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Ways To Increase Citation Count

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Content is Key

  • Produce a piece of well written, top quality, original research. This is essential.
  • Where appropriate, acknowledge and cite your own previous work and that of your research group. The bad press about ‘self-citation’ and ‘citation circles’ applies only to the practice of citing irrelevant work; if your own prior research is pertinent then cite it.
  • If your research has involved a substantial literature review then consider writing it up.  Review papers typically attract more citations than other types of paper – check out the numbers in Journal Citation Reports if you aren’t sure.

Getting it out there

  • Publish in the highest quality refereed journal that you can.  You probably know which journals are best regarded in your discipline, but if  you are branching out into a less familiar subject area then use Journal Citation Reports to check which journals have the highest impact factors or try one of the other tools for assessing journal quality.  Don’t forget to ask your colleagues too.
  • Speak at your discipline’s key conferences; exhibit or perform in the ‘must see’ locations.  Both of these are essential for increasing your personal visibility and raising your research profile.

Credit the right author

  • Use a consistent form of your name (initials, forename and surname), ideally throughout your career.  Changing your name, for example upon marriage, makes it much more difficult to track citations longitudinally.
  • Consider using a researcher identifier.  This is a good idea in principle and almost essential if your name is fairly common.  ORCID is recommended, but other identifiers are available:  ResearcherID, ISNI.
  • Write with one or more co-authors.  Not only do multiple authors provide multiple opportunities for promoting the work, but also they are more likely to cite the work.  If your co-author already has a high profile then early interest in the work is almost guaranteed; if the collaboration is international then so much the better.

Check and verify

  • Check the final proofs of your work to ensure your name and affiliation are shown correctly.  People often use institutional affiliation to distinguish between authors of the same name (for example in Web of Science) so make sure this is accurate.
  • Always cite your own work correctly, even if others don’t.  If you originally cite an ‘In press’ or ‘Online first’ item then if possible go back and update the citation to the final published version.  It is better to use a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to describe the location of your paper – even if the article is moved, the DOI will still find it.
  • Make sure your work is correctly described in citation databases such as Web of Knowledge; if not then ask for it to be changed.

Make it open

  • Make your work open access so everyone can read it – there is plenty of evidence to suggest that open access papers are more highly cited.
  • Submit your paper to an OA journal or deposit a copy of the full text in NECTAR. Ideally you should not sign away your copyright to a publisher, but even if you do, it may be possible to upload a version of your paper to the repository (two thirds of publishers allow some form of ‘self-archiving’ (Sherpa RoMEO)).
  • Use appropriate metadata to make it more discoverable (e.g. key words and phrases, abstract, subject descriptors) – again, NECTAR can help with this.

Promote your work

  • When your work is published, tell everyone – not only your specialist research community, but also your colleagues down the corridor.  Even a coffee shop conversation can raise awareness of your work and result in a potential citation.
  • Make use of social media – blog about it, tweet about it, bookmark it, link to it from your Facebook page, share it via your preferred online networking tool (academia.edu, ResearchGate, Mendeley etc.) (See what happened when Melissa Terras tried this approach.)
  • Link to it from your personal or research group web pages.
  • Promote your project findings on your disciplinary noticeboards and mailing lists (with links to the published work).
  • [Added 7/1/15] Check out Professor Jeff Ollerton’s blog post to find out why and how you need to promote your work.

One answer is to promote your work after it’s published and the workshop offers some ideas on how to do this:.

  • Send PDFs of your papers to other researchers, whether you know them personally or not.  I’m always happy to receive copies of papers that I might otherwise miss.
  • Deposit copies with your institutional electronic repository (at Northampton that’s NECTAR)
  • Tell the world about it using social media, either general (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn) or academic (ResearchGate, academia.edu)
  • Send announcements to email discussion groups in your field
  • If you blog, write a post about it (as I did for the pollinator extinctions paper last month)
  • If the work is particularly novel/important/high impact, consider writing a press release with your institution’s press office, or at least a news item on the website.
  • Consider writing up your research as a non-academic piece in a magazine or newspaper for a wider, public audience (see comment below)
  • Present the work (and cite it) at conferences & seminars (the old fashioned way…..)
  • Use A Unique Name Consistently Throughout Academic Careers
  • Use a standardized institutional affiliation and address, using no abbreviation
  • Repeat key phrases in the abstract while writing naturally.
  • Assign keyword terms to the manuscript
  • Make a unique phrase that reflects author’s research interest and use it throughout academic life.
  • Publish in journal with high impact factor
  • Self-archive articles
  • Keep your professional web pages and published lists up to date
  • Make your research easy to find, especially for online searchers
  • Open Access (OA) increases citation rate
  • Deposit paper in Open Access repository
  • Publish with international authors
  • Team-authored articles get cited more
  • Use more reference
  • Publish a longer paper
  • Publish papers with a Nobel laureates
  • Contribute to Wikipedia
  • Start blogging
  • Join academic social networking sites
  • Write a review paper
  • Papers published after having first been rejected elsewhere receive significantly more citations
  • Papers with a larger number of “callouts” be likely to receive a higher number of citations
  • Avoid to select a question type of title
  • Sharing detailed research data
  • Publish across disciplines
  • Present a working paper
  • Publish your article in one of the journals everyone in your discipline reads
  • Publicize yourself – link your latest published article to your email signature
  • Publish your work in a journal with the highest number of abstracting and indexing
  • Create a podcast describing the research project
  • Make an online CV Like ORCID or ResearcherID
  • Publish tutorials papers
  • Use all “Enhancing Visibility and Impact” tools which are available on http://www.mindmeister.com/39583892/research-tools-by-nader-ale-ebrahim

1. Cite your past work when it is relevant to a new manuscript. However, do not reference every paper you have written just to increase your citation count.

2. Carefully choose your keywords. Choose keywords that researchers in your field will be searching for so that your paper will appear in a database search.

3. Use your keywords and phrases in your title and repeatedly in your abstract. Repeating keywords and phrases will increase the likelihood your paper will be at the top of a search engine list, making it more likely to be read.

4. Use a consistent form of your name on all of your papers. Using the same name on all of your papers will make it easier for others to find all of your published work. If your name is very common, consider getting a research identifier, such as an ORCID. You can provide your ORCID in your email signature and link that ID to your publication list so that anyone you email has access to your publications.

5. Make sure that your information is correct. Check that your name and affiliation are correct on the final proofs of your manuscript and check that the paper’s information is accurate in database searches.

6. Make your manuscript easily accessible. If your paper is not published in an open-access journal, post your pre- or post-publication prints to a repository. Check SHERPA RoMEO to find your publisher’s copyright and self-archiving policies regarding sharing your published manuscript.

7. Share your data. There is some evidence that sharing your data can increase your citations. Consider posting to data sharing websites, such as figshare or SlideShare, or contributing to Wikipedia and providing links to your published manuscripts.

8. Present your work at conferences. Although conference presentations are not cited by other others, this will make your research more visible to the academic and research communities. Check out these tips for making the most of your next research conference.

9. Use social media. Provide links to your papers on social media (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Academia.edu, ResearchGate, Mendeley) and your university profile page.

10. Actively promote your work. Talk to other researchers about your paper, even ones not in your field, and email copies of your paper to researchers who may be interested. Create a blog or a website dedicated to your research and share it.

  • 1 Create high-quality research
  • 2 Consider writing a review or concept paper
  • 3 Publish in reputable journals
    • Publishing in high impact journals do not necessarily attract more citations:
    • https://sciwriting.blog/should-you-ca…
    • Publishing in an open-access journal does not necessarily guarantee more citations:
    • https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art…
  • 4 Use the same format of your name on all papers
  • 5 Use your affiliation to your benefit
  • 6 Optimise your paper’s title
  • 7 Define your niche area and make it known to the world
    • Create an elevator pitch for your research niche area (more here:
    • Create an Elevator Pitch for your res… )
  • 8 Influence what others find when they Google your name or research niche area
  • 9 Create profiles on places where people can find your work
    • ORCID. https://orcid.org/signin
    • Google Scholar profile https://scholar.google.com/
    • ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/
    • Academia.edu https://www.academia.edu/
    • LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/
    • Twitter https://twitter.com/
    • Facebook https://facebook.com/
    • Instagram https://www.instagram.com/
  • 10 Help others to access your paper
    • Science Framework https://osf.io/
    • Publish your paper as a pre-print, if you have the opportunity to do so https://arxiv.org/.
    • It is worth reviewing the copyright agreement of the journal you published. More on how to do that here:
    • Part 14B: Copyright policies & self-a…
  • 11 Share your data
    • More about data sharing here.
    • Academic tools and resources: Share y…
  • 12 Cite your previous papers
  • 13 Add your ORCID to your email signature
  • 14 Share your research in a variety of forums
  • 15 Create networks and collaborate with fellow researchers
  • Watch your title length and punctuation
  • Take advantage of preprint servers and release your results early
  • Avoid mentioning a country in your title, abstract or keywords
  • Link your paper to the supporting data in a freely accessible repository
  • Cut the hyphens
  • citationPapers in which the keywords are carefully chosen get many citations. Choosing keywords that the researchers in that field look for will help the paper appear in database search and increase the citation count.
  • citationUsing keywords in the title and repeating them in the papers augments the probability of the paper getting many citations and helps it to appear on top of the search engine’s list, making it available to more people to read.
  • citationUsing a permanent form of the writer’s name helps the readers to find the work and makes it easier for them to find more articles by using up this name in the future, which helps the papers get many citations.
  • citationPapers that have 100% correct information get many citations. Providing correct information is one of the most important keys to getting a high number of citation. Checking that the name and annexing area units are correct on the ultimate proofs of the manuscript and making sure that the papers containing the information are correct is very important.
  • citationMaking sure that the document is easily reachable is important to get a good citation.
  • citationSharing information can get the papers lots of citations. There is some proof that sharing information increases citations. Thinking about posting to information sharing websites, like figshare or SlideShare, or contributive to Wikipedia and providing links to theprinted document help papers to get many citations.
  • citationWork of the paper presented at conferences, social gathering not only help to boost confidence but also help the particular paper to get citations. This will make the research papers more reachable and visible to the educational and researchers’ community.
  • citationSocial media is a great weapon to get more reads and citations. Papers posted with links on social media reach to more people. Social media now has the option for other people to share the same work as well which boosts the reach and helps papers to achieve a high number of citation.
  • citationPapers that are actively promoted are more likely to get many citations. Talking to different researchers from different fields, mailing a copy of the paper to the intellectuals help to get many citations.
  • citationA research blog containing all the researches and papers reaches out to a lot of people. It keeps all the works together on one single website is easily accessible to people which makes the papers reach a high number of citation.

References :

  1. https://www.aje.com/arc/10-easy-ways-increase-your-citation-count-checklist/
  2. https://researchsupporthub.northampton.ac.uk/2013/02/05/2429/
  3. https://career-advice.jobs.ac.uk/resources/how-to-pursue-an-academic-career-in-china-part-two/
  4. https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/50919/
  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7dRqazTmUE
  6. https://www.scientific-editing.info/blog/what-papers-get-many-citations/
  7. https://www.quora.com/With-how-many-citations-can-a-research-paper-be-considered-a-good-research-paper-in-computer-science
  8. https://jeffollerton.co.uk/2015/01/08/what-do-academics-do-once-the-research-is-published/
  9. https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/50919/ –> paper, check citation!
  10. https://www.mindmeister.com/2819658129/research-tools-by-nader-ale-ebrahim –> tools
  11. https://www.nature.com/nature-index/news/studies-research-five-ways-increase-citation-counts
  12. https://www.quora.com/With-how-many-citations-can-a-research-paper-be-considered-a-good-research-paper-in-computer-science

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