Zakaria - Ali is correct in terms of careful targeting of articles in good quality journals is more likely to get wider 'impact' than not doing this. Using a wide variety of academic and academic social media will assist i.e. ORCID, Researcher ID, RG, Academia.Edu, Grow Kudos, Mendeley, Publons, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google Scholar (as you highlight) etc.

My Google Scolar account currently reports:

Citations - 4,152

h-index - 37

10-index - 58

The way I increase those scores is as I've highlighted above.

hi, dear Zakaria Elkhwesky

Make good quality and nowel research publish it in a well-known journal and be patient.

that is the best way for increasing H-index and citations in my opinion.

its not Alexa rank or SEO optimization

Zakaria - Ali is correct in terms of careful targeting of articles in good quality journals is more likely to get wider 'impact' than not doing this. Using a wide variety of academic and academic social media will assist i.e. ORCID, Researcher ID, RG, Academia.Edu, Grow Kudos, Mendeley, Publons, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google Scholar (as you highlight) etc.

My Google Scolar account currently reports:

Citations - 4,152

h-index - 37

10-index - 58

The way I increase those scores is as I've highlighted above.

Many thanks Prof. Dean

Thanks dear Ali

Sir

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Many valuable hints regarding the increase for citations you will find in this post:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_do_I_increase_the_number_of_citations_for_my_paper

I suspect that many people around the world rely on Google Scholar when searching for references, because many people do not have access to research databases, such as EBSCO.

So ensuring that your papers appear in google Scholar is important. This may happen from the journals' own websites, but posting your work in ResearchGate and other platforms can also increase the odds of someone finding your papers.

Google yourself and see what appears.

Publishing in high quality journals and conferences and also publish papers with well known researchers can also help in crease citations

Good quality research papers published in indexed journals while getting the attention of the right audience sharing your research work in different platforms will surely help.

Boosting Your H-Index

I am also looking for the answer but no one is giving the answer. But I have seen good papers where there have been 260+ sites from one paper.

I think you can do self research with good research. Posting in different social media can also be a way for citations.

publishing in good quality journal and conducting research in new and updated areas.

Please go through the following RG links.

Article How to improve your citation count.

Article Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency

Doing research on a promising topic or research area.

The novelty and new ideas in writing the research may be the best thing that to attract other researcher to cite your work.

Helpful answers.

Presentation Journal Impact Factors, Researcher h-index, How to improve r...

1. Publish in a journal that is highly indexed in PubMed, Scopus, ISI, etc. It will help you in post publication dissemination of your article.

2. Of most importance is an area of public need. The theme of an article determines if it would be widely searched. For instance, compare a publication in cancer science or diabetes versus a very, very uncommon illness.

3. Type of article is also an important factor to determine if an article would be well cited or not. A review article is densely stuffed with information and graphical images that most times describes mechanisms, principle or representing a philosophy more better. This article, no doubt, receives the higher citation compared to a case report, case series, or briefing.

4. Another factor is, the choice of expression (here termed the flow or articulation). How easy-to-understand your writing determines people's understanding and thus accessible for use. Therefore, if you are not an expert in writing or not a native English speaker, you may require an assistance.

Collaborate with more mature researchers. Research has shown that papers with famous first authors get more citations. So, if you are just starting out, try to collaborate with the most experienced researchers in your field. https://app.enago.com/homepage/i/26344/how-to-successfully-boost-your-h-index

Choose your journal carefully and publish open access. Well-known, established journals get more readers, which leads to more citations. Try to think about which journal to aim for early in the research process.

Publish Open Access. As you might expect, open access journals get more citations. However, whether you choose open access partly depends on your field. In life sciences and medicine, for example, there are some very well-respected open access journals. In other areas, this is less true.

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Work on your writing, use catchy words and key words that can be easily found by search engines . Most readers will find your article with a search engine. You might want to learn about search engine optimization. Make sure your article has a catchy but specific title. Think about what your keywords will be. https://app.enago.com/homepage/i/26344/how-to-successfully-boost-your-h-index

Chinaza Godswill Awuchi good points there, thumb-up!

Games academics play and their consequences: how authorship, h-index and journal impact factors are shaping the future of academia

People can play games to better their scores. This has resulted in the incentive structure of science increasingly mimicking economic principles, but rather than a monetary gain, the incentive is a higher score...

Speculations regarding the consequences of allowing current evaluation metrics of individuals and journals to continue. By reporting these speculations, we hope to stimulate discussion regarding how scholars should plan to shape the future of academia...

Article Games academics play and their consequences: How authorship,...

Dear Kamal M Alsaad , you are practicing plagiarism again. Do always cite the original - bring the links. It is a bad academic practice and habit!

You have copied from here:

https://www.enago.com/academy/how-to-successfully-boost-your-h-index/

There are some appropriate ways to raise the number of citations:

· Choose to submit your manuscript to a respectful journal.

· Publish in Open Access journals.

· Attend conferences.

· Use social media (Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, …).

· Create an account in ResearchGate.

· Send reprints to scientists you have cited.

· Write an essay that is solid and convincing.

· Write a clear abstract.

· Write an effective title.

· Think carefully about your audience.

· Cite your peers.

· Cite your own past articles.

The world’s most-cited researchers, according to newly released data, are a curiously eclectic bunch. Nobel laureates and eminent polymaths rub shoulders with less familiar names, such as Sundarapandian Vaidyanathan from Chennai in India. What leaps out about Vaidyanathan and hundreds of other researchers is that many of the citations to their work come from their own papers, or from those of their co-authors...

Vaidyanathan, a computer scientist at the Vel Tech R&D Institute of Technology, a privately run institute, is an extreme example: he has received 94% of his citations from himself or his co-authors up to 2017, according to a study in PLoS Biology this month. He is not alone. The data set, which lists around 100,000 researchers, shows that at least 250 scientists have amassed more than 50% of their citations from themselves or their co-authors, while the median self-citation rate is 12.7%.

What a fraud! What a massive manipulation!!!

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02479-7

Visit also his profile at Google scholar!

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OHbcFkcAAAAJ&hl=en

Look

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1309/1309.2413.pdf

Many Reviewers ask for citing their papers at the time of reviewing your papers.

Otherwise, they may not approve of your paper. Blatantly, these reviewers ask for citation to their papers for approving your paper. If self citation Is fraud then what is this ??

Sundarapandian Vaidyanathan has appeared in this article. He wanted to improve the ranking of his institution.

Interestingly, by analysing the SciVal profile of Sundarapandian Vaidyanathan, a professor at Vel Tech, who is listed as the top author in Vel Tech University, we observe 12 933 citations. Only 1% of his papers have been published in top 10% journals by SNIP. However, 59.3% of his publications are in the top 10% most cited worldwide. He has been writing under Vel Tech affiliation since 2010. Close to 86% of the citations of the university since 2012 are coming from this professor. Scopus lists more citations (15 485), probably due to a difference in the update. Out of this citations, 14 555 are self-citations, and 930 from other researchers. Notice that his H-index is 86, but drops down to 14 by removing self-citations. According to these data, about 94% of his citations are self-citations ...

Good discussion

Great discussion. Thanks a lot all.

The following links could help!:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_can_we_increase_the_citations_of_our_articles_in_international_indexes

https://www.altmetric.com/blog/tips-and-tricks-how-to-promote-your-research-successfully-online/

Article How to improve your citation count.

All the Best Zakaria Elkhwesky!

Collaborate with more mature researchers. Research has shown that papers with famous first authors get more citations. ...

Choose your journal carefully. ...

Publish Open Access. ...

Think about your audience. ...

Network, network, network. ...

Work on your writing. ...

Show up on social media.

Dear Zakaria Elkhwesky The following points are helpful to increase the number of citations:

- Select a new and interesting topic.

- Select the journals with impact factor or at least Scopus indexed.

- Usually, articles in open access journals get more citations.

- After publishing your article, upload the article file to RG, your institute website, and your personal website.

For researchers, it is an achievement to publish scientific journal articles in indexed journals. It ensures that all subscribers to that journal will read and cite your article. With so many journals available, the subscriber base of a particular journal may not be very high. Some researchers may want to find out about the topic of your article later or they may not currently have subscriptions to indexed journals. Indexing and abstracting services are important to the prestige of the journal. Indexing can increase the number of citations of a journal article. More citations can increase the impact factor and the score in Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The reputation of a journal is established in the JCR. According to the discipline of the journal, the Thomson Reuter citation index varies. SCI indexing refers to Science Citation Index. The Science Citation Index (SCI) is a citation index originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). These are alternatively described as the world’s leading journals of science and technology, because of a rigorous selection process. The index is made available online through different platforms, such as the Web of Science and SciSearch...

The list of those journals indexed under each is available in their respective sites or just by searching their search engines. These databases allow a researcher to identify which later articles have cited any particular earlier article, or have cited the articles of any particular author, or have been cited most frequently...

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Dear all

Try These link

Article How to improve your citation count.

Regards

Which article do you reccomend Abdelghani Rouini ?

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Dear Zakaria Elkhwesky , some people increase citations by means of fraud!

A former postdoc at the University of Texas Health Science Center has been found guilty of misconduct stemming from efforts to rig preprint servers to boost the postdoc’s publication metrics...

https://retractionwatch.com/2021/01/28/former-texas-postdoc-earns-10-year-federal-funding-ban-for-faking-authors-and-papers-to-boost-metrics/

Dear Jane Mm

" There are many scholars with very high h-index values but their scholarly contributions are of very poor quality (e.g. highly derivative research – low novelty, poorly written articles, etc.). These scholars have been very successful in ‘gaming’ the academic publishing system by exploiting the methods described below...

Now, there is nothing wrong with writing and publishing review articles – we have done it, our research students have done it and our collaborators have done it. However, if a researcher’s body of published work is consisted of substantial amount of review papers, then s/he could be ‘gaming’ the system. This is because meta-analyses and review articles are more likely to be cited than research articles and meeting abstracts. It also happens that review articles tend to be longer (in length) with a longer list of references compared to actual research papers – one study has discovered that citations increase with manuscript length, author number and references cited in ecology journals..."

https://academicbeez.com/heres-how-researchers-increase-their-citation-counts-by-gaming-the-system/

Journal articles downloaded from Sci-Hub, an illegal site of pirated materials, were cited nearly twice as many times as non-downloaded articles, reports a new paper published online in the journal, Scientometrics...

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2021/02/08/sci-hub-citation-study-confuses-causes-with-effects/