LibGuides: Research Impact: Research Visibility Checklist

Introduction

The Research Visibility Checklist is designed to serve as a guide for NTU researchers who wish to make practical changes in order to increase their research visibility and accessibility.

The checklist consists of a series of suggestions. It is currently a draft version while we solicit inputs from the research community. For comments and suggestions, please contact osr@ntu.edu.sg.

Research Visibility Checklist

Version 1 (2023)

Optimise the Use of ORCID

Update your ORCID profile
Include it for all manuscript submissions
Optimise your ORCID profiles e.g., use ‘search & link’ for works; add your other researcher IDs/profiles, biography, employment, etc.
Authorise NTU to use your ORCID data in NTU systems
Provide ORCID ID and link in email signature

Practise Open Research

Publish papers open access (gold with APC or green in NTU repositories)
Publish research data on DR-NTU (Data) or subject repositories
Publish codes on major code repositories e.g., Github
Publish methods/protocols e.g., preregister/registered reports/protocols.io

Link all Research Outputs with a Persistent Identifier*

CrossRef DOI for papers
DataCite DOI for research datasets
ISBN for books

*Services provided by the Library

Update your Other Profiles

Note: There are others such as LinkedIn, Loop and more that you may wish to explore. Remember to link your profile.

Engage both Academia and Non-Academia

Engage the industry
Present at conferences
Communicate work to audiences outside of academia e.g., lay summaries
Incorporate citizen science
Collaborate with policy officers

Use Social Networking Sites

The use of social networking sites and social media can provide effective and efficient means to communicate your research and increase its impact. It can help you reach new audiences, both within and outside academia.

At the same time, you can use it to seek and give advice and feedback, and generate new ideas.

However, you will need to invest some time in building a presence and sustaining your social media activity.

Choose platforms based on your work and available time/resources.

Twitter

Tips on building and strengthening your Twitter presence (UKRI ESRC)

Building your research profile via social media, with a focus on LinkedIn (Dijkstra, T., on Times Higher Education)

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Content co-authors (in alphabetical order of last name):

Dr Amy CHOU, formerly with Open Science and Research Services, NTU Library
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