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Strategies for increasing impact

See also:

• Get credit for your work - Researcher identifiers and profiles
• Bibliometric indicators
• Major citation databases
• Citation counts from other databases
• Alternative metrics

Research has been done on different factors and their effects on research impact. Some common strategies for
increasing impact are listed below:

• Visibility: Make it easy for others to access your work by publishing in an Open Access journal
  and/or maximize the exposure of your publications by depositing open access versions in Spectrum, Concordia University’s Institutional Research
  Repository. Papers in Spectrum are indexed by Google Scholar,
  potentially increasing your citation impact.

For different studies that have been done on the impact of open access and citations see the resources provided by The Open Citation Project or SPARC Europe.

• Usability: Deposit your original research data into a repository. If another researcher uses your
  data in their own research, there’s a good chance that they’ll be citing your work. For more
  information on data deposition and granting agency requirements, please see Concordia Library's Research Data
  Management Guide.

For studies related to data deposition and citation impact, see "Data reuse and the open data citation advantage" by Piwowar & Vision.

• Accessibility: When sharing your work with others, be sure to provide a stable, persistent link
  to your content. The best way to do this is through your document’s DOI. See our guide on creating a permanent link
  to your article using its DOI.
• Search engine optimization: Online publishing and dissemination is changing the way researchers
  write articles. To be spotted, articles must be structured with search engines in mind.
• Include important keywords in your abstract and title (the text fields most usually searched
  and read).
• Avoid unnecessarily flowery language if possible.
• Get counted: When publishing always use the same name variant.  Your
  publication impact profile (particularly for journal articles) may be misrepresented when:
• Authors alternate between using middle initials and/or shortened versions of their first names. 
• You publish under multiple names e.g. female authors marry and switch to publishing under their married name or
  hyphenated name
• Your papers are difficult to identify from those by authors with a similar name in citation
  databases. 

Therefore:

• Use a constant name syntax when publishing where possible and consider creating a researcher
  profile
• When publishing always use the same institutional name variant, including the complete
  University address when submitting your manuscript for publication, as the address of the affiliation field is
  often used to retrieve publication outputs.

See also:

• "Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency" by Ebrahim et al.

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