As regard the journals in which to publish, a good rule of thumb is looking into the list of references of one's manuscript that one is about to submit for publication and determine the journal(s) that has (have) been most relevant to one's research work culminating in the manuscript at issue. That (those) journal(s) is (are) generally the best choice. For increasing the exposure of one's research work, publishing in the relevant section of arXiv [1] would be a good beginning.
A nice question, but if the article is included in IEEE you do not have the right to distribute it in electronic format. On the other hand, it is a prestigious article to be included in the IEEE. So I paraphrasize your question - prestigiously or visibly.
Однако речь может идти не только о публикации, рассчитанной на международное сообщество. Следует также учитывать индексацию журнала и в национальных системах цитирования.
Кроме того, в условиях расширения виртуального пространства следует отдавать предпочтения журналам открытого доступа, которые более свободно и оперативно доведут Вашу статью до читателя.
Publish in open access journal with appropriate impact factor (subjective, depends on the field, scope and quality lf your paper). This will afford you additional liberty to share your work on different platforms such as RG, LinkedIn, twitter etc even after publication, which will ultimately improve visibility.
First you may publish as a pre-print in RG so that it gets early dissemination. Any feedback can be used to improve upon the article and then to be published in a seminal journal in the field.
1. Journal relevant to the topic of the article; 2. High impact factor; 3. Journal in which you have not published yet; 4. Under the first three conditions - the article should preferably be open access.
You definitely need to publish your journal article in a standard ISSN JOURNAL ( JOI ) and preferable impact factor . It is important in view of copyright protection.
Before publishing any reputed journal you can revise it from a PREPRINT options.
In the ideal world choose, as said by others as well:
-A journal with a reasonable impact factor
-Preferably open access
-A journal where you, possibly, know you will reach the audience you want to reach
-But also take care of the follow-up once you published a paper
How to increase your paper (and all your published work) once published:
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.
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).
PS. 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...
The publishing in journals with high impact factor helps. Also after the publication of the research the uploading of them into the academic search engines of researchers, such as Google Scholar, RG, Academia ... etc., helps to get better visibility.