I know the following paper (Molecular resolution of cell adhesion forces, 2004) is not in a first-class journal; how can I promote it to get it cited more often?
I found it, for example, cited in a current, i.e. 2014, PhD thesis in immunology from Calgary, Canada, just between the citation of a Nobel prize winner (Binnig) and a Science-paper (Evans):
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130. Binnig, G., C.S.F. Quate, and C. Gerber, Atomic force microscope. Phys Rev Lett, 1986. 56 (9): p. 930-933.
131. Eibl, R.H. and M. Benoit, Molecular resolution of cell adhesion forces. IEE Proc Nanobiotechnol, 2004. 151(3): p. 128-32.
132. Evans, E.A. and D.A. Calderwood, Forces and bond dynamics in cell adhesion. Science, 2007. 316 (5828): p. 1148-53.
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Unfortunately, the biophysics lab in Munich, Germany, where I invested unpaid years in creating and establishing my exclusive project to measure lymphocyte homing molecules on living normal and metastatic cells (my former experience from Stanford University in a Nobel-equivalent winner's lab) at the so-called single-molecule with AFM (the expertise of the Munich biophysics lab) fully overtook my project to promote many others - and meanwhile gets a lot of funding on such projects in which I dedicated my scientific interests.
I am happy to see that scientists, who I do not know personally, cite my paper, not only in Canada, but also in many other countries (many in China), but unfortunately citations in textbooks and PhD theses do not count on Science Citation Index (other papers have been cited over 1300 times, but this really scientific, pioniering work is not cited often).
I would be happy to see this original paper cited more often. Of course at that time we had about 5 papers on the lymphocyte homing process in preparation, but with the leak-out of my project to another lab and some trouble the lab had with students, including a not finishing (very good and responsible female) PhD student, the only person I had allowed to use a part of my project, the 5 other manuscripts could never be finished. So I had to publish this small paper to clearly demonstrate:
I was the very first to measure VLA4 interactions between two living cells at the single-molecule level. To the best of my knowledge today, I also was the first to measure at the so-called single-molecule level the activation of any integrin by any chemokine on any living cell type (VLA4/VCAM1; SDF1=CXCL12; lymphoma cell; near-physiologic conditions of temperature und pH !).
In using blocking monoclonal antibodies I also showed the specificity of my cell adhesion measurements.
I would be happy if others could cite this paper in original manuscripts.
Article Molecular resolution of cell adhesion forces
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.
Thank You, Othman, for your full and specific answer.
Interestingly, your no. 16 (Elsevier's Scopus) does not seem to cite correctly even my most cited article - 300 times cited according to others (e.g. google scholar); I once had detected a high frequency of p53 mutations even in low-grade astrocytomas (WHO grade II), as well as in WHO grade III and WHO grade IV glioblastomas, but not in WHO grade I (not publ.) - and then got even a colleague from Harvard as trainee, so he could reprocude my findings and write that paper.
I tried to point Scopus twice within the last weeks to this missing or somehow false citation of my article. Hope, they will correct it soon.
Unfortunately for my other, a nanobiotech paper, mentioned in my question, which I thought should be a clear Nobel prize, since I had developed the SPECIFIC measurment between two single adhesion receptors in their native environment of two living cells, i.e. between two living MAMMALIAN cells. But perhaps since this was too close to a Nobel prize, my unpaid work then was given to others to promote their carreers.... and I had to publish fast outside of Cell, Science and Nature. Will be interesting to see in the next years how many biophysicists have professors as father.
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