Hello!

There are many ways to help to increase it... I am learning also, but there are some tips to improve it:

1. Share your work with your colleagues.

2. Publish the paper in all your academic social networks.

3. Try to create discussion groups in your international enviroments, like Research Gate, just to make your work a piece of comment that could encourage other colleagues to use it.

4. If you do not publish in English, try to increse your papers in English (I am working on it)...

In my opinion, try to write about top interesting topic in yor discipline, because if you write about some topic less interesting even when you share it, the people is not going to cite it.

I hope will help you!

Dear Dr Wileidys Artigas

Thank you for your quick response and your helpful advisement. I agree you. Our publication of interesting topics and in English could increase our citations. Sharing the publication in social networks is also helpful.

Kind regards

I am also learning the things. Sharing your publication will increase popularity as well as citations. Without publicity you may get citations, but in lesser numbers..

Behrooz Rezaei yes, you are right I forgot the social networks! I beleive we need to get use to use the social network as tool of our scientific process (I mean even talking about project advances and milestones), we just use for personal things and it is a good way to promote yourself!

Dear Behrooz Rezaei ,

The following link might be of interest. It lists ten easy ways to increase your number of citations:

https://www.aje.com/arc/10-easy-ways-increase-your-citation-count-checklist/

When it comes to points 6 and 8 then we talk about visibility. Trying to get the maximum number of people reading your work is of course a crucial step in ultimately receiving citations for your work:

Since Google Scholar is THE source used by researchers: make your own Google Scholar profile. Your name will be underlined and by clicking on your name by those interested you get a full overview of your other publications.

Use Researchgate. It represents as you know a huge and fairly active community of people involved in scholarly work as can be judged by their pretty lively forum and the upload activity of authors to add their work.

ScienceOpen is as far as I can tell a relatively new player and despite a number of downfalls (very low and unreliable citation count for example) it is still interesting since this service allow you to influence the way your paper is presented. You can add a thumbnail with a figure that might draw some additional attention or make a new summary suitable for a bigger audience. Tip: use your ORCID ID and (most of) your publications are automatically added in your profile.

Dimensions can be considered too. Not that much of a personal experience yet, so not able to tell you the exact added value of this service.

Kudos is a self-proclaimed innovation. Due to the low number of members it is not a real active service (yet). However the service allow you to present your paper in a new way, with possibilities to present your work in your own words and with more explanatory comments of its real meaning and potential impact and relevance.

Publons can be considered as well. Recently (even more) integrated with ResearcherID. Has a good link to ORCID. Beside another way to ‘expose’ your work it is interesting when you want to see details of your Web of Science details, which is convenient if you (just like me) have no subscription for this service.

PubFacts is a nice one too, but takes a lot of patience to make it work correctly (when it comes to correct assignment to the right author). Limit primarily to PubMed publications.

Zenodo is a repository service. Interesting feature is the ability to assign a DOI nr. to basically everything you upload (including a paper that has no DOI nr.).

Last but not least make sure that you link your name (or names once there are slight differences in the name for whatever reason) to ORCID. Not only is this nowadays more and more a prerequisite for submitting a manuscript to a journal, but your ORCID ID can be used for a number of the above mentioned services (Publon, ScienceOpen, Dimensions and so on).

You might consider Academia.edu. However nowadays most of their features are behind a payed (premium) service.

For a bit more information you might consider reading a little document I made about how to increase the visibility of your publication(s):

Method Information and tips related to search engines like Google S...

Hope this is of any help.

Dear Professor Rob Keller

Thank you for your detailed explanation in this regard. Your comments are very useful. I think the more we publish our publications in international indexes and social networks, the more we can increase our citations and ultimately increase the effectiveness of our research.

Best regards