The document discusses key aspects of quality research and increasing research visibility. It defines quality research as using scientific processes and withstanding scrutiny. Quality research is unique, incremental, and can inform policy. The document emphasizes that research helps teachers understand what works and improve, and that teachers have a duty to conduct research. It provides tips for researchers to increase visibility, such as expanding collaborations, selecting keywords wisely, using social media, blogs, and tools like ORCID and Researcher ID to link publications. The overarching message is that research should be a way of life for academics and helps improve teaching and learning.

1. Towards
Quality Research and Visibility
Dr. C. Muthuraja
Head, Post Graduate and Research Department of Economics
The American College, Madurai - 625 002
EC Member, Indian Economic Association
(cmuthuraja@gmail.com) - (M-09486373765)
(Presented at One Day International Virtual Research Conference on Current Landscape in Socio-Economic and Legal
Research and Development organised by Saveetha School of Law, Saveetha University, Chennai on 27.10.2021)
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2. Quality Research
 Scientific process including all aspects of study
design.
 Relates to the judgment regarding the match between
the methods and questions, selection of subjects,
measurement of outcomes, and protection against
systematic and nonsystematic bias
 Enlightens crucial decisions on the funding of
projects, teams and whole institutions, on how
research is conducted, on recruitment and promotion,
on what is published or disseminated, and on what
researchers and others choose to read.
 Makes trust in the work of the research community.
 Research investigates ideas and uncovers useful
knowledge.
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3. Uniqueness of Quality Research
 Based on some logical rationale and tied to theory.
 Generates new questions or is cyclical in nature.
 Based on the work of others.
 Provides evidence that is robust, ethical, stands up to
scrutiny
 Can be replicated and achievable.
 Generalisable to other settings.
 Incremental.
 Can be used to inform policy making
 Contributes to that strand/topic of research and follows on
from what the current literature has developed
 Clarity in presentation, data use, data handling, data
sources
 Peer review is incredibly important
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4. Research and Researcher…
Workload & Freedom-Teaching +++
Academic Curriculum
Co / Extra Curriculum
Research Resources / Facilities
Research Promotions
Research & T L E
Research Publications
Voluntary vs Compulsion
 Recognitions ? + + + + +
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5. Research Can Help Teachers…
 To understand what works and why,
 What the short and long-term implications
are,
 Provide a justification and rationale for
decisions and actions,
 Help to build a repertoire to help deal with
the unexpected,
 Identify problems,
 Inform improvement and
 + + +
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6. Research & Teacher
 Teaching does involve creative thinking and
experimentation
 Individuals and professional groups need to know
what works and why
 Teacher’s actions lead to improved students
performance, increased motivation, commitment,
better behavior
 The profession as a whole needs access to a range
of data/evidence types
 These all need to be connected, and too often
research is conducted in isolation of others
 Teachers can adapt it to fit the individual needs of
their own students
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7. Research & Teacher
 Teachers are accountable - The public must have
faith in the profession – performance can be
demonstrated through the publication of research
findings
 Teachers project their own personality upon
learning experiences
 Research give teachers the tools to analyze and
make informed decisions about their practice
 Research helps teachers to share with colleagues
 Research - future oriented and designed to benefit
learners rather than the researchers themselves
 Research is the duty of academic professionals
everywhere
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8. Research Visibility
Research(er) must linked with
 Teaching
 Learning / Unlearning
 Evaluation
 Publications
 Presentations @ Conference/Seminar/Workshop
 Network
 Consultancy
 Documentation
 Media Sharing : Mass/Social Media + + + &
 Research (Further)
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9. Resources for Research
 Fellowships
 Scholarships
 Institutional Support
 Government Initiatives
 UGC / ICSSR / DST / CSIR / + + +
 International Institutions: World Bank / OECD /
WTO / WHO /+ + +
 Research Associations: IEA / NSC / ISSC/+ + +
 Foreign Governments
 Collaborative / Contributory
 Own Effort
 Other Sources
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10. PINK TO THINK
 Research Projects
 Research Publications
 Books : In-house / Commercial
 Articles/ Research Notes: Printed / e-way
 ISSN (International Standard Serial Number), ISBN (International Standard Book
Number), Citation Index, Impact Factor ….
 Reports and Projects
 Conferences/Workshops/Seminar: Organized / Participated /
Presented
 Professional Membership
 Editorship / Member in Editorial Board / Consultancy
 Social / Environmental Activism
 Research Collaboration
 Media Sharing
 Others
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11. IMPROVING
RESEARCH VISIBILITY
 Expand your co-authorship base
 Select your title and keywords wisely
 Make your articles open access
 Effective use of online Social Media
 Create and share podcasts (an audio or video file in
digital format for automatic download over the Internet)
 Sharing research outputs other than the manuscript
 Create a personal blog
 Get a unique author identifier ORCID to distinguish
yourself and your work from other researchers
 Other tools for dissemination - Kudos (Oxford, UK)
(https://www.growkudos.com/) and Impact Story
(https://impactstory.org/)
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12. Steps for Increasing Visibility
 Get a Researcher ID – connect your publications
 Share your publications with different audiences
– Check copyright of publications
– Post online using appropriate tools
 Engage with others (academic, public, media)
 Establish a researcher ID-persistent digital identifier for
you links all your publications
– ORCID http://orcid.org/
– Researcher ID http://www.researcherid.com
Build Online Profiles
 Google Scholar profile
 Author profiles - publisher sites
 Faculty website - link publications
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13. Share and Engage
with Scholarly Communities
Connect - Collaborate - Share
 Reference managers - Persona based on scholarly reading,
share bibliographies
 Social media - Connects you - your research to different
communities within & beyond academia
Some online communities
 Academia – multi-disciplinary community, track usage and
discover
 ResearchGate – heavily science based –collaboration ask
questions, follow others
 Labroots - scientific -producer of educational virtual
community conversations
 Reference managers and more…
Mendeley, Zotero …Tools for researchers blog
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14. Why Use Social Media
YOUR RESEARCH
 Connects you - your research to different communities within &
beyond academia
 Facilitating knowledge translation post-publication
 Invites varying perspectives and uses
 Broader uses and access increases impact of research
YOU AS A RESEARCHER
 Meet people whom probably wouldn't have met
 Keep up to date on what’s happening in field
 Gives a voice to traditionally underrepresented groups
 Build network of colleagues for collaboration and support
Social Media Strategy
 Determine Goals – what are you looking to get out of activity
 Align goals with proper tool
 Be deliberate in the creation of your digital identity
 Separate professional and private accounts
 To measure impact , need to first clearly articulate aims and means
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15. APPEAL
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Research as a way of LIFE !
(Starts with ?????)
MOTIVATION…
SELF MOTIVATION…
QUESTIONS PLEASE !