Author Toolkit: Maximize Research Impact

Here are some tips and tools to help increase awareness of your publications and maximize your research impact.

1. Visibility: Increased visibility leads to a larger audience and more publicity for your work.
   • Use social media to share your research information
   • Deposit your works in the UNMC open access repository, DigitalCommons@UNMC
   • Develop your professional profile using:
     • LinkedIn
     • Google Scholar Profile
     • Scopus
     • PubLons
2. Consistency: Consistency ensures that all of your works are connected to your name.
   • Set up your ORCID account and other unique ID to collect all of your works under your name, no matter what institution you were affiliated with when they were created
   • Other unique ID:
     • Researcher ID (Thomson Reuters)
     • Scopus Author Identifier (Elsevier)
     • International Standard Name Identifier
     • Google Scholar Profile
3. Availability: Provide permanent and stable access to your publications.
   • Keep track of the permanent identifiers for all of your work (DOI, ARK), or create unique IDs by using EZID
   • Post your works to the UNMC open access repository, DigitalCommons@UNMC

DigitalCommons@UNMC is an online repository of the research, scholarly communications, and archival materials produced or owned by members of the University of Nebraska Medical Center community. Based on the principle of open access, DigitalCommons@UNMC seeks to make these materials available to a worldwide audience by tagging, storing, and organizing them in a searchable database. Content types can vary widely by discipline, but the goal of storing all content is the same: To provide a common opportunity for presenting internally and globally what is being accomplished at UNMC.

In DigitalCommons@UNMC, you can:

• Showcase your instructional work, such as e-learning modules, syllabi, presentations, and lecture notes,
• Browse the library's archival and special collections, and
• Make research, posters, presentations and writing available to a worldwide audience.

Review the Author Corner on DigitalCommons@UNMC to learn more about submitting your work.

On October 29, 2018, Christian I.J. Minter and Teresa Hartman presented "Authorship and Your Presence on the Web."