Open Access (OA)
Open Access (OA) publishing provides an excellent opportunity for researchers to increase the visibility and impact of their work. You can reach a wider audience and potentially attract more citations by making your research freely available to the global scholarly community.
It is a good choice to submit your works to reputable OA journals in your research field. Readers can access articles from OA journals without paywalls or subscription fees, so it can ensure the maximum accessibility and visibility for your works. Now many OA journals have high impact factors and are indexed in major databases so that the possibility of your publications being cited and discovered will be increased largely.
Before your research publication is published formally, you may consider sharing your works as reprint in OA repositories to increase the visibility of your work prior to publication. Preprints are early versions of your manuscript that are made openly available before peer review.
You can use social media platforms to increase your research visibility as social media can help you reach a more diverse and broader audience. On social media platforms, readers can share links to your articles, highlight key findings, and engage in discussions related to your research. Moreover, you can connect with more researchers in your field, share your work, and explore collaboration opportunities through the social media platform.
Here are the most relevant social media outlets in academia:
Updating your author profiles is an effective step to increase your research visibility. Author profiles provide a centralized platform for showcasing your publications, expertise, and collaborations. By updating your author profiles, you ensure that other researchers and scholars can easily find your publications and assess the impact of your work. It only takes a few minutes to create, maintain, and update your profiles, and you will significantly increase the opportunities of getting possible collaborators to work with you.
Here are some commonly used author profiles and platforms:
You may find more details at our Author Profiles and Platforms.
EdUHK Research Repository is a centralized hub for preserving, disseminating and showcasing the scholarly outputs of the University’s faculty members, researchers, and students. The repository can be indexed by Google and other academic databases to make your works more discoverable. Each publication record in the repository is assigned a persistent URL which can be safely used when you are referring to this item in publications or other communications. Find out more details here.