Research Impact: Research Visibility Checklist

Optimise the Use of ORCID (Highly Recommended)

• 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 (Highly Recommended)

• 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* (Highly Recommended)

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

*Services provided by the Library

Update your Other Profiles (Highly Recommended)

• NTU Academic Profile
• Google Scholar Profile
• Web of Science Author Profile
• Scopus Author ID

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 (Recommended)

• 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 (Recommended)

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• YouTube
• Facebook
• Academia.edu
• ResearchGate
• Mendeley
• Personal website/blog