility & Impact

Abstract
Researchers want to publish in journals that can increase the
visibility and impact of their research. Increasing a journal’s
visibility in the academic world in order to improve the journal’s
impact and receive citations is essential. This webinar presents the
fifteen strategies for journal publishers to increase the journal’s
article citations without “gaming” the system. Nader, who has
developed the “Research Tools” Mind Map will get you familiar
with a few simple tools you need in order to grow your journal’s
visibility and impact factor which can make a significant difference
for many journals.
Keywords: H-index, Improve citations, Research tools, Bibliometrics,
Research Visibility, Impact factor, Research Impact
Research Visibility and Impact Center-(RVnIC)
©2019-2022 Dr. Nader Ale Ebrahim 2

Research Tools Mind Map
©2019-2022 Dr. Nader Ale Ebrahim
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
ZENODO
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID)
Kudos Innovations
& many more Research Tools
Source: https://pixabay.com/en/network-society-social-community-1020016/
Source: https://www.mindmeister.com/39583892/research-tools-by-nader-ale-ebrahim?fullscreen=1
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Objectives
• To increase a journal visibility, accessibility,
• To Improve publication visibility in international
databases and search engines
• To improve the quality of the article title and
keywords
• To index the journal in well-known databases
• To disseminate the publications by using “Research
Tools” in order to increase the journal visibility
• To trace the citation

Authors cite a work because:
1. It is relevant (in some
way) to what they’re
writing
2. They know it exists
Source: Gosling, C. (2013). Tips for improving citations 2nd Bibliometrics in Libraries Meeting: The Open University.

1. Understand the Journal’s Impact
2. Identifying zero-cited papers
3. Recruiting papers from highly-cited authors
4. Quantity and quality of articles
5. Use social media to increase engagement with your
journal community.
6. Consider creating a blog or developing a podcast series
for your audience.
7. Publishing more review articles
8. Publishing special issues or special collections
9. Publish Data Sets
10. Encourage your authors to share their research with
video
11. Provide guidance to Authors on how they can increase
the Impact of Their Work
12. Make articles free and open access.
13. Share online pre-prints
14. Recognition for peer review on Publons
15. Avoid unethical methods
15 tips
to
Increase
a
Journal
Visibility
&
Impact

journal community.
for your audience.
video
15 tips
to
Increase
a
Journal
Visibility
&
Impact

Microsoft Academic Search
Source: https://academic.microsoft.com/journals

Source: https://www.metrics-toolkit.org/explore-metrics/#1628+type-of-research-object:outputs-journal-articles

journal community.
for your audience.
video
15 tips
to
Increase
a
Journal
Visibility
&
Impact

Published online 13 October 2010 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2010.539
News
To be the best, cite the best
Citation analysis picks out new truth in Newton's aphorism that science 'stands on the shoulders of giants'.
The mass of medium-level
research is less important for
inspiring influential
breakthroughs than the most
highly-cited papers, a citation
study argues.
Source: Corbyn, Z. (2010). To be the best, cite the best. Nature
539. doi: doi:10.1038/news.2010.539
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Source: https://scite.ai/?referenceCheck=true

Source: https://scite.ai/reference-check/e19b6551-b14e-44cd-a0b9-ed7b66b7f91e

Google Scholar Metrics
• Google Scholar Metrics
• Google Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and
influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. Scholar Metrics summarize recent citations
to many publications, to help authors as they consider where to publish their new research.
• To get started, you can browse the top 100 publications in several languages, ordered by their
five-year h-index and h-median metrics. To see which articles in a publication were cited the
most and who cited them, click on its h-index number to view the articles as well as the citations
underlying the metrics.
• You can also explore publications in research areas of your interest. To browse publications in a
broad area of research, select one of the areas in the left column. For example: Engineering &
Computer Science or Health & Medical Sciences.
• To explore specific research areas, select one of the broad areas, click on the "Subcategories"
link and then select one of the options. For example: Databases & Information Systems or
Development Economics.
• Browsing by research area is, as yet, available only for English publications. You can, of course,
search for specific publications in all languages by words in their titles.
• Scholar Metrics are currently based on our index as it was in June 2020.
Source: http://scholar.google.com.my/intl/en/scholar/metrics.html
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Google Scholar Metrics
Inclusion and Corrections
• Google Scholar Metrics
• Inclusion and Corrections
• If you can't find the journal you're looking for, try searching
by its abbreviated title or alternate title. There're sometimes
several ways to refer to the same publication. (Fun fact:
we've seen 959 ways to refer to PNAS.)
• If you're wondering why your journal is not included, or why
it has fewer citations than it surely deserves, that is often a
matter of configuring your website for indexing in Google
Scholar. Please refer to the inclusion manual. Also, keep in
mind that Scholar Metrics only include publications with at
least a hundred articles in the last five years.
Source: https://scholar.google.com.my/intl/en/scholar/metrics.html#inclusion
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journal community.
for your audience.
video
15 tips
to
Increase
a
Journal
Visibility
&
Impact

Source: Liu, J. (2013). Article-level and alternative metrics: tracking other indicators of impact online 2nd Bibliometrics in Libraries Meeting:
The Open University.
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Source: S. A. Ebrahim, J. Poshtan, S. M. Jamali and N. A. Ebrahim, "Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Time-Series Classification
Using Deep Learning," in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 90202-90215, 2020, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2993538.

Blogs
•Wordpress
•Weebly
•Blogger

Source: https://plos.org/blogs/

2015
Source: https://twitter.com/plosone

2021
Source: https://twitter.com/plosone

2015
Source: https://twitter.com/nature

Source: https://twitter.com/nature
2021

journal community.
for your audience.
video
15 tips
to
Increase
a
Journal
Visibility
&
Impact

Artificially inflated Impact Factors
Source: Innes, Julia. Scholarly Communication and Knowledge Management in American Zoos. ProQuest, 2006.
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Thomson/JCR Journal Impact Factor
Citations to all docs
# Citable docs
Source: Henk F. Moed, (2011) “New developments in electronic publishing and bibliometrics”, CWTS, Leiden University, Netherlands &
Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Citable vs. non-citable docs
Citable documents “non-citable” documents
Articles Letters
Reviews Editorials
Discussion papers
Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands Research Visibility and Impact Center-(RVnIC)

The problem of “free” citations - 1
Cites
Docs + + + + +
+ + + + +
Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands Research Visibility and Impact Center-(RVnIC)

The problem of “free” citations - 2
Cites
Docs + +
+ + + + +
“Free”
Citations
Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands

journal community.
for your audience.
video
15 tips
to
Increase
a
Journal
Visibility
&
Impact

Source: R. Van Noorden, B. Maher, and R.
Nuzzo, “The top 100 papers,” Nature, vol.
514, 2014.
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Audio or video content
Embedded Rich Media
File specifications
Maximum file size
300 MB (note that the combined manuscript files for a submission,
including video, audio, tables, figures, and text must not exceed 350 MB)
File type
Video: MP4, MKV, MOV, AVI, FLV, MPEG-2 TS, MPEG-2 PS, MXF, LXF, GXF,
3GP, WebM, MPG, QuickTime
Audio: MP3
Aspect ratio
16:9 (video only)
Aspect ratios other than 16:9 will still play within the player. However,
black bars above and below or to the side of the video will appear.
Maximum
duration
Maximum length of 5 minutes
File name format
“[articlename]_video[no.]” or “[articlename]_audio[no.]”
For example: surfacedistribution_video1.mp4
Source: https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/Prepare/manuscript-preparation-guidelines.html/embedded-rich-media.html
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AudioSlides presentations
Source: http://www.elsevier.com/about/content-innovation/audioslides-author-presentations-for-journal-articles
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Source: Martín-Martín, A., Thelwall, M., Orduna-Malea, E., & Delgado López-Cózar, E. (2020). Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Scopus,
Dimensions, Web of Science, and OpenCitations’ COCI: a multidisciplinary comparison of coverage via citations. Scientometrics.
doi:10.1007/s11192-020-03690-4

journal community.
for your audience.
video
15 tips
to
Increase
a
Journal
Visibility
&
Impact

Increasing Visibility and Enhancing Impact of
Research
Source: Bong, Yiibonn and Ale Ebrahim, Nader, Increasing Visibility and Enhancing Impact of Research (April 24, 2017). Asia
Research News 2017. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2959952
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Source: Elgendi, M. (2019). Characteristics of a Highly Cited Article: A Machine Learning Perspective. IEEE Access, 7, 87977-87986.
doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2925965
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journal community.
for your audience.
video
15 tips
to
Increase
a
Journal
Visibility
&
Impact

Source: https://plos.org/open-access-week-citations/

journal community.
for your audience.
video
15 tips
to
Increase
a
Journal
Visibility
&
Impact

Source: Ale Ebrahim, N.; Bong, Y.B. Publishing Research Support Documents in Open Access Platform to Improve Research Impact.
Preprints 2017, 2017060111 (doi: 10.20944/preprints201706.0111.v1).
Preprints is a free preprint server supported by MDPI in Basel, Switzerland.

journal community.
for your audience.
video
15 tips
to
Increase
a
Journal
Visibility
&
Impact

Source: https://publons.com/in/iop/

journal community.
for your audience.
video
15 tips
to
Increase
a
Journal
Visibility
&
Impact

Brazilian citation scheme outed
Thomson Reuters suspends journals from its rankings for ‘citation stacking’
Source: Richard Van Noorden , Nature News, 27 August 2013
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aleebrahim@Gmail.com
@aleebrahim
https://publons.com/researcher/1692944
http://scholar.google.com/citations
Nader Ale Ebrahim, PhD
Research Visibility and Impact Consultant
All of my presentations are available online at:
https://figshare.com/authors/Nader_Ale_Ebrahim/100797
@aleebrahim
Thank you

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References
1. Gosling, C. (2013). Tips for improving citations 2nd Bibliometrics in Libraries Meeting: The Open
University.
2. Liu, J. (2013). Article-level and alternative metrics: tracking other indicators of impact online 2nd
Bibliometrics in Libraries Meeting: The Open University.
3. S. A. Ebrahim, J. Poshtan, S. M. Jamali and N. A. Ebrahim, "Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of
Time-Series Classification Using Deep Learning," in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 90202-90215, 2020, doi:
10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2993538.
4. Innes, Julia. Scholarly Communication and Knowledge Management in American Zoos. ProQuest,
2006.
5. Henk F. Moed, (2011) “New developments in electronic publishing and bibliometrics”, CWTS,
Leiden University, Netherlands & Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands
6. R. Van Noorden, B. Maher, and R. Nuzzo, “The top 100 papers,” Nature, vol. 514, 2014.
7. Martín-Martín, A., Thelwall, M., Orduna-Malea, E., & Delgado López-Cózar, E. (2020). Google
Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Scopus, Dimensions, Web of Science, and OpenCitations’ COCI: a
multidisciplinary comparison of coverage via citations. Scientometrics. doi:10.1007/s11192-020-
03690-4
8. Bong, Yiibonn and Ale Ebrahim, Nader, Increasing Visibility and Enhancing Impact of Research (April
24, 2017). Asia Research News 2017. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2959952
9. Elgendi, M. (2019). Characteristics of a Highly Cited Article: A Machine Learning Perspective. IEEE
Access, 7, 87977-87986. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2925965
10. Ale Ebrahim, N.; Bong, Y.B. Publishing Research Support Documents in Open Access Platform to
Improve Research Impact. Preprints 2017, 2017060111 (doi: 10.20944/preprints201706.0111.v1
11. Richard Van Noorden , Nature News, 27 August 2013

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