PROMOTE FOR IMPACT! HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR RESEARCH IMPACT: 30+ TIPS Guus van den Brekel Central Medical Library, University Medical Center Groningen Kolff Days 2016, April 5th Schiermonnikoog

WHY? Performance funding policy UMCG The "Worldwide Race on Ranking of Universities" The "Universal Battle for the Researchers" (and their citations)

"Numbers are meaningless in themselves; they are windows into exploring article reception" Kathy Christian on #altmetrics: #ISMTE2016

HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR RESEARCH CITATIONS: 30+ TIPS BEFORE Publishing AFTER Publishing

BEFORE PUBLISHING (WHILE WRITING) WHAT to INCLUDE in article? WHAT to publish WHERE to publish HOW to publish WHO to publish with

WHAT to INCLUDE in article Use unique name ( if possible), and consistently throughout your career Use the standardized institutional affiliation, using no abbreviations ( "University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen") Repeat key phrases in the abstract while writing naturally Assign keywords to the manuscript ( MESH, Web of Science...) Use more references Publish a longer paper Papers with a larger number of "callouts" are likely to get a higher number of citations Avoid using a question type of title Get an ORCID ID, connect it to PURE and use it consistantly in all articles BEFORE PUBLISHING (WHILE WRITING)

WHAT to publish Write a review paper Present a working paper ( before & after articles are published) BEFORE PUBLISHING (WHILE WRITING)

WHERE to publish Publish in a journal with high impact Publish across disciplines Publish in journals everyone in your discipline reads Publish in a journal that is included in many abstracting & indexing services BEFORE PUBLISHING (WHILE WRITING) Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports, InCites

HOW to publish OPEN ACCESS INCREASES CITATION RATES BEFORE PUBLISHING (WHILE WRITING) The Open Access Citation Advantage Service

WHO to publish with publish with international authors across multiple institutions Team-authored articles get cited more Publish papers with Nobel laureates ;-) Collaborate with corporate sector BEFORE PUBLISHING (WHILE WRITING)

SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION DOES NOT STOP AFTER PUBLISHING YOUR ARTICLE

Profile Disseminate Promote Track & engage Post-publication peer review

PROFILE Make a unique phrase that reflects your research interest & use it throughout your career Keep your corporate & professional profile pages & publication lists up to date Get an ORCID ID, connect it to PURE and use it consistantly in all articles Use online CV option in PURE Use academic social networking sites ( ResearchGate, Academia, Mendeley, Google Scholar, ImpactStory...

DISSEMINATE Self-archive articles and research output (PURE, post-print, pdf, open access repository) Share your research data ( open data) Publicize yourself ( link your latest articles to your signature)

PROMOTE Start a blog ( Wordpress, Blogger are extremely good indexed in major search engines Use Linkedin to promote Use SEO techniques on corporate & institute websites Contribute to Wikipedia Create a podcast, screencast or video and publish on YouTube, Vimeo... Use Twitter & Other social media to share your findings Use DOI's in all communications

TRACK AND ENGAGE Set alerts on new citations Track "mentions" about your articles on the Web (Altmetrics) Engage in discussions on the web and in Post publication peer review sites

POST PUBLICATION PEER REVIEW Pubmed Commons PubPeer Frontiers Open Review (ResearchGate) publons.com publons.comhttps://publons.com/institution/5963/

101 Innovations in Scholarly Communication

ImpactStory Guide

ImpactStory Guide

USED SOURCES The Open Access Citation Advantage Service Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency by Nader Ale Ebrahim act_id= act_id= Innovations in scholary communications :survey Elsevier "Effective strategies for increasing citation"

Researcher Guide startpage profile - Pure & MyUniversity - ORCID & id's - Scholar -Rebelmouse Social Media Frontpage journal & category choice, collaborations open access - Open Access Start page CMB - JCR -Web of Science -InCites /Essential Science Indicators Social Media -Twitter -Linkedin -Rebelmouse -Slideshare -Figshare -Mendeley Keywords & categories - MESH - WoS/ JCR - PubMed Reminer? track citations - Web of Science -Scholar alerts - Publish or Perish Altmetrics -lookup DOI's Kolff - Bookmarklet Post publication peer review -Pubmed Commons Blogging -WordPress 101 innovations in scholarly communications -workflow -Dissemination -Open Science & Data WORKSHOP "POWERFUL TOOLS TO RAISE YOUR CITATIONS"