As a recently published doctoral student, I have found it difficult to share my work with others as I am (obviously) unknown (yet, hopefully). I have used the standard social media route of sharing the links to your articles but I feel that there must be other creative ways to doing this.
One other method that I thought is useful is by using Kudos (https://link.growkudos.com/1jsw7cnzoxs) which is a fantastic way of accelerating your research impact by communicating your work using much simpler terms.
Do you have other strategies? I would love to hear about them.
Syahirah - Kudos is a good site. I am a product reviewer and tester for the company. I use academic social media as much as I can to share and promote my work. As well as ResearchGate and Kudos - there is also Academia.Edu, Mendeley and Publons. Then there are linked sites - such as ORCID, Google Scholar, ResercherID (ISI - Clarivates), Scopus etc.
Outside of academic media - there are more local, regional, national options to disseminate your publications - such as professional organisations, industry forums, conferences etc.
Th attached chapter may assist on the general principles of research dissemination, the publishing process and different forums.
Dean Whitehead that's brilliant. I've done the standard routes of social media, conferences, ORCID etc. But never really thought of google scholar and Scopus so thanks for those resources.
If you want your paper to be seen, read and cited, then it must be a quality paper published in a well known peer reviewed journal. You can also send a copy of your paper to the authors whom you have quoted or referred in your paper.
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I think this advice is brilliant. Building network takes time so early careers like me prob should stop comparing ourselves to those who have been in the game for so long. The advice on doing maybe blog posts as a short intro of my work is great too. I think kudos does this really well as it translates the language in simpler language.In terms of contacting organisations that might be interested in your research, do you have any advice on how you go about doing so? As a relatively unknown researcher, I often feel that cold emails I sent won't get read (well let's be real, I'm speaking from experience hah). Would you go about introducing yourself and your work and ask them if they're interested for you to go and speak at their institution or do you go about linking your publications straight away?
Thank you for your response I think they're gonna be invaluable for me!
Girish Kumar Ramaiah That's a brilliant idea! I really didn't think of sending my papers to those who I've quoted. I think I might try this. Has it worked well for you?
I believe that if you want your paper to be read and cited, first it has to be of good quality. I was a fresh PhD graduate when i published my first article. You have to choose a a well known peer reviewed journal.
Marie Christiane Dorine Chukowry hi Marie, great suggestion. In my school PhD graduates have been given certain standards to follow when it comes to publications so this is one of the things that I have been doing as well when choosing journals to publish in. Thankfully I was able to get a publication in a good peer-reviewed journal in my field.
Syahirah Abdul Rahman - Thanks for your response. I never needed to send my papers to the author's whose work I had cited in my paper. In fact, before the advent of E mail, Internet, Google search, etc, we had what was called ' Reprint Request'. We used to get lots of request for reprints. It helped us to know who is interested in our work. Now, we don't know who is reading, citing our work accurately or precisely. The data given in ResearchGate and Google Citations are incomplete. Even a small typographical error in your name is enough to reduce your citation,etc.
Girish Kumar Ramaiah I can imagine how different things are. Even for myself using social media to promote my work is a little intimidating. I see what you mean in the typographical error as my students tend to google papers and cite whatever they see first, so there had been many citation errors because Amazon for example tend to only name the first author and none others. It makes it more difficult to track who's genuinely reading your work I suppose.
you don't need that If your paper is high quality and published in a well-known peer-reviewed journal, that is lead to be more read and citation. You can also upload a copy of your paper to some sites like Research gate, Mendeley, Academia and so on.
Dear Syahirah Abdul Rahman , when it comes to sharing your work, I think that Research Gate is still number one platform for researchers, educators and lecturers from all over the world.
I have recently opened an account on Academia.edu (https://universityofbelgradefos.academia.edu/BiljanaTosic) but I am still learning so much about it.
Maybe I can tell you more about it in a few months :)
I also like LinkedIn for all the different purposes, among others, sharing you published research, communicating about it to the people working in a similar field like you do etc.
I asked a similar question recently and I believe that some answers can be relevant to this issue ...
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Research_Gate_or_Academiaedu
Feel free to share your thoughts!
Social media is powerful. However, I recommend open access peer-reviewed journals that all people have easy access to, in addition to creating googlescholar account for you and post your publications there as well. ResearchGate is also connected to googlescholar account, but you will have to create one first.
Thank You @Girish Kumar Rumaiah for sharing Your long-term high quality knowledge and experience with us
Thank you Biljana Tošić . I agree. I do find Researchgate the most responsive after trying out a few methods of disseminating my work.
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