Citation Score Building

Consider these ten basic ways to maximize your impact:

1. When your previous work is relevant to a current manuscript, cite it. However, don’t cite every work you’ve ever written solely to get more citations.
2. Choose your keywords with care. To ensure that your paper appears in a database search, choose keywords that researchers in your field will be looking for. Contact Research Cafe for better support.
3. Use your keywords and phrases in the title as well as throughout the abstract. Repeating keywords and phrases increases the likelihood that your article will appear at the top of a search engine’s results page, increasing the possibility that it will be read.
4. On all of your paperwork, use the same spelling of your name. It will be easier for others to find all of your published work if you use the same name on all of your publications.
5. Make certain that the information you’ve provided is accurate. Check your name and affiliation on the final proofs of your manuscript, as well as the accuracy of the paper’s information in database searches.
6. Make it simple to access your manuscript. Post your pre-or post-publication prints to a repository if your paper isn’t published in an open-access journal. To discover more about your publisher’s copyright and self-archiving regulations for sharing your published manuscript, go to SHERPA RoMEO.
7. Make your data available to others. There’s evidence that sharing your data can help you get more citations. Consider adding to Wikipedia and providing links to your published manuscripts, or consider uploading to data-sharing platforms like figshare or SlideShare.
8. Attend conferences to present your work. Although conference presentations are not cited by others, they will increase the visibility of your research among academics and researchers. Take a look at these pointers to help you get the most out of your next research conference.
9. Make use of social media. Provide social media (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Academia.edu, ResearchGate, Mendeley) and your university profile page links to your papers.
10. Make a concerted effort to advertise your work. Discuss your article with other researchers, even if they are not in your field, and send copies of your paper to researchers who might be interested. Create and share a blog or website dedicated to your studies.