Effective Strategies for Increasing Cita ...

Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency

Dec 18, 2021

I have mentioned over 30 different approaches to “increase the visibility of a published article” in my article entitled “Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency” Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2344585


1. Use a unique name consistently throughout academic careers;

2. Use a standardized institutional affiliation and address;

3. Repeat key phrases in the abstract while writing naturally;

4. Assign keyword terms to the manuscript;

5. Use more references;

6. Write a longer paper;

7. Write a review paper;

8. Present a working paper;

9. Publish with international authors;

10. Publish papers with a Nobel laureates;

11. Publish your article in one of the journals everyone in your discipline reads

12. Open Access (OA) has a positive impact on growth of citations;

13. Publish your work in a journal with the highest number of indexing

14. Self-archive articles

15. Keep your professional web pages and published lists up to date

16. Make your research easy to find, especially for online searchers

17. Deposit paper in Open Access repository

18. Contribute to Wikipedia

19. Start blogging

20. Publishing in an open access journal

21. Constantly update online research networks like ORCID, LinkedIn, Pubfacts, google scholar

22. Join academic social networking sites

23. Link your latest published article to your email signature

24. Create a podcast describing the research project and submit the podcast to YouTube or Vimeo

25. Make an online CV. Publish it in a known and high quality journal

26. Bring reprints to conferences

27. Share published research on your institutes website

28. Sharing the abstracts in scientific groups or academic groups

29. Share links of the published research in social media like Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook

30. Upload published open access articles on ResearchGate and Academia.edu

31. Ensuring multidisciplinary, multicenter and multiregional collaboration

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