• Pin a copy of the first page to the brag section in your own common room noticeboard.
• Give a short (free) talk about your paper on campus, with snacks.
• Give a lecture on the topic to your senior class, and include it in your exam.
• Get your post-graduates to review / supplement your paper for marks.
• Add the title to the CV on your home page under "Recent Publications", with a link
• Announce the publication on ResearchGate and even FaceBook.

There are different scholar sites for boosting your PRs visibility such as Epernicus, Academia.edu, Mendeley, studymode, Scribd, linguistlist, ORCID, etc. Registration is free  as well, after opening account and registration, you can then upload your articles there to be visible.

I have also recently encountered other two online and free e-libraries (SSRN and SelectedWorks) as the following links in which they are very helpful to increase your published papers' visibility.

http://www.ssrn.com/en/

http://works.bepress.com/

There are different scholar sites for boosting your PRs visibility such as Epernicus, Academia.edu, Mendeley, studymode, Scribd, linguistlist, ORCID, etc. Registration is free as well, after opening account and registration, you can then upload your articles there to be visible.

Assuming You have infinite amount of money, what can You do to make the paper visible?

Your suggestions mentioned in the body of question are very reasonable. See the links below for more:

http://aclinks.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/how-to-maximize-citations/

https://web.archive.org/web/20101029204456/http://apperceptual.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/how-to-maximize-citations/

I test out some of the keywords in my proposed title by using Google Scholar.   For example, Mexican, Hispanic, and Latino all got about the same counts (~1,400,000) when entered as a keyword.  It probably won't matter which of those terms I used.  However, 'pinto beans' got 32,700 counts whereas Phaseolus vulgaris had 289,000.  If my proposed article related to pinto beans, I might be better off to use the scientific name of P. vulgaris in my title to increase the likelihood of my article being matched to terms that other people might be looking for.  

Using the same keywords in your title and/or abstract will help other researchers find your article.  I have also heard it is a good idea to use synonyms in the abstract to help others find your research, e.g. Mexican, Mexican-American, Hispanic, Latino/a.

Suppose further that my funding is limited, and that I'd like to stick to international laws, such that I would be reluctant to upload the published (copyrighted) paper to online repositories.

I'm still open to uploading preprints/postprints to repositories (and I'm in the habit of doing that), depending on what the target journal allows. However, I surprisingly often find that I'm not allowed to do anything with the pre- and postprints. Journal policies!

Bottom line, I'm interested in the "poor, law-abiding man's" steps to do PR for your published papers.

First you collect all the necessary primary/ secondary data (as fur as possible) and then try to present more recent results. You must study the materials in details.

• Pin a copy of the first page to the brag section in your own common room noticeboard.
• Give a short (free) talk about your paper on campus, with snacks.
• Give a lecture on the topic to your senior class, and include it in your exam.
• Get your post-graduates to review / supplement your paper for marks.
• Add the title to the CV on your home page under "Recent Publications", with a link
• Announce the publication on ResearchGate and even FaceBook.

I was alerted to these 33 ways of increasing the number of citations to your papers:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2344585

Some good ideas here which I will try.

In addition how about making the paper open access? There is usually a cost for open access, but this will make it more accessible to the "poor, law-abiding man" who does not work in an academic institution with all the journal subscriptions - e.g. poorer institutions, small industry, charities, journalists etc. Of course this reader might not give you back an academic citation - you achieve a different kind of impact.

Another thing I am trying to do is publish detailed data and reproducible analyses as supplementary / on figshare / on GitHub etc., linking back to the paper. If someone finds and uses my methods/code maybe they will cite the paper. Too early to say if this is effective (so far not!)

I suggest you send a copy of the published article to the authors of major textbooks (ones frequently used in academic classes) in your academic discipline.  The authors regularly revise their books and, consequently, must update the contents.  Both students and professors read the books and your article, if included, could thus gain more visibility this way.

The answer to this is pretty simple: make it open access! 

You should send your published papers to scientists in your decipline.You can  also carry the articles when you attend a meeting and exchange ideas with other scientists You may get further new ideas

A good provocative title, or a sensible descriptive title (as opposed to jargon-ridden obscure title) always gets more readers.

You can post announcements about the article on various social media sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and a dozen others.  You can also send out queries to major newspapers, magazines, and Internet media inviting publishers to reprint it. (In fact that"s what two companies I work with as a writer do -- www.thepublishingconnnection.com and www.publishersagentsandfilms.com.  I did that once with an article I wrote on Huffington Post about the New Middle Ages; it got picked up by 40 publications, and given the level of interest, I turned it into a book which will be published in a couple of weeks by Nortia Press.   Plus offer it to academic publishers too who might put it in a compendium.

Often I become interested in papers which are not directly from my field through the sequences in NCBI database. So I really appreciate when authors submit also sequences from the non-target groups of their environmental studies.

I have found a new methodology to increase the visibility of the papers.

I will finish my paper a month later.

it will be a challenging method for ISI organization.

https://search.proquest.com/openview/ab130db21d81b4a25fc967b6319a1d61/1.pdf?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=2043513

Good suggestions!

I think also it's a good idea to send a copy of your paper to the authors that you cite in the text.

Another way is to follow-up a scholarly publication, with a lighter article in an intellectual magazine or newspaper (which refers to the original article).

I recommend you create a page on academia.edu and post the article/chapter there. That site is much easier to use than ResearchGate. Also, it doesn't make you feel like a "rat in a maze" as this site does.

I've been amazed at the number of hits (and readings) my work has gotten on that site.

I think that Mendeley, Scribid and espcially ORCID are the best tools to share articles, but if you just want to increase the visibility use LinkedIn and Twitter.  Academia.edu is very used and popular, but it's like facebook, you just taket very seriously. It is so true what Aiofe Lawton alredy told make it Open Access!!! Think this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G16urFgo5s

I disagree that academia.edu is not taken seriously. I also think it is the most useful site to share articles. The site is easy to use, one can post first drafts of work, and receive feedback accordingly. It is also "open source" in the sense that the site is open to everyone. One of the best things about academia.edu is that the thematic-interest lists are generated at ground level--in other words, one identifies key words or phrases, which then become an interest grouping. These groupings are not arbitrarily imposed "from above" but arise from "below." Thus one finds accurate topical interests--in my case, for example, "space and place" or "phenomenology of space and place." I've gained some useful contacts through academia.edu I would have not ever known about otherwise.

So, I think the comment above suggesting academia.edu is superficial is inaccurate.

What we as academics are beginning to realize in this digital age is that we do our research and writing NOT to get published but to extend knowledge and understanding. Our main aim should be getting information out, and academia.edu does this in a way that is simple and helpful.

Send a copy to your students and professors by FB an e mail. So many people will read it. 

Have a good University web site which does a good job of providing access to staff publications. 

Include the article in the document repository at your institution to provide free access for a route over which have already been mentioned in previous answers.

You have two objectives: be seen and be found.

1. Ensure any online profile you have is complete and up to date. This might be your institutional profile, google scholar profile etc. As a research librarian I frequently use these pages to find citations to articles requested.

2. Publish in well ranked journals that are widely indexed in journal indexes appropriate to your field. Most good journals will indicate how widely they are indexed. You may choose a lower ranked journal for a particular reason like topic specific or regional but you will need to work harder to make it visible.

3. Archive your papers in institutional or subject repositories (e.g. SSRN, Mendeley, ResearchGate, Academia etc.). If your disciplinary colleagues use more than one, you only need to upload papers to one and provide cross links in the other.

4. Use social media like blogs, twitter, etc to push traffic to your content. Don't be afraid of self promotion. This also provides you with an opportunity to share your work with different audiences than you would at disciplinary conferences.

5. Monitor your traffic. Most online archives and journal databases provide metrics such as number of downloads, views and citations. There are also services such as ImpactStory and Altmetrics that track metrics. You institution is already likely using metrics services like SciVal to measure impact. These metrics don't provide a full picture but they provide a picture and you need to be aware of what your metrics look like.

Regarding increasing visibility on sites such as Twitter, Academia, ResearchGate etc.:I have done a little research myself announcing and putting up two different papers on all of these and comparing what happened.

Twitter is great to "spread the word". if you have a fair number of followers (who will retweet) posting a link to your paper on Twitter will get this very quickly to a bigger audience. Might be short-life, if its not very relevant.

Putting links on LinkedIn is useful, but couldnt see immediate impact on visibility

Academia and ResearchGate: I use both and in my case I have far more views and donwloads on Academia, which I personally prefer as it seems to be not as pushy as ResearchGate. Another reason could be the subject of the papers, which were about information skills in higher education.  Be aware that this info is only visible if you are registered, so I would advise you put your full text or presentation on a repository or another open platform (as well).

I also use slideshare for my presentations. They are viewed by a fair number of people.

Key is, to link the information, e..g. have a link to slideshare on LinkedIn, put links to your researchgate profile etc. on twitter etc.

Try not to restrict access but be as "open" as possible (as said before)

According to survey, reported on this link:

http://www.nature.com/news/online-collaboration-scientists-and-the-social-network-1.15711

the top-most popular – so the most effective for increasing visibility of research papers – is Research Gate.

One can also consider using Google+ – especially communities dedicated to science. I recommend Google+ due to the specific "climate" of this place and attitudes of users – less related to family affairs (very strong on Facebook), and more focused on intellectual discussions. 

But, of course, any social media will be useless without interaction. If someone wants to promote their own work, must primarily be active – regardless of chosen way…

The answers above are helpful indeed. Some of these repositories provide spaces where one can write a short description of the paper. Make sure you utilise it to promote the paper. If you belong to an organisation that has a forum for graduate students, try and connect with the forum convener and use their online link (e.g. Facebook page) to promote the paper. Graduate students are likely to know about the paper and may cite it in their research and publications. 

Dear  Prof. Henrik;

Sharing your publications with your friends and students through uploading it on various social sites and/or  scholar sites will also increase the visibility of your work. Use of face book is definitely help in big way. Thanks

In my poor experience I do not agree with Professor Richard E. Watts regarding sending "to the authors of major textbooks (ones frequently used in academic classes) ".

Perhaps you increase the popularity of your research, but not the citations. A lot of authors, at that point, will cite the book, and not the original paper. I know that this is wrong, but a lot of researcher use this wrong method.

Sorry for my intrusion...

Tere are very good tips such as ORCID, Academia, ... given already. I can think of two additional ones: Upload your publications in RG, join Google Scholar, create DOI for your other than having IF papers and conferences records. I read somewhere that if you add DOI to your conference papers you will get three times as more visibility and citation. Note that, RG can do this for you for free.

Asking smart questions on RG helps also to increase the visibility of your research as we can see on your example, Henrik ;))

Combining various ways is indeed sound. I do many of things mentioned above, too.

However, one more way I'd like to mention is combining various social and academic links to disseminate my papers. In particular I upload them on RG, Academia and Mendeley. Such a combination does work, indeed. Now, regarding FB: I never hang in anything serious there.

Make sure that your article is published in a high impact journal. It will be picked up easily by the  scholars who like to cite mostly those articles published in high-ranked journals and ignore low impact journals, even if they are relevant.to topics of their papers.   

I think that all what has been mentioned above is GREAT! Based on my experience, I always:

1. Use social networking websites to disseminate my research work and share experience with others of the same interests or academic  background;

2. Cite my previous research articles in current research papers;

3. Publish the same articles online (as online submission to an educational database called ERIC).

Why would we need to increase the exposure of a published article?  Surely, the publisher has taken all available steps to see that their journal exposure is not limited by issues such as cost, select distribution, embargoes ....  I am sure that it is enough to press send & have the journal gather dust in a library. For every article you publish, there must be hundreds of readers who see your contact details & engage in direct dialogue about your work.  For the high impact journals which reach such a global audience, it must be thousands!

Enough sarcasm - we now have a peer-community that stretches around the world. Numbers, media, language, cultures ... It is not enough to simply publish & assume that your work will reach those that matter (regardless of IF) - assumption is the mother of all errors.  I write regularly & have not picked up a paper journal for my research in years - we communicate & find everything on-line.  The suggestions that everyone has offered are based on this and involve the concept of visibility.  What I am unclear on, is why the 'customers' of journals are having to worry about this themselves, when the objective (& claim to income) of journals is to disseminate our work.  What steps are journals taking to ensure this is achieved to its maximum potential?  The world is rapidly changing & we (both the publishers & the published) must at least keep up  ;-)

Work on your networking skills and make address any weaknesses in your empirical skills. It's not enough just to get your work noticed, you need to get it noticed by the right people, for the right reasons

A few folks have raised concerns about archiving papers. SherpaRomeo < http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.php > is a useful website to determine publishers archiving policies. Be aware of the publisher agreements you sign and try to negotiate more open permissions where possible. Though it is not always practical, do try to use Open Access journals.

Hi All friends; I received following information from an chief editor to increase visibility of published research and for publication. May be useful to all

Things to do now

1. Carefully make a list of your contacts who you think would be interested in being notified of your next new article by email

2. Setup and maintain a profile on LinkedIn and consider using Twitter and Facebook too

3. Also establish a presence on Academia.edu, ResearchGate, and Mendeley

4. Look for opportunities to contribute to online encyclopedias and discussion forums

5. Consider whether the on-going investment of time required justifies setting up a personal website and blog

Things to do each time you publish a paper

1. Draft a clear, descriptive title and abstract

2. Self-archive if permitted

3. Consider creating a press release

4. Create a short video discussing your article and distribute it on your social media channels

Thanks and regards

GOOD ANSWERS UP TILL NOW.....TO POPULARIZE SELF ARTICLES THE TRICKS ARE....1.GOOGLE SCOLLER WITH CITATIONS.

2,RESEARCH GATE,3PUBMED ,4.ACEDEMIA EDU AND LASTLY FACEBOOK.

5,BETTER TO TRY TO PUBLISH IN BEST JOURNAL WITH LARGE LIST OF INDEXING INCLUDING STD ONES.

6.OPEN ACCESS IS BEST OPTION FOR THIS.

7. SELF CITATION BUT LIMITED IS GOOD IDEA,.

8.POST ONLINE YOUR CV OR ON YOUR WEBPAGE.

AND LAST,,MAKE A BOOK OF YOUR PUBLICATIONS IF THEY ARE MORE THAN 100..

THANK S.

Dhiraj: I am intrigued by your last suggestion of making a book,'if your publications are 'over 100'. Apart from trying to get reproduction rights for so many articles, they are unlikely to be coherently themed enough to present a valid book proposal. Of course, you could self publish, but without a potential market, I am not sure who would support such an idea. Reproducing such material in this way also raises the issue of plagiarism, so I think it has to be given very careful thought  🎓

Thank you sir,,,,,agreed with you fully ,but its not have the much commercial potential but for academic purpose its may be.....there are free publication web...but anyways like your opinion......

In addition to what have been mentioned, researchers would get great benefits from disseminating their findings in scientific conferences. 

About increasing the presence in social nethworks such as Academia.edu and ResearchGate, there is a recent study published on Nature that shows how scientists use these tools. That's very interesting and a good help for people who want to chose one or two of them and don't know the criterias to do so.

Here the link: http://www.nature.com/news/online-collaboration-scientists-and-the-social-network-1.15711

Have your univserity news service circulate a press release  or media inquiry, in popular language, to appropriate publications.  Join appropriate LinkedIn groups and then circulate notice  of the article.  Establish a blog site for the topic(s) and issue posts on it/them occasionally. 

The following fact sheet by Elsevier summarizes several ways to ensure your paper gets the attention it deserves:

Get Noticed: Promoting your article for maximum impact

https://www.elsevier.com/journal-authors/home#promote-your-work

Open Access Publishing is the best way out. you research becomes visible to one and all, besides some simple techniques to market your published work as suggested by many, especially by registering on any scholarly social media community like research gate etc. 

I have also found other scholarly sites abstracted in Google scholar and you can upload your papers there as the following links: (SSRN and Selectedworks). You only need to register and upload your papers.

 I try to introduce useful sites in order to disseminate papers for more visibility, because the discussion by dear Rolf Henrik Nilsson is the visibility of the published papers, not in-progress papers.

http://hq.ssrn.com/SignOut.cfm

http://works.bepress.com/cgi/login.cgi?context=http://works.bepress.com&logout=1

After novelty of the paper, the selection of appropriate keywords and title as well as writing a good abstract are important issues to increase the visibility of a published paper. Another important issue is the appropriate selection of the journal for publication, which covers most of previous papers in your study field.

You could do workshops and seminars based on your article.  You could send copies to colleagues in your field.  You could apply to present your paper at difference conferences.  You could expand your paper into a book and publish it; if you can't find a mainstream publisher, you can publish it yourself under your own company imprint.  Very easy to do now, and that's one of the things I help people do.

Use better keywords for online publication of your research.

Disseminate your research result to non-academic media like blogs or newspapers so people can write news about your research results.

Try social media.

Join research competitions - Abstract publication, Poster Competition, Oral presentation etc.

This coming August, the Asia Pacific Association Medical Journal Editors (APAME) will be holding its Annual Convention in Manila. You might want to submit your abstract.

http://goo.gl/k95CjO

I agree with Ramesh Pandita that open access publishing is very good idea.

Dear All,

These days when there is an overproduction of scientific and pseudo-scientific performance traditional distribution methods are not efficient. The most appropriate way may be electronic accessibility. Thus free scientific forum and publication opportunities like RG represent excellent chance and option. There is only a single difficulty the honorary authorship of people (bosses etc.) having often no part in the ideas and implementation of papers.

The open review option of RG is another fine opportunity but needs a lot of work thus there are but a few volunteers.

Paper copies have but limited importance.

In addition to Dr. Bahram cited scholar sites, you can also try LinkedIn and Skill Pages.

Readers really struggle hard to filter the growing quantity of research that are published. The information that helps users to filter their searches is to be made public. Authors can increase the awareness and impact of their work. A very happy and exciting news I can share now is that some publishers (including Elsevier) are trying to launch a new platform to help authors, researchers and institutions measure, monitor and maximize the visibility and hence the impact of their published articles. KUDOS provides a platform for processing information so that search filtering, sharing information (that leads to new discoveries) and for measuring and monitoring the effect of these activities.

The previous suggestions all address how to increase visibility once an article is published. None of them address how to increase visibility by changing how one writes the article in the first place, and yet this is the place where the biggest difference can be made. Several recent studies show that articles that cite more broadly are in turn cited more broadly and more often. I agree that this should not be about citation counts. But the fact is that if an article can be honestly linked to research in other fields, those links make the article visible to the other fields, and this visibility leads to increase citation counts down the road. 

So, my suggestion ... do the hard literature work up front to find research in other fields that is similar to your own, and cite that work appropriately. Once published, your work is now linked in citation indexes to a broad set of communities, and then the post-publication methods to increase visibility will have an even greater effect because it can be publicized to a broader slice of the scientific community.

Any author who publishes an article , would like to know what impact it would make to the field of his research . Apart from impact factor & citation index , he would view , how is study is utilized to improve understanding of his field of research . He has to assess , whether the message he is trying to convey has reached the peers in his field of research . From RG , i am able to obtain the views , downloads & citations & also get the ranking of my articles & datasets . I try to convey my views on my publications through Q & A . Requests from my peers , also highlights the problems of paid journals . Presentation in a conference gives the author the liberty to convey the necessary messages of his work . Altmetrics ( Alternative metrics ) utilizing views , downloads , citation index & impact factor should help a researcher to interpret the significance of his personal work . Of all my publications , I am satisfied that a few of them have made some impact on the field of my research .

Think of ways the article's findings can be popularized and real or potential impact can be cited.  Then work with the university's press office to  make sure it is brought to the medias attention.    Stanford and University of Pennsylvania have a process for doing these  types of communications. 

Here is an non-exhausted list of actions to improve the chances of beeing cited: http://substance-en.etsmtl.ca/10-tips-for-increasing-the-visibility-of-your-publications/

http://substance-en.etsmtl.ca/10-tips-for-increasing-the-visibility-of-your-publications/

You could include a link to your recent papers in the signature of your emails.

Coming from an older generation I look at it less as a self promotion campaign and more as sharing with a community of scholars whose work might have influenced my research,I suggest attaching your new article to a personal email sent to a handful of scholars whose work you respect and who may have influenced your thinking. Perhaps add a note like " I have followed with interest your work in this area and hope that you may find my recent article to be informative."You may be surprised to actually hear from well established researchers.

Create a Facebook for your article and then announce that on your personal Facebook page with a link. Next, promote your article's page using the "Promote Page" button. This costs money, but I've paid as little as US$1.00 per day to do this, and the extension of the reach is enormous. Finally, Tweet about the article's page. I've provided a link to the Facebook page I created for my recently-published book, "Education for a Knowledge Society." If you have access to a blogging site, blog a précis of the article, and post that on the article's Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/EducationForAKnowledgeSociety?ref=bookmarks

There is so much you can do, from simple distributing your stuff to storytelling competitions. To get some ideas please refer to the outreach section in our database of research tools: http://bit.ly/innoscholcomm-list (category 25, from row 394)

Best,

Jeroen

please also rake our research tool survey https://101innovations.wordpress.com/

Hi Rolf,

as I can see you have received a lot of comments and suggestions. It is hard to add something new but I will try :-). So, if we speak about increasing the visibility of published article(s), my suggestions are following:

• Linkedin - business network is excellent way presenting your article(s) to business people and spread information about your research,
• as mentioned above there are a lot of networks such as ResearGate: Academia.edu, Scribd,... - publishing articles on those networks is excellent way to present your analysis and your research work to scientists but also to engineers, students,...
• Hiring of PR agency - if you hire experts from PR agency, they can suggest you best way for presenting your research. My suggestions to you (what you can ask from them) are: interview in daily newspapers and business magazines (PR experts will know to explain to you: which newspapers and magazines, when and how),
• PR conferences for medias - if you organize together with your colleagues PR conference (snack and drinks are mandatory after PR Conference :-)) and if you have something new to offer for customers and for ordinary people (I don't know which part of science is your expertize) this will be excellent way for publishing your research to publics. Of course, you can organize this alone (with your colleagues) but hiring of PR Agency is probabbly better way.
• Of course - participating on seminars, conferences,...
• Co-operation with business segment - let's say if you make researches in telecommunication area, you have to make excellent connections wit telecom and mobile operators...you have to establish good connections with them and convince them to organize conferences, seminars etc. - you and your colleagues together with their experts can present your works and researches and present to publics everything what science and business can make together to ordinary people i.e. to quality of living of their families.

I hope this was helpful to you.

Best regards.

Igor  

Igor:  Your last suggestion is powerful.  A tremendous (marketing) approach.  

Eugene,

thank you very much. As I work in telecom operator and as associate professor at The University of Mostar, I see a lot of opportunities for this way of work (cooperation): university + business. 

Very best regards.

Igor

Henrik,

Establishing a personal website with a bio and blog section that gives exposure to your articles, and where people can find links to other writings you have published is also an idea for increasing visibility of your articles.

I have also recently encountered other two online and free e-libraries (SSRN and SelectedWorks) as the following links in which they are very helpful to increase your published papers' visibility.

I recommend all to give them a try.

http://works.bepress.com/

http://www.ssrn.com/en/

I agree with the other answers.

Write to the point.

If possible some illustrations might help to increase visibility.

Kind regards.

That covers everything I guess. Your network gets informed as well. Thanks for sharing.

Nice sharing dear Bahram Kazemian

Well I typically use following free online resources to share and showcase my research articles.

• academia.edu
• ResearcgGate
• ArXiv
• Orcid
• ResearcherID
• google Site with my bio and all links to articles

Including your paper In these cites would ensure extended visibility of your paper.

 thanks dr. Zeeshan

I do find this articles relevant, especially for young researchers.

http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/articles/get-infographic-beyond-downloads-how-scholars-save-share-articles

http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/articles/how-scholars-share-journal-articles-implications-library

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2344585 This paper by reviewing the relevant articles extracts 33 different ways for increasing the citations possibilities.

As an author, if you would like to know if your published article will be included in Scopus, we urge you to take note of the following before submitting your work to a journal or conference.

This will ensure better visibility if your paper will be included in SCOPUS!

http://communications.elsevier.com/nl/jsp/m.jsp?c=%407xhpkRwuceWrBH1sHYYUDiWcG4wU3M4RhSlWD3E4IEM%3D&utm_campaign=2016%20Scopus%20Newsletter&utm_campaignPK=160232092&utm_term=OP18752&utm_content=160233732&utm_source=71&BID=492838725&utm_medium=email&SIS_ID=0

Personally, I do many things to increase visibility of my paper:

1. Upload it to a SPECIALISED database: Educational Resource & Information Center (ERIC) in my case;

2. Upload the paper to ResearchGate and Google Scholar accounts; regardless of the rank or quality of the journal in which the paper had been published, this method would increase visibility of the paper by the research community;

3. Sharing the paper's link on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter;

4. Including slides (e.g. screen shots) of the paper on Slide Share; and

5. Including the paper in my CV (e.g. publications section) and sharing the CV file online.

Hope this helps! Mahmoud (Faculty of Education, Assiut University, Egypt)

I like the suggestions here, but if you are seeking a much wider audience (perhaps outside of the traditional ones), there are also alternatives using the internet as well.  You can publish snippets and summaries in more popular e-sites. You can circulate your findings with newspapers various online popular magazines.  You then simply cite your own work and related works together. You can create your own blog or create a network of bloggers on similar themes under one weblink.

I can speak directly to the power of posting your article on social media sites...particularly Facebook and Twitter. I just published an editorial that has received over 2,000 views since it came out online 10 days ago. But much of the success is due to the fact that my editorial is open access so that certainly boosted the ratings. And it was on the  current "hot" topic of trigger warnings, microaggressions, and political correctness which, I assume,  made it  interesting to people outside of academia.    

I can speak directly to the power of posting your article on social media sites...particularly Facebook and Twitter. I just published an editorial that has received over 2,000 views since it came out online 10 days ago. But much of the success is due to the fact that my editorial is open access so that certainly boosted the ratings. And it was on the  current "hot" topic of trigger warnings, microaggressions, and political correctness which, I assume,  made it  interesting to people outside of academia.    

It also helps to mention your work in detail when answering questions on Research Gate.  (};-)]

You can find some tips and suggestions of tools at a LibGuide developed at the University of Pittsburgh.  In general, get ORCID id, make your work open access, deposit it in your institutional and subject repositories, use social media to tell people about.  

http://pitt.libguides.com/c.php?g=411864

Dear Berenika Webster,

thanks a lot. Very interesting link. It is very useful.

Mariano

Send a short popular article to the local newspaper, mentioning the original.

Offer a short talk to the local radio station.

Include colour photos in online versions of the paper.

Write a text-book.

Have a book launch; let your book be reviewed   in other  journals.; have your article  available online; be topical and language ( English)  is important.

All right.  This thread is starting to make me very uneasy.  Two questions: (1) What happened to, "Read and consult widely with your colleagues before you begin a research program, do research on a subject related to an important theoretical issue,  be careful and systematic in your methodology and write it up well, being careful to connect your work to that which inspired you." ?  And (2), what exactly, as a scientist, do you hope to accomplish by getting your face on the cover of the Times Sunday Magazine?  After your Dad has called you and said, "I'm proud of you!," THEN what? 

None of those questions is rhetorical.   

Most scientific careers stand and fall on the approval of barely a dozen people with interests closely related to your interests.  Write to them!  Ask their advice!  Many will ignore you; some will help.   And stay close to any people who share your interests, no matter how prominent they are.  Be helpful to their work.

Eschew the Ted talk.

Yeah, I know.  Gesundheit to you, too.

Nick Thompson

New Kudos service helps researchers boost their visibility and impact!

15 publishers, including Elsevier, are beta-testing a platform that helps authors reach a wider audience and measure the impact of their published articles.

"Researchers are increasingly evaluated not only by the number of articles published but also by their impact. Traditionally, the impact of publications is measured by citations. However, not only does it take a while before citations start to accumulate, it also provides a limited picture of an article's impact. For that reason, other metrics – such as readership figures; social media mentions; and captures and shares on academic networks are becoming increasingly popular.

Therefore, researchers can no longer sit back and watch citations come in after their article has been published on the publisher's platform. They need to play an active role in making sure their work gets the attention it deserves.

This is where a new service called Kudos comes in..."

https://www.elsevier.com/connect/new-kudos-service-helps-researchers-boost-their-visibility-and-impact

You are right Dr. Thompson.