I have observed that my work is widely read by research scholars, but how do I ensure that if my research is used for further study, it will be appropriately cited?
Trust us. I estimate that only one person in a thousand is a crook.
Trust me, that one person in a thousand will omit to cite you, so each year, use Google Scholar to search for your personal peculiar phrases. Write to the crook's editor and his university to complain.
Unfortunately, you cannot ensure that the number of reads reads that your publications receive will translate into citations. It is possible they will, even probable, but not certain. There is a lag phase of at least several months between a paper being published and it being cited by other authors: they have to read it, find it worth citing, have a paper in preparation that is relevant, submit their paper and go through the whole review and publishing process. Hence the lag. The best way to ensure that you are well cited is to continue publishing good quality papers in your field that researchers will want to read and cite.
Remember too that researchers read widely for their general education, not just to find papers that they must cite. Occasionally, they strike lucky and find something that is useful. The most cited paper provides a useful tool. So discover and report on an indispensable tool for researchers, and you will be cited by thousands of papers.
I did a quick review to the useful techniques to boost your citations. I classify them as before, during, and after submission.
First: Before submitting
a. Before writing
1. Write high impact paper (Creative; Across disciplines; Hot topic; )
2. Publish with international authors.
3. Team-authored articles get cited more.
b.While writing
4. Cite your relevant past works (preferably at the first two sentences).
5. Make title short.
6. Carefully choose your keywords (indexed better) and use them in your title and abstract.
7. Use a consistent form of your name on all your papers.
8. Publish your article in one of the journals everyone in your discipline read.
Second: When submitting
9. Publish in journal with high impact factor.
10. Make your paper easily accessible (consider good open-access journal.)
Third: After submitting
a. Before Acceptance
11. Post your pre- or post-publication prints. Find publisher’s copyright and self-archiving policies.
b. After Acceptance
12. Ask for e-print from the journal or green open access.
13. Buy open-access right if possible.
14. Promote your work to well known researchers in the area.
15. Use social media. Make sure there are as many links as possible to your article, e.g. from your institute's website, Wikipedia, LinkedIn (used by 65 percent of the researchers)
16. Elsevier's Scopus is the world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Keep it up-to-date so others can find your article.
17. Keep your professional web pages (personal & university) and published lists up to date and keyword your article.
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