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A Five-Step Solution to Increase Your Academic Visibility

1. Write for a larger audience.

Interdisciplinary papers have the broadest audience and appeal. You should spend some time to identify various academic audiences and try to provide them with unexpected perspectives. Crafting papers which target multiple fields of study will help increase your visibility and number of audiences. Moreover, while writing, you should consider that scientific papers are increasingly disseminated via web, so you should write “search engine-friendly” papers. Our research tools box contains many tools which can help you in this regard.

2. Find suitable journals.

Do not aim too high, do not aim too low. Spend some time and try to find the most suitable journal. Do not target only journals that are rejecting most of the papers submitted for consideration. This will cause a lot of frustration for you and delay the publication of your paper.

3. Self-archive your papers.

If you want to maximize research usage and impact, avoid uploading your papers only in institutional repositories that are not open to public access. Put your articles on the paths that most scholars use when they explore the mass of information on web. Open repositories such as www.opendepot.org and www.researchgate.net are particularly useful and increase the visibility of your paper by providing it to a wider international audience.

4. Commit yourself to dissemination of the findings of your work.

Become more involved in the dissemination of your papers. Send your papers to a target audience that might not read the journal. You can also create a list of people in other fields unlikely to encounter the paper and e-mail it to them.

5. Network curiously and habitually with other scholars.

Creating profiles in websites like Google Scholar and academia.edu gives others a chance to find out more about you and your work. In order to raise your long-term visibility and impact, you must become aware of new research opportunities. Spending an hour a week for online interaction with scholars from outside your research are can be of great help, since interdisciplinary collaboration can bring about theoretical innovation.

SOME ADVICE ON WRITING A THESIS

Writing a thesis or dissertation is perhaps the most daunting part of graduate education. A thesis or dissertation marks the culmination of thousands of hours of training, research, and writing, and it represents you for years after graduation. Some of the stress related to writing your thesis or dissertation, however, is unwarranted. Dissertation writing is not unrelated to the rest of the academic writing you’ve done throughout your graduate career. Many of the skills you already possess can be applied to the dissertation writing process. Identifying the purpose of your project, expressing originality and significance, setting appropriate goals, and maintaining strong organization will help you as you develop a high quality dissertation or thesis.

We outline here a general guide for all researchers, with the purpose of explaining in simplistic terms the structure of a thesis or dissertation, how to go about writing your research according to that structure, finishing with a great thesis.

Identifying the Purpose of your Dissertation

What is the purpose of your dissertation? It is but one part of your overall degree fulfillment. While it should reflect the standards and goals of other dissertations in your field, it should also prepare you for whatever career you decide to pursue.

The purpose of the dissertation is to prepare the student to be a professional in the discipline. Through this preparation the student learns and demonstrates the ability to conduct independent, original, and significant research. The dissertation thus shows that the student is able to

• identify/define problems,

• generate questions and hypotheses,

• review and summarize the literature,

• think and write critically and coherently.

• apply appropriate methods,

• collect data properly,

• analyze and judge evidence,

• discuss findings,

• produce publishable results,

It is important to maintain an ongoing conversation with your advisors about their expectations for these goals. For example, how can you best demonstrate competency in your field? What parts of the dissertation are most important in your field? Take a moment to step back and look at the dissertation writing process as an outside observer. How would you expect a student to succeed?

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What Altmetric means

In scholarly and scientific publishing, Altmetrics refer to new metrics proposed as an alternative to the widely used journal impact factor and personal citation indices like the h-index. Although altmetrics are often thought of as metrics about articles, they can be applied to people, journals, books, data sets, presentations, videos, source code repositories, web pages, etc.[4] Altmetrics cover not just citation counts, but also other aspects of the impact of a work, such as how many data and knowledge bases refer to it, article views, downloads, or mentions in social media and news media. Various websites and projects are calculating altmetrics, including ImpactStory, Altmetric.com, Plum Analytics, and CitedIn. Several publishers have started providing such information to readers, including BioMed Central, Public Library of Science, Frontiers, Nature Publishing Group, and Elsevier. For example, Elsevier announced in a press release to be "increasingly looking at additional metrics, including so called Altmetrics, as a measure of influence of journals and authors".
Altmetric is a very effective web app which lets you follow the discussions about your scientific papers online. Altmetric collects mentions of scholarly articles from all across the Web by gathering attention from newspapers, blogs, social media, and more. Using this gives you access to hundreds of thousands of postings about thousands of articles and datasets which are analyzed each month. You can always visualize a paper’s online attention while monitoring your research impact in academic environment. Altmetric can track what people are saying about papers online on behalf of authors. However, although effective and handy, Altmetric is not a free tool.

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What is the H-index?

H-index is a measure of the number of highly impactful papers a scientist has published. The larger the number of important papers, the higher the h-index, regardless of where the work was published.
To calculate H-index, you only two pieces of information: the total number of papers published (Np), and the number of citations (Nc) for each paper.
H-index is defined by how many h of a researcher’s publications (Np) have at least h citations each.
Therefore, if you have published one paper that’s been cited at least once, then you have an H-index of one. If you have published two papers that have each been cited at least twice, then your H-index is two.

What is Impact Factor and how is calculated? i know most of the members know the meaning of the impact factor, but i think it is required to mention

Definition
The impact factor is a citation measure produced by Thompson Scientific's ISI Web of Knowledge database. Impact factors are published annually in ISI's Journal Citation Reports Database. Impact factors are only available for journals that are indexed in ISI databases.
One journal's impact factor on its own doesn't mean much. Instead, it's important to look at impact factors of multiple journals in the same subject area. This way, one can determine if the impact factor of the journal of interest is high or low compared to other journals in a subject area.

How Impact Factor is calculated
A journal's impact factor for 2012 would be calculated by taking the number of citations in 2012 from articles that were published in 2011 and 2010 and dividing that number by the total number of articles published in that same journal in 2011 and 2012. Please see the example below.

Example:

The specific calculations for Journal A’s 2011 impact factor are as follows:

Articles published in 2010 that were cited in 2011: 40
Articles published in 2009 that were cited in 2011: 80
40+80=120

Total Number of articles published in 2010: 30
Total number of articles published in 2009: 60
30+60=90

120 (articles published in 2010 and 2009 that were cited in 2011)
90 (total number of articles published in 2010 and 2009)
= 1.333

The 2011 Impact Factor for the journal A means that, on average, articles published in this journal from one or two years ago have been cited around 1.3 times.