Scholarship Visibility
Increasing Visibility, Reach, & Impact of Your Work
There are several ways to help improve the visibility of your published work. For more in-depth questions, please contact a librarian. Below is a list of common ways to improve reach and impact:
- Include you work in our faculty publications Digital Commons repository.
- E. H. Butler Library & Buffalo State University hosts faculty publications in our Digital Repository. If you are interested in providing your work, please fill out this FORM. Please provide us with a DOI and license information from the publisher.
- Be advised that many publication agreements DO NOT ALLOW for full-text sharing of certain manuscripts and published. documents. Be sure to check your agreement.
- Publish in Open Access Journals to increase access to your publications.
- Search the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
- DOAJ can help identify journals that aren't predatory and you can filter to open access journals that do not charge an APC.
- For more information about APCs and our agreement with Cambridge University Press, please see our Open Access & APCs page.
- Search the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
- Consider creating a personal website or listing your publications on a university or college website. Be sure to include DOIs for your articles or permalinks to our Primo ALL-Search article records.
- Create more of an online presence by creating identifiable links like ORCID IDs, Google Scholar Profile, or LinkedIn account. Butler Library subscribes to Clarivate Web of Science that also has Researcher Profiles. To set up a Research Account on Web of Science please visit our A to Z Databases Link for Web of Science OR contact a Librarian.
- When applicable and when your license allows, share your publications in public repositories:
- Academia: Academia is a platform for sharing academic research. Academics have uploaded 40 million papers, and 96 million academics, professionals, and students read papers on Academia every month.
- AgEcon: AgEcon Search is a free-to-user Web site that contains the full text of working papers, conference papers and journal articles in applied economics, including the subtopics of agricultural, consumer, energy, environmental, and resource economics. Contributors include academic institutions, government agencies, professional associations, and non-government organizations.
- ArXiv: arXiv is a curated research-sharing platform open to anyone. As a pioneer in digital open access, arXiv.org now hosts more than two million scholarly articles in eight subject areas, curated by our strong community of volunteer moderators.
- Cite Seer: CiteSeerx is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeerx aims to improve the dissemination of scientific literature and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness in the access of scientific and scholarly knowledge.
- ResearchGate: ResearchGate is a European commercial social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators.
- Social Science Research Network (SSRN): SSRN´s eLibrary provides 1,176,206 research papers from 1,127,790 researchers in more than 70 disciplines.
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Suggested Readings on Increasing Visibility of Your Research
- Schilhan, L., Kaier, C., & Lackner, K. (2021). Increasing visibility and discoverability of scholarly publications with academic search engine optimization. Insights the UKSG Journal, 34(1), 1–16.With the help of academic search engine optimization (ASEO), publications can more easily be found in academic search engines and databases. Authors can improve the ranking of their publications by adjusting titles, keywords and abstracts. Carefully considered wording makes publications easier to find and, ideally, cited more often. This article is meant to support authors in making their scholarly publications more visible. It provides basic information on ranking mechanisms as well as tips and tricks on how to improve the findability of scholarly publications while also pointing out the limits of optimization. This article, authored by three scholarly communications librarians, draws on their experience of hosting journals, providing workshops for researchers and individual publication support, as well as on their investigations of the ranking algorithms of search engines and databases.
- Onodera, N., & Yoshikane, F. (2015). Factors affecting citation rates of research articles. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 66(4), 739–764.This study examines whether there are some general trends across subject fields regarding the factors affecting the number of citations of articles, focusing especially on those factors that are not directly related to the quality or content of articles (extrinsic factors). For this purpose, from 6 selected subject fields (condensed matter physics, inorganic and nuclear chemistry, electric and electronic engineering, biochemistry and molecular biology, physiology, and gastroenterology), original articles published in the same year were sampled (n = 230–240 for each field). Then, the citation counts received by the articles in relatively long citation windows (6 and 11 years after publication) were predicted by negative binomial multiple regression (NBMR) analysis for each field. Various article features about author collaboration, cited references, visibility, authors' achievements (measured by past publications and citedness), and publishing journals were considered as the explanatory variables of NBMR. Some generality across the fields was found with regard to the selected predicting factors and the degree of significance of these predictors. The Price index was the strongest predictor of citations, and number of references was the next. The effects of number of authors and authors' achievement measures were rather weak.
- Kjellberg, S., & Haider, J. (2019). Researchers’ online visibility: tensions of visibility, trust and reputation. Online Information Review, 43(3), 426–439.The purpose of this paper is to understand what role researchers assign to online representations on the new digital communication sites that have emerged, such as Academia, ResearchGate or Mendeley. How are researchers’ online presentations created, managed, accessed and, more generally, viewed by academic researchers themselves? And how are expectations of the academic reward system navigated and re-shaped in response to the possibilities afforded by social media and other digital tools?
