Thursday 18th September heather.parsonage@ntu.ac.uk sharon.potter@ntu.ac.uk victoria.boskett@ntu.ac.uk

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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8. Any questions?
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